Matching Pairs Doomsday Book - Sources TermsOnline version Key term matching - Doomsday Book by Simon Forrester 1 Written in the Doomsday book. 2 Any resource that can be used by the landowner on his land, for example woodlands, orchards, ponds or lakes, mills, bakeries, farm buildings and the manor house itself. 3 Who owned the land. 4 5 In Anglo-Saxon England, this was an amount of land considered sufficient to support a single peasant family. 6 In Anglo-Saxon England, this was the equivalent of a present-day county. 7 A freeborn peasant who had to work for the lord. They were not slaves, but could not leave the lord's lands and might have to fight for him in a war. 8 9 Asking men to find out information. 10 An area of water where fish are caught so they can be sold. 11 Money that has to be paid. 12 Was given this land by King Edward. 13 A small piece of land under 1 meter. 14 15 This means that William wanted to know everything in that people owned in England in the smallest detail. 16 Archbishop, Abbots, Diocesan Bishops. How the land was occupied Set down in his writ. Demesne So very narrowly, indeed Swine Held it in alod from King Edward. Commissioning them to find out Dues Ox Villeins Fishery Yard of land. Hide Shire Plough