Matching Pairs Doomsday Book - Sources TermsOnline version Key term matching - Doomsday Book by Simon Forrester 1 Written in the Doomsday book. 2 In Anglo-Saxon England, this was the equivalent of a present-day county. 3 This means that William wanted to know everything in that people owned in England in the smallest detail. 4 5 A small piece of land under 1 meter. 6 7 Who owned the land. 8 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. 9 Asking men to find out information. 10 11 12 Was given this land by King Edward. 13 Money that has to be paid. 14 An area of water where fish are caught so they can be sold. 15 In Anglo-Saxon England, this was an amount of land considered sufficient to support a single peasant family. 16 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. Archbishop, Abbots, Diocesan Bishops. Set down in his writ. Held it in alod from King Edward. So very narrowly, indeed Ox Dues Swine Plough Fishery Yard of land. Hide How the land was occupied Villeins Demesne Commissioning them to find out Shire