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