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The book was first published in full in 1783 and in 2011 the Open Domesday site made the manuscript available online. The manuscript is held at The National Archives at Kew, London. 1179) that the book was so called because its decisions were unalterable, like those of the Last Judgement, and its sentence could not be quashed. Richard FitzNeal wrote in the Dialogus de Scaccario ( c. The name "Domesday Book" came into use in the 12th century. The assessors' reckoning of a man's holdings and their values, as recorded in Domesday Book, was considered final and could not be appealed. The survey's main purpose was to determine what taxes had been owed during the reign of King Edward the Confessor, thereby allowing William to reassert the rights of the Crown and assess where power lay after a wholesale redistribution of land following the Norman Conquest. Written in Medieval Latin, it was highly abbreviated and included some vernacular native terms without Latin equivalents. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that in 1085 the king sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list his holdings and calculate the dues owed to him. The manuscript is also known by the Latin name Liber de Wintonia, meaning "Book of Winchester". Domesday has long been associated with the Latin phrase Domus Dei, meaning "House of God". Great Domesday (the larger volume) and Little Domesday (the smaller volume), in their 1869 bindings, lie on their older " Tudor" bindings.ĭomesday Book ( / ˈ d uː m z d eɪ/) – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the " Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of William I, known as William the Conqueror. Domesday Book: an engraving published in 1900.
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