DOMESDAY BOOK

DOMESDAY BOOK Domesday Book (doomz-day). The census or survey, ordered by William the Conqueror and substantially completed in 1086, of England’s landholdings, buildings, people, and livestock. ¡ª Abbr. D.B. ¡ª Also spelled Doomsday Book. ¡°Domesday Book had several variant names ¡ª Liber de Wintonia, Rotulus Wintoniae, Scriptura Thesauri Regis, Liber Regis, Liber Judiciarius, Censualis Angliae, […]