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The Domesday Book « Posted: 14 May 2011 at 08:25 PM »
So, there I was perusing the Domesday Book - as you do (and before you ask I wasn’t around when it first came out!).  I’m using, of course, the online version!  And I noticed the following interesting entries:

Lowestoft

Head of manor: Gorleston

Total population: 16 households

Total tax paid: 3.8 geld.

Households: 3 villagers, 10 smallholders, 3 slaves.

Other resources:  Meadow - 5 acres. Woodland - 8 pigs.

Livestock in 1086:  8 cattle. 11 pigs. 160 sheep.

Kirkley

17.4 households
Total tax paid: 1.7 geld.

Households: 20 villagers, 10 smallholders, 10 slaves, 12 free men.

Other resources: Meadow 14 acres, Woodland 76 pigs, 2 churches 0.35 church lands

Livestock: 2 cobs, 7 cattle, 30 pigs, 160 sheep, 50 goats, 2 beehives.

Interesting to note that Kirkley had 2 Churches - and poor old Lowestoft had none!
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Re: The Domesday Book « Reply #1 Posted: 14 May 2011 at 08:57 PM »
Now that posting will start some interesting debate from the 'locals', I would guess.   Being a Liverpudlian, I think I'll steer clear!  Smiley
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Re: The Domesday Book « Reply #2 Posted: 14 May 2011 at 09:12 PM »
So Kirkley was the bigger of the two how interesting
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Re: The Domesday Book « Reply #3 Posted: 14 May 2011 at 10:02 PM »
I have a book on the history of lowestoft and it is great reading it but a struggle, so much imformation and statistics, far too much for me to take in but it is a very good reference book.
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Re: The Domesday Book « Reply #4 Posted: 15 May 2011 at 06:00 AM »
Glad to know it's not only me who struggles with such books.  Sometimes I battle on - but more often than not, I begin to lose the will to live!
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Re: The Domesday Book « Reply #5 Posted: 15 May 2011 at 10:09 AM »
I also have a very interesting fairly easy to read very old book of Lowestoft and I would recommend it Its called Lowestoft in Olden Times and was written in 1898 written by Francis D Longe a barrister in chief  It has a chapter on the Domsday book which states 'Lowestoft not only appears in the domsday book as a parish and a village but it appears as a Royal manor -or at least as one of the many estates or demesnes held by William the Conquerer as his private property - as the sucessor of Edward the Confessor and Canute' It goes on to say that this means the town is exempt from paying the expences of MP s  of the county and the inhabitants could not be called on to go as jurymen to the courts at Beccles or Bury but only in their own manor.

Perhaps we should not being paying MP s expenses now haha
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Re: The Domesday Book « Reply #6 Posted: 15 May 2011 at 10:48 AM »
Quote from: funkychick on 15 May 2011 at 10:09 AM
Perhaps we should not being paying MP s expenses now haha

We definitely shouldn't be paying MPs' expenses - but they're all out to get everything they can - one even gets the impression that they'll get the proverbial "blood out of a stone".
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