"Doomsday Book" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mentioned in Doomsday Book under the name of Hermoderwode, and in ancient deeds of the Exchequer as Hermoderworth. It is called Hamersmith in the Court Rolls of the beginning of Henry VII.'s reign. This is evidently more correct ...
— Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney - The Fascination of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton
... were known as Domesday or Doomsday Book. The English people said this name was given to it, because, like the Day of Doom, it spared no one. It recorded every piece of property and every particular concerning it. As the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" (S46) indignantly declared, "not a rood of land, not a peasant's hut, not an ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery |
