An introduction to American history, European beginnings . arly from each. He also caused them to writedown how much land belonged to the archbishops, thebishops, the abbots, and the earls, and what propertyevery inhabitant of all England possessed in land or incattle, and how much money this was worth. So verycarefully did he cause thesurvey to be made, that therewas not a single hide nora rood of land, nor — it isshameful to relate that whichhe thought no shame to do— was there an ox or a pigpassed by that was not setdown in the accounts, andthen all these writings werebrought to him. The re
An introduction to American history, European beginnings . arly from each. He also caused them to writedown how much land belonged to the archbishops, thebishops, the abbots, and the earls, and what propertyevery inhabitant of all England possessed in land or incattle, and how much money this was worth. So verycarefully did he cause thesurvey to be made, that therewas not a single hide nora rood of land, nor — it isshameful to relate that whichhe thought no shame to do— was there an ox or a pigpassed by that was not setdown in the accounts, andthen all these writings werebrought to him. The re-ports brought in made twothick volumes of manuscript,called the Doomsday so-called Doomsday Book meant a book of decisionsthat no man might question, from Doomsday (the Dayof Judgment). The volumes are still in existence inthe form in which they were written out by KingWilliams clerks. Other changes made by William. As has just been said,the Doomsday Book was one of the measures that servedto make William an unpopular sovereign. Another was. The Doomsday Book I40 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY the introduction into England of the Norman custom ofthe curfew. This was a regulation requiring every oneto put out or cover his fire at dusk. The time was an-nounced each evening by the ringing of the curfew was intended to prevent accident from fires, but theEnglish looked upon it as another piece of tyranny onthe part of the king. Still another act of the Conqueror roused the hatred ofhis subjects. The king was very fond of hunting, and in
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