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Leonard Walker.
Background to Domesday in Hertfordshire and Essex.
Published Burnham-on-Crouch: L. G. Walker, 1988.
ISBN 0951326503.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Keep Brothers, Maldon.
Size: 172x226x6mm.
Page count: 72pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs on the covers, a bit of wear at the edges and corners; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 206g.

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Contents: 2 battles — Maldon 991 & Ashingdon 1016; Emma, 1st Norman queen of England; Rise & fall of house of Godwin; King Harold in Essex; Edward the Confessor 1042-66; 1066 — 12 months which changed the fate of England; Origins, organisation & format of Domesday inquest; Norman settlement of Hertfordshire -- of Essex; Count Eustace of Boulogne, Lord of 100 manors; Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex & High Constable of England; Bishop Odo & the Bayeux Tapestry; Edgar the Athling, 8-weeks king; Swein of Essex — a Norman Quisling?; Enigma of Pleshey.
Appendices: Diary of events; Kings of England & the great earls; Herts. landowners at time of Domesday; Principal landholders in Herts. in 1086; Extracts from Domesday — Herts.; Landholders in Essex in 1086.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 7, monochrome
Maps & plans: 3
Genealogies: 7
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: half-page
Index: no

See also | Domesday Book | Hertfordshire | Essex |
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