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In which year was Domesday Book compiled, surveying landholding and value across most of England?
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- It is twenty years after the Norman conquest.
- Ten eighty-six.
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1086
Why
1086. The survey is remarkable less for its detail than for the fact that it was possible: a ruler who can send commissioners into every shire and get sworn answers already commands an administrative reach no continental monarchy of the period had, and everything the English crown later did with taxation rests on it.
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