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Domesday Book, Portland entry For clarification, see Latin abbreviations |
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English translation of Portland entry (1819 copy) |
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The above (Exon) Domesday entry for Portland is (for convenience) as follows: The King holds the Island which is called Porland. King Edward held it in his lifetime. The King has three ploughs in the demesne there, and five bondmen; and one villane and one hundred bordars save ten have twenty-three ploughs there. There are eight acres of meadow. Pasture eight quarantens long and eight broad. This manor, with what belongs to it, pays sixty-five pounds white money. |
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Jan Jansson c.1650 |
Robert Morden c.1695 |
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Bartholomew 1935 |
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For more old maps please see the maps page; for more Domesday Book see the Domesday page.
See also the archive for more about Victorian Portland. |