1: Choose
1: he normed us
1: enormous
1: erroneous
2: Choose
2: sensors
2: send us
2: census
3: Choose
3: resources
3: resourced
3: resource
4: Choose
4: taxis
4: taxes
4: tacks
5: Choose
5: through
5: tough
5: thorough
6: Choose
6: brought
6: bought
6: bored
7: Choose
7: pinnacle
7: typical
7: cynical
8: Choose
8: val hued
8: vaulted
8: valued
Nearly
a millennium ago, in 1086, the new Norman rulers of England took
on the ...(1)... task of a complete ...(2)... of the
country. The purpose of the survey was to make a record of how many
people lived in each place, what ...(3)... there were, who
owned them and how valuable they were. A lot of people disliked
the level of detail of what was recorded, because they realised
that the survey would be used as the basis for ...(4)... .
As one writer at the time put it: "Not one piece of land, not even
one ox, nor one cow, nor one pig escaped notice in the survey."
So ...(5)... was the survey that the king sent a second set
of surveyors to check the results ...(6)... in by the first
set. The record they created has come to be known as the Domesday
Book. This has nothing to do with ‘doom’. ...(7)... entry in the book for a village
would say :" 48 villagers with 15 ploughs, 2 mills, 14 acres of
meadow and woodland with 100 pigs. Value 16 pounds". Birmingham
in 1086 didn’t take much of the surveyors’ time. It was ...(8)...
at 1 pound.
