Nomina Villarum
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Nomina Villarum
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Nomina Villarum was a survey carried out in 1316 and contains a list of all cities, boroughs and townships in England and the Lords of them. The document was compiled for King Edward II. The survey was a feudal aid, a payment which by tradition the king could demand from his tenants to finance the knighting of his eldest son or the marriage of his eldest daughter and was in effect, a taxation on land. The name of the document is mediaeval Latin for "Names of towns" — villa, originally meaning a
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2024-04-08T12:41:02Z
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