Nomina_Villarum

<i>Nomina Villarum</i>

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 country house, later developed the meaning "town" or "small city".[1]

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  1. [1]
    Souter, Alexander (1949). A Glossary of Later Latin. Oxford: Clarendon Press.


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