Medieval source material on the internet: Church records and religious houses

1. Papal records
2. Bishops' registers and diocesan records
3. Records of religious houses
4. Lists of clergy
5. Ecclesiastical courts
6. Chantries
7. Miscellaneous

Church records and religious houses

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(1) Papal records

• Anglo-Saxon: England and Rome (under construction; Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters)
  Provisional lists of papal letters and privileges for English people and religious houses, and of English visitors to Rome, during the Anglo-Saxon period
• Papal Dispensations for Marriage (Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies, Strathclyde University)
  Project to develop an online database of papal dispensations of marriage, initial from the published volumes of papal letters relating to Great Britain and Ireland (1198-1534). The project is funded by the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
• Regesta Pontificum Romanorum online (Klaus Herbers, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
  Database of papal documents before 1198, accompanying a series of printed volumes. The web pages are in German and free registration is required.
• Database of the Letters of Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) (Christian Schwaderer, University of Tübingen)
  Includes English abstracts of the letters.
• W. H. Bliss, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Letters, volume 1: 1198-1304 (1893) (British History Online)
• W. H. Bliss, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Letters, volume 2: 1305-1342 (1895) (British History Online)
• W. H. Bliss and C. Johnson, eds, Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Letters, volume 3: 1342-1362 (1897) (British History Online)
• W. H. Bliss and J. A. Twemlow, eds, Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Letters, volume 4: 1362-1404 (1902) (British History Online)
• W. H. Bliss and J. A. Twemlow, eds, Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Letters, volume 5: 1398-1404 (1904) (British History Online)
• J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Letters, volume 6: 1404-1415 (1904) (British History Online)
• J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Letters, volume 7: 1417-1431 (1906) (British History Online)
• J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Letters, volume 8: 1427-1447 (1909) (British History Online)
• J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Letters, volume 9: 1431-1447 (1912) (British History Online)
• J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 10: 1447-1455. (1915) (British History Online)
• J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 11: 1455-1464. (1921) (British History Online)
• J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 12: 1458-1471. (1933) (British History Online)
• J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 13: 1471-1484. (1955) (British History Online)
• J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 14: 1484-1492. (1960) (British History Online)
• W. H. Bliss, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Petitions to the Pope. Volume 1. A.D. 1342-1419. (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)

(2) Bishops' registers and diocesan records

• Bath and Wells:
  • Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Registers of Walter Giffard, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1265-6, and of Henry Bowett, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1401-7. (1899) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 13. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ;  4 .]
  • [Edmund] Hobhouse, ed., Calendar of the register of John de Drokensford, bishop of Bath and Wells, A.D. 1309-1329. (1887) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Somerset Record Society, number 1.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
  • Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of Ralph of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1329-1363. [Part 1.] (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 9. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
  • Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of Ralph of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1329-1363. [Part 2.] (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 10. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
  • Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of Nicholas Bubwith, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1407-1424. Volume 1. (1914) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 29. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
  • Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of Nicholas Bubwith, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1407-1424. Volume 2. (1914) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 30. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
  • Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1425-1443. Volume 1. (1915) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 31. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
  • Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1425-1443. Volume 2. (1916) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 32. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
  • Edmund Chisholm Batten, ed., The Register of Richard Fox, while Bishop of Bath and Wells, A.D. 1492-1494. (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcript.
• Canterbury:
  • David Blair Foss, The Canterbury Archiepiscopates of John Stafford (1443-52) and John Kemp (1452-54) with editions of their registers . (1986) (EThOS, British Library)
    Ph. D. thesis, University of London. Transcripts, mainly in Latin, with introductory material and indexes of names and subjects. Free registration is required to download the thesis as four PDF files.
  • Christopher Harper-Bill, An edition of the register of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury 1486-1500 (1997) (King's College London)
    Ph.D. thesis. Calendar of the register in English, with an introduction.
  • W. P. Blore, Recent Discoveries in the Archives of Canterbury Cathedral (Kent Archaeological Society)
    Text of a paper originally published in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 58, pp. 28-34 (1945) Extracts from accounts (in Latin), 13th-16th centuries, mainly relating to building work
  • John H. Harvey, Recent Discoveries in the Archives of Canterbury Cathedral. A Note on the Craftsmen (Kent Archaeological Society)
    Text of a paper originally published in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 58, pp. 35-39 (1945) Notes from 13th-15th-century accounts, including the names of a number of craftsmen
  • Dorothy Gardiner, Recent Discoveries in the Archives of Canterbury Cathedral. Notes on the Monks and Priory Buildings Mentioned (Kent Archaeological Society)
    Text of a paper originally published in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 58, pp. 40-42 (1945) Notes from 13th-15th-century records, mentioning monks and others associated with the cathedral
• Carlisle:
  • W. N. Thompson, ed., The Episcopal Registers of Carlisle. The Register of Bishop John de Halton, [Volume 1,] Part 2, 1300-1309. (1909) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society/Canterbury and York Society (volume 12, part 2). Latin transcript.
• Chichester:
  • Cecil Deedes, ed., The Episcopal register of Robert Rede, ordinis predicatorum, Lord Bishop of Chichester, 1397-1415. Part 2. (1910) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Sussex Record Society, volume 11. English abstracts.
• Coventry and Lichfield:
  • Hughes, Jill Blackwell, The episcopate of Walter Langton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1296-1321: with a calendar of his register. Volume 1, volume 2 and volume 3. (1992) (University of Nottingham)
    Ph. D. thesis. English calendar, with an introduction and selective indexes of persons and places.
  • Medieval Ordinations (David Bethell)
    Transcripts of ordination lists for the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, 1300-1532, with indexes of personal and place-names.
• Durham:
  • The register of Richard de Kellawe, lord palatine and bishop of Durham, 1311-1316 (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050309-N050312)
    PDF format; Latin text (incomplete) from the edition of Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy (Rolls Series 62, vols 1-3 and 6; 1873-1878)
  • [G. W. Kitchin, ed.] Richard D'Aungerville [bishop of Durham], of Bury. Fragments of his register, and other documents. (1910) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Surtees Society, volume 119. Latin transcripts of a fragment of his register, 1343-4, and other documents.
• Exeter:
  • Bishops of Exeter (Exeter Cathedral) [not available, 19 July 2009; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from October 2007]
    Chronological list, with link to biographical articles from the Rev. G. Oliver's "Lives of the Bishops of Exeter" (1861).
  • Rev. F. C. Hingeston-Randolph, The Registers of Walter Bronescombe (A.D. 1257-1291), and Peter Quivil (A.D. 1280-1291), Bishops of Exeter, with some records of the episcopate of Bishop Thomas de Bytton (A.D. 1292-1307). (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcripts. Also includes the Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV (1291) for the diocese of Exeter.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
  • Rev. F. C. Hingeston-Randolph, The Register of Walter de Stapeldon, Bishop of Exeter, (A.D. 1307-1326). (1892) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcripts and English abstracts.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
  • Rev. F. C. Hingeston-Randolph, ed., The Register of John de Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter, (A.D. 1327-1369). Part 1, 1327-1330. (1894) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcript.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
  • Rev. F. C. Hingeston-Randolph, The Register of John de Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter, (A.D. 1327-1369). Part 2, 1331-1360. (1897) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcript.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
  • Rev. F. C. Hingeston-Randolph, The Register of John de Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter, (A.D. 1327-1369). Part 3, 1360-1369, together with the Register of Institutions. (1899) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcripts and English abstracts.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
  • Rev. F. C. Hingeston-Randolph, The Register of Thomas de Brantyngham, Bishop of Exeter (A.D. 1370-1394). Part 1. (1901) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcript.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
  • Rev. F. C. Hingeston-Randolph, The Register of Thomas de Brantyngham, Bishop of Exeter (A.D. 1370-1394). Part 2. (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcript.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
  • Rev. F. C. Hingeston-Randolph, ed., The Register of Edmund Stafford, [Bishop of Exeter] (A.D. 1395-1419); an Index and Abstract of its contents. (1886) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Alphabetical index to people and places mentioned, with brief abstracts of some entries.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
• Hereford:
  • Hereford Diocese (Mel Lockie)
    Information on institutions, collations, exchanges and resignations, extracted from the Cantilupe Society's editions of the registers of the bishops of Hereford, covering the period 1275-1900. The data are presented as a series of spreadsheets, with web pages for individual benefices from 1539.
  • Hereford Diocese: Bishops' Registers (Mel Lockie)
    Latin transcripts, in progress, from the volumes published by the Cantilupe Society/Canterbury and York Society. They currently include the registers of Thomas de Cantilupo (1275), Richard de Swinfield (1283) and the introduction to the register of Adam de Orleton (1317).
  • Rev. R. G. Griffiths, ed., Registrum Thome de Cantilupo, Episcopi Herefordensis, A.D. 1275-1282. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Canterbury and York Series, volume 2. Latin transcript.
  • A. T. Bannister The Register of Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Hereford (A. D. 1317- 1327) (1907) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Cantilupe Society/Canterbury and York Society, volume 5. Latin transcript, with an introduction.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• Lincoln:
  • Lincoln diocese documents, 1450-1544 (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan)
    Searchable text, from the edition of Andrew Clark (1914). Most of the documents are wills, in English or Latin; others include vows of celibacy and records relating to church estates.
• Rochester:
  • John Thorpe, Registrum Roffense [records relating to Rochester Cathedral] (1769) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcripts of miscellaneous records, with a collection of monumental inscriptions.
• St David's:
  • R. F. Isaacson, The Episcopal Registers of the diocese of St. David's 1397 to 1518. Volume 1 (1397-1407). (1917) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Cymmrodorion Record Series number 6. Latin transcript and parallel English translation.
  • R. F. Isaacson, The Episcopal Registers of the diocese of St. David's 1397 to 1518. Volume 2 (1407-1518). (1917) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Cymmrodorion Record Series number 6. Latin transcript and parallel English translation.
• Salisbury:
  • W. Dunn Macray, ed., Charters and documents illustrating the history of the cathedral, city, and diocese of Salisbury, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Selected from the capitular and diocesan archives ... (1891) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Rolls Series number 97. Latin text.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
  • W. H. Rich Jones, ed., Vetus Registrum Sarisberiense alias dictum Registrum S. Osmundi Episcopi. The Register of S. Osmund. Volume 1. (1883) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Rolls Series 78, volume 1. Latin text.
    [Other copies at: Gallica.]
  • W. H. Rich Jones, ed., Vetus Registrum Sarisberiense alias dictum Registrum S. Osmundi Episcopi. The Register of S. Osmund. Volume 2. (1884) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Rolls Series 78, volume 2. Latin text.
    [Other copies at: Gallica.]
• Winchester:
  • T. F. Kirby, editor, Wykeham's Register. [William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, 1366-1404] Volume 1. Part 1. Institutions. Part 2. Ordinations. (1896) (Lollard Society)
    Hampshire Record Society. Calendar, with Latin transcripts of other entries.
  • T. F. Kirby, editor, Wykeham's Register. [William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, 1366-1404] Volume 2. Part 3. Official instruments. Part 4. Crown writs and returns. (1899) (Lollard Society)
    Hampshire Record Society. Includes Latin transcripts.
• Worcester:
  • Worcester Diocese: Bishops' Registers (Mel Lockie)
    Latin transcripts, in progress, from the volumes published by the Worcestershire Historical Society. They currently include the Sede Vacante register and the registers of Godfrey Giffard (1268) and William de Geynesborough (1303).
  • J. W. Willis-Bund, ed., Episcopal Registers, diocese of Worcester. Register of Bishop Godfrey Giffard, September 23rd, 1268, to January 26th, 1302. Part 1. 1268 to 1273 and Part 2. 1273 to 1284. (1898, 1899) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Worcestershire Historical Society. English abstracts. Later reissued in a slightly different edition.
  • J. W. Willis-Bund, ed., Episcopal Registers, diocese of Worcester. Register of Bishop Godfrey Giffard, September 23rd, 1268, to August 15th, 1301. Volume 1. Introduction, index, pp. 1-52. (1902) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Worcestershire Historical Society. English abstracts. Earlier published in a slightly different edition.
  • J. W. Willis-Bund, ed., Episcopal Registers, diocese of Worcester. Register of Bishop Godfrey Giffard, September 23rd, 1268, to August 15th, 1301. Volume 2. pp. 53-552. (1902) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Worcestershire Historical Society. English abstracts. Earlier published in a slightly different edition.
  • J. W. Willis Bund, ed., The Register of the Diocese of Worcester during the vacancy of the see ... 1301-1435. (1897) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Worcestershire Historical Society. English abstracts. Covers periods of vacancy in this period, and also includes some entries for 1497.
• York:
  • York's Archbishops' Registers Revealed (Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York)
    Digital images of the archbishops' registers (1225-1650) and institution act books (1545-1668). There are also searchable indexes of the registers for 1304-1306, 1374-1388 and 1570-1650 (in progress).
  • W. H. Dixon; edited and enlarged by James Raine Fasti Eboracenses. Lives of the Archbishops of York. (1863) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Volume 1 (no more published). Covers 627-1373.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ;  4 .]
  • [James Raine, ed.] The Register, or Rolls, of Walter Gray, Lord Archbishop of York. [1235-1255] (1872) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Surtees Society volume 56. English abstracts with some Latin transcripts.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
  • [William Brown, ed.] The Register of Walter Giffard, Lord Archbishop of York 1266-1279. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Surtees Society volume 109. English abstracts with some Latin transcripts.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
  • [William Brown, ed.,] The register of William Wickwane, lord archbishop of York, 1279-1285. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Surtees Society, volume 114. Latin transcript, with English abstracts.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
  • [William Brown, ed.] The Register of John le Romeyn, Lord Archbishop of York 1286-1296. Part 1. (1913) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Surtees Society volume 123. English abstracts with some Latin transcripts.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
  • [William Brown, ed.] The Registers of John le Romeyn, Lord Archbishop of York 1286-1296. Part 2. And of Henry of Newark, Lord Archbishop of York 1296-1299. (1917) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Surtees Society volume 128. English abstracts with some Latin transcripts.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]

(3) Records of religious houses

See also many monastic documents in the sections on Medieval and early modern texts, Manorial records and Charters.

• Monasticon Anglicanum:
  • Roger Dodsworth and William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. [Volume 1.] (1655) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
  • Roger Dodsworth and William Dugdale, Monastici Anglicani. [Volume 2 and Appendix.] (1661) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  • William Dugdale, ed., Monastici Anglicani. Volume 3. (1673) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    [Other copies at: Google Books:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ;  4  [Hints and tips].]
  • Roger Dodsworth and William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. [Volume 1.] (1682) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Second edition of the first volume.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  • Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. (1693) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Abridged edition in English [by James Wright].
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ; HathiTrust Digital Library.]
  • Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. (1718) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Abridged version in English.
    [Other copies at: HathiTrust Digital Library.]
  • John Stevens, The History of the Antient Abbeys [etc] ... being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 1. (1722) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
  • John Stevens, The History of the Antient Abbeys [etc] ... being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 2. (1722) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
  • Edition of John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel (1817-1830):
    • Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 1. (1817) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    • Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 2. (1819) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    • Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 3. (1821) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    • Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 4. (1823) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    • Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 5. (1825) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    • Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 6, part 1. (1830) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
      [Other copies at: Gallica: bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.]
    • Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 6, part 2. (1830) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
      [Other copies at: Gallica: bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.]
    • Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 6, part 3. (1830) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
      [Other copies at: Gallica: bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.]
  • Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 2. (1846) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  • Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 3. (1846) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
  • Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 4. (1846) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
    [Other copies at: Google Books:  1 ;  2  [Hints and tips].]
  • Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 5. (1849) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  • Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 6, part 2. (1846) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    [Other copies at: HathiTrust Digital Library:  1 ;  2 .]
  • Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 6, part 3. (1849) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    [Other copies at: HathiTrust Digital Library.]
• Barnwell:
  • John Willis Clark, ed., Liber Memorandorum Ecclesie de Bernewelle. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcript.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
• Bristol:
  • Gwen Beachcroft and Arthur Sabin, editors, Two Compotus Rolls of Saint Augustine's Abbey, Bristol. For 1491-2 and 1511-12. (1938) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Bristol Record Society Publications, 9. Latin transcripts of accounts.
• Christ Church, Canterbury:
  • Epistolae cantuarienses, the letters of the prior and convent of Christ church, Canterbury, from A.D. 1187 to A.D. 1199,
    in Chronicles and memorials of the reign of Richard I (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050247)
    PDF format; Latin text from the edition of William Stubbs (Rolls Series 38, vol.2; 1865)
• Great Yarmouth:
  • Calendar of the Register of the Hospital of St Mary, Great Yarmouth (Stephen Alsford, Medieval English Towns)
• Malmesbury:
  • Registrum Malmesburiense (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050337, N050338)
    PDF format; Latin text from the edition of J.S. Brewer (Rolls Series 72, vols 1 and 2; 1879, 1880)
• Northallerton:
  • The Medieval Carmelite Priory at Northallerton: A Chronology (Richard Copsey, British Province of Carmelite Friars) [not available, 7 September 2023; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
    Extracts from records concerning the priory, chronologically arranged
• Ripon:
  • [J. T. Fowler, ed.] Memorials of the Church of SS. Peter and Wilfrid, Ripon. Volume 1. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Surtees Society, volume 74 (1882). Mainly Latin transcripts from chronicles and miscellaneous sources.
  • Memorials of the Church of SS. Peter and Wilfrid, Ripon. Volume 2. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Surtees Society, volume 78 (1886). Extracts from Yorks registers, 1230-1538, and an annotated list of clergy, c. 1260-1886.
  • Memorials of the Church of SS. Peter and Wilfrid, Ripon. Volume 3. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Surtees Society, volume 81 (1888). Fabric rolls, 1354-1542, treasurers' rolls, 1401-85, chamberlains' rolls and accounts, 1401-1560, and other later records.
  • Memorials of the Church of SS. Peter and Wilfrid, Ripon. Volume 4. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Surtees Society, volume 115 (1908). Miscellaneous records, including part of a cartulary, 1114-1322.
• Rochester:
  • The bishops and monks of Rochester (The Research Archive of Colin Flight)
    Additional material associated with Colin Flight, The bishops and monks of Rochester (1997) - an article giving corrections and outlining subsequent literature, and a corrected and slightly updated version of an appendix listing documents relating to the history of the church, to the early 13th century.
• Winchester:
  • Walter de Gray Birch, Liber Vitae: Register and Martyrology of New Minster and Hyde Abbey, Winchester (1892) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Latin text, with an introduction and extensive footnotes.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• York:
  • The Medieval Carmelite Priory at York: A Chronology (Richard Copsey, British Province of Carmelite Friars) [not available, 7 September 2023; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
    Extracts from records concerning the priory, chronologically arranged, with biographical details of many Carmelites associated with York

(4) Lists of clergy

• Richard Newcourt, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiali Londinense:
  • Richard Newcourt, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiali Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London. Volume 1. (1708) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    London, Middlesex and parts of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Includes records of many medieval presentations.
  • Richard Newcourt, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiali Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London. Volume 2. (1710) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Essex. Includes records of many medieval presentations.
• Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae:
  Biographical lists of senior clergy associated with the cathedrals of England and Wales, originally compiled by John le Neve in the early 18th century, and twice revised since then.
  • Twentieth-century multi-volume revised edition (British History Online)
    • Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300:
      • Volume 1: St. Paul's, London (1968)
      • Volume 2: Monastic cathedrals (northern and southern provinces) (1971)
      • Volume 3: Lincoln (1977)
      • Volume 4: Salisbury (1991)
      • Volume 5: Chichester (1996)
      • Volume 6: York (1999)
      • Volume 7: Bath and Wells (2001)
      • Volume 8: Hereford (2002)
      • Volume 9: The Welsh cathedrals (Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph, St Davids) (2003)
    • Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541:
      • Volume 1: Lincoln diocese (1962)
      • Volume 2: Hereford diocese (1962)
      • Volume 3: Salisbury diocese (1962)
      • Volume 4: Monastic cathedrals (southern province) (1963)
      • Volume 5: St Paul's, London (1963)
      • Volume 6: Northern province (York, Carlisle and Durham) (1963)
      • Volume 7: Chichester diocese (1964)
      • Volume 8: Bath and Wells diocese (1964)
      • Volume 9: Exeter diocese (1964)
      • Volume 10: Coventry and Lichfield diocese (1964)
      • Volume 11: The Welsh dioceses (Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph, St Davids) (1965)
      • Volume 12: Introduction, errata, and index (1967)
    • Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857:
      • Volume 1: St. Paul's, London (1969)
      • Volume 2: Chichester diocese (1971)
      • Volume 3: Canterbury, Rochester and Winchester dioceses (1974)
      • Volume 4: York diocese (1975)
      • Volume 5: Bath and Wells diocese (1979)
      • Volume 6: Salisbury diocese (1986)
      • Volume 7: Ely, Norwich, Westminster and Worcester dioceses (1992)
      • Volume 8: Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough dioceses (1996)
      • Volume 9: Lincoln diocese (1999)
      • Volume 10: Coventry and Lichfield diocese (2003)
      • Volume 11, Carlisle, Chester, Durham, Manchester, Ripon, and Sodor and Man Dioceses (2004)
• Other lists of English clergy:
  • CCEd: Clergy of the Church of England Database (King's College, London, and other universities)
    Database of material on the careers of the English clergy between 1540 and 1835, in progress.
  • Listing of Clergy of England from the 12th century to 1500 (Kenneth Jacob)
    Alphabetical listing, in progress, of clerics mentioned in various sources, many of them unpublished.
  • David M. Smith, York Clergy Ordinations 1475-1500 (2017) (Borthwick Institute for Archives)
    Abstracts of entries from the registers of the archbishops of York, with indexes of persons and places.
• Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae:
  • Henry Cotton, Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ. The succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies of Ireland. (1851) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Volume 1 of 5. The province of Munster.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
  • Henry Cotton Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ. The succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland. (1848) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Volume 2 of 5. The province of Leinster.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
  • Henry Cotton, Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ. The succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland. (1849) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Volume 3 of 5. The province of Ulster.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
  • Henry Cotton, Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ. The succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland. (1850) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Volume 4 of 5. The province of Connaught.
  • Henry Cotton Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ. The succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland. (1860) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Volume 5 of 5. Illustrations, corrections and additions, with general indexes to the whole work.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
  • Henry Cotton, Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ. The succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies of Ireland. (1878) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Supplement. Continuation to 1870.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• Rev. Henry Isham Longden, Northamptonshire and Rutland Clergy From 1500. (15 volumes, 1938-1943) (FamilySearch)
  Biographical notes on the clergy and associated people, arranged alphabetically by surname. Free registration is required.

(5) Ecclesiastical courts

• Bristol:
  • Clive Burgess, editor, The Pre-Reformation Records of All Saints', Bristol: Part I. [Benefactions, inventories and accounts] (1995) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Bristol Record Society Publications, 46.
  • Clive Burgess, editor, The Pre-Reformation Records of All Saints' Church, Bristol. Part 2: The Churchwardens' Accounts. (2000) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Bristol Record Society Publications, 53.
  • Clive Burgess, editor, The Pre-Refomation Records of All Saints' Church, Bristol. Part 3: Wills, The Halleway Chantry Records and Deeds. (2004) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Bristol Record Society Publications, 56.
• Cleobury Mortimer: People in the Church Courts, 1534-1600 [formerly at http://www.xea95.dial.pipex.com/cmcc1.htm; not available, 28/10/2001; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from July 2001] (Chris Potter)
  Latin transcripts, continued until 1725
• Emmison's Elizabethan Life [Essex]: Morals and the Church Courts (Mike Foster, GENUKI)
  Index to names from F. G. Emmison's Elizabethan life: morals and the Church Courts, mainly from Essex Archidiaconal records (1973).
• Leicester Archdeaconry Court Proceedings - Case of Winter vs Petcher, 1597-98 (Alan Roberts, Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
  Transcribed records of a case of adultery in an ecclesiastical court, from Leicestershire Record Office 1D 41/4/673. There is also an article by Alan Roberts, discussing the case - A 16th Century Scandal - on the Appleby Magna web site. [not available, 5 December 2024; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
• Consistory: Testimony in the Late Medieval London Consistory Court (Concordia University, Montreal)
  Database, in progress, to contain transcripts and translations of depositions in the consistory court of the diocese of London, 1487-96, from Guildhall Library MSS 9065 and 9065B. The site also provides introductory material and a bibliography.
• Proceedings taken in Winster Church [Derbyshire] regarding the Consanguinity of the Parties to the Marriage of two of the Staffords of Eyam. Deed dated 1308 (Rosemary Lockie)
  Text of an article by C.E.B. Bowles, from the Derbyshire Archaeological Society Journal (1901)
• Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York, 1300-1858. (Borthwick Institute for Archives/University of Sheffield)
  Searchable database of documents relating to more than 14,000 cases heard in the ecclesiastical courts.

(6) Chantries

• Emanuel Green, ed., The survey and rental of the chantries, colleges and free chapels, guilds, fraternities, lamps, lights and obits in the county of Somerset ... A.D. 1548 (1888) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Somerset Record Society, number 2. Transcript of survey; English translation of rental.
  [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
• [William Page, ed.,] The Certificates of the Commissioners appointed to survey the Chantries, Guilds, Hospitals, etc., in the county of York. Part 1. (1894) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Surtees Society, volume 91.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
• William Page, ed., The Certificates of the Commissioners appointed to survey the Chantries, Guilds, Hospitals, etc., in the county of York. Part 2. (1895) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Surtees Society, volume 92.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ;  4 .]

(7) Miscellaneous

• Index to ecclesiastical spiritualities in the Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae Auctoritate Papae Nicholai IV (c.1291) (Jeff Denton, University of Manchester)
  Compiled from the Record Commission edition (1802), being supplemented from other sources.
• Penance, c.1250-c.1600: some texts (and linked pages) (David Postles, Leicester University)
  Sample texts from various sources, some original texts - Latin and English - and some translations
• Earls Colne: Church records (The Records of Earls Colne; Cambridge University)
  Transcripts of church records - administrative, legal and monastic - relating to Earls Colne, Essex, 16th century and later
• The church in London 1375-1392 (British History Online)
  Text from the edition of A. K. McHardy, London Record Society, vol. 13 (1977); English translations and abstracts; clerical poll tax returns, 1379-81, an inquisition into ecclesiastical property, c. 1392, and the acta of William Courtenay, bishop of London, 1375-81
• Physicians and Surgeons: Directory of medical licences issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775 (Lambeth Palace Library)
  The surname index includes more than 70 entries from the 16th century.
• Somerset: Right Rev. Bishop [Edmund] Hobhouse, ed., Church-Wardens' Accounts of Croscombe, Pilton, Yatton, Tintinhull, Morebath, and St. Michael's, Bath. [1349-1560] (1890) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Somerset Record Society, volume 4. English and Latin transcripts.
• Shannon McSheffrey, Sanctuary Seekers in England, 1394-1557
  Accounts of around 400 selected sanctuary seekers, from research for the author's book, Seeking Sanctuary: Crime, Mercy, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550 (Oxford University Press, 2017). There is also a spreadsheet of more than 1800 cases.
• Sanctuary seekers in Northamptonshire 1394-1557 (Stephen Swailes, this site)
  Cases taken from Dr Shannon McSheffrey's website Sanctuary Seekers in England, 1394-1557, with additional information added from original sources where possible.
• James Raine, editor, Sanctuarium Dunelmense et Sanctuariam Beverlacense. (1837) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Surtees Society, volume 5. Latin transcripts of 15th- and 16th-century sanctuary records.