Medieval English genealogy: updates: 15 December 2025

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Contents:

• New material
• New links
• Updated links

New material

Six new indexes of King's Bench plea rolls (KB 27) by Vance Mead from the period 1455-1459 have been added to the Plea Roll database and the AALT Lists and Indexes database.

Four new indexes of Court of Requests Books, for Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas terms 1588 and Hilary term 1589, have been added to the AALT Lists and Indexes database.

New links

• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Public records: Common law records:
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 2.] 3-5 John. (1925) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 3.] 5-7 John. (1926) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 4.] 7-8 John. (1929) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 5.] 8-10 John. (1931) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 6.] 11-14 John. (1932) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 7.] 15-16 John. Appendix, 7 Richard I-1 John. (1935) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. [Volume 8.] 3-4 Henry III. (1938) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. [Volume 9.] 4 and 5 Henry III. (1952) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. [Volume 10.] 5 and 6 Henry III. (1949) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust:  1 ;  2 .]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. [Volume 11.] 7 to 9 Henry III. (1955) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust:  1 ;  2 .]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. [Volume 12.] 9 to 10 Henry III. (1957) (HathiTrust)
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust:  1 ;  2 .]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. Volume 13. 11 to 14 Henry III (1227-1230) (1959) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. Volume 14. 14 to 17 Henry III (1230-1232) (1961) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust:  1 ;  2 .]
    • Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. Volume 15. 17 to 21 Henry III (1233-1237) (1972) (HathiTrust)
      Latin transcripts.
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust:  1 ;  2 .]
  • Charters:
    • Lewis C. Loyd and Doris Mary Stenton, eds, Sir Christopher Hatton's Book of Seals (1950) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Latin texts of charters with English abstracts and notes.
  • Probate records:
    • C. Eveleigh Woodruff, Sede Vacante Wills: a calendar of wills proved before the commissary of the prior and chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury, during vacancies in the primacy (1914) (FamilySearch)
      Kent Archaeological Society Records Branch, volume 3. With an appendix containing transcripts of archiepiscopal and other wills of importance.
    • W. H. Hall, Calendar of wills and administrations in the Archdeaconry Court of Lewes in the bishopric of Chichester [and the peculiars of] South Malling [and] Battle (1901) (HathiTrust)
      British Record Society, volume 24.
  • Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
    • Joseph Foster, ed., The Visitation of Middlesex began In the Year 1663 (1887) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• Links:
  • Links to some useful societies and journals:
    • Miscellaneous: Scanned Sources (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
      Early journals, books and articles.
    • Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica
      Links to volumes 1-8 (1834-1843) at the Internet Archive (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy).
    • The Genealogist (original series, 1877-1883)
      Links to volumes 1-7 (1877-1883) and index at the Internet Archive (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy).
    • The Genealogist (new series, 1884-1922)
      Index to volumes 1-20 and volumes 1-21 (1884-1905) and links to volumes 22-38 (1906-1922) at the Internet Archive (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy).
    • The Herald and Genealogist
      Links to volumes 1-8 (1863-1874) at the Internet Archive and Google Books (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy).
    • The Topographer and Genealogist
      Volumes 1-3 (1846-1858) (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy).
• Victoria County History:
  • Older County Histories:
    • Thomas Philipot Villare Cantianum: or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated (1664) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Thomas Philipott Villare Cantianum: or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated (1659) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)

Updated links

• A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
  • Public records: Pipe rolls:
    • Richard Cassidy, The Rolls Behind the Rolls: The English Pipe Rolls and Their Preliminary Documents (ResearchGate)
• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Probate records:
    • England and Wales Published Wills and Probate Indexes (Findmypast)
      Index compiled from volumes published by the British Record Society and others, searchable by subscribers. Currently includes wills and administrations from about 30 counties and the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, from the late-medieval period to the 19th century.
    • Hampshire Archives catalogue
      Includes references to all Hampshire wills proved in the courts of Winchester diocese to 1858 (including the Consistory Court, Archdeaconry of Winchester Court and Peculiar Courts).
    • Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index 1700-1807 (Findmypast)
      Index to over 5000 wills, mainly from the first half of the 18th century, searchable by subscribers; there are very few entries after the 1770s.
  • Miscellaneous:
    • Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (University College, London)
      Database of over 1200 non-Runic inscriptions on monuments in Celtic-speaking areas from the early middle ages.
• Medieval English families on the Internet:
  • W:
    • The Wyles Family of Duddington [Northamptonshire] (Adrian Peter Chan-Wyles)
      Includes a discussion of the family's medieval origins.
• Victoria County History:
  • Older County Histories:
    • John Pym Yeatman, George Reresby Sitwell and Cecil J. S. Foljambe, The Feudal History of the County of Derby: (Chiefly during the 11th, 12th, and 13th Centuries). Volume 2, section 3. (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust; FamilySearch.]