What was new on this site: April-September 2004
For the most recent additions, with links, see the update page.
For brief details of the current quarter's additions, see What's new on this site.
8 September 2004:
New material
In the main section of Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
the following items have been added:
ANGUS (Volume 1, page 149; addition of information about Lucy de Kyme's sister),
ESSEX (County of) (Volume 5, pages 113, 114 and notes),
ESSEX (County of) (Volume 5, pages 114, 115),
GREY (of Powis) (Volume 6, page 136),
HERON (Volume 6, pages 488, 489),
KYME (Volume 7, page 354),
KYME (Volume 7, page 357),
LANCASTER [County of] (Volume 7, page 410),
LISLE of Kingston Lisle (Volume 8, chart pedigree),
LISLE of Rougemont (Volume 8, pages 69, 70 and notes d-f),
LUMLEY (Volume 8, page 274 and note e),
MORTIMER or MORTEMER of Wigmore (Volume 9, page 276 and note m),
OXFORD (Volume 10, page 201) and
SUDELEY (Volume 12, part 1, page 415 and note o).
The following items have been modifed:
BRADESTON (Volume 2, page 273; addition of date by which
Isabel was married to Robert de Rigge),
CAUNTELO (Volume 3, page 113; addition of date of
death of William de Kyme, and the place of burial of Nicholas de Cauntelo and Joan),
CONYERS (Volume 3, page 404; addition of date
after which William Conyers married Anne Nevill),
HERON (Volume 6, page 488; correction of the name
of Sir William Heron's wife),
KYME (Volume 7, pages 355, 356; addition of first marriage
of William de Kyme, the date of his death, and the place of burial of his widow and her second husband),
MORTIMER of Chirk (Volume 9, page 254; parentage of
Lucy according to the Foundation History of Wigmore Priory noted) and
MORTIMER of Chirk (Volume 9, page 254; identity of
Juliane according to the Foundation History of Wigmore Priory noted).
The item on HERON (Volume 6, pages 488, 489) previously in the "proposed" section, has been removed,
as one of the new items supersedes it.
New links
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts:
Jean Froissart, Les Chroniques de Sire Jean Froissart
Modern French translation by J. A. C. Buchon (3 vols; 1835), in PDF format,
on the gallica site; numbers for "Recherche libre" field:
N029759-N029761
- County and local history:
- Chiddingstone
[Kent] Early Poor Law Accounts (Kent Archaeological Society)
Text of an article by June Gibbons, published as Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 73, pp. 193-195 (1959),
on 16th-century accounts of the collectors for the poor
- Late-Continued
Demesne Farming at Otford [Kent] (Kent Archaeological Society)
Text of an article by F. R. H. Du Boulay, published as Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 73, pp. 161-124 (1959),
on 15th-century agriculture in the archbishop's manor of Otford
- Charters:
DEEDS (Michael Gervers, University of Toronto)
Searchable collection of the Latin texts of more than 8000 charters extracted from 170 published cartularies,
mainly from the 12th and 13th centuries. The original emphasis was on Essex (the acronym stands for
Documents of Essex England Data Set), but the collection also covers
other parts of England and Wales. The largest numbers of charters come from
Lincoln Cathedral, the Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St John,
and the abbeys of Oseney, Cirencester and Eynsham.
Normally a scan of the printed source - often including an abstract in
English - can also be viewed
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
Anonymous knight
(c. 1475): Dredged from the River Thames (rubbing and discussion)
(Monumental Brass Society, Brass of the Month, August 2004)
- Victoria County History (British History Online):
- Cambridgeshire, volume 4:
The Liberty of Ely
City of Ely
Ely Hundred: Downham, Littleport
North Witchford Hundred: Chatteris, Doddington, March, North Stanground, Whittlesey
South Witchford Hundred: Coveney with Manea, Haddenham, Mepal, Stretham and Thetford, Sutton, Welches Dam, Wentworth, Wilburton, Witcham, Witchford
Wisbech Hundred: Elm, Leverington, Chapelry of Parson Drove, Newton, Outwell and Upwell, Thorney, Tydd St Giles, Wisbech St Mary, Wisbech
- Cambridgeshire, volume 10:
Cheveley Hundred: Ashley cum Silverley, Cheveley, Kirtling, Woodditton
Flendish Hundred: Cherry Hinton, Fen Ditton, Fulbourn, Horningsea, Teversham
Staine Hundred: Bottisham, Reach, Stow cum Quy, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior, Great Wilbraham, Little Wilbraham
Staploe Hundred: Burwell, Chippenham, Fordham, Isleham, Kennett, Landwade, Snailwell, Soham, Wicken
- Cheshire, volume 5, part 1:
The city of Chester
- Essex, volume 9:
The Borough of Colchester: Greenstead, Lexden, Mile End, West Donyland
- Gloucestershire, volume 11:
Bisley Hundred: Bisley, Edgeworth, Miserden, Painswick, Sapperton, Stroud, Winstone
Longtree Hundred: Avening, Cherington, Horsley, Minchinhampton, Nailsworth, Rodborough, Rodmarton, Shipton Moyne, Tetbury, Westonbirt with Lasborough, Woodchester
- Leicestershire, volume 5:
Gartree Hundred: Billesdon, Blaston, Husbands Bosworth, Great Bowden, Bringhurst, Burrough on the Hill, Burton Overy, Carlton Curlieu, Cranoe, Fleckney, Foxton, Galby and Frisby, Great Glen, Glooston, Gumley, Hallaton, Market Harborough, Horninghold, Houghton on the Hill, Illston on the Hill, Kibworth, Knossington, Church Langton, Laughton, Lubenham, Medbourne, Mowsley, King's Norton, Noseley, Owston, Pickwell, Saddington, Scraptoft, Shangton, Slawston, Stockerston, Stonton Wyville, Theddingworth, Thurnby, Welham, Wistow
- Middlesex, volume 1:
General articles
- Middlesex, volume 2:
General articles
Spelthorne Hundred: Ashford, East Bedfont with Hatton, Feltham, Hampton with Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton
- Middlesex, volume 3:
Spelthorne Hundred (continued): Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington
Isleworth Hundred: Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham
Elthorne Hundred: Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield, Harlington
- Middlesex, volume 4:
Elthorne Hundred (continued): Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood, including Southall, Hillingdon, including Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip
Gore Hundred (part): Edgware, Harrow, including Pinner
- Middlesex, volume 6:
Ossulstone Hundred: Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey, including Highgate
- Middlesex, volume 7:
Ossulstone Hundred (continued): Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden
- Middlesex, volume 9:
Ossulstone Hundred (continued):
Hampstead (Hampstead Town, Frognal and the Central Demesne, West End, Kilburn, Edgware Road, and Cricklewood, Belsize, St John's Wood, Chalcots, North End, Littleworth, and Spaniard's End, Vale of Health, Childs Hill, Hampstead Heath)
Paddington (Paddington Green, Tyburnia, Westbourne Green, Bayswater, Maida Vale, Queen's Park and St Peter's Park)
- Middlesex, volume 10:
Ossulstone Hundred (continued): Hackney (Hackney Village, Mare Street and London Fields, Dalston and Kingsland Road, De Beauvoir Town, Shacklewell, Newington and Stamford Hill, Clapton, Homerton and Hackney Wick, Grove Street and Well Street)
- Oxfordshire, volume 4:
The City of Oxford
- Oxfordshire, volume 11:
Wootton Hundred: North Aston, Steeple Aston, Barford St Michael, Steeple Barton, Westcott Barton, Deddington, Glympton, Heythrop, South Newington, Rousham, Sandford St Martin, Stonesfield, Tackley, Duns Tew, Great Tew, Little Tew, Wootton, Nether Worton, Over Worton
- Shropshire, volume 10:
Munslow Hundred (part): Upper Division: Acton Scott, Cardington, Hope Bowdler, Rushbury, Church Stretton
Lower Division: Abdon, Easthope, Holdgate, Bouldon, Munslow, Lesser Poston, Stanton Long, Tugford
The Liberty and Borough of Wenlock: Badger, Barrow, Caughley, Beckbury, Benthall, Broseley, Deuxhill, Ditton Priors, Eaton-under-Heywood, Longville, Lushcott, and part of East Wall, Hughley, Linley, Monkhopton, Posenhall, Shipton, Stoke St Milborough, The Heath, Much Wenlock, Willey
- Shropshire, volume 11:
Telford
The Liberty and Borough of Wenlock (part): Madeley including Coalbrookdale, Coalport, and Ironbridge, Little Wenlock
Bradford Hundred (Southern Division): Dawley, Eyton upon the Weald Moors, Lilleshall, Preston upon the Weald Moors, Stirchley, Wellington, Hadley and Horton, Ketley, Lawley, Wombridge, later Oakengates, Wrockwardine, Wrockwardine Wood
- Somerset, volume 6:
Andersfield Hundred: Broomfield, Creech St Michael, Durleigh, Enmore, Goathurst, Lyng
Cannington Hundred: Aisholt, Cannington, Charlinch, Fiddington, Otterhampton, Spaxton, Stockland Bristol, Stogursey, Over Stowey, Stringston
North Petherton Hundred: Bawdrip, Bridgwater, Chedzoy, Chilton Trinity, Durston, Pawlett, North Petherton, St Michaelchurch, Thurloxton, Wembdon
- Somerset, volume 7:
Bruton Hundred: Brewham, Brewham Lodge, Eastrip, and Four Towers, Bruton, Milton Clevedon, Pitcombe, Upton Noble, Yarlington
Horethorne Hundred: Abbas and Temple Combe, Charlton Horethorne, North Cheriton, Corton Denham, Henstridge, Horsington, Marston Magna, Milborne Port, Stowell
Norton Ferris Hundred: Bratton Seymour, Charlton Musgrove, Cucklington, Penselwood, Shepton Montague, Stoke Trister, Wincanton
Taunton and Taunton Dean Hundred (part): Rimpton
Whitley Hundred (part): Blackford, Holton
- Sussex, volume 6, part 1:
Bramber Rape
Brightford Hundred: Clapham, Findon, Lancing, Sompting
Worthing and associated parishes: Broadwater, Durrington, Heene, Worthing
Fishersgate Half Hundred: Kingston by Sea, Old and New Shoreham, Southwick
Patching Hundred: Patching
Steyning Hundred: Botolphs, Bramber, Coombes, Steyning, Washington, Wiston
Tarring Hundred: West Tarring
- Sussex, volume 6, part 2:
Bramber Rape (North-western part)
East Easwrith Hundred: Itchingfield, Sullington, Thakeham, Warminghurst
West Grinstead Hundred: Ashington, Ashurst, West Grinstead, Shipley
Singlecross Hundred (Part): Horsham, Warnham
- Sussex, volume 6, part 3:
Bramber Rape (North-eastern Part)
Burbeach Hundred: Lower Beeding, Upper Beeding, Edburton, Ifield, Crawley New Town
Singlecross Hundred (continued): Nuthurst, Rusper
Tipnoak Hundred: Albourne, Henfield, Woodmancote
Wyndham Half-Hundred: Cowfold, Shermanbury
- Wiltshire, volume 17:
Calne Hundred: Berwick Bassett, Blackland, Calne, Bowood, Calstone Wellington, Cherhill, Compton Bassett, Heddington, Yatesbury
- Links:
- Heraldry:
European
Rolls of Arms of the Thirteenth Century
(Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)
Heralds' Roll,
Part 13 and
Part 14
The Bigot Roll,
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4,
Part 5 and
Part 6
1 August 2004:
New material
In the main section of Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
the following items have been added:
BRADESTON (Volume 2, page 273),
BREWOSE, BREOUSE, or BREWES (Volume 2, page 308),
CONYERS (Volume 3, page 404),
DEVONSHIRE or DEVON (County of) (Volume 4, page 348 (as modified by volume 14) and note a),
LOVAINE or LOVAYNE (Volume 8, pages 179, 180),
MONTFORT (Volume 9, page 128),
MORTIMER of Chirk (Volume 9, page 254),
MORTIMER of Chirk (Volume 9, page 254),
MORTIMER of Chirk (Volume 9, page 256 and notes a-d (as modified by volume 14)),
SAINT AMAND (Volume 11, page 298),
SAINT GEORGE OF HATLEY SAINT GEORGE (Volume 11, page 306),
SUDELEY (Volume 12, part 1, page 422),
VESCY (Volume 12, part 2, page 283),
WAKE (Volume 12, part 2, page 302 and note c (as modified by volume 14)) and
WILLOUGHBY or WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY (Volume 12, part 2, page 660)
In the "proposed" section,
the following item has been added:
BEAUCHAMP (of Somerset) (Volume 2, page 50, note a)
The item on SAINT AMAND previously in the "proposed" section,
has been removed, as one of the new items supersedes it.
New links
- Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- County and local history:
- Bunbury, Cheshire:
St Boniface Church Bunbury
The Bunbury Papers section includes articles by Claude Blair on
the monument to Sir Hugh Calveley (d. 1394) and on the other medieval
effigies in the church, some of which commemorate members of the Spurstow
family. The Elsworth Papers section includes biographical
sketches of the same Sir Hugh Calveley, Sir Ralph Egerton of Ridley (d. 1528)
and Sir George Beeston (d. 1601)
- Hawkesbury
History [Gloucestershire] (Robert Millard)
Includes a large number of abstracts, many of them medieval,
in the Hawkesbury Documents Index section;
also a brief history, the texts of books on local history,
extracts from the Domesday Book and from Bigland's Collections,
transcripts of wills and the Military Survey of 1522.
Also covers Didmarton, Oldbury on the Hill and Tormarton.
(This replaces the website of the Hawkesbury and Hillesley Family History,
formerly at http://www.hawkesburyfamilyhistory.co.uk/index.html)
- Church records:
Clergy
of the Church of England Database
(King's College, London, and other universities)
Biographical information on the English clergy between 1540 and 1835.
A pilot version of the database is now available
- Miscellaneous sources: Schools:
Sir W. Sterry, ed., The Eton college register, 1441-1698
(Eton, 1943)
[Available from Archive CD Books]
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Medieval texts:
L'histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, Comte de Striguil et de Pembroke, Régent d'Angleterre de 1216 à 1219
(gallica Bibliothèque Nationale de France;
numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N203426-8)
PDF format; text of a poem in French. From the three-volume edition of Paul Meyer (1891-1901)
Volumes 2 and 3 have recently been added
- Public records:
Rymer's Foedera,
Volume 3 (French-language documents AD 1344-1377) and
Volume 4 (French-language documents AD1377-1383)
(The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub)
French-language documents only, extracted from the edition of 1816-1869
- Charters:
Parkham-related deeds [Devon]
(Elizabeth Glover Howard, GENUKI)
Extracted items (mainly from the 16th century)
from J. C. Tingay, Calendar of Deeds Enrolled Within the County of Devon 1536 - 1673 (1930)
- Parish registers:
- Origins.net
(in association with the Society of Genealogists of London)
has added 280,000 names from Cornwall to its
pay-per-view Boyd's Marriage Index database.
- Boyd's
London Burials 1538-1872 (Origins.net)
Sample of over 240,000 London entries, included in a pay-per-view database
- Miscellaneous: Urban and guild records
Munimenta gildhallae londoniensis:
[Documents in French from] Liber Albus
(The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub)
From the edition of Henry Thomas Riley (Rolls Series 12, vol 1; 1859)
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Hodsoll:
Wills
and other records relating to the family of Hodsoll
(Kent Archaeological Society)
Text of an article by James Greenstreet, published in
Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 14, pp. 223-240 (1882),
including some 16th0-century material
- Links:
- General:
RoyaList Online: A Royal Genealogy Database
(Pelican Systems)
Database of British royal genealogy, based on secondary sources, originally sold as a PC program.
Unfortunately the sources are not specified, but the information given is
detailed and extensive
- Societies and journals:
- The Ancestor
The main subjects of all articles in nos 1 and 2 (1902)
are indexed in the Medieval Genealogical Registry
(Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
- The Church Monuments Society
Includes lists of contents of the Society's journal, and a county-by-county listing (in progress)
of sites with "interesting collections of monuments or, in some cases, one outstanding monument"
- London Medieval Society
Includes an online newsletter
3 July 2004:
New material
In the main section of Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
the following items have been added:
COBHAM (of Kent) (Volume 3, page 346),
DEINCOURT (Volume 4, page 122),
DEVON (Volume 4, page 323, as modified by volume 14),
DINHAM or DINAUNT (Volume 4, page 371 and note a),
DINHAM or DINAUNT (Volume 4, page 374, as modified by volume 14),
FERRERS OF CHARTLEY (Volume 5, pages 324, 325),
and TYBOTOT (Volume 12, part 2, page 97)
In the "proposed" section,
the following items have been added:
DINHAM or DINAUNT (Volume 4, page 373 and note b) and
KENT (Volume 7, page 143)
The following items have been updated (and in some cases transferred to the main section):
DESPENSER (Volume 4, page 290),
HUNGERFORD (Volume 6, page 621, as modified by volume 14) and
SCROPE (of Bolton) (Volume 11, page 542, as modified by volume 14)
The proposed correction to TYBOTOT (Volume 12, part 2, page 97), noting a conflict with other articles,
has been removed, as it does reflect the correct version.
New links
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- County and local history:
- Victoria County History, Cambridgeshire, volume 9 (1989) (British History Online):
Chesterton Hundred:
- Chesterton,
Childerley,
Cottenham,
Dry Drayton,
Histon and
Westwick
Northstowe Hundred:
- Girton,
Impington,
Landbeach,
Lolworth,
Madingley,
Milton,
Oakington,
Rampton,
Long Stanton and
Waterbeach
Papworth Hundred:
- Boxworth,
Conington,
Fen Drayton,
Elsworth,
Graveley,
Knapwell,
Over,
Papworth Everard,
Papworth St. Agnes,
Swavesey and
Willingham
- Victoria County History, Essex, volume 4 (1956) (British History Online):
The Hundred of Ongar:
-
Bobbingworth,
Chigwell,
Fyfield,
Greenstead,
Kelvedon Hatch,
Lambourne,
High Laver,
Little Laver,
Magdalen Laver,
Loughton,
Moreton,
Navestock,
Norton Mandeville,
Chipping Ongar,
High Ongar,
Abbess Roding,
Beauchamp Roding,
Shelley,
Stanford Rivers,
Stapleford Abbots,
Stapleford Tawney,
Stondon Massey,
Theydon Bois,
Theydon Garnon,
Theydon Mount and
North Weald Bassett
- Victoria County History, Essex, volume 10 (2001) (British History Online):
Lexden Hundred:
-
Aldham,
West Bergholt,
Birch,
Boxted,
Mount Bures,
Chappel,
Earls Colne,
Colne Engaine,
Wakes Colne,
White Colne,
Copford,
Dedham,
East Donyland,
Easthorpe,
Fordham,
Great Horkesley,
Little Horkesley,
Langham,
Stanway,
Wivenhoe and
Wormingford
- Victoria County History, Gloucestershire, volume 10 (1972) (British History Online):
The Hundred of Westbury:
-
Blaisdon,
Churcham,
Newnham,
Tidenham including Lancaut,
Westbury-on-Severn and
Woolaston
The Hundred of Whitstone:
-
Eastington,
Frampton on Severn,
Fretherne and Saul,
Frocester,
Hardwicke,
Haresfield,
Longney,
Moreton Valence,
Quedgeley,
Randwick,
Standish,
King's Stanley,
Leonard Stanley,
Stonehouse and
Wheatenhurst or Whitminster
- Victoria County History, Gloucestershire:
Preston
Draft parish history from the Victoria County History
- Victoria County History, Oxfordshire, volume 13 (1996) (British History Online):
Bampton Hundred:
-
Bampton,
Bampton and Weald,
Aston and Cote,
Chimney,
Lower Haddon,
Lew,
Shifford,
Ducklington,
Northmoor,
Standlake and
Yelford
- Victoria County History, Somerset, volume 8 (2004) (British History Online):
Huntspill and Puriton Hundred
Whitley Hundred:
-
Ashcott,
Catcott,
Chilton Polden,
Cossington,
Edington,
Greinton,
High Ham,
Huntspill,
Middlezoy,
Moorlinch,
Othery,
Puriton,
Shapwick,
Stawell,
Sutton Mallet,
Westonzoyland and
Woolavington
- Victoria County History, Warwickshire, volume 8 (1969) (British History Online):
The City of Coventry
The borough of Warwick
- Victoria County History, Wiltshire, volume 8 (1965) (British History Online):
The Hundred of Warminster:
-
Bishopstrow,
Corsley,
Dinton,
Fisherton de la Mere,
Norton Bavant,
Pertwood,
Sutton Veny,
Teffont Magna,
Upton Scudamore and
Warminster
The Hundred of Westbury:
The Hundred of Whorwellsdown:
-
Steeple Ashton,
North Bradley,
East Coulston,
Edington and
Keevil
- Victoria County History, Yorkshire, East Riding, volume 7 (2002) (British History Online):
Holderness Wapentake:
-
Aldbrough,
Burton Pidsea,
Garton,
Hilston,
Humbleton,
Roos,
Sproatley,
Swine,
Benningholme,
Bilton,
Burton Constable,
Coniston,
Ellerby,
Ganstead,
Marton,
North Skirlaugh and Rowton,
South Skirlaugh,
Thirtleby,
Wyton,
Tunstall,
Wawne,
Atwick,
Barmston,
Beeford,
Brandesburton,
Catwick,
North Frodingham,
Goxhill,
Hornsea,
Leven,
Mappleton,
Nunkeeling,
Rise,
Long Riston,
Routh,
Sigglesthorne,
Skipsea and
Withernwick
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
- Two new sections of the Monumental Brass Society's
Picture Library,
on Maidens and matrons
and Children.
More than 20 new illustrations, including:
Anonymous maiden, Lingfield, Surrey (c. 1450),
Sir Reginald Braybrook and two sons, Cobham, Surrey (1404),
Margarete Brocas, Sherborne St. John, Hampshire (c. 1390),
Elizabeth Broughton, Chenies, Buckinghamshire (1524),
Detail showing children of Phillipa Carreu, Beddington, Surrey (1414),
Mary Cave, Hungarton, Leicestershire (c. 1510),
Robert Cawdron, his wives and children, Great Hale, Lincolnshire (1653),
Princess Eleanor, Beaulieu, Hampshire (1311),
Daughters on brass to Thomas Hampton, Stoke Charity, Hampshire (1483),
Dorothy King, Windsor, Berkshire (1630),
Joan Kniveton, Muggington, Derbyshire (c. 1475),
Joan de Lucy, St Bees Priory, Cumberland (1369),
Dorothy Markham, Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire (1495),
Daughters of Thomas Pever, Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire (c. 1500; figures renewed c. 1890),
Thomas Stokes, his wife and children, Ashby St Ledger, Northamptonshire (1416),
John Stonor, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire (1512),
John Temple, Stowe, Buckinghamshire (1592),
Bridget Toke, Great Chart, Kent (1680) and
detail showing daughters of Sir Thomas Urswyk, Dagenham, Essex (1479)
- Thomas Tomkins
(d. 1629):
Llandinabo, Herefordshire (rubbing and description)
(Monumental Brass Society, brass of the month, May 2004)
- William de Wermington
(c. 1330):
Crowland, Lincolnshire (incised slab; photograph and description)
(Monumental Brass Society, brass of the month, June 2004)
- Miscellaneous:
Physicians
and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640 (British History Online)
Database associated with the work by Margaret Pelling and Frances White,
Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London:
Patronage, Physicians and Irregular Practitioners 1550-1640 (2003),
giving biographical details of more than 800 individuals, from the records of
the Royal College of Physicians
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Baynton: Bayntun History (Gerry Cullen)
Detailed notes on the Baynton or Bayntun family of Wiltshire, generation by generation,
12th century and later [NB Not available through some Internet Service Providers]
- Bourton: The
Bourton Family and their Lords in the Twelfth-Century Midlands
(Richard Dace)
Discussion of the Bourton family of Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire,
and Ibstock, Leicestershire, 11th and 12th centuries.
In Prosopon 13 (Word format)
- Copinger: W. A. Copinger, History
of the Copingers or Coppingers of the County of Cork, Ireland, and the Counties of Suffolk and Kent, England (1884)
(Paul and Elizabeth Copinger, Copinger and Coppinger Web Site)
Includes a section on the Copingers of Nofolk, 13th century and later,
Suffolk, 15th century and later, and Kent, 16th century and later
- Coudray: The Coudray Family
(David Nash Ford, Royal Berkshire History)
Extract from Mary Sharp and W. O. Clinton, A Record of the Parish of Padworth (1911),
concerning the Coudrays of Padworth, Berkshire, 13th century and later
- Foxley: The Foxley Family
(David Nash Ford, Royal Berkshire History)
Extract from Montague Burrows, The Brocas Family of Beaurepaire (1886),
concerning the Foxleys of Bray, Berkshire, and Bramshill, Hampshire, 14th century and later
- Goostrey: The evidences for the arms of Goostrey
(Martin S.J. Goldstraw, Cheshire Heraldry)
Includes information on the Goostreys of Goostrey, Cheshire, 13th-15th centuries, and associated families
- Syfrewast: The Syfrewast Family
(David Nash Ford, Royal Berkshire History)
Extract from Montague Burrows, The Brocas Family of Beaurepaire (1886),
concerning the West-Country Syfrewasts, 13th century and later
- Links:
- Heraldry:
- European
Rolls of Arms of the Thirteenth Century
(Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)
Heralds' Roll,
Part 3,
Part 4,
Part 5,
Part 6,
Part 7,
Part 8,
Part 9,
Part 10,
Part 11 and
Part 12
- The Mitchell Rolls
(The Heraldry Society of Scotland)
Compilation, in progress, of transcripts of rolls of arms relating to Scotland
- The Armorial Bearings Featured in
The Vale Royal of England first published by Daniel King in 1656
(Martin S.J. Goldstraw, Cheshire Heraldry)
Modern coloured illustrations, in progress, based on a 17th-century collection of some 520 Cheshire
coats of arms, with scans of the original drawings
22 April 2004:
New material
In the main section of Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
the following items have been added:
BERKELEY (Volume 2, page 135), CHAUNDOS (Volume 3, page 152), CLARE (honour of) (Volume 3, page 243) and
CONYERS (Volume 3, page 404).
In the "proposed" section, the following items have been added:
ARUNDEL (co. Sussex) (Volume 1, page 250), ATON (Volume 1, page 326 and note c) and
DINHAM or DINAUNT (Volume 4, page 380, as modified by volume 14).
A new set of web pages (in progress) containing chart pedigrees that illustrate these corrections and additions.
New links
- Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Handwriting and language:
Latin-English
Dictionary (Tze-wan Kwan, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Searchable version, based on Lynn Nelson's Latin Word List
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts:
William the Marshal:
L'histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, Comte de Striguil et de Pembroke, Régent d'Angleterre de 1216 à 1219
(gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France;
number for "Recherche libre" field: N203426)
PDF format; text of a poem in French. Volume 1 of 3, from the edition of Paul Meyer (1891-1901)
- County and local history:
- Frederic W. Woodhouse, The
churches of Coventry. a short history of the city and its medieval remains (1909)
(Project Gutenberg)
- Haltemprice
Priory (East Riding , Yorkshire)
(Richard Hayton, Some Yorkshire History)
Illustrated article on the priory's history, including a list of priors
- Text from the Victoria County History of Staffordshire, volume 9 (2004),
on British History Online:
- Branston
- Burton-upon-Trent
- Horninglow
- Stapenhill
- Stretton
- Winshill
- Some Yorkshire History (Richard Hayton)
Includes a comprehensive listing of Yorkshire Fortifications 1066 to 1900,
a detailed article on Haltemprice Priory, a presentation of the heraldry
on John Speed's 1610 plan of the East and North Ridings,
and an article on the Battle of Towton
- Modern biography and prosopography:
- J. A. Froude, The Divorce
of Catherine of Aragon: The Story as Told by the Imperial
Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII (1891)
(Marilee Cody, Tudor England)
In progress
- E. S. Beesly, Queen Elizabeth (1892)
(Marilee Cody, Tudor England)
- Monumental brasses on the Internet: Monumental Brass Society, brasses of the month:
- William
Bradschawe, gent., and his wife Alice (1537):
Wendover, Buckinghamshire (rubbing and description of an unusual brass showing
the couple's grandchildren) (April 2004)
- John Wybarne
and his wives Edith and Agnes
(c. 1505):
Ticehurst, Sussex (rubbing and description)
(March 2004)
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Malet:
Mallett Family History (Bob Mallett)
Includes a section, "1066 and all that", on the early Malets - this should be treated with
caution, as the source is Burke's Landed Gentry
- Royal families:
British Royalty:
The Royal Lineage (Burke's Peerage and Gentry)
Narrative pedigree of the monarchs of England and Scotland, presented as a free sample of the
subscription database available at the same site
- Stanley:
The
History of the House of Stanley (Frances Coakley, A Manx Note Book)
Text (in progress) of the work by John Seacombe, from the 1793 edition.
An account of the family, originally from Staffordshire and later earls of Derby.
To be treated with caution, like any work of this age
- Links:
- General links:
- Latin Forms of Some English Surnames
(Roy Cox's Genealogical and Historical Research)
A very useful list, taken from C.T. Martin, The Record Interpreter.
It includes not only familiar examples such as de Bello Campo (for Beauchamp)
and de Vetere Ponte (for Vipont), but unexpected ones such as
de Umbrosa Quercu (for Dimock), and exotic ones like de Aureis Testiculis
- Ford's
Landed Gentry of Berkshire (David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History)
Database compiled from various sources, including nearly 10,000 individuals
associated with Berkshire
- Societies and journals:
- Norfolk Record Society
Includes full listings of the society's publications
- The Topographer and Genealogist
The main subjects of articles in volumes 1-3 (1846-1858)
are indexed in the Medieval Genealogical Registry
(Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
- Heraldry:
European
Rolls of Arms of the Thirteenth Century
(Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)
Heralds' Roll, Part 1
and Part 2
For older additions, see: