What's new on this site: October-December 2008

For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the update page.

19 December 2008:

New material

In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines for Bedfordshire (1409-1509) (281 fines) and Leicestershire (1359-1368) (50 fines) have been added.

New links

• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Some internet libraries:
    • Digital Collections (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Large collection of digital texts in PDF format. Searches for keywords can be performed for individual texts, for particular collections, or for the whole library. The most relevant collections for medieval genealogy are "Family Histories - Medieval" and "Family Histories - Medieval 2".
  • Public records: Feet of fines:
    • The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Journal, volume 17 (1911) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Journal, volume 20 (1914) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, new series volume 7 (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Feet of Fines of the reign of Henry II and of the first seven years of the reign of Richard I. A.D. 1182 to A.D. 1196. (1894) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 17.
    • Feet of Fines of the seventh and eighth years of the reign of Richard I. A.D. 1196 to A.D. 1197. (1896) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 20.
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 1 (1858) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 2 (1859) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 3 (1860) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 4 (1861) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 5 (1863) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 6 (1866) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 11 (1877) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 12 (1878) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 13 (1880) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 14 (1882) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 15 (1883) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 18 (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 20 (1893) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Emanuel Green, Pedes Finium commonly called Feet of Fines for the county of Somerset. Richard I to Edward I. A.D. 1196 to A.D. 1307 (1892) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Somerset Record Society [volume 6].
    • Emanuel Green, Pedes Finium commonly called Feet of Fines for the county of Somerset. 1 Edward II to 20 Edward III. A.D. 1307 to A.D. 1346. (1898) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Somerset Record Society, volume 12.
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 4 (1883) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 11 (1890) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 12 (1891) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 13 (1892) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 14 (1893) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 15 (1894) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 16 (1895) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 17 (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 18 (1897) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, new series volume 3 (1900) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, new series volume 4 (1901) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, new series volume 6, part 1 (1903) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, new series volume 7 (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, new series volume 10, part 1 (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Collections for a History of Staffordshire, third series 1911 (1911) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, volume 11 (1891) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  • Public records: Chancery rolls:
    • Calendar of the charter rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 1. Henry III. A.D. 1226-1257. (1903) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1227-1231. (1902) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1234-1237. (1908) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1237-1242. (1911) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1242-1247. (1916) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1247-1251. (1922) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1251-1253. (1927) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1254-1256. (1931) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1256-1259. (1932) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1259-1261. (1934) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1261-1264. (1936) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1264-1268. (1937) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1268-1272. (1938) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward I. A.D. 1272-1279. (1900) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward I. A.D. 1279-1288. (1902) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward I. A.D. 1288-1296. (1904) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1327-1330. (1896) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1330-1333. (1898) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1337-1339. (1900) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1339-1341. (1901) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1343-1346. (1904) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1346-1349. (1905) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1349-1354. (1906) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1354-1360. (1908) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1360-1364. (1909) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1364-1368. (1910) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1369-1374. (1911) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1374-1377, &c. (1913) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      With supplementary close rolls, 1341-1342 and 1355-1357.
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1377-1381. (1914) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1381-1385. (1914) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1385-1389. (1914) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1389-1392. (1922) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1392-1396. (1925) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      With supplementary close roll (exchange roll), 1382-1394.
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1396-1399. (1927) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry IV. A.D. 1399-1402. (1927) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry IV. A.D. 1405-1409. (1931) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry IV. A.D. 1409-1413. (1932) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry V. A.D. 1419-1422. (1932) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1422-1429. (1933) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1429-1435. (1933) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1435-1441. (1937) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1441-1447. (1937) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1447-1454. (1941) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward IV. A.D. 1461-1468. (1949) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Volume 1. Edward I. A.D. 1272-1307. (1911) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Volume 5. Edward III. A.D. 1337-1347. (1915) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Volume 6. Edward III. A.D. 1347-1356. (1921) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Volume 8. Edward III. A.D. 1368-1377. (1924) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Volume 9. Richard II. A.D. 1377-1383. (1926) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium in Turri Londinensi (1802) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin extracts, 1201-1483.
    • Patent Rolls of the Reign of Henry III ... A.D. 1216-1225 (1901) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Patent Rolls of the Reign of Henry III ... A.D. 1225-1232 (1903) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcripts.
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry III. A.D. 1232-1247 (1906) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry III. A.D. 1247-1258 (1908) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry III. A.D. 1258-1266 (1910) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry III. A.D. 1266-1272 (1913) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward I. A.D. 1281-1292 (1893) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward II. A.D. 1313-1317. (1898) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward II. A.D. 1324-1327. (1904) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1364-1367. (1912) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1367-1370. (1913) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1370-1374. (1914) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1374-1377. (1916) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      With additions for January-February 1340 and July 1345.
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1381-1385. (1897) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1388-1392. (1902) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1391-1396. (1905) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1396-1399. (1909) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry IV. A.D. 1401-1405. (1905) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry IV. A.D. 1405-1408. (1907) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry IV. A.D. 1408-1413. (1909) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry V. A.D. 1413-1416. (1910) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry V. A.D. 1416-1422. (1911) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1422-1429. (1901) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1429-1436. (1907) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1446-1452. (1909) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1452-1461. (1910) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward IV. Henry VI. A.D. 1467-1477. (1900) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VII. A.D. 1485-1494. (1914) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VII. A.D. 1494-1509. (1916) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward VI. A.D. 1547-1548. (1924) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward VI. A.D. 1548-1549. (1924) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward VI. A.D. 1549-1551. (1925) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward VI. A.D. 1550-1553. (1926) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward VI. A.D. 1547-1553. (1926) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Patent rolls for 1553, with fine rolls for 1547-1553 and various chancery warrants.
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward VI. Index. (1929) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Philip and Mary. A.D. 1553-1554. (1937) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Philip and Mary. A.D. 1554-1555. (1936) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Philip and Mary. A.D. 1555-1557. (1938) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Philip and Mary. A.D. 1557-1558. (1939) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
• Links:
  • Miscellaneous:
    • Expert Links: English Family History and Genealogy (Nathan W. Murphy, Price and Associates)
      A large collection of links, including many online databases.
  • The City Livery Companies:
    • Broderers
    • Distillers
    • Farmers
    • Feltmakers
    • Glovers
    • Gunmakers
    • International Bankers
    • Launderers
    • Parish Clerks
    • Poulters
    • Security Professionals
    • Tax Advisers
• Victoria County History:
  • British History Online:
    • Oxfordshire, volume 5 (1957)
    • Oxfordshire, volume 9 (1969)
    • Oxfordshire, volume 11 (1983)

27 October 2008:

New material

In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines for Hampshire (1413-1509) (212 fines) and Bedfordshire (1359-1409) (332 fines) have been added.

New links

• A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
  • Manorial documents:
    • Cumbrian Manorial Records (Angus Winchester and Eleanor Straughton, University of Lancaster)
      Includes a guide to the use of manorial records for genealogy and local history, with a glossary and examples of transcribed documents.
• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Some internet libraries:
    • Digital General Collection (University of Michigan)
      Collection of more than 20,000 out-of-copyright books. Page images and electronic texts, with powerful search options.
  • County and local history:
    • J. Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire. Volume 1. (1875) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • J. Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire. Volume 2. (1877) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • J. Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire. Volume 3. (1877) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • J. Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire. Volume 4. (1879) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • J. Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire. Volume 4. (1879) (Google Book Search)
    • J[oseph] T[illey], The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire. Volume 4. (1902) (Google Book Search)
      Covers the hundred of Repton and Gresley and the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch.
    • John Pym Yeatman The Feudal History of the County of Derby; (Chiefly during the 11th, 12th, and 13th Centuries). Volume 1, section 2. (1886) (Google Book Search)
    • Blanche's Yorkshire Tenants / Fieldnames (Ruth E. Richardson, Blanche Parry)
      Lists of tenants in Wheldrake, East Riding of Yorkshire, in the 16th century.
    • J. Charles Cox, Isle of Wight - its churches and religious houses. (1911) (Internet Archives - Text Archive)
  • Modern biography and prosopography:
    • The 'Lands of the Normans' in England (1204-44) (Daniel Power, HRI Online, University of Sheffield)
      Database containing information on Normans who held land in England around the time of the French conquest of Normandy (1204). There are references to nearly 3,000 individuals from over 2,000 documents.
  • Peerages and other compilations:
    • Sir Robert Douglas, The Baronage of Scotland (1798) (Robert Battle)
      Page images, with links to the first page of each article, and to each page of the surname index.
  • Public records: Land taxes and feudal surveys:
    • Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and Scholarly Commentary, 1086 (John Palmer, University of Hull/UK Data Archive)
      A collection of documents, including the text of the translations originally published by Phillimore (excluding Yorkshire, for which a new translation is in preparation), together with county introductions and notes, appendices and a bibliography. There are also databases containing personal and place names and Domesday statistics.
  • Public records: Feet of fines:
    • M. W. Hughes, ed., A Calendar of the Feet of Fines for the county of Buckingham 7 Richard I to 44 Henry III. (Buckinghamshire Record Society)
      Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, Records Branch, volume 4 ([1942]). English abstracts.
    • Walter Rye, ed., Pedes Finium: or Fines, relating to the county of Cambridge, levied in the King's Court from the seventh year of Richard I to the end of the reign of Richard III. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Cambridge Antiquarian Society (1891). Brief English abstracts; with indexes of names and places.
    • W. J. Hardy and W. Page, eds, A Calendar to the Feet of Fines for London and Middlesex. Volume 1. Richard I to Richard III. (1892) (British History Online)
      Brief English abstracts; with a general index.
    • W. J. Hardy and W. Page, eds, A Calendar to the Feet of Fines for London and Middlesex. Volume 2. 1 Henry VII to Michaelmas, 11 and 12 Elizabeth. (1893) (British History Online)
      Brief English abstracts; with a general index.
    • Walter Rye, ed., Pedes Finium: or Fines, Relating to the County of Norfolk, levied in the King's Court from the third year of Richard I to the end of the reign of John. (1881) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      English abstracts; with indexes of names and places.
    • [W. Brown, ed.,] Pedes Finium Ebor. regnante Johanne. A.D. 1199-A.D. 1214. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Surtees Society, volume 94 (1897). Latin transcripts; with a general index.
  • Public records: Chancery rolls:
    • Calendar of the charter rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 3. Edward I, Edward II. A.D. 1300-1326. (1908) (Google Book Search)
    • The Gascon Rolls: 1387-1399 (Tony Jebson)
      Draft Latin transcripts, in progress.
    • James Morrin, ed., Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland, of the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth. Volume 1. (1861) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Covers c. 1514-c. 1576.
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward I. A.D. 1272-1281. (1901) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward I. A.D. 1292-1301. (1895) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward I. A.D. 1292-1301. (1895) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward I. A.D. 1301-1307. (1898) (Google Book Search)
      Another copy here.
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward I. A.D. 1301-1307. (1898) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward II. A.D. 1307-1313. (1894) (Google Book Search)
      Another copy here.
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward II. A.D. 1307-1313. (1894) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Another copy here.
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward II. A.D. 1317-1321. (1903) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward II. A.D. 1317-1321. (1903) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward II. A.D. 1321-1324. (1904) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward II. A.D. 1321-1324. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1327-1330. (1891) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1327-1330. (1891) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1330-1334. (1893) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Another copy here.
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1340-1343. (1900) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1340-1343. (1900) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1348-1350. (1905) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1348-1350. (1905) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1350-1354. (1907) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1350-1354. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • vCalendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1385-1389. (1900) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Richard II. A.D. 1385-1389. (1900) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry IV. A.D. 1399-1401. (1903) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry IV. A.D. 1399-1401. (1903) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1436-1441. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1441-1446. (1908) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward IV. A.D. 1461-1467. (1897) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward IV. A.D. 1461-1467. (1897) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1476-1485. (1901) (Google Book Search)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1476-1485. (1901) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  • Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
    • Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII. Volume 4. Introduction and Appendix. (1875) (Google Book Search)
    • Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII. Volume 4. Introduction and Appendix. (1875) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Another copy here.
    • Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII. Volume 9. (1886) (Google Book Search)
    • Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII. Volume 9. (1886) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII. Volume 11. (1888) (Google Book Search)
    • Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII. Volume 11. (1888) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII. Volume 15. (1896) (Google Book Search)
    • Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII. Volume 15. (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Sir Harris Nicolas, ed., Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England. Volume 2. [1410-1422] (1834) (Google Book Search)
      French transcripts.
    • Sir Harris Nicolas, ed., Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England. Volume 7. [1540-1542] (1837) (Google Book Search)
  • Probate records:
    • Surrey Will Abstracts 1470-1856 (British Origins)
      Abstracts by Cliff Webb of over 28,000 wills proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Surrey and at the Commissary Court of Surrey, searchable on a pay-per-view basis.
  • Church records and religious houses:
    • 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.
  • Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
    • John Paul Rylands, ed., The Visitation of Cheshire ... 1580 ... The Visitation of Cheshire ... 1566 ... The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire ... 1533 ... and a fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester ... 1591 ... (1882) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Harleian Society, volume 18.
    • Sir George J. Armytage and J. Paul Rylands, eds., Pedigrees made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, ... and some other contemporary pedigrees. (1909) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, volume 58.
• Medieval English families on the Internet:
  • B:
    • The Ancestors and Descendants of Sir Robert Belknap (Brent J. Belnap)
      Genealogical and biographical notes, with extracted records, concerning the ancestors and descendants of the 14th-century Chief Justice, and many associated families.
    • The Bluets - a baronial family and their historical connections 1066-1400 (Tony Pratt and Karen Repko, Lackham Country Park)
      Extensive history of the Bluet family associated with the manor of Lackham, in Lacock, Wiltshire.
  • C:
    • Pedigree tracing a descent from Sir Robert Chichele (Kenneth Jacob, My Jacob Family)
      Manuscript of c. 1850, showing a descent from the 14th century.
  • G:
    • Grimshaw Origins and History (Thomas W. Grimshaw)
      Pedigrees and records relating to a medieval Lancashire family.
• Links:
  • Maps:
    • Samuel Lewis, ed., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) (British History Online)
    • A vision of Britain through time (Great Britain Historical GIS Project, University of Portsmouth)
      A large, searchable collection of information about places in Great Britain, including extracts from gazetteers and directories.
  • Links to some useful societies and journals:
    • British Agricultural History Society
      Includes the full text of all issues of the Agricultural History Review more than 5 years old, in PDF format.
    • Buckinghamshire Record Society
      The first 22 volumes of the Society's publications are available to download as PDF files.
    • Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 1890-1980 (British Origins)
      Page images with searchable text, available on a pay-per-view basis.
• Victoria County History:
  • British History Online:
    • Lancashire, volume 5 (1911)
  • VCH county websites:
    • Harpsden (VCH Oxfordshire website)
    • Weston Bampfylde (VCH Somerset website)
    • Braydon (VCH Wiltshire website)
    • Codford (VCH Wiltshire website)
    • Cricklade (Borough) (VCH Wiltshire website)
    • Cricklade (Outlying Settlements) (VCH Wiltshire website)
    • Leigh (VCH Wiltshire website)
  • Internet Archive:
    • Essex, Volume 4 (1956)
    • Kent, Volume 1 (1908)
    • Lincolnshire, Volume 2 (1906)
    • Norfolk, Volume 1 (1901)
    • Worcestershire, Volume 1 (1901)
    • Yorkshire, North Riding, Index (1925)

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