Medieval English genealogy: updates: 13 December 2023
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News
A new volume of the Victoria County History has recently appeared:
- Mary Siraut (editor), Adam Chapman and Matthew Bristow, A History of the County of Somerset, volume 12 (2023)
This covers five parishes in the north-east part of Carhampton Hundred: Minehead, Dunster, Carhampton, Timberscombe and Withycombe. [For further information see the publisher's website.]
New material
The following item has been added in the Corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage section:
I am very grateful to Stephen Swailes for contributing transcripts of further Northamptonshire Tax Assessments:
Introductions to the Tudor lay subsidies, the Free and voluntary contribution (1546) and the Relief of sheep and cloth (1549) have also been added.
All Stephen's transcripts of Northamptonshire Tax Assessments (from 1301 and the 16th century) can be searched here. So far more than 22,000 names have been extracted in total.
New links
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A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
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Published works, bibliographies and indexes:
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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Medieval and early modern texts: by author, A-G:
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Medieval and early modern texts: by author, O-Z:
- Sir Henry Ellis, editor, Polydore Vergil's English History, from an early translation ... Volume 1. ... the period prior to the Norman Conquest (1846) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Camden Society, Old Series, volume 36. From an English translation of the reign of Henry VIII.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- Sir Henry Ellis, editor, Three books of Polydore Vergil's English History, comprising the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III. From an early translation, ... (1844) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Camden Society, Old Series, volume 29. From an English translation of the reign of Henry VIII.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
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Modern biography and prosopography:
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Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
- James Gairdner, editor, Henry VII: Letters and papers illustrative of the reigns of Richard III and Henry VII. Volume 1. (1861) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Rolls Series 24, vol 1. Transcripts of documents in various languages.
- James Gairdner, editor, Henry VII: Letters and papers illustrative of the reigns of Richard III and Henry VII. Volume 2. (1863) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Rolls Series 24, vol 2. Transcripts of documents in various languages.
- James Orchard Halliwell, editor, Letters of the Kings of England. Volume 1. [Richard I to Henry VIII] (1846) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin texts are translated, and the spelling of English texts is modernised.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- James Orchard Halliwell, editor, Letters of the Kings of England. vol 2 [Edward VI to Charles I] (1846) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin texts are translated, and the spelling of English texts is modernised.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
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Church records and religious houses:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
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Private letters and papers:
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 1. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 2. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 3. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 4. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 5. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 6. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- Thomas Stapleton, editor, Plumpton Correspondence (1839) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Camden Society, Old Series, volume 4. Transcripts of private letters from the 15th and 16th centuries.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
Updated links
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A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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Medieval and early modern texts: by author, O-Z:
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County and local history:
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Public records: Land taxes and feudal surveys:
- Kent Hundred Rolls Project (Bridgett Jones, Kent Archaeological Society)
Parallel Latin transcript and English translation of the Kent Hundred Rolls of 1274-5.
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Public records: Feet of fines:
- E. W. W. Veale, editor, A Calendar of the Feet of Fines relating to Bristol at the Public Record Office. [1197-1373] (1931) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, volume 2, Appendix I, pages 171-247. English abstracts; included in the index of persons for this volume.
- Patricia Hyde and Duncan Harrington, Faversham Fines. [1295-1610] (Kent Archaeological Society)
Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 3, parts 7 and 8 (2002); included in the indexes for this volume.
- Duncan Harrington, Kent Feet of Fines for 7 Edward III onwards. [1333-1377; in progress] (Kent Archaeological Society)
Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 5 (2012).
- Duncan Harrington, Kent Feet of Fines Richard II. [1377-1399] (Kent Archaeological Society)
Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 4, parts 4-9 (2007-2009).
- Duncan Harrington and Chris Phillips, Feet of Fines for the Reign of King Henry IV. [1399-1413] (Kent Archaeological Society)
Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 5, parts 1-4 (2010, 2011).
- Duncan Harrington, Feet of Fines for the Reign of King Henry V. [1413-1422] (Kent Archaeological Society)
Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 5, parts 4-6 (2011, 2012).
- Michael Zell, Feet of Fines for the reign of Henry VIII. [1509-1547] (Kent Archaeological Society)
Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 2 (1995-1998); included in the indexes for this volume.
- Michael Zell, Feet of Fines for the reigns of Edward VI to Philip and Mary. [1547-1558] (Kent Archaeological Society)
Brief English abstracts; Kent Records, new series 4, parts 1-4 (2004-2007).
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Charters:
- N. Dermott Harding, editor, Bristol Charters, 1155-1373. (1930) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 1. Latin transcripts with English translations.
- H. A. Cronne, editor, Bristol Charters, 1378-1499. (1946) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 11. Latin transcripts with English abstracts.
- R. C. Latham, editor, Bristol Charters, 1509-1899. (1947) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 12. Latin transcripts with English abstracts and associated material.
- C. D. Ross, editor, Cartulary of St. Marks' Hospital, Bristol. (1959) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 21. Calendar of cartulary completed in 1505, with Latin transcripts of early documents.
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Manorial records:
- Arthur Sabin, editor, Some Manorial Accounts of St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol. (1960) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 22. Latin transcript of the Computa of the manors for 1491-2, a note of the differences in that for 1496-7 and extracts from other documents of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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Probate records:
- Edwin and Stella George, editors, with the assistance of Peter Fleming, Bristol Probate Inventories Part 1: 1542-1650. (2002) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 54. Transcripts.
- Sheila Lang and Margaret McGregor, editors, Tudor Wills Proved in Bristol 1546-1603. (1993) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 44. Abstracts of wills.
- Edwin and Stella George, editors, with the assistance of Peter Fleming, Bristol Probate Inventories [Part 2] 1657-1689. (2005) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 57. Transcripts.
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Church records and religious houses:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Miscellaneous:
- Margaret Sharp, editor, Accounts of the Constables of Bristol Castle in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries. (1982) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 34. Calendars, from the pipe rolls, with transcripts of the three earliest accounts.
- D. Hollis, editor, Calendar of the Bristol Apprentice Book 1532-1565. Part I. 1532-1542. (1949) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 14. Latin calendar.
- Elizabeth Ralph and Nora M. Hardwick, editors, Calendar of the Bristol Apprentice Book. 1532-1565. Part II. 1542-1552. (1980) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 33. English calendar.
- Elizabeth Ralph, editor, Calendar of the Bristol Apprentice Book. Part III. 1552-1565. (1992) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 43. English calendar.
- D. M. Livock, editor, City Chamberlains' Accounts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (1966) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 24. Transcripts of accounts for 1556-7 and 1627-8.
- E. W. W. Veale, editor, The Great Red Book of Bristol. Introduction (Part I). Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval Bristol. (1931) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 2. As well as the first part of the introduction, the volume includes calendars of Bristol feet of fines, c. 1196-c. 1373 and of 13th- and 14th-century Bristol deeds.
- E. W. W. Veale, editor, The Great Red Book of Bristol. Text (Part I). (1933) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 4. Mainly Latin transcripts.
- E. W. W. Veale, editor, The Great Red Book of Bristol. Text (Part II). (1938) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 8. Mainly Latin transcripts.
- E. W. W. Veale, editor, The Great Red Book of Bristol. Text (Part III). (1951) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 16. Mainly Latin transcripts. With an introduction dealing with the civil courts.
- E. W. W. Veale, editor, The Great Red Book of Bristol. Text (Part IV). (1953) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 18. Mainly Latin transcripts.
- Elizabeth Ralph, editor, The Great White Book of Bristol [1491-1598]. (1979) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 32. Transcript, with some entries calendared.
- Harold Evan Matthews, editor, Proceedings, Minutes and Enrolments of the Company of Soapmakers, 1562-1642. (1940) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 10.
- E. E. Rich, editor, The Staple Court Books of Bristol [1509-1601]. (1934) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 5. Latin transcripts.
- E. M. Carus-Wilson, editor, The Overseas Trade of Bristol. In the later Middle Ages. (1937) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 7. Miscellaneous material, 1291-1484.
- Jean Vanes, editor, Documents illustrating the Overseas Trade of Bristol in the Sixteenth Century. (1979) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 31.
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Medieval English families on the Internet:
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Links:
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Links to some useful societies and journals: