What's new on this site: April-June 2015
For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.
24 April 2015:
New material
In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of 2916 fines have been added, for:
- Bedfordshire (1307-1327) (316 fines)
- Buckinghamshire (1307-1327) (436 fines)
- Hampshire (1307-1327) (295 fines)
- Herefordshire (1307-1327) (219 fines)
- Hertfordshire (1307-1319) (300 fines)
- Oxfordshire (1327-1356) (324 fines)
- Shropshire (1327-1360) (267 fines)
- Westmorland (1327-1360) (37 fines)
- Worcestershire (1327-1360) (172 fines)
- Divers, Unknown and Various Counties (1327-1360) (550 fines)
I'm also very grateful to Mrs Katharine Hanna for a further instalment of early Hampshire feet of fines -
CP 25/1/203/5 (part),
CP 25/1/203/6 and
CP 25/1/203/7, covering the period 1228-1245.
Links to images of the original feet of fines on the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website have also been added for:
- Buckinghamshire (1323-1326)
- Herefordshire (1307-1327)
- Lincolnshire (1327-1348)
- London and Middlesex (1195-1307)
- Northumberland (1337-1355)
- Oxfordshire (1327-1335)
- Shropshire (1327-1366)
- Worcestershire (1327-1356)
- Divers, Unknown and Various Counties (1327-1358)
New links
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A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
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Charters:
- Rev. J. Silvester Davies, ed., The Tropenell Cartulary. Volume 2. (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
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Handwriting and language:
- Middle English Dictionary (University of Michigan )
Electronic version of a comprehensive 15,000-page dictionary of English for the period 1100-1500.
- Charles Johnson and Hilary Jenkinson, English Court Hand A.D. 1066 to 1500. Part 1: Text. (1915) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Comprehensive guide, including illustrations of the historical development of letter forms, and model transcriptions.
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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History:
- Ancient Wales Studies (Center for the Study of Ancient Wales)
Website of a Texas-based foundation for research into medieval Welsh history, including genealogy. A number of research papers are available on the site.
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County and local history:
- Colchester Archaeological Trust Online Report Library (Colchester Archaeological Trust and University of Essex)
Collection of archaeological reports relating to Colchester, produced by the Colchester Archaeological Trust and others, including the Essex Archaeological Society.
- Conisbrough [Yorkshire] Court Rolls (Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield)
Searchable translations of a selection of court rolls and other records.
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Public records: Inquisitions post mortem:
- Calendar of inqusitions post mortem, volumes 18-20 ( Mapping the Medieval Countryside, Institute of Historical Research)
Text of volumes 18 (1399–1405), 19 (1405–13) and 20 (1413–1418). Indexes not included.
- John Standish, ed., Abstracts of the inquisitiones post mortem relating to Nottinghamshire. Volume 2. ... 1279-1321. (1914) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Thoroton Society, Record Series, volume 4.
- W. P. W. Phillimore, ed., Abstracts of the inquisitiones post mortem relating to Nottinghamshire. Volume 1. ... 1485-1546. (1905) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Thoroton Society, Record Series, volume 3.
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Public records: Common law records:
- [W. Illingworth, ed.] Placita de quo warranto temporibus Edw. I. II. et III. in curia receptae Scaccarij Westm. asservata. (1818) (Google Books)
Transcript, in record type, of pleas concerning royal rights, from the Eyre Rolls.
- Jane Frances Winters, The forest eyre, 1154-1368. (1999) (King's College. London)
Doctoral thesis. Catalogue and description of the documents.
- Eric Gallagher, An introduction to and edition of the Suffolk eyre roll 1240 - civil pleas [JUST 1/818]. (2004) (King's College. London)
Doctoral thesis. Includes an English translation.
- Andrew H. Hershey, An introduction to and edition of the Hugh Bigod eyre rolls, June 1258 - February 1259 : P.R.O. Just 1/1187 and Just 1/873. (1991) (King's College. London)
Doctoral thesis. With introductory discussion. Includes English translations.
- Adrian Lindsay Jobson, The Oxfordshire eyre roll of 1261. (2005) (King's College. London)
Doctoral thesis. Analysis, transcript and indexes.
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Public records: Chancery rolls:
- Thomas Duffus Hardy, ed. Rotuli litterarum clausarum in Turri Londinensi asservati. Volume 2. 1224-1227. (1844) (Google Books)
Transcripts, in record type.
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Manorial records:
- Geoffrey Copus, transcriber, Sixteenth and seventeenth century records of the Manor of Mayfield or Little Orpington, Kent (Kenneth Jacob, My Jacob Family)
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Probate records:
- England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 (Ancestry.co.uk)
Index and images of registered wills available to Premium subscribers. Dates and places are removed from search results for non-subscribers. The images seem to be of generally higher quality than those available directly from the National Archives. The index differs from the National Archives's and both contain inaccuracies, so the indexes published by the British Record Society should still be checked for safety.
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Funeral monuments:
- Edmond Howton of Wormley, Annes, his wife, and children 1479, Wormley, Hertfordshire (Michael Milsom)
Image of a drawing.
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Church records and religious houses:
- 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.
- Database of the Letters of Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) (Christian Schwaderer, University of Tübingen)
Includes English abstracts of the letters.
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Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
- T. Fitz-Roy Fenwick and Walter C. Metcalfe, eds, The Visitation of the County of Gloucester, begun ... 1682, and finished ... 1683. (1884) (FamilySearch)
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Schools, Universities and Inns of Court:
- Register of Admissions and Records of Parliament (The Middle Temple)
Links to page images of published admission registers (15th century to 1949, indexed). Also, for the minutes of parliament, page images of published volumes (1501-1703, indexed, at the Internet Archive) and an unpublished transcript (1703-1747, indexed), and scans of original documents (1748-1889).
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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.
- East Sussex Medieval Graffiti Survey
- Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey
- Suffolk Medieval Graffiti Survey
- Surrey Medieval Graffiti Survey
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Links:
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Online library catalogues:
- National Archives Library Catalogue
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Maps:
- The Historical Gazetteer of England's Place-Names (English Place-Name Society)
Database of place-names, based on the Society's published volumes, searchable for both modern and historical spellings.
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Non-English:
- Bartrum Project (Aberystwyth University)
Project based on Dr P. C. Bartrum's Welsh Genealogies. Scans of the manuscript pedigrees and typescript indexes are already online, and a searchable geographical index and database are to follow. Putting 'index' into the search box gives a list of the various indexes of place-names and personal names, which refer to the titles of the pedigrees. The titles can then be searched for.
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Miscellaneous:
- PastScape {Historic England)
Database of English historical sites and buildings, including documentary information, photographs and maps, derived from the National Record of the Historic Environment.
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Victoria County History:
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Older County Histories:
- John Hodgson A History of Northumberland. Part 1. (1858) (Google Books)
- John Hodgson A History of Northumberland. Part 2, volume 1. (1827) (Google Books)
For older additions, see: