Feet of Fines: County List Introduction County list Search

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The pages linked below gives details of the feet of fines that have been published for each county. As indicated, for some counties there are also English abstracts on this site, and for some there are links to images of the original documents on Professor Robert Palmer's The Anglo-American Legal Tradition website.

I am most grateful for extremely generous financial support for this project from Rosie Bevan during the periods 2006-2010 and 2011-2016, and from the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy during 2010-2011 and 2016-2018. The work of abstracting unpublished feet of fines would have been quite impossible without this support.

I am also most grateful to Mrs Katharine Hanna for permission to include her abstracts of early Hampshire fines on these pages. She remains the holder of copyright in these abstracts.

I am also most grateful to an anonymous contributor for abstracts of some 13th- and 14th-century Suffolk fines which are included in these pages.

[Note that most fines are arranged in chronological sequences by county, but that there are separate sequences for "divers (or mixed) counties", concerning property in more than one county, for "unknown counties", from which the name of the county was omitted (in some cases not the foot of a fine, but one of the copies given to the parties), and for "various counties", separated from the main sequences for various reasons. Fines from these other sequences are sometimes included in published county collections, but sometimes not.]

Note on copyright:
The abstracts of feet of fines by Chris Phillips on this site may be freely copied without restriction in perpetuity.