Medieval source material on the internet: Land taxes and feudal surveys

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• Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and Scholarly Commentary, 1086; second edition (John Palmer, University of Hull/Economic and Social Data Service)
  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. The whole collection is downloaded as a zipped file, with the text files in RTF format and for the databases a choice of Microsoft Access or tabbed format (free registration required). The documents are also available on the University of Hull website as individual files; the text files are in RTF and the databases in Microsoft Access format. Individual files may be downloaded by clicking repeatedly on the 'Collection Members' link.
• Domesday Book:
  • Open Domesday (Anna Powell-Smith)
    Searchable database of information from the Domesday Book, together with images of the manuscript and a map interface. The images are currently for Great Domesday only, but it is planned to add those for Little Domesday (Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex).
  • Domesday Book (National Archives)
    Images of the manuscript with English translations, from the Alecto editions of Great and Little Domesday, available as pay-per-view, with a freely searchable index.
  • John Pym Yeatman, The Domesday Book for the County of Derby. Reprinted from "The Feudal History of the County of Derby," ... [1886] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    English translation.
  • The Devonshire Domesday and Geld Inquest. Volume 1. (1884-1892) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Extended Latin texts from the Liber Exoniensis, with English translations, for Devon only; also the Inquisitio Geldi from the same manuscript.
  • The Devonshire Domesday and Geld Inquest. Volume 2. (1884-1892) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Extended Latin texts from the Liber Exoniensis, with English translations, for Devon only; also the Inquisitio Geldi from the same manuscript.
  • Colin Flight, The survey of Kent: documents relating to the survey of the county conducted in 1086 (The Research Archive of Colin Flight)
    Book discussing the Domesday Survey of Kent and associated records, as far as the thirteenth century, originally published as British Archaeological Reports, British Series 506 (2010).
  • Domesday Book or the Great Survey of England of William the Conqueror A.D. 1086. Fac-simile of the part relating to Norfolk. (1862) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
  • Domesday Book or the Great Survey of England of William the Conqueror A.D. 1086. Fac-simile of the part relating to Suffolk. (1863) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• [J. Caley and W. Illingworth, eds] Testa de Nevill sive Liber Feodorum in Curia Scaccarii. Temp. Hen. III. & Edw. I. (1807) (HathiTrust)
  Latin transcript, in record type. Superseded by the later two-part transcript.
  [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
• Liber feodorum. The book of fees commonly called Testa de Nevill, ... part 1. A.D. 1198-1242. (1920) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Latin transcripts (page images). A transcript based on the page images at the Harold B. Lee Library has been produced by Mel Lockie.
  [Other copies at: melocki.org.uk; HathiTrust Digital Library.]
• Liber feodorum. The book of fees commonly called Testa de Nevill, ... part 2. A.D. 1242-1293 and Appendix. (1923) (FamilySearch)
  Latin transcripts.
  [Other copies at: melocki.org.uk; HathiTrust Digital Library.]
• Liber feodorum. The book of fees commonly called Testa de Nevill, ... Index (1931) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 1. (1899) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Bedfordshire-Devon.
• Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 2. (1900) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Dorset-Huntingdonshire.
• Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 3. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Kent-Norfolk.
• Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 4. (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Northamptonshire-Somerset.
• Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 5. (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Staffordshire-Worcestershire.
• Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 6. (1920) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Yorkshire, with miscellaneous additions for other counties, including transcripts of knights' fees for the duchy of Lancaster.
• Dover castle : Knight's fees owing castle-guard service at Dover (The Research Archive of Colin Flight)
  Introduction and transcripts of four versions of a list of service owed by feudal tenants, c. 1230.
• The 'Herefordshire Domesday' (Early Manuscripts at Oxford University)
  Images of Balliol College, Oxford, manuscript 350 - a copy of the Domesday text for Herefordshire, made in the 1160s, with annotations, including more recent land holders
• [W. Illingworth, ed.] Rotuli Hundredorum Temp. Hen. III. & Edw. I. in Turr' Lond' et in Curia Receptae Scaccarij Westm. Asservati. Volume 1. (1812) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Latin transcripts in record type. Bedfordshire-Norfolk, with Yorkshire.
  [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Bavarian State Library.]
• [W. Illingworth, ed.] Rotuli Hundredorum Temp. Hen. III. & Edw. I. in Turr' Lond' et in Curia Receptae Scaccarij Westm. Asservati. Volume 2. (1818) (Bavarian State Library)
  Latin transcripts in record type. Northamptonshire-Worcestershire, with Hampshire and additions for other counties.
• Hundred Roll: Alwalton Manor [Huntingdonshire], 1279 (Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
  English translation, from J.H. Robinson, ed., Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European history [1897].
• Kent Hundred Rolls Project (Bridgett Jones, Kent Archaeological Society)
  Parallel Latin transcript and English translation of the Kent Hundred Rolls of 1274-5.
• Hundred Roll: The verdict of those of greater standing of the town of Stamford in Kesteven ... [1275] (David Roffe, Sheffield Hundred Rolls Project)
  English translation, from the forthcoming publication
• Lists of knight's fees in Kent (The Research Archive of Colin Flight)
  Introductory articles and translated texts of lists from 1166, 1242-3, 1253-4 and 1284-5.
• Aids and scutages [for Kent] (The Research Archive of Colin Flight)
  Introductory articles, transcribed and translated texts and notes for aids from 1235-6, 1302-3 and 1346-7.
• The survey of the county of York ... commonly called Kirkby's inquest; also inquisitions of knights' fees, the Nomina villarum for Yorkshire, and an appendix of illustrative documents. (Making of America, University of Michigan)
  Surtees Society, vol. 49 (1867), edited by R. H. Skaife. Includes the returns for part of the West Riding relating to the aid collected in 1302, and other documents including 13th-century grants of wardship and marriage.
  [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
• William Farrer, ed., Lancashire inquests, extents, and feudal aids. Part 2. A.D. 1307-A..D. 1333. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, volume 54. English transcripts.
• William Farrer, ed., Lancashire inquests, extents, and feudal aids. Part 3. A.D. 1313-A..D. 1355. (1915) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, volume 70. English transcripts.
• The Leicestershire Survey (1124-1129) (Guy Etchells)
  Latin text from J.H. Round, Feudal England (1909)
• Hubert Hall, ed., The Red Book of the Exchequer. Part 1. (1896) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
  Rolls Series, number 99. Latin transcript. Scutages and barons' charters. Indexed in volume 3.
  [Other copies at: HathiTrust Digital Library.]
• Hubert Hall, ed., The Red Book of the Exchequer. Part 2. (1896) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
  Rolls Series, number 99. Latin transcript. Serjeanties, knights' fees, abstracts of pipe rolls, 1154-62, wards, farms of counties etc. Indexed in volume 3.
  [Other copies at: HathiTrust Digital Library.]
• Hubert Hall, ed., The Red Book of the Exchequer. Part 3. (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Rolls Series, number 99. Latin transcript. Miscellaneous material, including an index to all three volumes.
  [Other copies at: HathiTrust Digital Library.]
• Thomas Hearne, ed., Liber Niger Scaccarii nec non Wilhelmi Worcestrii Annales Rerum Anglicarum. Volume 1. (1774) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Latin transcripts.
• Thomas Hearne, ed., Liber Niger Scaccarii nec non Wilhelmi Worcestrii Annales Rerum Anglicarum. Volume 2. (1774) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Latin and French transcripts.
  [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
• Rochester castle : Baronies and knight's fees owing castle-guard service to Rochester (The Research Archive of Colin Flight)
  Discussion, with a translation of and commentary on a mid-13th-century list.
• Stacey Grimaldi, ed., Rotuli de dominabus et pueris et puellis in XII comitatibus ... 1185. (1830) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Latin transcript.
  [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
• John Horace Round, ed., Rotuli de dominabus et pueris et puellis de xii comitatibus [1185] (1913) (FamilySearch)
  Pipe Roll Society, volume 35. Latin transcript, with a lengthy introduction and notes.
• F. H. Dickinson, Kirby's Quest for Somerset. Nomina Villarum for Somerset [16 Edward III] ... Exchequer Lay Subsidies 169/5 which is a Tax Roll for Somerset of [1 Edward III] [etc] (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Somerset Record Society [volume 3]. Latin transcripts.
  [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]