Medieval English genealogy: updates: 30 September 2025

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Contents:

• News
• New material
• New links
• Updated links

News

A new volume of the Victoria County History has recently appeared:

• Emmeline Garnett and Sarah Rose, A History of the County of Westmorland, volume 1 (2025)
  This is the first volume to be published for Westmorland, and covers Lonsdale Ward (townships of Kirkby Lonsdale, Barbon, Casterton, Firbank, Hutton Roof, Killington, Lupton, Mansergh, Middleton, Burton-in-Kendal, Holme, Dalton and Dillicar. [For further information see the publisher's website.]

New material

New indexes to eight 15th-century plea rolls have been added to the Plea Roll database:

• King's Bench: KB 27 (seven rolls from the periods 1450-1453 and 1467-1469), by Vance Mead
• Court of Common Pleas: CP 40/634 (Trinity Term, 1419), by Rosemary Simons

The King's Bench indexes have also been added to the AALT Lists and Indexes database.

New links

• A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
  • Public records: General:
    • Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office. Volume 1. Legal records, etc. (1963) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Borrowable.
      [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
    • Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office. Volume 2. State papers and departmental records (1963) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Borrowable.
      [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  • Public records: Common law records:
    • List of scholarly editions of English plea rolls (WAALT: the Wiki for the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Website)
      Covers modern scholarly editions of Latin transcriptions of cases from the Courts of Common Pleas (CP 40) and Kings Bench (KB 27).
• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Public records: Inquisitions post mortem:
    • Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem ... volume 21. 6 to 10 Henry V. (1418-1422) (1995) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem ... volume 23. 6 to 10 Henry VI. (1427-1432) (2004) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem ... volume 24. 11 to 15 Henry VI. (1432-1437) (2010) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem ... volume 25. 16 to 20 Henry VI. (1437-1442) (2009) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem ... volume 26. 21 to 25 Henry VI. (1442-1447) (2009) (HathiTrust)
  • Public records: Chancery rolls:
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Edward I. Vol. 4. A.D. 1296-1302 (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      English abstracts.
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Edward I. Vol 5. A.D. 1302-1307 (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      English abstracts.
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Edward III. Vol 6. A.D. 1341-1343 (1902) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      English abstracts.
    • Calendar of the close rolls ... Richard II. A.D. 1396-1399. (1927) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of the close rolls ... Edward IV. A.D. 1468-1476 (including the restoration of Henry VI. 1470-1471). (1953) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of the close rolls ... Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III. A.D. 1476-1485. (1954) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of the fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Volume 9. Richard II. A.D. 1377-1383. (1926) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1441-1446. (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust Digital Library.]
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Elizabeth I. Volume 6. 1572-1575. (1973) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Elizabeth I. Volume 7. 1575-1578. (1982) (HathiTrust)
      [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Elizabeth I. Volume 8. 1578-1580. (1986) (HathiTrust)
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
    • Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Elizabeth I. Volume 9. 1580-1582. (1986) (HathiTrust)
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
  • Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
    • Calendar of state papers, Domestic series, of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., [Volume 12] Addenda, 1580-1625. (1872) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of state papers, foreign series, of the reign of Edward VI., 1547-1553. (1861) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of state papers, foreign series, of the reign of Mary, 1553-1558. (1861) (HathiTrust)
    • Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII. Volume 1 (1810) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
      Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
      [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
    • Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII. Volume 2 (1814) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
      Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
    • Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII. Volume 3 (1817) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
      Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
    • Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII. Volume 4 (1821) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
      Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
    • Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII. Volume 5 (1825) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
      Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
    • Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII. Volume 6 (1834) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
      Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
  • Church records and religious houses:
    • Anne P. Fuller, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 17, part 1: 1492-1503 (1994) (HathiTrust)
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
    • Anne P. Fuller, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 17, part 2: 1492-1503 (1998) (HathiTrust)
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
    • Michael J. Haren, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 18: 1503-1513 (1989) (HathiTrust)
    • Michael Haren, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 19: 1503-1513 (1998) (HathiTrust)
    • Anne P. Fuller, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 20: 1513-1521 (2005) (HathiTrust)
• Links:
  • Non-English:
    • Monasterium.net (International Centre for Archival Research)
      Collection of about two thirds of a million mainly medieval and early modern charters in various digital formats from Continental Europe, mostly from Austria, Germany, Hungary and Italy.
  • Links to some useful societies and journals:
    • Monastic Research Bulletin (Borthwick Institute)
      Archived issues of a discontinued newsletter, issues 1-18 (1995-2012).
• Victoria County History:
  • British History Online:
    • M. W. Greenslade and D. A. Johnson, A History of the County of Stafford, volume 6 (1979) (British History Online)
  • Other:
    • William Page, The Victoria History of Somerset, volume 2 (1911) (HathiTrust)
  • Older County Histories:
    • John Pym Yeatman, George R. Sitwell and Lord Hawkesbury, The Feudal History of the County of Derby. Volume 3, section 5 (Belper Derbyshire: Historical & Genealogical Records)
      This is a transcript in Word format, which may contain some errors.
    • John Pym Yeatman, George R. Sitwell and Lord Hawkesbury, The Feudal History of the County of Derby. Volume 3, section 6 (Belper Derbyshire: Historical & Genealogical Records)
      This is a transcript in Word format, which may contain some errors.
    • John Pym Yeatman, George R. Sitwell and Lord Hawkesbury The Feudal History of the County of Derby. Volume 4, section 7 ([c. 1903]) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    • John Pym Yeatman and Charles Pym Yeatman, The Feudal History of the County of Derby. Volume 5, section 9 [c. 1907] (Belper Derbyshire: Historical & Genealogical Records)
    • John Pym Yeatman, The Feudal History of the County of Derby. Volume 6, section 10 (FamilySearch)
    • Richard Colt Hoare, The History of Modern Wiltshire. Volume 1 (1822) (FamilySearch)
      Indexed in volume 5
    • John Offer and Richard Colt Hoare, The History of Modern Wiltshire. Volume 2 (1825) (FamilySearch)
      Indexed in volume 5
    • Richard Harris and Richard Colt Hoare The History of Modern Wiltshire. Volume 3 (1830) (FamilySearch)
      Indexed in volume 5
    • James Everard and Richard Colt Hoare The History of Modern Wiltshire. Volume 4 (1829) (FamilySearch)
      Indexed in volume 5
    • Richard Colt Hoare, The History of Modern Wiltshire. Volume 5 (1837) (FamilySearch)
      Includes index to volumes 1-5
    • Robert Benson and Henry Hatcher, The History of Modern Wiltshire. Volume 6 (1843) (FamilySearch)
      Indexed

Updated links

• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Public records: Inquisitions post mortem:
    • Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. Henry VII. Volume 1. (1898) (HathiTrust)
      [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
    • [Calendars of inquisitions post mortem, volumes 18-26 (1399-1447)]
      Inquisitions Post Mortem: Mapping the Medieval Countryside (University of Winchester/King's College, London)
      A digital version of the calendars of inquisitions post mortem, volumes 18-26 (1399-1447), with some errors corrected and extra information added. Jurors' names have been added for the entries from volumes 18-21, which did not include them. There are alphabetical lists of jurors and other persons. The website also includes detailed background information.
  • Public records: Common law records:
    • Elizabeth Chapin Furber, editor, Essex Sessions of the Peace 1351, 1377-1379 (1953) (The Essex Society for Archaeology and History)
      Essex Archaeological Society, Occasional Publications, number 3. Latin and French transcripts, with English abstracts.
  • Public records: Feet of fines:
    • Feet of Fines for Essex. Volume 2. (A.D. 1272-A.D. 1326). (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Essex Archaeological Society, 1913-1928.
      [Other copies at: Essex Society for Archaeology and History.]
    • [Robert Copp Fowler and Sidney Charles Ratcliff] Feet of Fines for Essex. Volume 3. (A.D. 1327-A.D. 1422). (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Essex Archaeological Society, 1929-1949.
      [Other copies at: Essex Society for Archaeology and History.]
    • P. H. Reaney and Marc Fitch, eds, Feet of Fines for Essex. Volume 4. 1423-1547. (Essex Society for Archaeology and History)
      Essex Archaeological Society, 1964.
    • Marc Fitch and Frederick Emmison, eds, Feet of Fines for Essex. Volume 5. 1547-1580. (1991) (Essex Society for Archaeology and History)
    • F. G. Emmison, ed., Feet of Fines for Essex. Volume 6. 1581-1603. (1993) (Essex Society for Archaeology and History)
    • R. E. G. Kirk, ed., Feet of Fines for Essex. Volume 1. (A.D. 1182-A.D. 1272). (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Essex Archaeological Society, 1899-1910.
      [Other copies at: Essex Society for Archaeology and History.]
  • Charters:
    • John L. Fisher, transcriber, Cartularium Prioratus de Colne (1946) (The Essex Society for Archaeology and History)
      Essex Archaeological Society, Occasional Publications, number 1. Latin transcript of the 12th-century cartulary of the priory of Earl's Colne.
  • Probate records:
    • Canterbury Probate Records (1396-1858) Database (formally East Kent Wills) (M. J. and D. G. Cozens, Canterbury Cathedral Archives)
      Complete index of wills proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury and Consistory Court of Canterbury to 1858.
  • Church records and religious houses:
    • J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters 1471-1484, volume 13, part 1. (1955) (HathiTrust)
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust; British History Online.]
    • J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters 1471-1484, volume 13, part 2. (1955) (HathiTrust)
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust; British History Online.]
• Links:
  • Links to some useful societies and journals:
    • English Historical Review (Oxford University Press)
      Includes lists of contents. Volumes 1-37 (1886-1922) are available at the Internet Archive. There is a list of links to these volumes at the Online Books Page.