Medieval English genealogy: updates: 16 December 2024

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Contents:

• News
• New material
• New links
• Updated links

News

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

• Simon Townley (editor), Simon Draper, Stephen Mileson and Mark Page, A History of the County of Oxford, volume 21 (2024)
  This covers Chipping Norton Borough and the parishes of Hook Norton, Over Norton, Great Rollright, Little Rollright, Salford, and Swerford and Showell. [For further information see the publisher's website.]

New material

Two search facilities for material on the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website have been added.

(1) Court of Common Pleas plea rolls (CP 40) Search is based on indexes for selected records from the period 1349-1596. The indexes were compiled by Vance Mead and Rosemary Simons, from photographs of the documents made available by Robert Palmer, Elspeth Rosbrook and Susanne Brand. In total the database currently contains information from about 690,000 entries on the plea rolls, including over two million personal names.

(2) AALT Lists and Indexes Search is based on various lists and indexes of medieval and early modern records, including King's Bench plea rolls (KB 27), Elizabethan Star Chamber records (STAC), Chancery final decrees (C 78, 79) and 17th-century Court of Common Pleas plea rolls (CP 40). The indexes were compiled by Vance Mead, Robert Palmer, Susanne Brand, David King, Jens Roehrkasten, Penny Tucker, Michael Scott and Alan Cooper, from photographs of the documents made available by Robert Palmer, Elspeth Rosbrook and Susanne Brand. In total the database currently contains information from nearly 250,000 entries.

New links

• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Public records: Common law records:
    • Court of Common Pleas plea rolls (CP 40): Search (this site)
      Search facility based on indexes to selected plea rolls compiled by Vance Mead and Rosemary Simons, for the period 1349-1596 at the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website.
  • Public records: Chancery rolls:
    • Calendar of chancery warrants preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1244-1326. (1927) (HathiTrust)
      English abstracts of writs of privy seal not identified with enrolments or inquisitions; only one before 1274.
  • Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
    • The heraldic visitation of Westmoreland, made in the year 1615, By Sir Richard St. George, Knt., Norroy King at Arms. (1753) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
• Medieval English families on the Internet:
  • B:
    • Research on the Blaker Family (this site)
      Research into the Blaker Family of Sussex, England and Ireland, carried out for Rod Blaker and 'Group Gen'.

Updated links

• A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
  • Church records:
    • English Monastic Archives (University College, London)
      Database of records produced by the monasteries, including manorial records.
• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Public records: Common law records:
    • Modern indexes to some plea rolls (CP 40) of the 14th-16th centuries. (The Anglo-American Legal Tradition)
      Lists of parties, sorted by first plaintiff, first defendant and county; in progress. Also on the same site are indexes to CP 40 for Trinity 1642.
    • Modern indexes to King's Bench plea rolls (KB 27) (The Anglo-American Legal Tradition)
      Lists of parties, sorted by first plaintiff, first defendant and county; in progress.
  • Public records: Chancery and other equity suits:
    • Modern indexes to REQ 1 (registers of the Court of Requests) of the reign of Charles I. (The Anglo-American Legal Tradition)
      Lists of parties, sorted by first plaintiff, first defendant and date; in progress.
  • Public records: Chancery rolls:
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1360-1364. (1909) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1364-1368. (1910) (HathiTrust)
    • Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Edward III. A.D. 1369-1374. (1911) (HathiTrust)
• Links:
  • Links to some useful societies and journals:
    • Records of Early English Drama (Centre for Research in Early English Drama, University of Toronto)
      The REED Anglo-Latin Wordbook, in the process of compilation from the project's published collections, is available online.