What's new on this site: October-December 2025
For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.
15 December 2025:
New material
Six new indexes of King's Bench plea rolls (KB 27) by Vance Mead from the period 1545-1459 have been added to the Plea Roll database and the AALT Lists and Indexes database.
Four new indexes of Court of Requests Books, for Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas terms 1588 and Hilary term 1589, have been added to the AALT Lists and Indexes database.
New links
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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Public records: Common law records:
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 2.] 3-5 John. (1925) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 3.] 5-7 John. (1926) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 4.] 7-8 John. (1929) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 5.] 8-10 John. (1931) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 6.] 11-14 John. (1932) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John. [Volume 7.] 15-16 John. Appendix, 7 Richard I-1 John. (1935) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. [Volume 8.] 3-4 Henry III. (1938) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. [Volume 9.] 4 and 5 Henry III. (1952) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. [Volume 10.] 5 and 6 Henry III. (1949) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. [Volume 11.] 7 to 9 Henry III. (1955) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. [Volume 12.] 9 to 10 Henry III. (1957) (HathiTrust)
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. Volume 13. 11 to 14 Henry III (1227-1230) (1959) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. Volume 14. 14 to 17 Henry III (1230-1232) (1961) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
- Curia Regis Rolls of the reign of Henry III. Volume 15. 17 to 21 Henry III (1233-1237) (1972) (HathiTrust)
Latin transcripts.
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Charters:
- Lewis C. Loyd and Doris Mary Stenton, eds, Sir Christopher Hatton's Book of Seals (1950) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin texts of charters with English abstracts and notes.
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Probate records:
- C. Eveleigh Woodruff, Sede Vacante Wills: a calendar of wills proved before the commissary of the prior and chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury, during vacancies in the primacy (1914) (FamilySearch)
Kent Archaeological Society Records Branch, volume 3. With an appendix containing transcripts of archiepiscopal and other wills of importance.
- W. H. Hall, Calendar of wills and administrations in the Archdeaconry Court of Lewes in the bishopric of Chichester [and the peculiars of] South Malling [and] Battle (1901) (HathiTrust)
British Record Society, volume 24.
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Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
- Joseph Foster, ed., The Visitation of Middlesex began In the Year 1663 (1887) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
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Links:
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Links to some useful societies and journals:
- Miscellaneous: Scanned Sources (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
Early journals, books and articles.
- Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica
Links to volumes 1-8 (1834-1843) at the Internet Archive (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy).
- The Genealogist (original series, 1877-1883)
Links to volumes 1-7 (1877-1883) and index at the Internet Archive (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy).
- The Genealogist (new series, 1884-1922)
Index to volumes 1-20 and volumes 1-21 (1884-1905) and links to volumes 22-38 (1906-1922) at the Internet Archive (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy).
- The Herald and Genealogist
Links to volumes 1-8 (1863-1874) at the Internet Archive and Google Books (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy).
- The Topographer and Genealogist
Volumes 1-3 (1846-1858) (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy).
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Victoria County History:
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Older County Histories:
- Thomas Philipot Villare Cantianum: or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated (1664) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Thomas Philipott Villare Cantianum: or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated (1659) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
For older additions, see: