What's new on this site: July-September 2025
For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.
30 September 2025:
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 database.
New links
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A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
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Public records: General:
- Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office. Volume 1. Legal records, etc. (1963) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Borrowable.
- Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office. Volume 2. State papers and departmental records (1963) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Borrowable.
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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).
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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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)
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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)
- 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)
- Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Elizabeth I. Volume 8. 1578-1580. (1986) (HathiTrust)
- Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Elizabeth I. Volume 9. 1580-1582. (1986) (HathiTrust)
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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)
Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
- Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII. Volume 2 (1814) (Google Books)
Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
- Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII. Volume 3 (1817) (Google Books)
Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
- Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII. Volume 4 (1821) (Google Books)
Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
- Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII. Volume 5 (1825) (Google Books)
Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
- Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII. Volume 6 (1834) (Google Books)
Survey of church property and income made in 1535. Latin transcript in record type.
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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)
- 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)
- 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)
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Links:
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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.
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Links to some useful societies and journals:
- Monastic Research Bulletin (Borthwick Institute)
Archived issues of a discontinued newsletter, issues 1-18 (1995-2012).
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Victoria County History:
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British History Online:
- M. W. Greenslade and D. A. Johnson, A History of the County of Stafford, volume 6 (1979) (British History Online)
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Other:
- William Page, The Victoria History of Somerset, volume 2 (1911) (HathiTrust)
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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)
- 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
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