Medieval English genealogy: What's new on this site: January-March 2025

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What's new on this site: January-March 2025

For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the update page.

30 March 2025:

New material

I am grateful to Jim Poynor for sending me photographs of another charter:

Grant by Christopher Worthyngton of messuage and lands in Ince-in-Makerfield [Lancashire], 1522

Since the last update of this website, some additions have been made to the two searchable databases of material on the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website. In the AALT Lists and Indexes database database, 10 new indexes of King's Bench (KB 27) plea rolls by Vance Mead have been added, from the period 1460-1479. Also, the Plea Roll database, which originally covered only the Court of Common Pleas (CP 40), has been extended by adding 26 of Vance's indexes for KB 27, from the period 1460-1494. All the KB 27 indexes are already included in the AALT Lists and Indexes database, but the Plea Roll database offers a more powerful search facility because surnames, forenames and place-names can be specified, rather than simply keywords. (I intend to add the rest of the KB 27 indexes as time permits.)

New links

Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts: by author, A-G:
  - Edward Maunde Thompson, ed., Adæ Murimuth continuatio chronicarum. Robertus de Avesbury De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii. (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Rolls Series number 93. Latin texts of chronicles covering 1303-1346 (Murimuth) and 1308-1357 (Avesbury).
- Medieval and early modern texts: by author, H-N:
  - Edward Maunde Thompson, ed., Adæ Murimuth continuatio chronicarum. Robertus de Avesbury De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii. (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Rolls Series number 93. Latin texts of chronicles covering 1303-1346 (Murimuth) and 1308-1357 (Avesbury).
- Public records: Feet of fines:
  - Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Journal (Archaeology Data Service)
    Volumes 14-17, 19 and 20 include abstracts of 18th-century Berkshire feet of fines.
  - C. A. F. Meekings, ed., Abstracts of Surrey Feet of Fines 1509-1558. (1946; reprint, 1968)
    English abstracts; with indexes of names and places. Includes Divers Counties.
- Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
  - Rosemary Horrox and P. W. Hammond, eds, British Library Harleian Manuscript 433 (4 volumes, 1979-1983) (Richard III Society)
    Transcripts of grants issued under the signet seal from the reigns of Edward V and Richard III, and registers and other records of the signet office.
- Charters:
  - Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 4. The Honour of Richmond. Part 1. (1935) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 5. The Honour of Richmond. Part 2. (1936) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 6. The Paynel Fee. (1939) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 7. The Honour of Skipton. (1947) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 8. The Honour of Warenne. (1949) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 9. The Stuteville Fee. (1952) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 10. The Trussebut Fee. (1955) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 11. The Percy Fee. (1963) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 12. The Tison Fee. (1965) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Charles Travis Clay and Edith Margaret Clay, compilers, Early Yorkshire Charters. Volumes 1-3. A consolidated index of persons and places. (1942) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Grant by Christopher Worthyngton of messuage and lands in Ince-in-Makerfield [Lancashire], 1522 (Jim Poynor, this site)
    Photographs of document and seal and abstract.
  - J. G. Jenkins, ed., The cartulary of Missenden Abbey. Part 1. (1938) (Buckinghamshire Record Society)
    Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, Records Branch, volume 2. Latin transcripts.
  - J. G. Jenkins, ed., The Missenden cartulary. Part 2. (1955) (Buckinghamshire Record Society)
    Buckinghamshire Record Society, volume 10. Latin transcripts.
  - J. G. Jenkins, ed., The cartulary of Missenden Abbey. Part 3. (1962) (Buckinghamshire Record Society)
    Buckinghamshire Record Society, volume 12 / Historical Manuscripts Commission, Joint Publication number 1. Latin transcripts.
- Miscellaneous:
  - Casebooks (University of Cambridge)
    A digital archive of the medical records of over 60,000 people mentioned in the casebooks of the astrologers Simon Forman, Richard Napier, and their associates, around the year 1600.
Victoria County History:
- Older County Histories:
  - Joseph Hunter South Yorkshire. The history and topography of the deanery of Doncaster. Volume 1. (1828) (HathiTrust)
  - Joseph Hunter South Yorkshire. The history and topography of the deanery of Doncaster. Volume 2. (1831) (HathiTrust)

For older additions, see: