What's new on this site: January-March 2026
For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.
27 March 2026:
New material
The following indexes have been added to the Plea Roll database:
- King's Bench: KB 9, indictment rolls and oyer and terminer commissions (27 rolls from the periods 1485-1493), by Vance Mead
- King's Bench: KB 27 (11 rolls from the periods 1518-1525 and 1565-1567), by Vance Mead
- Court of Common Pleas: CP 40/263, A-J and K-Z (Trinity Term, 1326), by Rosemary Simons
And the following have been added to the AALT Lists and Indexes database.
- The KB 9 and KB 27 indexes listed above
- Court of Requests: REQ 1/15 (Trinity and Easter 1589), by Dave King
I am very grateful to Jim Poynor for sending me photographs of eight more charters and related documents:
- Grant by Robert, son of Ellis de Scheluelay, to John de Scheluelay of land in Shelley [in Kirkburton, Yorkshire], around 1300 (Jim Poynor, this site)
Photographs of document and abstract.
- Confirmation by Lawrence de Foresta of a charter of his mother Rosemunda for John de Treveglos, concerning lands in Treveglos, [Cornwall], 1304 (Jim Poynor, this site)
Photographs of document and abstract.
- Quitclaim by Thomas Frencheye to James and Henry Hope of land in Halden, [Kent], 1413 (Jim Poynor, this site)
Photographs of document and abstract.
- Appointment of attorney by Ralph Radclyff, [Lancashire], 1478 (Jim Poynor, this site)
Photographs of document and abstract.
- Grant by Margery Pulleyne and Robert Bown to John Jenney and others of land in Tivetshall, [Norfolk], 1493 (Jim Poynor, this site)
Photographs of document and abstract.
- Conveyance by feoffees of William Champ to Thomas Henneker the elder of land in Bredgar, Kent, 1495 (Jim Poynor, this site)
Photographs of document and abstract.
- Conveyance by William Norton to John Mannell and Robert Lyncoln of land in Bracon Ash, [Norfolk], 1512/3 (Jim Poynor, this site)
Photographs of document and abstract.
- Grant by Robert Goodebarne to Alfred Rawson and others of property in Doncaster and elsewhere in Yorkshire, 1551/2 (Jim Poynor, this site)
Photographs of document and abstract.
New links
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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County and local history:
- George F. Farnham, Leicestershire medieval village notes. Volume 2 (Google Books)
- George F. Farnham Leicestershire medieval village notes. Volume 3 (Google Books)
- George F. Farnham, Leicestershire medieval village notes. Volume 4 (1930) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- George F. Farnham, Leicestershire medieval village notes. Volume 5 (1931) (Google Books)
- George F. Farnham, Leicestershire medieval village notes. Volume 6 (1933) (Google Books)
For older additions, see: