What was new on this site: October-December 2004
For the most recent additions, with links, see the update page.
For brief details of the current quarter's additions, see What's new on this site.
9 December 2004:
New material
In the main section of Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
the following items have been added:
ATON (Volume 1, page 325 and note i (as modified by volume 14)),
BOTELER, BOTILER or BUTILLER (of Wem) (Volume 2, page 231),
BURGHERSH (Volume 2, page 425),
MONTFORT (Volume 9, page 126 and note o),
MONTFORT (Volume 9, page 127 and note q),
NEVILLE or NEVILL OF ESSEX (Volume 9, page 481 and note g),
POYNINGS (Volume 10, pages 664, 665, and page 665, note e (as modified by volume 14)) and
SAINT PHILIBERT (Volume 11, page 366).
The following item has been updated and transferred to the main section:
WARWICK (Volume 12, part 2, pages 363-365 and notes).
New links
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- County and local history:
- Hubert C. Corlette, The Cathedral Church of Chichester
[Sussex] (1901)
Mainly architectural, but including a description of the monuments and
an account of the history of the see
- Rev. Evelyn Young (ed. T. M. Blagg)
A History of
Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire
(1942)
(Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology)
Text originally published in the Thoroton Society Record Series,
vol. 9 (1942)
- Patrixbourne [Kent]
Church: Medieval Patronage, Fabric and History
(Kent Archaeological Society)
Text of a paper by Mary Berg, originally published in
Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 122, pp. 113-142 (2002),
with new and additional photographs of the church. The paper includes
a discussion of the Patrick family in the 11th and 12th centuries
- Public records: Taxation and other lists:
Eilbert Ekwall, ed.,
Two Early London Subsidy Rolls (1951)
(British History Online)
Lists of names with detailed notes, from the lay subsidies for the City of London for
1292 and 1319, from P.R.O. E179/144/2 and E179/144/3
- Public records: Common law records:
A. H. Thomas, ed., Calendar
of early mayor's court rolls: 1298-1307 [London] (British History Online)
English abstracts of proceedings in the court of the mayor of London
- Church records and religious houses:
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae
Biographical lists of senior clergy associated with the cathedrals of England and Wales, originally
compiled by John le Neve in the early 18th century, and twice revised since then.
Texts from the twentieth-century multi-volume revised edition (British History Online):
- Joyce M. Horn, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541,
volume 7: Chichester diocese (1964)
- B. Jones, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541,
volume 8: Bath and Wells diocese (1964)
- Joyce M. Horn, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541,
volume 9: Exeter diocese (1964)
- B. Jones, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541,
volume 10: Coventry and Lichfield diocese (1964)
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Barley/Barlow:
Sir Montague Barlow, Barlow
Family Records (1932) (Susan Barlow Holmes, Barlow Genealogy)
An account of families named Barlow and Barley in various counties;
the quality is uneven, so this work should be used with caution. PDF format
- Le Strange:
- Hamon Le Strange,
Le Strange Records
(1916) (le Strange Archive)
Norfolk and the March of Wales; in progress
- Hamon Le Strange,
A Roll of Household Accounts of Sir Hamon le Strange of Hunstanton, Norfolk, 1347-48
(1917) (le Strange Archive)
- Patrick: Patrixbourne
[Kent] Church: Medieval Patronage, Fabric and History [see above]
- Links:
- General:
- Google Scholar
A search facility restricted to "scholarly" online sources,
including material available by paid subscription
- MSN Search (beta)
- Yahoo!
- Ask Jeeves
- Heraldry:
European
Rolls of Arms of the Thirteenth Century
(Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)
Collins' Roll,
Part 3,
Part 4 and
Part 5
- City Livery Companies:
- Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers
- Worshipful Company of Constructors
- Worshipful Company of Cutlers
- Worshipful Company of Dyers
- Worshipful Company of Woolmen
8 November 2004:
New material
In the main section of Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
the following items have been added:
DEVON (Volume 4, pages 309, 310 and note a),
DEVON (Volume 4, page 326, as modified by volume 14;
addition of limits on the date of death of Alienor, wife of Sir Edward de Courtenay),
DEVON (Volume 4, page 326;
addition of date of birth of Thomas (de Courtenay), Earl of Devon),
ESSEX (County of) (Volume 5, chart between pages 116 and 117;
addition of Alice, daughter of Geoffrey fitz Piers),
EXETER (Volume 5, 208, 209 and 211, as modified by volume 14),
HYLTON or HILTON OF HILTON (Volume 7, page 26, as modified by volume 14),
MAULEY (Volume 8, page 568, note h),
SCROPE (of Bolton) (Volume 11, page 543),
SHREWSBURY (Volume 11, page 705),
STRANGE or LESTRANGE (of Knokyn) (Volume 12, part 1, pages 352, 353, as modified by volume 14) and
SUTTON, or SUTTON OF HOLDERNESS (Volume 12, Part 1, page 575, note o)
In the "proposed" section, the following item has been added:
DELVIN (Volume 4, page 173, as modified by volume 14)
The following item has been modified:
VERDUN (Volume 12, part 2, page 250 and note c;
addition of a limit on the date of Margery's death)
New links
- Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
-
For Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, there are two online versions of
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898) by Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller:
- Germanic Lexicon Project
(University of Pennsylvania)
Page images in TIFF format and OCR text (checking in progress);
includes the supplement of 1921
- Research in Computing for Humanities
(University of Kentucky)
Page images in JPG format
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- County and local history:
- William Hutton, An
History of Birmingham [Warwickshire] (2nd edition, 1783) (Project Gutenberg)
To be treated with caution, owing to its age; Currie and Lewis, A Guide to English
County Histories (1994) refer to it as "certainly the most entertaining"
work of local Warwickshire history of its period, though not a "scholarly work".
- Rev. W. D. Sweeting, The
Cathedral Church of Peterborough (1926) (Project Gutenberg)
- Probate records:
Archdeaconry
Court of Middlesex wills, 1609-1810 (London Signatures, London Metropolitan Archives)
[temporarily unavailable, 7 November 2004]
The London Signatures database currently includes a freely searchable
index of about 6,500 wills proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Middlesex.
The wills themselves can be viewed in JPG format, on a pay-per-view basis.
It is planned to add wills from the Consistory Court of London,
the Commissary Court of Surrey and the Archdeaconry Court of Surrey,
together with other classes of records
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
- Thomas Nelond,
Prior of Lewes
(1432): Cowfold, Sussex (engraving and discussion)
(Brass of the Month, November 2004). There is also a
detail
of the engraving on the The Church
page of the Picture Library.
- Victoria County History:
New texts on British History Online:
- Middlesex, volume 5:
Gore Hundred (continued): Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore
Edmonton Hundred: Edmonton, Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham
- Middlesex, volume 12:
Ossulstone Hundred: Chelsea
- Links:
- Societies and journals:
Pipe Roll Society
- Heraldry:
European
Rolls of Arms of the Thirteenth Century
(Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)
The Dering Roll,
Part 7
Collins' Roll,
Part 1 and
Part 2
16 October 2004:
New links
- Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Published works, bibliographies and indexes:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford University Press)
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- County and local history:
- Richard John King, Handbook to the Cathedrals of England (1862) (Bill Thayer)
Excerpts, including historical accounts of the sees and the cathedrals
of Ely, Lincoln, Norwich, Oxford and Peterborough
- Chancery rolls:
Calendar
of Patent Rolls Search (G. R. Boynton, University of Iowa)
PDF images of the published Calendar of the Patent Rolls,
in progress, currently covering 1348-1452. There is a keyword search
facility, or the option of selecting a particular volume and page
- Funeral monuments:
Thomas Wilson, A Verbatim
Copy of all the Monuments, Gravestones and other Sepulchral memorials in
Ripon Cathedral and its Burial Ground (1847) (Andrew Richards)
Images and transcript (in progress)
- Church records and religious houses:
Sir William Dugdale,
Monasticon
Anglicanum (Monastic Matrix)
PDF images of the 1817-1830 edition of this important work detailing the histories of
religious houses and including extensive extracts from monastic cartularies.
N.B. Currently there is a single PDF file for each religious house,
so download times can be very long, particularly on dial-up connections
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
- Sir Andrew Herley
and his wife Juliana
(1392): Allensmore, Herefordshire (inlaid and incised slab; photographs and discussion)
(Brass of the Month, September 2004)
- Nicholas Fraunceis
(1526): Combe Florey, Somerset (photographs and discussion)
(Brass of the Month, October 2004)
- Victoria County History
- New texts on the VCH Oxfordshire web site
Asthall, Brize Norton
- New texts on British History Online:
- Gloucester, volume 5:
General articles
Bledisloe Hundred: Alvington, Awre, Lydney
St Briavels Hundred: Abenhall, English Bicknor, Coleford, Flaxley, Hewelsfield and Brockweir, Littledean, Mitcheldean,
Newland, Ruardean, St Briavels, Staunton
Forest of Dean: Cinderford and Ruspidge, Lydbrook, Parkend
- Middlesex, volume 11:
Ossulstone Hundred (continued): Stepney, Bethnal Green (The Green: Bethnal Green Village, Dog Row, The West: Shoreditch Side, Spitalfields, and the Nichol,
Cambridge Heath, The North West: Hackney Road, The Centre: Bethnal Green Road, The East: Old Ford Lane, Green Street, and Globe Town)
- Northamptonshire, volume 5:
Cleley Hundred: The Honor of Grafton and Wakefield Lodge Estate, Alderton, Ashton, Cosgrove, Easton Neston, Furtho, Grafton Regis,
Hartwell, Old Stratford, Passenham, Paulerspury, Potterspury, Roade, Stoke Bruerne, Wicken
- Shropshire, volume 4:
General articles
- Staffordshire, volume 7:
Totmonslow Hundred (part): Alstonefield (Alstonefield, Fawfieldhead, Heathylee, Hollinsclough, Longnor, Quarnford,
Warslow and Elkstones), Horton, Leek (Leek and Lowe, Bradnop, Endon, Heaton, Leekfrith, Longsdon, Onecote,
Rudyard, Rushton James, Rushton Spencer, Stanley, Tittesworth), Sheen
- Sussex, volume 5, part 1:
Arundel Rape
Arundel Rape (South-western Part)
Arundel
Avisford Hundred (Part): Barnham, Binsted, Climping, Eastergate, Felpham, Ford, Middleton-on-Sea, South Stoke,
Tortington, Walberton, Yapton
- Warwickshire, volume 7:
The City of Birmingham
- Wiltshire, volume 16:
Kinwardstone Hundred: Great Bedwyn, Little Bedwyn, Burbage, Buttermere, Chilton Foliat, Chute, Chute Forest, Collingbourne Kingston,
Easton, Froxfield, Milton Lilbourne, Pewsey, Savernake, Tidcombe (Fosbury, Hippenscombe), Wootton Rivers
- Yorkshire: East Riding, volume 3:
Ouse and Derwent Wapentake: Dunnington, Elvington, Escrick, Fulford, Hemingbrough (Hemingbrough, Barlby, Brackenholme with Woodhall, Cliffe with Lund,
South Duffield, Menthorpe with Bowthorpe, Osgodby), Heslington, Naburn, Riccall, Skipwith, Stillingfleet, Thorganby, Wheldrake
Harthill Wapentake, Wilton Beacon division (western part): Allerthorpe, Barmby Moor, Catton (High and Low Catton and Stamford Bridge East,
Kexby, Scoreby, and Stamford Bridge West), Fangfoss, Full Sutton, Sutton upon Derwent, Thornton, Wilberfoss
- Links:
- Heraldry:
European
Rolls of Arms of the Thirteenth Century
(Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)
The Dering Roll, Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4,
Part 5 and
Part 6
For older additions, see: