What was new on this site: July-September 2001
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.
1 September 2001:
Links checked and updated where necessary; apparently defunct links marked.
New links added:
-
Medieval source material on the internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts:
- Robert Fabyan, The
Concordaunce of Hystoryes (Richard III Society)
-
Robert Grosseteste: [Bishop of Lincoln, d.1253]
Epistolae
(the Electronic Grosseteste, University of Leeds)
-
Caradoc of Llangarfan
The Life of Gildas
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
-
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury [d.1170]
... Selected Texts ...
(Scott Ian McLetchie)
- County and local history:
- John Marwood, History
of Gilling [Yorkshire] (Adrian and Gill Smith, APL-385)
- Miscellaneous public records:
- A Letter
from Llywelyn ab Iorwerth Prince of Wales, to Stephen de Segrave co-regent for King Henry III
of England, during the summer of 1230 (Jon Crump, University of Washington)
- Charters:
- Index to Catalogue of Buxton Deeds (to 1517)
(The Buxton Papers, Cambridge University Library)
- Probate records:
- List of wills in the Buxton Papers
(The Buxton Papers, Cambridge University Library)
- Gilling [Yorkshire]
Testamentary Wills (Adrian and Gill Smith, APL-385)
- Parish registers:
- Cambridgeshire
Boyds Marriage Index 1538-1600 (Cambridgeshire Family History Society)
- English Origins
(in association with the Society of Genealogists of London) is in the process of
incorporating entries from Boyd's Marriage Index in its database,
which is available on a pay-per-view basis.
So far, the counties of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk have been included
- Heralds' visitations:
- Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1623
(Nigel Batty-Smith,
West Country Genealogy)
-
Visitation of Wiltshire, 1623
(Nigel Batty-Smith,
West Country Genealogy)
-
Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Published works, bibliographies and indexes:
- Archives Hub: index of archive collections in UK universities and colleges
-
Medieval English families on the internet:
- Buxton: History
and Pedigree of the Buxton Family
(The Buxton Papers, Cambridge University Library)
- Farthing: The Origins of the Farthing Surname
(and many subsequent pages; anonymous?)
- Jermy: The Jermy Family of Norfolk and Suffolk (Colin Jermy)
- Tonge: Tonge (Stephen Tonge)
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Links:
- General links:
- The Mediev-l
Mailing List
(companion web site)
- abebooks.com (Advanced Book Exchange) and
Bookfinder.com
(search facilities covering books available from thousands of online booksellers)
- Names from the British Isles
(Eponym)
1 August 2001:
Links checked and updated where necessary; apparently defunct links marked.
Added an html version of Peter Freeman's very detailed
handlist and finding aid for the Curia Regis Rolls and Assize Rolls for the reigns of
Richard I and John.
New links added:
-
Medieval source material on the internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts:
- William Roper,
The Life of Sir Thomas More (Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University)
- Bayeux Tapestry
(Osprey Publishing, Essential Norman Conquest)
- The Old English Martyrology: An Annotated Bibliography
(Christine Rauer)
- County and local history:
- Broadwell [Oxfordshire]
(HLF Project, VCH online)
- Cosgrove
(Victoria County History Northamptonshire)
- The foundation and development of early
Darlington [County Durham]
(Christine M. Newman, HLF Project, VCH online)
- I.C. Carlton, A Short History of Gateshead
(1974) (Gateshead Council/GENUKI)
- Matlock
and Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England
(Ann Andrews)
- Pre Radclyffe History
of Ordsall, [Lancashire] (City of Salford)
- Modern biography and prosopography:
- Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) (King's College, London/Cambridge University)
- Biographical listings on the
Anglo-Saxon Charters site:
- Witan Angelcynnes ge gehadode ge Læwede:
A Biographical Register of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Orders in
Anglo-Saxon England:
this project has now been abandoned, but draft lists of
Ealdormen, thegns and other laymen
and
Heads of religious houses remain available
- Archbishops and bishops and
Episcopal professions in Anglo-Saxon England
-
An Atlas of Attestations in Anglo-Saxon Charters
c. 670 - 1066 (in preparation)
-
Essex Knights and the Parliaments of Edward I (John Illsley, 1971)
- Subsidies and other taxes:
- Barkby, Leicestershire, 13th-16th centuries
(David Postles, Leicester University)
- Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, 13th-14th centuries
(David Postles, Leicester University)
- Loughborough, Leicestershire, 14th-16th centuries
(David Postles, Leicester University)
- Subsidies for parts of Norfolk in 1522,1524 and 1597, as well as a muster roll of 1522,
are included in doun.org's searchable
Transcription Archive
- Rutland Poll Tax 1377
(David Postles, Leicester University)
- Three
Elizabethan Musters for Wirksworth Hundred [Derbyshire], 1587-1600
(John Palmer, Wirksworth Parish Records)
- Yorkshire Poll Tax
(David Postles, Leicester University)
- Chancery and other equity suits: Equity Pleadings Database
(Public Record Office)
- Manorial records:
- Sample manorial account:
Deverill
[Wiltshire] (David Postles, Leicester University)
- Stubbington
[Hampshire] manorial records
(David Postles, Leicester University)
- Probate records: Wills Probate and Inventories
[relating to Wirksworth, Derbyshire, and neighbourhood, at Lichfield Joint Record Office, 1524-1602]
(John Palmer, Wirksworth Parish Records)
- Church records and religious houses: Penance, c.1250-c.1600:
some texts
(David Postles, Leicester University)
- Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
Chronicle
of the History of the World from the Creation to Woden, with a genealogy of Edward IV
(Free Library of Philadelphia)
- Urban and guild records:
- Urban
Manuscripts Project:
Privately-owned English Urban manuscripts, 1300-1476: A Database (University of York)
- Gazetteer of the Religious Gilds and
Services of Late Medieval Yorkshire (University of York)
-
Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Manorial records: Manorial surveys,
Manorial and franchisal courts and
Manorial accounts
(David Postles, Leicester University)
- Wills: Probate Records,
How
to Use: PCC Wills Before 1700 and How to Use:
PCC Administrations Before 1700
(Public Record Office information leaflets)
- Handwriting and language:
- Early Modern Palaeography
(David Postles, Leicester University)
- Scotland - a glossary of archaic words and phrases... (Peter Garwood)
-
Medieval English families on the internet:
- Richard Brough Family Organisation
Includes The Early Broughs of Staffordshire: 1055 - 1510 (with a
pedigree
and a note on the alleged relationship of
Ralph de Limésy to William the Conqueror)
and The Broughs of Leek, Staffordshire and their Descendants:
1300 to Present
- The Bruces in Normandy,
The Mysterious Blue Lion,
The Blue Lion in Flanders and
Summary
(The Baronage Press)
- Carpenter-Charpenter-Carpentier-Charpentier (Bruce Carpenter, Tezukayama University)
-
The Crossman Society (Andi MacDonald)
- Hinton Family ('Familykinship.com')
- The Radclyffe Family
(City of Salford)
- History: Brief biographies of Anglo-Saxon monarchs, 10th and 11th centuries (Sean Miller, Anglo-Saxons.net)
-
Links:
- General links:
- Online bibliographical material on the
Cotton
Manuscripts (at the British Library) gathered by Dr Nigel Ramsay
(in preparation; Dr Andrew Prescott, Sheffield University)
- The Henry Project (Stewart Baldwin)
- The Carolingians: An English-language bibliography (Thomas F. X. Noble, University of Virginia/Julia M.H. Smith,
University of St Andrews)
- CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts (University College Cork)
Collection of medieval and later Irish texts
- Heraldry:
Heraldry in Trinity Hall [College, Cambridge] (Andrew Senior)
- Societies and journals:
- Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge University Press)
- Unit for Prosopographical Research (Oxford University)
- Prosopon: Newsletter of the Unit for Prosopographical Research (Oxford University)
- Medieval Yorkshire
Family History Database (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York)
Index, open to postal enquiries
1 July 2001:
Links checked and updated where necessary; apparently defunct links marked.
Links added to a number of books, as part of the Amazon.com associates scheme [since removed].
Added an extensive pedigree of the Foljambe family,
transcribed by Barbarann K. Ayars, from Joseph Foster, Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire, vol.1
(1874), together with a smaller associated
pedigree of Fitzwilliam.
New links added:
-
Medieval source material on the internet:
- George Cavendish,
The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
(Renaissance Electronic Texts, University of Toronto)
- The Manor and Lordship of Blisland
[Cornwall] (Pat Patterson)
Extract from John Maclean, Parochial and family history of the parish of Blisland,
the county of Cornwall (1868)
- Historical Incidents [Bodmin, Cornwall] (Pat Patterson)
16th and 17th centuries; extract from Sir John Maclean,
Parochial and Family History of the parish and borough of Bodmin, in the county of Cornwall (1870)
- The City of Chester: General History and Topography
(password-protected evaluation text, Victoria History of the Counties of England)
- G.A. Kempthorne, History
of the parish of Sheviock [Cornwall]
[1934] (Pat Patterson)
Excepts from Chapters 1 and 2
- Arthur Irwin Dasent, Speakers
of the House of Commons, Chapter 2 (1911) (Pat Patterson)
13th- and 14th-century speakers and chief justices - Peter de Montfort, William Trussell, Henry Beaumont,
Geoffrey le Scrope, William de Thorpe, William de Shareshulle, Henry Green, Thomas Hungerford,
Peter de la Mare, James Pickering, John Guildesborough, Richard Waldegrave and John Bussy
- The National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons
and biographical notes
on the barons
- Medieval
Charters and the Landscape: Between Durham and the Sea, 1100-1500
[Haswell, county Durham] (Richard Britnell)
Illustrated article with links to images, transcripts and English abstracts of charters
- Survey
of the manor of Brinkworth [Wiltshire] 1587 (Clive Henly, GENUKI)
Transcript; later
manorial documents are also available
- Brinkworth [Wiltshire] wills, to 1650:
list,
texts and
name index
(Clive Henly, GENUKI)
- Fifteenth
Century Description of Durham City (Benjamin Dodds, University of Durham)
Latin text and English translation of an early 15th-century survey, with a map and commentary
discussing sources from the 12th century and later
-
Brief guide to medieval genealogy:
- Published works, bibliographies and indexes: links to the
V.C.H. online website
and the Northamptonshire
Victoria County History website.
- Miscellaneous sources: links to four academic articles about
medieval society, with an emphasis on urban and rural economics,
by Richard Britnell (University of Durham):
-
Markets and Fairs in Britain and Ireland before 1216
-
The Marketing of Grain in England, 1250-1350
-
Urban Economic Regulation and Economic Morality in Medieval England
-
Rural and urban elites in England during the later Middle Ages
- Handwriting and language: link to Ian Lancashire's
Early Modern English Dictionaries Database
(University of Toronto), based on 16 dictionaries (some bilingual) from the 16th and 17th centuries -
the database has its own search engine,
Patterweb.
-
Medieval families on the internet:
- Notes by David Blackwell, on mainly Derbyshire families:
Bagshaws of the Ridge,
Bagshaws of Abney,
Blackwell (several pages),
Blount (several pages),
Buron/Byron,
Cope,
Dryden,
Eyre,
Hawley,
Hutchinson,
Knyveit or Knevit,
Lytton,
Manningham,
Marbury,
Meverell,
Poole - Pole Families of Staffordshire and Derbyshire and
Pole Family, Earls of Suffolk
- Transcripts on Pat Patterson's web site:
- Walter Tirel and His Wife
(excerpts from J.H. Round, Feudal England (1895): Tirel, Clare and Giffard families)
- Extracts from J.A. Williamson, Hawkins of Plymouth
and M.A. Lewis, The Hawkins Dynasty
- J.F. Wadmore,
Thomas Smythe, of Westenhanger, commonly called Customer Smythe
(text of an article on the 16th-century Smythes of Wiltshire and Kent,
from Archæologia Cantiana, 1887)
-
The Smythe Family of Essex, 1500-1600
Biographical notes by
Vaughn Baker and Pat Patterson
- Courtenay biographical excerpts from
"The History of Parliament" (The Courtenay Society)
- Extract from Jervis Wegg,
Richard Pace: a Tudor Diplomatist (Roy W. Johnson, Pace Network)
On the same website is a
discussion of
his possible relationshipto a later emigrant to Virginia of the same name
-
Descendants of Thomas Whitney (Carol Clute)
-
Links:
- General links: Amazon.com [since removed]
and Rob's Norman Bibliography (Rob Helmerichs)
- Societies: Bedford
Archaeological and Local History Society and Haskins Society
for Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Anglo-Norman and Angevin History
- City livery companies:
Clockmakers,
Framework Knitters
and Horners