What was new on this site: October-December 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.
2 December 2001:
Links checked and updated where necessary; apparently defunct links marked.
New items on Arundel,
Badlesmere,
Beauchamp of Powick,
Berners,
Butler,
Clifford,
Percy,
Segrave,
Strange or Lestrange (of Blackmere) and
Suffolk
added to the section on errors in the Complete Peerage.
New links added:
- Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Domesday Book:
The English translations for the Great Domesday counties,
originally published by Phillimore between 1974 and 1992,
together with images of the
manuscript, are available in searchable form on CD, known as
Domesday Explorer
- Land taxes and feudal surveys: Transitions: English Feudal Development, 1016-1135
(Erich Richter, Reed College)
- Wills: Sir N.H. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta (1826)
An Index of Testators,
with some notes on the work,
has been provided by Tim Powys-Lybbe
- Miscellaneous sources: Four academic studies from the
Canadian Journal of History (1996)
-
Price-Setting in English Borough Markets, 1349-1500 (R.H. Britnell,
University of Durham)
-
Market Towns and the Countryside in Late Medieval England (Christopher Dyer, University of
Birmingham)
-
The Mobilization of Labour in the Milling Industry of Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century England
(John Langdon, University of Alberta)
-
The Rise and Fall of Markets in Southeast England (Mavis Mate, University of Oregon)
-
Medieval source material on the internet:
- History: C.J. Spigelman,
A Twelfth Century
Succession at York (Supreme Court of New South Wales)
- County and local history:
- Rosemary Lockie has provided an
index page
to volume 5 of John Pym Yeatman, The Feudal History of the County of Derby, (1886-1910)
with more convenient links to David Blackwell's
scanned images,
and has also transcribed some
sections, which are available as web pages (follow the link to "Contents")
-
The Foresters of Cannock [Staffordshire] in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Richard Dace)
- Modern biography and prosopography: Becket & Henry II:
Select Ruminations,
The New Archbishop and
The Conflict
(Supreme Court of New South Wales)
- Probate:
William Shakespeare's will [1616] (Public Record Office)
- Monumental brasses:
- A
Gallery of Brass Rubbings (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
- William, Viscount Beaumont &
Lord Bardolf [1507] Wivenhoe, Essex (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
- Lady Katherine Howard, c.1535, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk
- Jeffrey Jocelin
(or Joslyne) and his two wives,
1470, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire (Great St Mary's Church)
The site also has a List of brasses
in the church
- Ancestry's UK and Ireland Collection:
English medieval records and probate indexes:
- Cheshire: Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1603-1660 (P-Y)
- Cheshire: Cheshire in the Pipe Rolls, 1158-1301
- Cheshire and Flintshire:
Revenues of the counties of Chester and Flint Michaelmas, 1361-1362
- Cheshire: Supplementary Index to the "Infra" Wills and Administrations, 1693
-
Medieval English families on the internet:
- Boucy, Chester and Ridel:
Women
and Inheritance in Norman England: The Case of Geva Ridel
(Judith A. Green, Queen's University of Belfast)
- Cornwall:
The
Cornwall Family (Robert Battle)
- Stratton:
Stratton
Notes (Suffolk) from Original Sources (Robert Battle)
-
Links:
- Societies and journals:
- Society of Antiquaries of London
- Society of Genealogists (London)
- South Midlands Archaeology
(Council for British Archaeology)
3 November 2001:
Links checked and updated where necessary; apparently defunct links marked.
New section on errors in the Complete Peerage added.
New links added:
- Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Subsidies and other taxes:
Medieval
Customs' Accounts (Public Record Office information leaflet)
- Feet of fines:
Land
Conveyances: Feet of Fines, 1182-1833 (Public Record Office information leaflet)
- Miscellaneous public records:
- The Royal Household and Wardrobe Before 1660
(Public Record Office information leaflet)
- Letters and Papers
of Henry VIII (Public Record Office information leaflet)
- Privy Council Correspondence, From c1481
(Public Record Office information leaflet)
- Privy Council: Registers 1540-
(Public Record Office information leaflet)
- Church records: Repertorium Chronicarum:
A Bibliography of the Manuscripts of Medieval Latin Chronicles
(Mississippi State University)
- Handwriting and language:
Glossary
of Medieval Terms (Michael Adams/Brendan McManus)
- Miscellaneous sources:
- A Study of the London Masters of Defense
and Prizes of the London Masters of Defense
(Dylan)
- Biographical Index to the Elizabethan
Theater (David J. Kathman)
-
Medieval source material on the internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts:
Raphael Holinshed,
The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (Early English Books Online, Featured Content)
- History: James S. Bothwell,
'Escheat with Heir':
Guardianship, Upward Mobility, and Political Reconciliation in the Reign of Edward III 1450 to 1480
(Britannica.com)
- County and local history:
Feltwell
[Norfolk] Manors and
Domesday (Feltwell Village History)
- Common law records:
Tales
of Justice and Vengeance (Paul Hyams, Cornell University)
- Miscellaneous public records: Thomas Rymer,
Foedera, conventiones, literae, et cujuscunque generis acta publica ...("Rymer's foedera")
(vols 6-14, 16; 2nd edn, 1727-9)
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
- Charters: Harvard Law School Library, in addition to its
large collection of medieval and early modern English deeds, has an "online exhibition", entitled
History in Deed:
Medieval Society & the Law in England, 1100-1600, including many English abstracts arranged by theme or
locality (unfortunately not illustrated)
- Manorial records:
English
Manor Rolls Collection
(Harvard Law School Library)
- Funeral monuments: The
County Series:
a series of fully illustrated guides
to the monumental brasses of the British Isles
(William Lack, H. Martin Stuchfield and Philip Whittemore)
- Monumental brasses:
Margaret Moundeford, 1520,
Feltwell, Norfolk (A.J. Orange, Feltwell Village History)
- Church records and religious houses:
Rental record of Mitten Hill Farm (extract from 16th century rental of Whitby Abbey)
(Charles Russell)
-
Medieval English families on the internet:
- Entwhisle/Entwhistle:
The Entwhis(t)le Family
(Entwhistle Family History Association)
- Ferre: The
Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320
(Jay Lathen Boehm)
- Gunhouse/Gunnays:
The Gunnays Family of Hayton, Yorkshire (Peter Freeman)
and Origins of the Name [Gunhouse] (Glenn Gunhouse)
- Marfleet: An
Index of MARFLEETs pre 1500
(John K. Marfleet)
- Merrill:
An account of the descendants of Nathaniel Merrill,
an early settler of Newbury, Massachusetts
(John Harold Merrill)
-
Links:
- General links:
- Latin Place Names
(Bibliographic Standards Committee/Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the American Library Association)
- Medieval Names Archive
(Joshua Mittleman)
- Societies and journals:
- Essays
in History (University of Virginia)
- The Genealogist (founded 1980)
- The Medieval Review (University of Michigan)
- Thoresby Society (Leeds and district)
- Heraldry:
Heraldic Dictionary
(University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
1 October 2001:
Links checked and updated where necessary; apparently defunct links marked.
Brief notes and corrections concerning the husbands of Joan, the daughter of Robert Aguillon,
have been added to the section on The
marriage of Giles de Argentein to Margery, daughter of Robert Aguillon.
New links added:
-
Medieval source material on the internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts:
The Crusades:
Bibliography (University of North Florida/Paul Halsall)
- County and local history:
- John Smith, Berkeley [Gloucestershire] Manuscripts, and other works
- Everton-cum-Tetworth, Bedfordshire:
Everton Manor and Story Moats,
The Manor of Everton Mosbury,
The Manor of Everton Biggin
and The Manor of Canons or Tetworth
(Bernard O'Connor)
- J.C. Blomefield,
History
of Finmere, Oxon
(1887, reprinted 1998)
- Hasells Hall, Sandy [Bedfordshire] (Bernard O'Connor)
- Hawkesbury [Gloucestershire]
Document Index (Hawkesbury
and Hillesley Family History)
- The
Occupants of The Ancient office
of Sheriff of the County Of Lincoln From Edward 1 to 1827
(Bob Hatcher, English Hatcher Pages)
- A History of
Prinknash Abbey [Gloucestershire]
- The
Shipley [Derbyshire] Estate - Studies in History
(Brian Taylor)
- Robin Bush,
Waddon,
Dorset: The Waddon Manors and the Dorset Domesday (Time Team, Channel 4)
- [Westwick, Hertfordshire]
The
Leverstock Green Chronicle (Barbara Chapman)
- Taxation and other lists:
The Ainsty Wapentake: Subsidy Rolls ... Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty
(Colin Hinson/Peter Nelson)
- Heralds' visitations: links to surname indexes have been added where possible
- Monumental brasses:
Thomas Lord Berkeley and his wife Margaret, 1392, Wooton-Under-Edge
(Dave Berkeley)
-
Medieval English families on the internet:
- Barrington:
Barrington Genealogy
(Tim Powys-Lybbe)
- Bourchier: The
Family of Bourchier (Tim Powys-Lybbe)
- Dameron: Dameron-Damron connection with
Westerfield Manor
and Henley and Henley Hall
of Suffolk, England (Charles C. Chaney, Dameron-Damron Family Association)
- Daniell: Search for Robert Daniell
(Thomas R. Daniell)
- Drury: The Drury Genealogy Page (GenealogySource.com)
Sources for the history of the Drury family of Suffolk, including:
- Arthur Campling, The History of the
Family of Drury of Norfolk and Suffolk, from the Conquest (1937)
- Rev. Sir John Cullum,
The History
and Antiquities of Hawsted, in the County of Suffolk (1784)
- R.M. Drury, Drury Family Papers,
(1889)
- J.J. Muskett, Suffolk Manorial Families,
vol.1 (1899,1900)
- Finnimore: Genealogy
of the family of Phillimore (Phil Finnimore)
- Hedges: The Hedges
of Stafford/Prince William Counties Virginia 1660-1980
(Robert Hedges)
- Lawton:
The Realm of Lawton (Matthew Frederick Lawton)
- Lestrange:
Observations on the Le Stranges With Some Corrections of Prevalent Genealogical Errors
- Mulcaster:
The Family of de Mulcaster (Eric and Sharon Mulcaster)
- Norris: The Family of "le Norreys"
(Steven D. Norris, Norris Families in America)
- Norris: The Beginnings
of the Norris Family in Europe
(Steven D. Norris, Norris Families in America)
- Sackett: The Sackett Family: its History and Genealogy
(Chris Sackett)
- Shillito:
Shillito Family History Society
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Links:
- General links: Rod Neep's Archive CD Books Project - with links to
several specific books in the Guide and Source Material sections
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
Monumental Brass Society [in preparation]
- Societies and journals: Medieval Life