What was new on this site: January-March 2002
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.
21 March 2002:
Added index to places mentioned in titles of articles in the Victoria County History (VCH) volumes.
1 March 2002:
Six images of monumental brasses, kindly provided by
Sally Badham of the Monumental Brass Society.
In the section on Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
items have been added for
Arundel (place of burial of Richard, Earl of Arundel,
Alasia, his wife, and Edmund, Earl of Arundel, his son),
Arundel (children of Edmund, son of Richard, 10th earl of Arundel),
Cauntelo,
Kyme,
Marmion,
Mornington,
Norwich,
Plaiz and
St Amand (identification of Joan, wife of Amauri de St Amand).
Links added:
-
Medieval source material on the internet:
- County and local history:
St Mary's Church, Nottingham -
Its Past and Present History (Brian Taylor)
A detailed treatment, including references to many clerics,
benefactors and others associated with the church
- Probate records:
- Transcript of the will of Laurence Lyndley,
of Leathley, Yorkshire, 1557 (Ronald A. Cawthorn)
- Will
of William Russell of Hawsker [parish of Whitby, Yorkshire], 1566 (Charles Russell)
Image and transcript
- Manorial records:
- Extracts
from the Court Rolls of Whitby Lathes, 1533-1551
(Charles Russell)
Images of documents, with transcript and translation in progress
- Hawsker
rentals from the Whitby Abbey Cartularium (Charles Russell)
Image of printed Latin text
- Monumental brasses: 23 more links to images of brasses on the
Monumental Brass Society's web site, in the new sections of the Picture Library
on Shrouds
and skeletons, Danse
macabre iconography and
Chrysoms,
and in the section on
Armour
- Ancestry's UK and Ireland Collection:
English medieval records and probate indexes:
- Cheshire [and Lancashire]:
Wills and Inventories, 1761-1780 (A-M), 1761-1780 (N-Z), 1781-1790, 1791-1800
[W.F. Irvine, ed.,
An index to the wills and inventories now preserved in the probate registry at Chester
from A.D. 1761 to 1780: A-M, from A.D. 1761 to 1780: N-Z,
from A.D. 1781 to 1790 and from A.D. 1791 to 1800,
with an appendix containing the list of the 'infra' wills,
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society vols 37, 38, 44, 45
(Exeter, 1898, 1899, Liverpool, 1902, 1902)]
- Cheshire [and Lancashire]:
Wills and Inventories, 1801-10 (A-L and M-Z)
[R. Stewart-Brown, ed.,
An index to the wills and administrations, including the 'infra' wills, now preserved
in the probate registry at Chester for the years 1801-1810, both inclusive: A-L and M-Z,
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society vols 62, 63
(Edinburgh and London, 1911, 1912)]
- Cheshire [and Lancashire]:
Wills and Inventories, 1811-20 (A-L and M-Z)
[W.A. Tonge, ed.,
An index to the wills and administrations, including the 'infra' wills, now preserved
in the probate registry at Chester for the years 1811-1820, both inclusive: A-L and M-Z,
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society vols 78, 79
(Kendal, 1928)]
- Cheshire: Bromborough - Talbot Deeds, 1200-1682
[E.E. Barker, ed., Talbot Deeds, 1200-1682,
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society vol. 103 (1953)]
- England:
Calendar of Chancery Proceedings, Bills and Answers
filed in the reign of King Charles the First, (E-Z)
[From W.P.W. Phillimore (and E.A. Fry), ed.,
A Calendar of Chancery Proceedings.
Bills and Answers filed in the reign of King Charles the First ...
British Record Society, Index Library vol. 2, 5, 6, 14 (1889-1896)]
- Suffolk: Bury St. Edmunds - Biographical List of Boys Educated at
King Edward 6th Free Grammar School, 1550-1900
[S.H.A. Hervey, ed.,
Biographical list of boys educated at King Edward VI Free Grammar School, Bury St. Edmunds, from 1550 to 1900,
(Bury St Edmunds, 1908)]
- Worcestershire:
Wills and Administrations in the court of the Bishop of Worcester,
also Marriage Licences and Sequestrations, 1451-1600
[E.A. Fry, ed.,
Calendar of wills and administrations preserved in the consistory court of the bishop of Worcester ...,
1451-1600 (British Record Society, Index Library 31; London, 1904)]
-
Medieval English families on the internet:
- Langstaff/Longstaff:
The
Langstaffs of Teesdale and Weardale [county Durham] (Carole A.M. Johnson)
Text, in progress, of the book by George Blundell Longstaff [originally published 1906], with images of
pedigrees; the text includes medieval extracts for various counties, 13th century and later
-
Links:
- Heraldry:
Early Rolls of Arms (Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)
- Glover's Roll, Part 2
- Galloway Roll, Part 1,
Part 2 and
Part 3
- City Livery Companies: The Worshipful Companies of:
- Arbitrators
- Fletchers
- Gardeners
- Glovers
- Plaisterers
- Wheelwrights
1 February 2002: Links checked and updated where necessary; apparently defunct links marked.
New items on Burgh, Bourgh, or Borough (of Gainsborough),
Cobham (of Sterborough),
Ferrers,
Grey (of Codnor),
Monthermer,
Mountjoy,
Saint Amand,
Somery,
Tyeys and
Westmorland
added to the section on Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage.
Links added:
- Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Common law records:
Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries
on the Laws of England (1765-1769) (The Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
Text of a standard 18th-century legal handbook
- Church records:
- History of advowsons
(Parish of Rayleigh)
Part 2 of a dissertation by the Rev David Parrott, Situations Vacant,
outlining the historical development of the law of advowsons
- Repertorium Fontium
Historiae Medii Aevi (Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo)
Online index to the multi-volume listing of medieval historical sources (Rome, 1962-2001),
currently covering authors A-O
- Miscellaneous: Deeds of Arms -
A Collection of Accounts of Formal Deeds of Arms of the Fourteenth Century
(Steven Muhlberger, Knighthood, Chivalry and Tournaments Resource Library)
Extracts from contemporary sources describing about forty 14th-century tournaments;
modern English translations with some original Latin, French and English texts
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Medieval source material on the internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts:
- Jean Froissart:
- Chroniques
French text - 25-volume edition of Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove (1867-77), in PDF format,
on the gallica site (search with "Lettenhove" as author)
- Tales
from Froissart (Steve Muhlberger, Nipissing University)
Extracts from the translation by Thomas Johnes translation (1805)
- Caradoc of Llangarfan, The Life of Gildas:
Latin text and
English translation
(Wesleyan University)
A largely legendary 12th-century biography of the 6th-century historian
- County and local history:
- Appleby's History
[Appleby Magna, Leicestershire]
Includes a selection of detailed articles by Richard Dunmore, Alan Roberts and others on the village's history,
including extracts from records and lists of names -
in the
Days Gone By,
Era by Era,
History Tour and
In Focus
sections
- Bath Past:
the history and historic buildings of the city of Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
(Jean Manco)
A collection of short articles about the history of Bath, including sections on Saxon, Medieval,
Tudor & Stuart and Bath Abbey
- Geoffrey Dawes, Tale
of Crich [Derbyshire]: A History of Our Parish (1988) (Alan S. Flint, Crich Parish)
In progress; includes an account of manorial descents in medieval times
- A.P. Keegan, The
Town of Cropredy [Oxfordshire] 1570 - 1640 (1999) (Pamela and Mark Keegan, Mewslade)
A very extensive (over 700-page) study using wills and inventories,
and relating the records to modern properties in the village; includes
64 detailed family trees
- Oxford: Information
for Visitors and Pilgrims (Christ Church Cathedral)
Includes
A Brief History of Oxford and its Castle,
St. Frideswide's Priory, Oxford,
Priors of St Frideswide's,
Os[e]ney Abbey
and other material
- Probate records:
- The Tudor Inventories from
Appleby [Leicestershire], 1530-1601
(Alan Roberts, Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
List of 33 inventories, and transcripts of 9
- Northamptonshire Wills
(Fay McKenzie-Edmonds)
In progress; transcripts of wills, 16th century and later, from the parish of Sulgrave and district,
with indexes for names and places
- Church records and religious houses:
Leicester Archdeaconry Court Proceedings -
Case of Winter vs Petcher, 1597-98
(Alan Roberts, Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
Transcribed records of a case of adultery in an ecclesiastical court,
from Leicestershire Record Office 1D 41/4/673. There are also two
versions of an article by Alan Roberts, discussing the case -
A 16th Century Scandal
on the Appleby Magna web site, and On an Atherstone Faire Daie,
1597 on the ORB site
- Monumental brasses:
John Gaynesford I, 1450, Crowhurst,
Surrey (History of Parliament)
Reproduction of a rubbing
- Ancestry's UK and Ireland Collection:
English medieval records and probate indexes:
- England: Calendar of Chancery Proceedings, Bills and Answers
filed in the reign of King Charles the First, (A-D)
[W.P.W. Phillimore, ed.,
A Calendar of Chancery Proceedings.
Bills and Answers filed in the reign of King Charles the First ...
British Record Society, Index Library vol. 2 (1889)]
- Cheshire [and Lancashire]: Wills and Inventories, 1681-1700, 1701-1720 and 1741-1760
[J.P. Earwaker, ed.,
An index to the wills and inventories now preserved in the Court of Probate at Chester from
A.D. 1681 to 1700, 1701-1720 and 1741-1760,
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society vols 18, 20 and 25 (1888, 1889 and 1892)]
- Cheshire [and Lancashire]: Wills and Administrations, 1826-1830
[R. Dickinson and F. Dickinson, eds,
Index to the wills and administrations, formerly preserved in the probate registry, Chester
1826-1830, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society vol. 113]
- Suffolk: Subsidy Returns, 1327
[[Sydenham H. A. Hervey, ed.,] Suffolk in 1327. Being a Subsidy Return (1906)]
- Suffolk: Subsidy Returns, 1524
[[Sydenham H. A. Hervey, ed.,]
Suffolk in 1524, being the return for a subsidy granted in 1523 (1910)]
- Suffolk: Subsidy Returns, 1568
[[Sydenham H. A. Hervey, ed.,]
Suffolk in 1568, being the Return for a Subsidy granted in 1566 ... (1909)]
- Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1625-1626
[M.E. Allen, ed., Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1625-1626
(Suffolk Records Society 37; Woodbridge, 1995)]
- Wills and Administrations in the Court of The Bishop of Worcester, 1601-1652
[E.A. Fry, ed.,
Calendar of wills and administrations preserved in the consistory court of the bishop of Worcester ...,
1601-1652 (British Record Society, Index Library 39; London, 1910)]
- England, Scotland and Ireland: Musgrave's Obituaries Prior to 1800, parts 1-4
[From Sir G.J. Armytage, ed.,
Obituary prior to 1800, as far as relates to England, Scotland and Ireland.
Compiled by Sir W. Musgrave and entitled by him "A General Nomenclator and Obituary ...",
Harleian Society vols 44-49 (1899-1901)]
-
Medieval English families on the internet:
- Ballard:
Ballard Genealogy and Heraldry (Paul Ballard)
Collection of material including narrative pedigrees from Kent, Herefordshire and Worcestershire,
heraldry, and - in the "Archives" section - inquisitions post mortem, wills, chancery rolls,
and chancery and star chamber records
- Barnham/Barnum:
Family of (Sir) Francis Barnham and Elizabeth Lennard
and Family of Sir Martin Barnham
(J.A. Tappero)
Kent, 16th century; notes and extracts from wills, visitations etc
- Bath:
Bath, Bathe and de Bathe,
of English and Irish Origins (Michael Edward Bath)
Includes a detailed account of the origins of the family in the 13th and 14th centuries
- Body: William Body
(Soskernow: Friends of Cornwall)
Biographical notes on a 16th-century cleric in the service of Thomas Cromwell
- Cornwall: Richard,
Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans (Soskernow: Friends of Cornwall)
Biographical notes on the younger son of King John, 13th century
- Dacre: Thomas Fiennes,
Baron Dacre of the South [d.1541] (J.A. Tappero)
Extracts from Thomas Barrett-Lennard, An Account of the Families of Lennard and Barrett (1908), and other sources;
see also Lennard
- Fulton:
Fulton Data (Ken Mitchell)
Extracts relating to the surname Fulton from miscellaneous sources, some medieval
- Guy: The Guy Lineage
(Guy Etchells)
Narrative pedigree, Leicestershire, 16th century and later, with links
to transcripts of wills
- Hussey: The
Hussey Millennium Manuscript Section Index
(Gowen Research Foundation)
A collection of detailed notes on Hussey families, from the 11th century onwards;
the medieval and early modern English material is in the items numbered up to about 10.
There are some odd statements about the Norman origins of the family, and it looks as though
material from much later pedigrees is included, as well as record evidence, so this should be used with care
- Iggulden: deYgolvyndenne,
a.k.a The Most Mispelled Name In History (Wayne Iggulden)
Miscellaneous information about the surname, including transcripts of
9 wills,
15th-17th centuries, from Biddenden, Kent
- Lennard: The Family of Sampson Lennard and
Margaret Fiennes, Baroness Dacre (J.A. Tappero)
16th century; notes from Thomas Barrett-Lennard, An Account of the Families of Lennard and Barrett (1908),
and other sources; see also Barnham/Barnum
- Polhill:
The Polhill Family History Page (American Pacific Financial Corporation)
Text of R.G. Bennett, The Kentish Polhills (1958), including transcripts of wills and other records
- Scholes: The Origins of Scholes
(Peter H. Scholes)
Detailed discussion of the origin of the surname and its early bearers,
in Yorkshire, Lancashire and elsewhere
- Stradling:
St Donats and the Stradlings
(Dr Hugh Stradling, The Stradling Family)
An account of the family, Glamorgan and south west England, 13th century and later; includes extracts
from public records and other sources
- Winter: Thomas Wynter
(Soskernow: Friends of Cornwall)
Biographical notes on a 16th-century cleric, giving evidence suggesting that he was
an illegitimate son of Cardinal Wolsey
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Links:
- Societies and journals:
Lancashire and Cheshire:
Chetham Society (Chetham Library web site)
Includes a list of publications
6 January 2002: Links checked and updated where necessary; apparently defunct links marked.
New items on Beauchamp (of Bletsoe), Beaumont, Butler, Fanhope, Gloucester, Somery and Tony
added to the section on Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage.
Links added:
- Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Public records: Domesday Book:
Domesday
Book and
Abbreviatio
of Domesday Book
(Public Record Office Virtual Museum - Millennium Exhibition)
- Public records: Pipe rolls:
The
First Pipe Roll
(Public Record Office Virtual Museum - Millennium Exhibition)
- Public records: Chancery Rolls:
Parliamentary
Writs & Returns (Public Record Office Virtual Museum - Millennium Exhibition)
-
Medieval source material on the internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts:
- Dialogue
of the Exchequer (Public Record Office Virtual Museum
- Millennium Exhibition)
- Wulfstan, Archbishop of York,
Sermo Lupi ad Anglos
(Sermon of the Wolf to the English) (Melissa J. Bernstein, University of Rochester)
- County and local history:
- Framland
Hundred [Leicestershire] (Guy Etchells)
Extract from John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester (1795)
- Kidwelly
[Carmarthenshire]
History (William Jeffrey Mansel)
Extensive collection of articles and extracts from records.
Among the articles are:
Gruffydd Evans,
Carmarthenshire
Gleanings (Kidwelly);
Glanmor Williams,
Kidwelly
Priory,
C.A. Ralegh Radford,
Kidwelly
Castle and
Heather James,
Topographical
Notes on the early mediaeval borough of Kidwelly
- The History of Tudhoe Village:
Dissent and Rebellion in County Durham (Jeremy Hutson)
- Modern biography and prosopography:
Colm O'Brien,
Bede's People (Bede's World)
- Public records:
- The
Leicestershire Survey (1124-1129) (Guy Etchells)
- English
Denization Records, 1560-1563 (Genealogy Quest)
- Monumental brasses:
- Yorvik Brass Rubbing Centre
A commercial site, with images of several brass rubbings
- Find A Grave
Site devoted to funeral monuments of all ages from all over the world,
including several photographs of medieval English brasses, submitted by visitors
- Ancestry's UK and Ireland Collection:
English medieval records and probate indexes:
- England, Scotland and Ireland: Musgrave's Obituaries Prior to 1800, parts 5 and 6
-
Medieval English families on the internet:
- Houby/Juby:
The
Ancient History and Armorial Bearings of the Family of de Huby/Juby
(Bernard Juby)
- Roper:
Roper Families in England: Part I
and Part II (Genealogy Web Page of L. David Roper)
- Siswick:
Origin of surname (Mike Siswick, Siswick.org)
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Links:
- General links:
The Internet Archive
- City livery companies:
Basketmakers
For older additions, see: