Medieval English genealogy: What's new on this site: October-December 2012

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What's new on this site: October-December 2012

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19 December 2012:

New material

In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines for Bedfordshire (1327-1358) (267 fines), Buckinghamshire (1327-1359) (412 fines), Hampshire (1327-1354) (335 fines) and Herefordshire (1327-1358) (183 fines) have been added.

I am very grateful to James Poynor for sending me a photograph of a further medieval document in his possession - an indenture of John Holme of Holme (in the parish of Paull in the East Riding of Yorkshire) and Elizabeth, his wife, dated 1432. The photograph and a translation of the text can be found here.

New links

A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Public records: Pipe rolls:
  - Richard Cassidy, The 1259 Pipe Roll. (2012) (King's College, London)
    Ph.D. thesis analysing the record.
  - Richard Cassidy, Pipe rolls for beginners. (King's College, London)
    Brief introduction and bibliography. On the author's website are several other useful resources relating to pipe rolls.
  - Richard Cassidy, Recorda splendidissima: the use of pipe rolls in the thirteenth century. (King's College, London)
    Paper originally published in Historical Research, volume 85, pages 1–12 (2012).
- Public records: Miscellaneous:
  - Richard Cassidy and Ben Wild, Memoranda Rolls. (King's College, London)
    Brief introduction and bibliography.
  - Richard Cassidy and Ben Wild, Receipt and issue rolls. (King's College, London)
    Brief introduction and bibliography.
- Wills:
  - Pre-1858 Probate Jurisdictions: Where To Look For Wills (Origins Network)
    County maps showing pre-1858 probate jurisdictions, based on those created by Jeremy Gibson for his book, Probate Jurisdictions: Where to Look for Wills.
- Chronology and dating:
  - Richard Cassidy and Ben Wild, Dates in 13th century records. (King's College, London)
Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts: by author, O-Z:
  - J. A. Giles, translator, Matthew Paris's English history. From the year 1235 to 1273. Volume 1. (1852) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    English translation.
  - J. A. Giles, translator, Matthew Paris's English history. From the year 1235 to 1273. Volume 2. (1853) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    English translation.
  - J. A. Giles, translator, Matthew Paris's English history. From the year 1235 to 1273. Volume 3. (1854) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    English translation.
  - Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 1. The Creation to A.D. 1066. (1872) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 2. A.D. 1067 to A.D. 1216. (1874) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 3. A.D. 1216 to A.D. 1239. (1876) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 4. A.D. 1240 to A.D. 1247. (1877) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 5. A.D. 1248 to A.D. 1259. (1880) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 6. Additamenta. (1882) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 7. Index. Glossary. (1883) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Sir Frederic Madden, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Historia Anglorum, sive, ut vulgo dicitur, Historia minor. Item, ejusdem Abbreviatio Chronicorum Angliae. Volume 1. A.D. 1067-1189. (1866) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Sir Frederic Madden, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Historia Anglorum, sive, ut vulgo dicitur, Historia minor. Item, ejusdem Abbreviatio Chronicorum Angliae. Volume 2. A.D. 1189-1245. (1866) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Sir Frederic Madden, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Historia Anglorum, sive, ut vulgo dicitur, Historia minor. Item, ejusdem Abbreviatio Chronicorum Angliae. Volume 3. A.D. 1246-1253. (1868) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry Thomas Riley, ed., Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, a Thomas Walsingham, Regnante Ricardo Secundo. Volume 3. A.D. 1349-1411. (1869) (Google Books)
    Latin text. Rolls Series 28.
  - Appendix ad Rogeri de Wendover Flores Historiarum ... Matthaeus Parisiensis. (1844) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry O. Coxe, ed., Rogeri de Wendover. Chronica, sive Flores Historiarum. Volume 1. (1841) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry O. Coxe, ed., Rogeri de Wendover. Chronica, sive Flores Historiarum. Volume 2. (1841) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry O. Coxe, ed., Rogeri de Wendover. Chronica, sive Flores Historiarum. Volume 3. (1841) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry O. Coxe, ed., Rogeri de Wendover. Chronica, sive Flores Historiarum. Volume 4. (1842) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text.
  - Henry Richards Luard, ed., Flores Historiarum. Volume 2. A.D. 1067-A.D. 1264. (1890) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text. Rolls Series 95.
  - Henry Richards Luard, ed., Flores Historiarum. Volume 3. A.D. 1265 to A.D. 1326. (1890) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin text. Rolls Series 95.
  - C. D. Yonge, translator, The Flowers of History, especially such as relate to the Affairs of Britain ... collected by Matthew of Westminster. Volume 1. (1853) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    English translation.
  - C. D. Yonge, translator, The Flowers of History, especially such as relate to the Affairs of Britain ... collected by Matthew of Westminster. Volume 2. (1853) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    English translation.
- History:
  - Charles Knight, ed., Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities. Volume 1. (1845, c. 1860) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Charles Knight, ed., Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities. Volume 2. (1845, c. 1860) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- County and local history:
  - The History of Ewyas Lacy (Ewyas Lacy Study Group)
    Resources for the history of Ewyas Lacy hundred in south-west Herefordshire, including transcriptions of some medieval records.
- Modern biography and prosopography:
  - England's Immigrants 1330-1550 (University of York, The National Archives and University of Sheffield)
    Extensive biographical database of foreigners in England, in the process of compilation, mainly from tax records and letters of protection and denization, to be made freely available online on the completion of the project.
- Public records: Land taxes and feudal surveys:
  - Open Domesday (Anna Powell-Smith)
    Searchable database of information from the Domesday Book, together with images of the manuscript and a map interface. The images are currently for Great Domesday only, but it is planned to add those for Little Domesday (Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex).
  - [W. Illingworth, ed.] Rotuli Hundredorum Temp. Hen. III. & Edw. I. in Turr' Lond' et in Curia Receptae Scaccarij Westm. Asservati. Volume 1. (1812) (Google Books)
    Latin transcripts in record type. Bedfordshire-Norfolk, with Yorkshire.
- Public records: Inquisitions post mortem:
  - Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office. Henry VII. Volume 3. (1955) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Public records: Pipe rolls:
  - The Great roll of the pipe for the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1181-1182. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 31 (1910).
  - Richard Cassidy, The Great Roll of the Pipe for the 43rd Year of the Reign of King Henry III Michaelmas 1259. (King's College, London)
    Latin transcript. The record is analysed in Richard Cassidy's Ph.D. thesis, The 1259 Pipe Roll (2012).
- Public records: Common law records:
  - Jonathan Mackman and Matthew Stevens, Court of common pleas: The National Archives, CP 40 - 1399-1500 (2010) (British History Online)
    Draft summary translations of pleaded cases for London or involving a London litigant, for the years 1399–1409, 1420–1429, 1445–1450, 1460–1468, 1480 and 1500.
  - Matthew Frank Stevens, ed., London Sheriffs' Court Roll 1320. (British History Online)
    English translation, from London Metropolitan Archives, CLA/25/CT/1/1 and 2.
- Public records: Feet of fines:
  - W. H. Hart, A Calendar of the Fines for the County of Derby from their commencement in the reign of Richard I. [1196-1225] (1885) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 7, pages 195-217.
  - W. H. Hart, A Calendar of the Fines for the County of Derby from their commencement in the reign of Richard I. [1225-1252] (1886) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 8, pages 15-64.
  - W. H. Hart, A Calendar of the Fines for the County of Derby, from their commencement in the reign of Richard I. [1252-1258] (1887) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 9, pages 84-93.
  - W. H. Hart, A Calendar of the Fines for the County of Derby, from their commencement in the reign of Richard I. [1258-1259] (1888) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 10, pages 151-158.
  - A Calendar of the Fines for the County of Derby, from their commencement in the reign of Richard I. [1260-1272] (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 11, pages 93-106.
  - Messrs Hardy and Page, A Calendar of the Fines for the County of Derby, from their commencement in the reign of Richard I. [1274-1281] (1890) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 12, pages 23-42.
  - Messrs Hardy and Page, A Calendar of the Fines for the County of Derby, from their commencement in the reign of Richard I. [1281-1296] (1891) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 13, pages 9-31.
  - Messrs Hardy and Page, A Calendar of the Fines for the County of Derby, from their commencement in the reign of Richard I. [1297-1305] (1892) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 14, pages 1-15.
  - The Rev Charles Kerry, A Calendar of the Fines for the County of Derby, from their commencement in the reign of Richard I. [1304-1313] (1893) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 15, pages 1-19.
  - The Rev Charles Kerry, A Calendar of the Fines for the County of Derby from their commencement in the reign of Richard I. [1312-1317] (1895) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 17, pages 95-113.
  - The Rev Charles Kerry, "Pedes Finium" for the County of Derby from their commencement in the reign of Richard I. [1317-1324] (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 18, pages 1-17.
  - Patricia Hyde and Duncan Harrington, Faversham Fines. [1295-1610] (Kent Archaeological Society)
    Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 3, parts 7 and 8 (2002); included in the indexes for this volume.
  - Duncan Harrington, Kent Feet of Fines for 7 Edward III onwards. [1333-1377; in progress] (Kent Archaeological Society)
    Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 5 (2012).
  - Duncan Harrington, Kent Feet of Fines Richard II. [1377-1399] (Kent Archaeological Society)
    Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 4, parts 4-9 (2007-2009).
  - Duncan Harrington and Chris Phillips, Feet of Fines for the Reign of King Henry IV. [1399-1413] (Kent Archaeological Society)
    Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 5, parts 1-4 (2010, 2011).
  - Duncan Harrington, Feet of Fines for the Reign of King Henry V. [1413-1422] (Kent Archaeological Society)
    Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 5, parts 4-6 (2011, 2012).
  - Michael Zell, Feet of Fines for the reign of Henry VIII. [1509-1547] (Kent Archaeological Society)
    Brief English abstracts; from Kent Records, new series 2 (1995-1998); included in the indexes for this volume.
  - Michael Zell, Feet of Fines for the reigns of Edward VI to Philip and Mary. [1547-1558] (Kent Archaeological Society)
    Brief English abstracts; Kent Records, new series 4, parts 1-4 (2004-2007).
- Public records: Chancery rolls:
  - Charles Roberts, ed., Excerpta e Rotulis Finium in Turri Londinensi Asservatis, Henrico Tertio Rege, A.D. 1216-1272. Volume 1. A.D. 1216-1246. (1835) (Google Books)
    Latin extracts, in record type.
  - Charles Roberts, ed., Excerpta e Rotulis Finium in Turri Londinensi Asservatis, Henrico Tertio Rege, A.D. 1216-1272. Volume 2. A.D. 1246-1272. (1836) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin extracts, in record type.
- Charters:
  - Anglo-Saxon Charters (ASChart) (King's College, London)
    Texts of Anglo-Saxon charters from before the year 900, marked up using XML.
  - J. Horace Round, ed., Calendar of documents preserved in France, illustrative of the history of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 1. 918-1206. (1899) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    English abstracts, including many charters from Normandy, mainly from Record Commission transcripts (class PRO31/8); no more volumes published.
  - The Language of Landscape (LangScape) (King's College, London)
    Searchable database of Anglo-Saxon estate boundaries, compiled from charters.
- Probate records:
  - Lancashire Wills Index 1457-1812 (National Wills Index, Origins Network)
    Index to wills from the western deaneries of the archdeaconry of Richmond, 1457-1812, (with some abstracts of wills) and the peculiar of the manor of Halton, 1615-1812. From indexes published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society; searchable by subscribers.
  - London: Court of Husting Will Abstracts 1258-1688 (National Wills Index, Origins Network)
    [From the published volumes edited Reginald R. Sharpe (see above).] Available to subscribers.
  - London and Middlesex Will Abstracts 1700-1704 (National Wills Index, Origins Network)
    Abstracts of 2042 wills proved in various courts; available to subscribers.
  - Surrey Peculiars Probate Index 1660-1751 (National Wills Index, Origins Network)
    Index to records relating to the deanery of Croydon; searchable by subscribers.
  - Surrey PCC Will Abstracts 1736-1794 (National Wills Index, Origins Network)
    From manuscript notes by Alfred Ridley Bax held by the Society of Genealogists; available to subscribers.
- Urban and guild records:
  - Records of London's Livery Companies Online (Centre for Metropolitan History and the City of London Livery Companies)
    Searchable database, in progress, providing free access to records of apprentices and freemen between 1400 and 1900. The companies currently participating are the Clothworkers, Drapers, Goldsmiths and Mercers.
Medieval English families on the Internet:
- W:
  - George Wrottesley, History of the Family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, co. Stafford. (1903) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Links:
- Maps:
  - Google Maps
- Miscellaneous:
  - Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900 (University of Hertfordshire, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and University of Sheffield)
    Combined search engine for a number of online historical resources (including material available only by subscription).
- Medieval (and early modern) armorials:
  - Medieval Armorials (Steen Clemmensen)
    Study of English and Continental medieval rolls of arms, including an inventory of manuscripts and an ordinary of coats of arms. There are also editions of four English armorials: the English section of Armorial Urfé, the Rouen Roll (incorporating the Gentry Roll), Willement's Roll and William Jenyns' Ordinary.
Victoria County History:
- Older County Histories:
  - Robert Thoroton (edited with additions by John Throsby), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire. Volume 3. (1796) (British History Online)
  - J. Curtis, A Topographical History of Nottinghamshire. ([1843-4]) (Google Books)
    Final part missing.
  - Thomas Dunham Whitaker; edited by A. W. Morant, The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York. (1878) (Skipton Castle)

For older additions, see: