What's new on this site: October-December 2013
For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.
17 December 2013:
New material
In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines for
Lincolnshire (1349-1358) (210 fines), Northamptonshire (1327-1357) (450 fines), Northumberland (1337-1355) (50 fines) and Nottinghamshire (1327-1359) (350 fines) have been added.
New links
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A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
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Handwriting and language:
- Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague)
Searchable electronic text and page images; includes the supplement of 1921. (NB Unfortunately the interface does not appear to work in some older browsers.)
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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County and local history:
- Hendon, in the county of Middlesex (Kenneth Jacob, My Jacob Family)
Some references from the plea rolls, 13th-15th centuries.
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Modern biography and prosopography:
- A brief listing of some goldsmiths in the period 1100-1500 (Kenneth Jacob, My Jacob Family)
From the plea rolls and other sources.
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Charters:
- Charles Travis Clay and Edith Margaret Clay Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volumes 1-3. (1942) (Cambridge University Press)
Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, Extra Series, volume 4. The front matter, including an introduction, is available here.
- William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 4. (1935) (Cambridge University Press)
- William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 5. (1936) (Cambridge University Press)
- William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 6. (1939) (Cambridge University Press)
- William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 7. (1947) (Cambridge University Press)
- William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 8. (1949) (Cambridge University Press)
- William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 9. (1952) (Cambridge University Press)
- William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 10. (1955) (Cambridge University Press)
- William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 11. (1963) (Cambridge University Press)
- William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 12. (1965) (Cambridge University Press)
- A selection of 93 deeds relating to the county of Kent (1422-1671) (Kenneth Jacob, My Jacob Family)
Abstracts made from original documents.
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Probate records:
- Devon Wills Project (GENUKI and others)
Consolidated index, in the process of compilation from various sources, of Devon wills, administrations and inventories, currently including more than 300,000 entries. Nearly half the entries are also searchable at Origins.net.
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Funeral monuments:
- John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments. (1631) (Google Books)
Early work recording a large number of monumental inscriptions in south-east England, many of which have since been destroyed.
- John Weever, Antient Funeral Monuments. (1767) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
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Church records and religious houses:
- Regesta Pontificum Romanorum online (Klaus Herbers, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Database of papal documents before 1198, accompanying a series of printed volumes. The web pages are in German and free registration is required.
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Links:
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Seals:
- Duchy of Lancaster Seals (National Archives)
Over 3,000 digital images of seals attached to Duchy of Lancaster Deeds (DL 25 and DL 26) are freely available, The form in section 3 of this online guide allows the descriptions of the deeds in these two series to be searched.
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Modern armorials:
- Sir Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. (first published London, 1844; enlarged edn 1884) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
This is the standard armorial work. Its great advantage is its sheer volume; its main disadvantage is the lack of source references for most of the entries, which makes it difficult to verify the information or research it further.
For older additions, see: