What's new on this site: October-December 2015
For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.
11 December 2015:
New material
In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of 1224 fines have been added, for:
- Hertfordshire (1319-1327) (122 fines)
- Leicestershire (1307-1327) (263 fines)
- Lincolnshire (1307-1327) (839 fines)
Links to images of nearly all the original feet of fines in CP 25/1 for the period 1195-1509 have now been added to the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website. (The county of Huntingdonshire has yet to be covered, and there are some gaps for seven other counties.)
New links
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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Some internet libraries:
- Bavarian State Library, Munich
Collection of more than a million digitised volumes.
- HathiTrust Digital Library
Digital repository maintained by an international consortium of research libraries, currently containing nearly 14 million volumes from various sources including Google, Microsoft and the Internet Archive.
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County and local history:
- John Watson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, in Yorkshire. (1775) (Bavarian State Library)
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Public records: Land taxes and feudal surveys:
- [W. Illingworth, ed.] Rotuli Hundredorum Temp. Hen. III. & Edw. I. in Turr' Lond' et in Curia Receptae Scaccarij Westm. Asservati. Volume 2. (1818) (Bavarian State Library)
Latin transcripts in record type. Northamptonshire-Worcestershire, with Hampshire and additions for other counties.
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Public records: Inquisitions post mortem:
- Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 10. Edward III. [1352-1361] (1921) (British History Online)
- Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 13. Edward III. [1370-1373] (1954) (British History Online)
Includes additions to volumes 1-6, 8 and 11-13.
- Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 14. Edward III. [1374-1377] (1952) (British History Online)
- Kate Parkin, ed., Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem And other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 22. 1 to 5 Henry VI (1422-1427). (2003) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
- Brief abstracts of inquisitions post mortem, Henry VIII-Charles I [1509-c. 1640] (Internet Archive, Text Archive)
From The Genealogist, new series, volumes 9-35.
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Public records: Chancery rolls:
- Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry IV. A.D. 1402-1405. (1929) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
Indexed in separate volume (see below).
- Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry IV. Index volume. A.D. 1399-1413. (1938) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
- Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry V. A.D. 1413-1419. (1929) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
Indexed in following volume.
- ◦Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Henry VI. A.D. 1454-1461. (1947) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) ... volume 1. [Henry III and Edward I] (1916) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) ... volume 3. [22-51 Edward III] (1937) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) ... volume 4. 1377-1388. (1957) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) ... volume 5. 1387-1393. (1962) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) ... volume 6. 1392-1399. (1963) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) ... volume 7. 1399-1422. (1968) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
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Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
- Agincourt: Sir Harris Nicolas, History of the Battle of Agincourt, and of the expedition of Henry the Fifth into France, in 1415; to which is added, The Roll of the Men at Arms in the English Army. (3rd edition, 1833) (Internet Archive, Text Archive)
- The Magna Carta Project (British Library and others)
Includes a transcription and translation of the charter, a catalogue of copies and photographs, transcriptions and abstracts of other charters of King John.
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Charters:
- Nicholas Vincent, Norman charters from English sources: antiquaries, archives and the rediscovery of the Anglo-Norman past. (2013) (Pipe Roll Society)
Pipe Roll Society new series, volume 59. An edition of mostly 12th- and 13th-century Norman and Anglo-Norman charters from Canterbury Cathedral and other sourves, with a detailed introductory survey.
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Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
- W. Bruce Bannerman, ed., The Visitations of Kent, Taken in the Years 1530-1 ... And 1574 [A-H]. Part 1. (1923) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
Harleian Society Publications, volume 74.
- W. Bruce Bannerman, ed., The Visitations of Kent, Taken in the Years 1574 [I-W] And 1592. Part 2. (1924) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
Harleian Society Publications, volume 75.
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Urban and guild records:
- Livery Company Membership Guide (Guildhall Library)
Introduction and listings of membership records for individual companies.
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Medieval English families on the Internet:
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A:
- Kenneth Gordon Ayling, The Ayling Story (1983) (Phil Ayling)
The history of a Sussex family, 15th century and later, with some speculation about the origin of the name, which should be treated with caution. There is a commentary by Chris Ayling with further detailed information here.
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W:
- Wingfield of Wingfield and Letheringham (Letheringham Lodge)
Detailed narrative pedigree of the Wingfield family of Suffolk, 13th to 16th centuries.
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Links:
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Maps:
- Bing Maps
Includes Ordnance Survey maps as well as road maps and satellite, aerial and street-level photographs.
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Miscellaneous:
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources (Sara L. Uckelman, Durham University)
Dictionary of given names recorded in European between 500 and 1600. In progress, currently containing more than 1000 names, with citations to sources.
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Grants of arms:
- Arthur J. Jewers, Grants and Certificates of Arms. (Internet Archive, Text Archive)
From The Genealogist, new series, volumes 13-29.
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Victoria County History:
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British History Online:
- Gloucestershire, volume 7 (1981) (British History Online)
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Older County Histories:
- John Duncumb, Collections towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford. Volume 2, part 1. (1812) (Bavarian State Library)
- James Wright, The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland. (1684) (Bavarian State Library)
For older additions, see: