What's new on this site: October-December 2016
For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.
30 December 2016:
New material
In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines have been added for:
- Berkshire (1272-1307) (269 fines)
- Hampshire (1272-1307) (299 fines)
- Oxfordshire (1319-1326) (118 fines)
- Shropshire (1307-1327) (209 fines)
- Westmorland (1307-1327) (46 fines)
- Worcestershire (1307-1327) (184 fines)
- Divers, unknown and various counties (1307-1327) (301 fines)
I'm also very grateful to Mrs Katharine Hanna for a further instalment of abstracts of early Hampshire feet of fines -
CP 25/1/203/8,
CP 25/1/204/9,
CP 25/1/204/10 and
CP 25/1/204/11.
These amount to 358 fines in total, covering the period 1246-1272. This means Hampshire is now the first county for which the abstracts on this site include all the previously unpublished fines in the county series up to 1509.
New photographs of feet of fines have been added on the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website, for:
- Norfolk (1327-1485)
- Somerset (1431-1509)
- Staffordshire (1399-1509)
- Suffolk (1339-1485)
- Surrey (1368-1509)
- Sussex (1377-1509)
New links
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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Modern biography and prosopography:
- Robert A. Wood, Life and Death: A Study of the Wills and Testaments of Men and Women in London and Bury St. Edmunds in the late Fourteenth and early Fifteenth Centuries (2012) (Royal Holloway, University of London)
University of London Ph.D. thesis. A comparative study, drawing on national and local administrative and legal records, as well as wills and testaments.
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Public records: Inquisitions post mortem:
- J. W. Willis Bund, ed., The inquisitiones post mortem for the county of Worcester. Part 1. 1242-1300. (1894) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Worcestershire Historical Society. English translations, including names of jurors and detailed descriptions of property.
- J. W. Willis Bund, ed., The inquisitiones post mortem for the county of Worcester. Part 2. 1300-1326. (1909) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Worcestershire Historical Society. English translations, including names of jurors and detailed descriptions of property.
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Public records: Pipe rolls:
- Joseph Hunter, ed., Magnum rotulum scaccarii, vel magnum rotulum pipae [1130] (1833) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
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Public records: Chancery rolls:
- Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Elizabeth. Volume 1. 1558-1560. (1939) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Elizabeth. Volume 2. 1560-1563. (1948) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Elizabeth I. Volume 3. 1563-1566. (1960) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Elizabeth I. Volume 4. 1566-1569. (1964) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office ... Elizabeth I. Volume 5. 1569-1572. (1966) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
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Charters:
- [Thomas Hearne, ed.] Hemingi Chartularii Ecclesiae Wigorniensis. Volume 2. ([1723]) (Google Books)
Latin and Anglo-Saxon text of Hemming's Worcester cartulary.
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Medieval English families on the Internet:
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R:
- Rochford of Fenne and Stoke Rochford (Nick Nettleton)
Online version of a two-volume work on the Lincolnshire family, 12th century and later.
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Links:
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Links to some useful societies and journals:
- Essex Society for Archaeology and History (University of Essex)
The page on the Society's publications has links to information on its blog, including lists of contents and links to copies available online.
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Victoria County History:
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Older County Histories:
- John Amphlett, ed., A survey of Worcestershire by Thomas Habington, volume 2. (1899) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
For older additions, see: