Medieval English genealogy: What's new on this site: January-March 2017

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What's new on this site: January-March 2017

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28 March 2017:

New material

In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines have been added for:

Herefordshire (1272-1307) (264 fines)
Hertfordshire (1272-1307) (437 fines)

New photographs of feet of fines have been added on the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website, for:

Lincolnshire (1321-1326)

New links

A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Public records: Feet of fines:
  - Chris Phillips, A Short Introduction to Feet of Fines (this site)
    Slightly revised version of an article which originally appeared in Foundations, volume 4, pages 45-55 (2012), made available here by kind permission of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
Medieval source material on the Internet:
- History:
  - Wendy B. Stevenson, England and Normandy, 1204-1259 (1974) (University of Leeds)
    Ph. D. thesis examining Anglo-Norman relations between the loss of Normandy and the formal acknowledgment of French sovereignty.
- Peerages and other compilations:
  - Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage. Volume 1. Kings of Scotland - Balmerino (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage. Volume 2. Banff - Cranstoun (1905) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage. Volume 3. Crawford - Falkland (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage. Volume 4. Fife - Hyndford (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage. Volume 5. Innermeath - Mar (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage. Volume 6. Marchmont - Oxfuird (1909) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage. Volume 7. Panmure - Sinclair (1910) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage. Volume 8. Somerville - Winton (1911) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage. Volume 9. Index and corrections (1914) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Public records: Land taxes and feudal surveys:
  - [J. Caley and W. Illingworth, eds] Testa de Nevill sive Liber Feodorum in Curia Scaccarii. Temp. Hen. III. & Edw. I. (1807) (HathiTrust)
    Latin transcript, in record type. Superseded by the later two-part transcript.
- Public records: Taxation and other lists:
  - William Hudson, ed., The three earliest subsidies for the county of Sussex in the years 1296, 1327, 1332 (1910) (British History Online)
    Sussex Record Society, volume 10.
  - Julian Cornwall, ed., The lay subsidy rolls for the county of Sussex 1524-1525 (1956) (Sussex Record Society)
    Sussex Record Society, volume 56.
- Public records: Chancery and other equity suits:
  - List of Proceedings in the Court of Requests, preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 1. (originally published 1906; reprinted with amendments, 1963) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Lists and Indexes, number 21. Records in REQ 2, covering 1485-1558, with some Elizabethan proceedings. Because of its format, the default online version is not searchable, but the "full text" version is.
  - Percy D. Mundy, ed., Abstracts of Star Chamber proceedings relating to the county of Sussex. Henry VII to Philip and Mary (1913) (Sussex Record Society)
    Sussex Record Society, volume 16.
- Charters:
  - Models of Authority: Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government (University of Glasgow, King's College London and University of Cambridge)
    Project to study surviving Scottish charters from 1100-1250. Includes a searchable database of nearly 700 charters, some with full transcripts and translations, and some with images.
- Manorial records:
  - Marie Clough, ed., The Book of Bartholomew Bolney (1964) (Sussex Record Society)
    Sussex Record Society, volume 63. Translation of the fifteenth-century record of an estate at Bolney, Sussex, and elsewhere, including surveys and charters.
- Parish registers:
  - DustyDocs
    Listing of free British and Irish parish register transcripts online, arranged by county and place
Links:
- Links to some useful societies and journals:
  - Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society
    Includes a list of contents and a searchable index for Records of Buckinghamshire, with a number of articles available online.
  - Hertfordshire: St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society
    Includes online versions of the Society's Transactions (1883-1961) and other early publications.
  - Sussex Record Society Includes a list of publications, with online versions of some.
Victoria County History:
- Older County Histories:
  - [Joshua Polsue,] A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall. volume 1. (1867) (HathiTrust)
  - [Joshua Polsue,] A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall. volume 2. (1868) (HathiTrust)
  - [Joshua Polsue,] A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall. volume 3. (1870) (HathiTrust)

For older additions, see: