Medieval English genealogy: What's new on this site: July-September 2018

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What's new on this site: July-September 2018

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30 August 2018:

New material

In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines have been added for Lincolnshire (1305-1307) (121 fines), Northamptonshire (1272-1307) (526 fines), Nottinghamshire (1272-1307) (277 fines) and Oxfordshire (1272-1307) (328 fines).

The following items have been added in the Corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage section:

Audley (of Stratton Audley), volume 1, pages 347 and 348, and associated corrections for Audley or Aldithley, volume 1, page 346, Gloucester, volume 5, page 715, Greystoke, volume 6, page 190, Mortimer or Mortemer of Wigmore, volume 9, page 283 and Neville (of Raby), volume 9, pages 500, 501.
Lilford, volume 7, pages 657 and 658.
Mortimer or Mortemer of Wigmore, volume 9, page 268, pages 269, 270 and page 272 (three items).

I am grateful to Jim Poynor for letting me know about a collection of ten medieval charters from the 14th and 15th centuries relating to Buckinghamshire, Sussex and Oxfordshire, which was sold by Sotheby's of London in 2017. Jim kindly provided me with photographs of two of the charters, and Sotheby's gave permission for their photographs of the others to be reproduced. The photographs, together with abstracts of the documents, can be seen here. Jim also kindly provided photographs of a charter of Sir Thomas de Hoo and Isabel, his wife, dated 1372, held by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, which can be seen with an abstract here.

I am also very grateful to Jonathan Kirton for giving permission for two very detailed accounts of his research into the Kirketon/Kirton family to be made available on this site:

A reconstruction of the probable descent from Sir Conan de Kirketon, Knight.
A very detailed account (343 pages) of the descent of the Kirketon / Kirton / Kearton family, originating at Kirton-in-Holland, Lincolnshire, between the 12th and 19th centuries, with copious extracts from records and heraldic illustrations.
New Conclusions and Source Records for the Studies of the Kirketon ... etc. name, especially in Grinton Parish, in Swaledale and throughout Richmondshire ..., between 1250 and 1800.
An account of the author's branch of the family, giving more detail for the period between the 16th and 19th centuries, mainly in Yorkshire.

New links

A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Public records: Miscellaneous:
  - Thomas Madox, The History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England. Volume 1. (1769) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Thomas Madox, The History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England. Volume 2. (1769) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Medieval source material on the Internet:
- County and local history:
  - White Kennett, Parochial antiquities attempted in the history of Ambrosden, Burcester [Bicester], and other adjacent parts in the counties of Oxford and Bucks. Volume 1. (1818) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - White Kennett, Parochial antiquities attempted in the history of Ambrosden, Burcester [Bicester], and other adjacent parts in the counties of Oxford and Bucks. Volume 2. (1818) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Modern biography and prosopography:
  - Judges: Edward Foss, Biographia Juridica: A biographical dictionary of the judges of England from the Conquest to the present time 1066-1870 (1870) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Public records: Inquisitions post mortem:
  - Edward Alexander Fry, ed., Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Gloucestershire returned into the court of Chancery during the Plantagenet period. Part 5. 30 Edward I to 32 Edward III. 1302-1358. (1910) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    British Record Society, volume 40.
  - Ethel Stokes, abstracter, Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Gloucestershire returned into the court of Chancery during the Plantagenet period. Part 6. 33 Edward III to 14 Henry IV. 1359-1413 (1914) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Index Library number, number 47.
- Public records: Pipe rolls:
  - Judith A. Green, editor and translator, The great roll of the pipe for ... Michaelmas 1130 (Pipe Roll 1). (2012) (Harvard Law School)
    Pipe Roll Society, volume 95. Parallel Latin text and English translation. There are also images of the original document.
- Public records: Common law records:
  - Index of Placita de Banco ... A.D. 1327-1328 ... Part I. Bedford to Norfolk. (Kraus reprint, 1963) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Public Record Office Lists and Indexes, number 32. Gives names of parties and places. Arranged by county, and within each county alphabetically by plaintiff's surname. Note that the format with page images is not searchable, but the text version is.
  - Index of Placita de Banco ... A.D. 1327-1328 ... Part II. Northampton to York, Divers Counties and Miscellaneous. (Kraus reprint, 1963) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Public Record Office Lists and Indexes, number 32. Gives names of parties and places. Arranged by county, and within each county alphabetically by plaintiff's surname. Note that the format with page images is not searchable, but the text version is.
  - Curia regis rolls of the reigns of Richard I. and John (1922) (HathiTrust)
    Latin transcripts.
  - Dr Chris Monk translations and commentaries [from the Textus Roffensis] (Rochester Cathedral Research Guild)
    English translations of selected Old English and Latin texts.
- Public records: Feet of fines:
  - Joseph Hambley Rowe, ed. Cornwall Feet of Fines. Volume I. Richard I-Edward III. 1195-1377. (1914) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Devon and Cornwall Record Society.
  - Edw. Alex. Fry and George S. Fry, eds, Full abstracts of the Feet of Fines relating to the County of Dorset, remaining in the Public Record Office, London, from the commencement of the reign of Edward III to the end of the reign of Richard (1910) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Dorset Records 10; covers 1327-1485.
  - W. Boyd, translator (with a preface and index by W. O. Massingberd), Abstracts of Final Concords temp. Richard I, John, and Henry III. (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Lincolnshire Records, volume 1.
- Public records: Chancery and other equity suits:
  - WARD 2: Court of Wards and Liveries: Deeds and Evidences (National Archives)
    Catalogue details of supporting documents in cases heard before the Court of Wards and Liveries, c. 1200 - Charles I. Around 2000 of the 9000 documents are medieval.
- Public records: Chancery rolls:
  - Calendar of the fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 20. 1461-1471. (1949) (HathiTrust)
  - Calendar of the fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 21. 1471-1485. (1961) (HathiTrust)
  - Calendar of the fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 22. 1485-1509. (1962) (HathiTrust)
  - Calendar of Patent Rolls. 3 Edward I. [1274-1275] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    List of entries omitted from main series of calendars (44th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix, p. 1; 1883).
  - Calendar of Patent Rolls. 4 Edward I. [1275-1276] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    List of entries omitted from main series of calendars (45th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix II, p. 69; 1885).
  - Calendar of Patent Rolls. 5 Edward I. [1276-1277] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    List of entries omitted from main series of calendars (46th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix II, p. 77; 1886).
  - Calendar of Patent Rolls. 6 Edward I. [1277-1278] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    List of entries omitted from main series of calendars (47th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix, p. 139; 1886).
  - Calendar of Patent Rolls. 7 Edward I. [1278-1279] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    List of entries omitted from main series of calendars (48th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix, p. 1; 1887).
  - Calendar of Patent Rolls. 8 Edward I. [1279-1280] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    List of entries omitted from main series of calendars (49th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix, p. 1; 1888).
  - Calendar of Patent Rolls. 9 Edward I. [1280-1281] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    List of entries omitted from main series of calendars (50th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix, p. 1; 1889).
- Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
  - George Wrottesley, Crecy and Calais, from the original records in the Public Record Office. (1898) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Reprinted from the Proceedings of the William Salt Archaeological Society. Includes extracts from French Rolls 19-21 Edward III, Queen's Remembrancer's Memoranda Rolls 21-35 Edward III, Wetewang's Accounts, Norman Roll 20 Edward III, Calais Roll (Patent Roll 21 Edward III, Part 4).
  - Sir Francis Palgrave, ed., The Antient Kalendars and Inventories of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer. Volume 3. (1836) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transcripts of original documents, mainly Latin in record type.
  - Sir Francis Palgrave, ed., The Antient Kalendars and Inventories of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer. Volume 1. (1836) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transcripts of original documents, mainly Latin in record type.
  - Sir Francis Palgrave, ed., The Antient Kalendars and Inventories of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer. Volume 2. (1836) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transcripts of original documents, mainly Latin in record type.
- Charters:
  - Some medieval charters relating to Buckinghamshire, Sussex and Oxfordshire (this site)
    Photographs and abstracts of a collection of ten medieval charters from the 14th and 15th centuries sold by Sotheby's of London in 2017.
  - Durham Priory Library Recreated (Durham Cathedral Library/Durham University Library)
    Project to digitise manuscripts and early printed books. The material already available online includes - from Durham Cathedral Archive - Cartularium Vetus, Cartularies 1-4, Registers 1-5, Registra Parva 2-4, Repertorium Magnum and Repertorium Parvum - and medieval historical works from Durham University Library Cosin MSS.
  - Cartulary of Eynsham Abbey (Digital Bodleian, Oxford University)
    Images of original Latin document, Christ Church MS 341. 1196-1197, with 13th- to 15th-century additions.
  - Rev. H. E. Salter, ed., Eynsham Cartulary. Volume 1. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Oxford Historical Society, volume 49. Transcripts, mainly Latin.
  - Rev. H. E. Salter, ed., Eynsham Cartulary. Volume 2. (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Oxford Historical Society, volume 51. Transcripts, mainly Latin.
  - Grant by Sir Thomas de Hoo and Isabel, his wife, to William Notte of Herstmonceux, of a messuage and land in Hoo, 1372 (this site)
    Photograph and abstract of a charter held by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
  - DL 25-27: Duchy of Lancaster deeds, series L, LL and LS (National Archives)
    Catalogue summaries of deeds, with free downloadable images of seals. To restrict a catalogue search to these series, specify DL 25, DL 26 and DL 27 in "Search for or within references".
  - Dr Chris Monk translations and commentaries [from the Textus Roffensis] (Rochester Cathedral Research Guild)
    English translations of selected Old English and Latin texts.
- Funeral monuments:
  - Thomas Dingley (with and introduction and descriptive table of contents by John Gough Nichols), History from Marble. Volume 1. (1867) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Camden Society, number 94. Facsimile of 17th-century notes on funeral monuments in many churches and chapels.
  - Thomas Dingley (with and introduction and descriptive table of contents by John Gough Nichols), History from Marble. Volume 2. (1867) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Camden Society, number 97. Facsimile of 17th-century notes on funeral monuments in many churches and chapels.
- Church records and religious houses:
  - Roger Dodsworth and William Dugdale, Monastici Anglicani. [Volume 2 and Appendix.] (1661) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Roger Dodsworth and William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. [Volume 1.] (1682) (Google Books)
    Second edition of the first volume.
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. (1718) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Abridged version in English.
  - John Stevens, The History of the Antient Abbeys [etc] ... being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 1. (1722) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
  - John Stevens, The History of the Antient Abbeys [etc] ... being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 2. (1722) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 1. (1817) (Monastic Matrix)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 2. (1819) (Monastic Matrix)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 3. (1821) (Monastic Matrix)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 4. (1823) (Monastic Matrix)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 5. (1825) (Monastic Matrix)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 6, part 1. (1830) (Monastic Matrix)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 6, part 2. (1830) (Monastic Matrix)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 6, part 3. (1830) (Monastic Matrix)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 2. (1846) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 3. (1846) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 4. (1846) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. A new edition by John Caley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Volume 5. (1849) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
- Urban and guild records:
  - Privately-Owned English Urban Manuscripts, 1300-1476 (Urban Manuscript Project) (Claire Jones [University of York]/Archaeology Data Service)
    Database with full descriptions of more than 300 manuscripts either produced or owned in late-medieval urban England.
Medieval English families on the Internet:
- K:
  - A reconstruction of the probable descent from Sir Conan de Kirketon, Knight (Jonathan Grenville Kirton, this site)
    A very detailed account (343 pages) of the descent of the Kirketon / Kirton / Kearton family, originating at Kirton-in-Holland, Lincolnshire, between the 12th and 19th centuries, with copious extracts from records and heraldic illustrations.
  - New Conclusions and Source Records for the Studies of the Kirketon ... etc. name, especially in Grinton Parish, in Swaledale and throughout Richmondshire ..., between 1250 and 1800 (Jonathan Grenville Kirton, this site)
    An account of the author's branch of the family, giving more detail for the period between the 16th and 19th centuries, mainly in Yorkshire.
Links:
- Online library catalogues:
  - Digital Scriptorium
    Online union catalogue of medieval and early-modern manuscripts covering the holdings of a consortium of institutions in the USA, with sample images of the documents.
- Non-English:
  - Medieval Memoria Online (MeMO)
    Database with details of records and objects associated with the commemoration of the dead until 1580 in the area now within the Netherlands.
- Heraldry:
  - Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A complete guide to heraldry (1909) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Seals:
  - Digitised Seals Register (QFA 1) (National Archives)
    Downloadable images, each showing a sequence of index cards describing seals held by the National Archives and elsewhere. To identify images for individuals, perform a search using the keyword "Personal". The relevant categories are "Personal Armorial", "Personal Non-Armorial" and "Personal Equestrian" (perhaps also subdivided for "Men" and "Women"), mostly divided into alphabetical sections. There are also other categories such as "Royal", "Ecclesiastical", "Monastic" and "Official and Corporate".
- Links to some useful societies and journals:
  - Ranulf Higden Society
    Society providing encouragement and support for those transcribing and translating medieval Latin documents associated with Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire.
Victoria County History:
- Older County Histories:
  - Robert Thoroton, The antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677) (Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership)

For older additions, see: