What's new on this site: April-June 2021
For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.
27 June 2021:
New material
I am very grateful to Stephen Swailes for making available further Northamptonshire material for the website:
- In the section on King's Bench Indictments, indexes for 1483-1508 and 1542-1546 (KB 9/364-449 and 551-568) have been added.
- An index to Northamptonshire wills and related documents up to 1600. These were mainly proved at Northampton or Peterborough, but a few wills of Northamptonshire residents proved outside the county are included. Most of the documents are held by the Northamptonshire Record Office. The original index was compiled from extensive research by Kay Collins and appears here with kind permission.
The following items have been added in the Corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage section:
New links
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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Public records: Common law records:
- Cheshire Plea Rolls 1259-1310 (David Bethell)
- Indexes of Northamptonshire King's Bench Indictments, 15th and 16th centuries (Stephen Swailes, this site)
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Charters:
- The Charters of William II and Henry I (Richard Sharpe, David X. Carpenter and others, University of Oxford)
Latin transcripts of writs and charters and English translations, together with introductory material, notes and discussion.
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Probate records:
- C. W. Foster, editor, Lincoln wills registered in the district probate registry at Lincoln. Volume 1. A.D. 1271 to A.D. 1526 (1914) (HathiTrust)
Lincoln Record Society, volume 5. English abstracts.
- Alfred Gibbons Early Lincoln wills: An abstract of all the wills and administrations recorded in the episcopal registers of the old diocese of Lincoln ... 1280-1547 (1888) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- C. W. Foster, editor, Calendars of Lincoln wills. Volume 1. 1320-1600 (1902; reprinted 1968) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
British Record Society, Index Library 28. Alphabetical index of testators, compiled from Lincoln episcopal registers, 1320-1547, miscellaneous documents in the registry, 1489-1588, and wills proved in the consistory and other courts of Lincoln, 1506-1600.
- C. W. Foster, editor, Lincoln wills registered in the district probate registry at Lincoln. Volume 2. A.D. 1505 to A.D. 1530 (1918) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Lincoln Record Society, volume 10. English abstracts.
- C. W. Foster, editor, Lincoln wills registered in the district probate registry at Lincoln. Volume 3. A.D. 1530 to A.D. 1532 (1930) (HathiTrust)
Lincoln Record Society, volume 24. English abstracts.
- C. W. Foster, editor, Calendars of administrations in the consistory court of Lincoln, A.D. 1540-1659 (1921) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Lincoln Record Society, volume 16/British Record Society, Index Library 52. Alphabetical index of those for whom administrations were granted by theconsistory court, the court of the bishop's commissary within the archdeaconry of Lincoln, and the court of the archdeacon of Lincoln within his archdeaconry.
- C. W. Foster, editor, Calendars of Lincoln wills. Volume 2. Consistory court wills, 1601-1652 (1910; reprinted 1968) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
British Record Society, Index Library 41. Alphabetical index of testators.
- Joseph Jackson Howard, editor, Some unindexed Wills at Lincoln (found in the Bishop's Registry) (1890) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, second series, volume 3, pp. 59-60 (1890). List arranged alphabetically by testator. Nearly all from 1638-1640, but some from outside this period, including a number from the second half of the 16th century.
- Rev. A. R. Maddison, Lincolnshire Wills. First Series A.D. 1500-1600 (1888) (Google Books)
English abstracts of selected wills.
- Rev. A. R. Maddison, Lincolnshire Wills. Second Series A.D. 1600-1617 (1888) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
English abstracts of selected wills.
- Index to Northamptonshire wills and related documents up to 1600 (Kay Collins/Stephen Swailes, this site)
For older additions, see: