What's new on this site: July-September 2021
For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.
25 September 2021:
New material
Many thanks to Jim Poynor for kindly providing photographs of an Agreement between John [Droxford], bishop of Bath and Wells, and Ralph Hereward of Cheddar, 1318, to which I've added a translation of the text.
In Stephen Swailes's section of Northamptonshire records, an index of King's Bench Indictments, 1509-1511 has been added, and the abstracts of Coroners' Inquests from JUST 2/106 have been updated. A new Introduction for the Coroners' Inquests has also been added.
I am also most grateful to Stephen Swailes for contributing a list of Sanctuary Seekers in Northamptonshire, 1394-1557, incorporating information from various sources.
New links
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A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
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Published works, bibliographies and indexes:
- Charles Bridger, An Index to Printed Pedigrees, contained in County and Local Histories, the Heralds' Visitations, and in the more important Genealogical Collections. (1867) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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County and local history:
- Norfolk: Samuel Woodward (revised by W. C. Ewing), The Norfolk Topographer's Manual (1842) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
A catalogue of materials relating to the history of Norfolk, including books, pictures, manuscripts and deeds.
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Public records: Land taxes and feudal surveys:
- Liber feodorum. The book of fees commonly called Testa de Nevill, ... Index (1931) (HathiTrust Digital Library)
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Public records: Taxation and other lists:
- The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Bradford Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 1, pages 129-200 (1889).
- The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Munslow Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 4, pages 287-338 (1892).
- The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Purslow Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 5, pages 343-362 (1893).
- The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Chirbury Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 8, pages 44-60 (1896).
- The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Ford Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 10, pages 113-144 (1898).
- The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Condover Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 11, pages 347-390 (1899).
- The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Pimhill Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 3rd series, volume 5, pages 55-80 (1905).
- The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Brimstree Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 3rd series, volume 5, pages 237-252 (1905).
- The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Stottesdon Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 3rd series, volume 6, pages 123-154 (1906).
- The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Overs Hundred, Shrewsbury and Liberties, and Bridgnorth and Liberties. With an index of places for the whole series. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 3rd series, volume 7, pages 351-378 (1907).
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Charters:
- Agreement between John [Droxford], bishop of Bath and Wells, and Ralph Hereward of Cheddar, 1318 (this site)
Photographs and abstract.
- Judith Anne Frost, An Edition of the Nostell Priory Cartulary, volume 1 and volume 2 (2005) (Ph.D. thesis, University of York)
Volume 2 contains Latin text with English abstracts and notes, from British Library, Cotton Vespasian E XIX, together with associated documents. Volume 1 contains introductory and background material.
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Probate records:
- A. W. Hughes Clarke, editor, Kentish Wills. Genealogical extracts from sixteenth-century wills in the consistory court at Canterbury. (1929) (FamilySearch)
Reprinted from Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. With an index of names.
- London Commissary Court, will extracts of the registered copy wills ... 1374-1521 (FamilySearch)
Abstracts of wills with an index of names at the beginning, including those for whom relationships are stated and apparently some others. In the index, "Film #" and "Page" correspond to "Library call number" and "[Will] Number" in the abstracts. The year is also given in both the index and the abstracts. The abstracts are arranged in order of library call number and will number.
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Church records and religious houses:
- Sanctuary seekers in Northamptonshire 1394-1557 (Stephen Swailes, this site)
Cases taken from Dr Shannon McSheffrey's website Sanctuary Seekers in England, 1394-1557, with additional information added from original sources where possible.
- Shannon McSheffrey, Sanctuary Seekers in England, 1394-1557
Accounts of around 400 selected sanctuary seekers, from research for the author's book, Seeking Sanctuary: Crime, Mercy, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550 (Oxford University Press, 2017). There is also a spreadsheet of more than 1800 cases.
- James Raine, editor, Sanctuarium Dunelmense et Sanctuariam Beverlacense. (1837) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Surtees Society, volume 5. Latin transcripts of 15th- and 16th-century sanctuary records.
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Links:
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Maps:
- Survey of English Place-Names (Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham)
Searchable and browsable database of English place-names and their historically documented forms, based on the work of the English Place-Name Society.
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Modern ordinaries:
- Joan Corder, A Dictionary of Suffolk Arms (1965) (Suffolk Records Society)
Suffolk Records Society, volume 7. An ordinary of arms compiled from various sources.
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Links to some useful societies and journals:
- British Association for Local History
Includes downloadable versions of the Association's publications, The Local Historian (and its predecessor The Amateur Historian) and Local History News.
- Suffolk Records Society
Includes lists of publications, some of which are freely available for download. For some other publications digital indexes are available.
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Victoria County History:
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Older County Histories:
- G. A. Carthew, The Hundred of Launditch and Deanery of Brisley, in the County of Norfolk. Evidences and Topographical Notes. [Parts 1-3] (1877-1879) (HathiTrust)
Indexed.
For older additions, see: