What's new on this site: October-December 2021
For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.
28 December 2021:
New material
I am very grateful to Stephen Swailes for making available further Northamptonshire material for the website:
- In the section on Gaol Delivery, indexes for 1412-1421 (JUST 3/52/14-21) and 1411-1423 (JUST 3/195) have been added.
- In the section on King's Bench Indictments, indexes for 1461-1483 (KB 9/295-363) have been added.
Many thanks to Jim Poynor for kindly providing photographs of three more medieval and early modern documents, which are made available here with translations:
New links
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A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
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Public records: Pipe rolls:
- Richard Cassidy, The Rolls Behind the Rolls: The English Pipe Rolls and Their Preliminary Documents (Academia)
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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County and local history:
- Redbourn [Hertfordshire] (Adrian Finch - Genealogy)
Notes on the medieval history of Redbourn, with extracts from a selection of records.
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Public records: Common law records:
- St Ives [Huntingdonshire] Assizes 1294 (David Bethell, English Ancestry)
English translation, from National Archives JUST 1/1300.
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Public records: Feet of fines:
- David Bethell, Bedfordshire Pedes Finium, 1461-1485 (English Ancestry)
Brief English abstracts of feet of fines.
- David Bethell, Berkshire Pedes Finium, 1499-1509 (English Ancestry)
Brief English abstracts of feet of fines.
- David Bethell, Cambridgeshire Pedes Finium, 1461-1485 (English Ancestry)
Brief English abstracts of feet of fines.
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Charters:
- Kenneth H. Rogers, editor, Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Record Spociety)
Wiltshire Record Society, volume 34 (1979). English abstracts.
- Lease by Richard Morten to Thomas Cam of land in Eckington, 1552 (Jim Poynor, this site)
Photographs and translation.
- Grant of William Bluet, lord of Lackham, late 13th century (Jim Poynor, this site)
Photographs of document and seal and translation.
- Appointment of attorneys by Richard Birches of Solihull, 1419 (Jim Poynor, this site)
Photographs of document and seal and translation.
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Probate records:
- Index of wills, administrations, and probate acts, in the York registry, A. D. 1666-1672. And also of the wills, etc. in certain peculiars. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, volume 60 (1920). In addition to the Exchequer and Prerogative Courts for 1666-1672, the index covers Aldborough Manor Court (1610-1700) and the Peculiars of the Provost of the Collegiate Church of St John of Beverley (1539-1552), the Archbishop in Hexham and Hexhamshire (1593-1602), the Dean and Chapter (1336-1343 and 1352-1429) and St Leonard's Hospital, York (1410-1533).
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Church records and religious houses:
- Medieval Ordinations (David Bethell)
Transcripts of ordination lists for the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, 1300-1532, with indexes of personal and place-names.
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Medieval English families on the Internet:
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C:
- Cressy (Adrian Finch - Genealogy)
Outline of the Cressy family of Harpenden, Hertfordshire, from the 14th to the 16th century. There is also a page discussing the ancestry of Anne, the wife of Matthew Cressy, who was the daughter of Thomas Vernon and granddaughter of John Fortescue.
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F:
- Finch of Redbourn (Adrian Finch - Genealogy)
Outline of the Finch family of Redbourn, Hertforshire, from the 13th century onwards. With a discussion of early Finches in England.
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Links:
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Maps:
- Nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey Maps (British History Online)
Maps of Britain at a scale of 1:10,560 (Ordnance Survey Epoch 1), from the period 1843-1893. (These maps were previously available at https://www.old-maps.co.uk/, but have been withdrawn, apparently because the website wasn't making enough money.)
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Links to some useful societies and journals:
- Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fourth series, volume 3. (1908) (Internet Archive - text Archive)
- Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fourth series, volume 4. (1912) (Internet Archive - text Archive)
- Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fourth series, volume 5. (1914) (Internet Archive - text Archive)
- Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fifth series, volume 1. (1916) (Internet Archive - text Archive)
- Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fifth series, volume 2. (1916-1917) (Internet Archive - text Archive)
- Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fifth series, volume 3. (1918-1919) (Internet Archive - text Archive)
- Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fifth series, volume 4. (1920-1922) (Internet Archive - text Archive)
- Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fifth series, volume 5. (1923-1925) (Internet Archive - text Archive)
- Wiltshire Record Society
Includes many volumes of the Society's publications, and also of its newsletter, The Recorder.
For older additions, see: