What's new on this site: October-December 2022
For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.
15 December 2022:
New material
I am very grateful to Stephen Swailes for making available a long and detailed account of The lost churches of Northamptonshire, which he describes as follows:
This document contain brief information on 47 lost churches, often referred to as destroyed churches, that once stood in medieval Northamptonshire. Information on lost churches is dispersed across a range of sources and it is hoped that by bringing it together a useful purpose is served. Further information on some of the churches listed and on the development of the Church in the county can be found by following up the sources in the bibliography, many of which are online.
I am also grateful to Stephen Swailes for further abstracts of Northamptonshire King's Bench Indictments, covering 1413-1422 (KB 9/204/3-9/217) and
1422-1459, 1470 (KB 9/218-293).
Many thanks also to Dave King for providing a list of Elizabethan muster certificates from the period 1558-1580,
with links to images of the original documents on the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website (as part of Helen Good's Elizabethan State Papers Project).
New links
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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County and local history:
- The lost churches of Northamptonshire (Stephen Swailes, this site)
This document contain brief information on 47 lost churches, often referred to as destroyed churches, that once stood in medieval Northamptonshire. Information on lost churches is dispersed across a range of sources and it is hoped that by bringing it together a useful purpose is served. Further information on some of the churches listed and on the development of the Church in the county can be found by following up the sources in the bibliography, many of which are online.
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Peerages and other compilations:
- Vicary Gibbs, editor, The Complete Peerage, volume 1. Ab-Adam to Basing (1910) (FamilySearch)
- Vicary Gibbs, editor, The Complete Peerage, volume 2. Bass to Canning (1912) (FamilySearch)
- Vicary Gibbs, editor, with the assistance of H. Arthur Doubleday, The Complete Peerage, volume 3. Canonteign to Cutts (1913) (FamilySearch)
- Vicary Gibbs, editor, with the assistance of H. Arthur Doubleday, The Complete Peerage, volume 4. Dacre to Dysart (1916) (FamilySearch)
- Vicary Gibbs and H. A. Doubleday, editors, The Complete Peerage, volume 5. Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat (1926) (FamilySearch)
- H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard De Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage, volume 6. Gordon to Hurstpierpoint (1926) (FamilySearch)
- H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard De Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage, volume 7. Husee to Lincolnshire (1929) (FamilySearch)
- H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard De Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage, volume 8. Lindley to Moate (1932) (FamilySearch)
- H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard De Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage, volume 9. Moels to Nuneham (1936) (FamilySearch)
- H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White and Lord Howard De Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage, volume 10. Oakham to Richmond (1945) (FamilySearch)
- Geoffrey H. White, editor, The Complete Peerage, volume 11. Rickerton to Sisonby (1949) (FamilySearch)
- Geoffrey H. White, editor, The Complete Peerage, volume 12, part 1. Skelmersdale to Towton (1953) (FamilySearch)
- Geoffrey H. White, editor, with the assistance of R. S. Lea, The Complete Peerage, volume 12, part 2. Tracton to Zouche (1959) (FamilySearch)
- H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard De Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage, volume 13. Peers Created 1901 to 1938 (1940) (FamilySearch)
- Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage, volume 14. Addenda and Corrigenda (1998) (FamilySearch)
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Public records: Inquisitions post mortem:
- [R. J. Harper, J. Caley and W. Minchin, editors] Ducatus Lancastriæ, Part 1. Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem [Edward I - Charles I] (1823) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
List of inquisitions in National Archives DL 7, with brief details of property (in Latin). There are indexes of place-names and personal names, starting at page 309. This information is not included in the National Archives online catalogue.
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Public records: Chancery and other equity suits:
- [R. J. Harper, J. Caley and W. Minchin, editors] Ducatus Lancastriæ, Part 2. A Calendar to the Pleadings [Henry VII - Philip and Mary] (1823) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
List (starting at page 111) of pleadings relating to suits in the Court of Duchy Chamber, apparently from National Archives DL 1, giving names of parties and places and brief details of the dispute. There are indexes of place-names and personal names, starting at page 343. This information is not included in the National Archives online catalogue.
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Victoria County History:
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Older County Histories:
- James Raine, The history and antiquities of north Durham (1852) (FamilySearch)
Accessible to users logged into FamilySearch (free registration required), starting at image 239. Part of the index is missing.
For older additions, see: