What's new on this site: October-December 2023
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13 December 2023:
New material
The following item has been added in the Corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage section:
I am very grateful to Stephen Swailes for contributing transcripts of further Northamptonshire Tax Assessments:
Introductions to the Tudor lay subsidies, the Free and voluntary contribution (1546) and the Relief of sheep and cloth (1549) have also been added.
All Stephen's transcripts of Northamptonshire Tax Assessments (from 1301 and the 16th century) can be searched here. So far more than 22,000 names have been extracted in total.
New links
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A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
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Published works, bibliographies and indexes:
- Online Medieval Sources Bibliography (Fordham Center for Medieval Studies)
Annotated bibliography of published medieval source material.
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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Medieval and early modern texts: by author, A-G:
- James Gairdner, editor, Historia Regis Henrici Septimi, a Bernardo Andrea Tholosate conscripta; necnon alia quædam ad eundem regem spectantia (1858) (HathiTrust)
Rolls Series number 10. Latin transcripts of texts by Bernard André and other texts in French and English, with English translations of the French texts.
- Dana F. Sutton, editor, Bernard André, De Vita atque Gestis Henrici Septimi Historia
Latin text and English translation of a chronicle of the reign of Henry VII, with an introduction.
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Medieval and early modern texts: by author, O-Z:
- Sir Henry Ellis, editor, Polydore Vergil's English History, from an early translation ... Volume 1. ... the period prior to the Norman Conquest (1846) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Camden Society, Old Series, volume 36. From an English translation of the reign of Henry VIII.
- Sir Henry Ellis, editor, Three books of Polydore Vergil's English History, comprising the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III. From an early translation, ... (1844) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Camden Society, Old Series, volume 29. From an English translation of the reign of Henry VIII.
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Modern biography and prosopography:
- Leicestershire: George F. Farnham, compiler, Leicestershire Medieval Pedigrees (1925) (FamilySearch)
Pedigrees with summaries of supporting documentary evidence.
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Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
- James Gairdner, editor, Henry VII: Letters and papers illustrative of the reigns of Richard III and Henry VII. Volume 1. (1861) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Rolls Series 24, vol 1. Transcripts of documents in various languages.
- James Gairdner, editor, Henry VII: Letters and papers illustrative of the reigns of Richard III and Henry VII. Volume 2. (1863) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Rolls Series 24, vol 2. Transcripts of documents in various languages.
- James Orchard Halliwell, editor, Letters of the Kings of England. Volume 1. [Richard I to Henry VIII] (1846) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin texts are translated, and the spelling of English texts is modernised.
- James Orchard Halliwell, editor, Letters of the Kings of England. vol 2 [Edward VI to Charles I] (1846) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin texts are translated, and the spelling of English texts is modernised.
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Church records and religious houses:
- Christopher Harper-Bill, An edition of the register of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury 1486-1500 (1997) (King's College London)
Ph.D. thesis. Calendar of the register in English, with an introduction.
- Papal Dispensations for Marriage (Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies, Strathclyde University)
Project to develop an online database of papal dispensations of marriage, initial from the published volumes of papal letters relating to Great Britain and Ireland (1198-1534). The project is funded by the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
- J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 10: 1447-1455. (1915) (British History Online)
- J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 11: 1455-1464. (1921) (British History Online)
- J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 12: 1458-1471. (1933) (British History Online)
- J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 13: 1471-1484. (1955) (British History Online)
- J. A. Twemlow, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, volume 14: 1484-1492. (1960) (British History Online)
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Private letters and papers:
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 1. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 2. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 3. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 4. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 5. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- James Gairdner, editor, The Paston Letters 1422-1509 A.D. Volume 6. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Thomas Stapleton, editor, Plumpton Correspondence (1839) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Camden Society, Old Series, volume 4. Transcripts of private letters from the 15th and 16th centuries.
For older additions, see: