What was new on this site: April-June 2003
For the most recent additions, with links, see the
update page.
For brief details of the current quarter's additions, see
What's new on this site.
4 June 2003:
New links
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Taxation and other lists:
Soldiers in Kent:
The Trained Band under Captain Kempe in 1595 (Peter Stuart, Kent Genealogy)
Alphabetical list of names of "footmen raised in Wye, Chart & Longbridge, the townshipp of Ashford,
the Upper Half Hundred of Calehill and Felborough"
- Funeral monuments:
Gothic Eye
A commercial site supplying high resolution images in electronic format,
mainly from antiquarian engravings of English funeral monuments. Smaller
images are freely available on the website, including nearly 150
monumental brasses. See an alphabetic list of
those commemorated
- Heralds' Visitations:
Visitation
of Kent [1663-1668] (Maureen Rawson, Kent Genealogy)
Index of surnames only, compiled from the Harleian Society edition
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Causton:
Causton One-Name Study (John Causton)
Includes medieval occurrences of Causton, Caxton and related surnames in
The Dudley Causton Index
(in the sections on manorial records, state papers, taxes and wills) and
extracts from the Bernau Index
to equity proceedings and other records
- Lindsay: The Origin of the Lindsays
(Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
Scanned images, in PDF format, of a paper on the origins of the Scottish family,
later Earls of Crawford,
by Sir George Sitwell,
in The Genealogist, new series, volume 12 (1896),
with responses by J. H. Round and W. A. Lindsay, Windsor Herald.
(Subscription required.)
- Seton: The History of the House
of Seytoun (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
Scanned images, in PDF format, of the 1829 edition of Sir Richard Maitland's work on the history of
the Scottish family of the Lords Seton, later Earls of Wintoun, to 1559,
with the continuation by Alexander, Viscount Kingston, to 1687.
(Subscription required.)
- Links:
- Societies and journals:
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
Includes a list of publications in print
1 May 2003:
New material
In the main section of Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
the following item has been added:
NORFOLK (date of birth of John (de Mowbray), Earl of Norfolk (d. 1432))
In the "proposed" section the following items have been added:
ALDBOROUGH (Ireland),
ARGENTINE,
ASTON OF FORFAR,
BEAUCHAMP (of Bletsoe) (Sibyl, first wife of Roger Beauchamp, was
still living, 41 Edward III [1367 or 1368]),
BEDFORD (County),
CAMBRIDGE (county of),
CORNWALL (County of) (date of the marriage of Piers de Gavaston),
GLOUCESTER (date of death of Hubert (de Burgh), Earl of Kent),
HUNTINGDON,
KENT,
MOUNTJOY,
HENRY I'S ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN (inconsistency concerning John de Sudeley, son of Harold de Ewias;
inconsistency concerning the husband of Constance),
SUDELEY,
and WILLOUGHBY or WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY
(licence for the marriage of William (de Willoughby), Lord Willoughby (d. 1409)).
New links
- A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Public records: Subsidies and other taxes:
E 179 Database: Description and
search form (Public Record Office)
Listing of tax records from class E 179 (12th-17th centuries), in progress, searchable by place, date and other categories.
Currently covers over 25,000 documents, with records of lay taxation in five English counties complete.
It gives descriptions of the records, lists of places covered, and details of published texts,
but does not include transcripts of the names mentioned in the documents
- Public records: Common law records:
Britton
(The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub)
French text of a thirteenth-century legal treatise, from volume 1
of the edition of Francis Morgan Nichols (1865)
- Public records: Common law records:
Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries
on the Laws of England (1765-1769) (LONANG Library)
Text of a standard 18th-century legal handbook.
- Public records: Chancery rolls:
Chronological Table of the Private and Personal Acts
[of Parliament] (1539 - 2001) (Her Majesty's Stationery Office)
Year-by-year listing, giving brief details for each act. These are searchable using the HMSO
website's search facility
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- County and local history:
Whittlewood Project
(Richard Jones, University of Leicester)
Multi-disciplinary (documentary and archaeological)
study of 12 parishes in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire.
Includes historical outlines for
Deanshanger and Passenham and
Silverstone,
Northamptonshire, and
Lillingstone Lovell and
Stowe, Buckinghamshire
- Public records: Common law records:
Legal History: The Year Books
(David J. Seipp, Boston University School of Law)
An index and paraphrase of printed Year Book reports, 1268 - 1535.
Currently, more than 3,000 reports from 1399 onwards have been paraphrased,
and those from 1378 onwards have been completely indexed.
- Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
The Visitation of London, anno domini 1633, 1634, and 1635 [surnames A-H]
(Nigel Batty-Smith,
United Kingdom Genealogy)
Page images, from the edition of J.J. Howard and J.L. Chester
(Harleian Society, vol. 15, 1880)
- Miscellaneous sources:
London Apprenticeship Abstracts
(Origins.net)
Over 60,000 entries have been added to the database, for the following livery companies:
Painters, Pewterers, Tallow Chandlers and Turners
- Monumental brasses:
- The
Monumental Church Brasses of Thurrock
(Thurrock Local History Society)
Extracts from articles by Derek and Hazel Austin,
originally published in Panorama, 12, 13 and 14 between 1968 and 1971,
describing brasses in 7 churches in the Thurrock area, illustrated by rubbings
of 26 brasses
- Sir Thomas Stathum and his two wives, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Langley,
and Thomasine, daughter of John Curzon
(1470): Morley, Derbyshire (photograph and description)
(Monumental Brass Society
Brass
of the month for April 2003)
- Links:
- Heraldry:
Guide
to Heraldic Terms (Burke's Peerage and Gentry)
Glossary from the 106th Edition of Burke's Peerage and Baronetage
1 April 2003:
New material:
In the main section of
Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
the following items have been added:
BERKELEY,
FITZALAN,
FITZWALTER.
In the "proposed" section
the following items have been added:
BEAUMONT (additional example of Henry Beaumont (d. 1339/40), being styled
Earl of Buchan and Moray),
BUCHAN,
DEVON (third marriage of Denise de Déols),
ENGAINE (two items),
GREY (of Codnor)
(erroneous description of the grandfather of Eleanor, wife of Sir Henry de Grey (d. 1308),
as Hugh, Lord le Despenser),
HUNGERFORD, (date of death of
Eleanor, wife of Robert, Lord Hungerford, d. 1464),
SEGRAVE (identity of the mother of Gilbert de Segrave, d. 1254),
HENRY I'S ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN (additional daughter Emma).
I am grateful to Richard Abels for permission to
include a copy of his notes on William Marshal: Events in life and historical context on this site,
after the version on the United States Naval Academy website became inaccessible
owing to firewall problems.
New links:
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts:
- Durham Abbey, Lindisfarne Priory, Cnut and Emma:
Annales Lindisfarnenses et Dunelmenses; Annales Lindisfarnenses a. 532-993; Annales Dunelmenses a. 995-1199;
Cnutonis regis Gesta sive Encomium Emmae reginae auctore monacho Sancti Bertini
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N093448)
PDF format; from Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptorum, vol. 19, ed. G. H. Pertz (1866)
- St Edmund:
Liber miraculorum Sancti Eadmundi Orientalium Anglorum Regis auctore anonymo
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N068194)
PDF format; Latin text, from the edition of Edmond Martene and Ursin Durand (1729)
- Guillaume de Jumièges:
Histoire des Normands
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N094621)
PDF format; French translation, from the edition of F. Guizot
(1823-1835)
- Guillaume de Poitiers:
Vie de Guillaume le Conquérant
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N094621)
PDF format; French translation, from the edition of F. Guizot
(1823-1835)
- Orderic Vitalis:
The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N094617-N094620)
PDF format; a 19th-century French translation of the 12th-century work,
published under the title Histoire de Normandie by F. Guizot in 4 vols (1826)
- Jehan de Wavrin (or Waurin),
Anchiennes cronicques d'Engleterre
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N033157-N033159)
PDF format; medieval French text with modern French notes, from the edition of Melle Dupont, 3 vols
(1858-1863)
- Chronicles of the reigns of Edward I and Edward II
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050345)
PDF format; Latin texts from the edition of William Stubbs
(Rolls Series 76, vol. 2; 1883)
- County and local history:
- A
History of the Manor and Advowson of Clifford Chambers [Gloucestershire]
and some account of its possessors (David Parsons,
GENUKI)
Text of a paper by Sir John Maclean, from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society,
vol. 14, part 1 (1890)
- Draft parish histories from the
Derbyshire Victoria County History:
Ault Hucknall, Barlborough, Bolsover, Clowne, Heath, Langwith, Pleasley, Scarcliffe and Whitwell
- Draft parish histories from the
Oxfordshire Victoria County History:
Carterton, Crawley, Hailey, Minster Lovell and Witney;
also Kelmscott (VCH online)
- Draft parish histories from the
Staffordshire Victoria County History:
Burton-upon-Trent and Tutbury
- Funeral monuments:
- On the MBS Meetings page
of the Monumental Brass Society website:
- George Catesby (1506):
Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire
(rubbing)
- Henry Dacres (1530):
St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London
(photograph; detail)
- Anthony Darcy (1540):
Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex
(rubbing)
- In the Brass
of the month section of the Monumental Brass Society website:
- Nicholas Gaynesford (d. 1498)
and his wife Margaret (née Sidney) (d. 1503) (1480-5?):
Carshalton, Surrey (photograph, rubbing and description)
(Brass of the month for February 2003)
- George Rede (c.1492?): Fovant, Wiltshire (photograph and description)
(Brass of the month for March 2003)
- Church records and religious houses:
Ramsey Abbey:
Cartularium monasterii de Rameseia
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050351-N050353)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of William Henry Hart and the Rev. Ponsonby A. Lyons
(Rolls Series 79, vols 1-3; 1884-1893)
For older additions, see: