Medieval source material on the internet: Chancery and other equity suits

For a brief guide to chancery and other equity suits, click here

For some medieval records in Ancestry's UK and Ireland Collection, click here

• The Anglo-American Legal Tradition (Robert Palmer, University of Houston Law Center)
  A huge project to digitise medieval and early-modern English legal records, and to make the images freely available through the Internet. The records covered are from the period 1217-1650, and include plea rolls (CP 40, KB 26, KB 27 and E 13), Exchequer memoranda rolls (E 159 and E 368), feet of fines (CP 25 [to 1509]), early Chancery proceedings (C 1) and other series (C 33, JUST 1 [to 1350], E 124, E 126, KB 29, REQ 1, DL 5 and CHES 14). Images are already available for the reigns of Edward I, Edward III and Henry VIII-Charles I, and more material is being added at the rate of 400,000 images per year. The site also includes some transcribed examples.
• Equity Pleadings Database (Public Record Office)
  Searchable database in progress, currently covering over 30,000 records from series C6 ("Court of Chancery, Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Collins"), which mainly come from dates between 1648 and 1722. The search form allows queries for names, places, subjects, case details or a combination of these
• Inheritance Dispute Index 1574-1714 (British Origins)
  Index compiled by Peter Coldham, searchable on a pay-per-view basis, to over 26,000 Chancery suits relating to inheritance of money or real estate.
• I. S. Leadam, ed., Select cases in the court of requests, A.D. 1497-1569 (1898) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Selden Society, volume 12. English transcripts, with an introduction including a list of judges.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• The Court of Star Chamber, Elizabeth (State Papers Project, University of Hull)
  Trial presentation of a list of cases from STAC 5/C1-C81 (comprising all those in STAC 5 for which the plaintiff's surname begins with 'C'). Unlike the National Archives catalogue, the list includes forenames. There is an index of surnames and a few transcripts of documents.