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 site currently contains more than 6 million images of documents, covering records covered from the period 1217-1800. The records include plea rolls, memoranda rolls, pipe rolls, liberate rolls, feet of fines, early chancery proceedings, some 16th-centrury close rolls and fine rolls, and a number of others. The classes of pre-1603 records covered include C 1, C 33, C 54 [1509-1540], C 60 [1529-1573], C 62, CHES 14, CP 21, CP 25 [to 1509], CP 40, DL 5, E 13, E 101, E 123, E 124, E 126, E 159, E 364, E 368, E 372, JUST 1 [to 1350], KB 26, KB 27, KB 29 and REQ 1. In addition to reference material, the site includes a wiki section with abstracts of some records, and some indexes compiled by volunteers.
• Modern indexes to REQ 1 (registers of the Court of Requests) of the reign of Charles I. (The Anglo-American Legal Tradition)
  Lists of parties, sorted by first plaintiff, first defendant and date; in progress.
• Indexes to C 33 (Chancery entry books) of the reign of James I. (The Anglo-American Legal Tradition)
  Transcripts of contemporary indexes; in progress.
• 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.