Medieval source material on the internet: Land taxes and feudal surveys
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- Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and Scholarly Commentary, 1086 (John Palmer, University of Hull/UK Data Archive)
A collection of documents, including the text of the translations originally published by Phillimore (excluding Yorkshire,
for which a new translation is in preparation), together with county introductions and notes, appendices and a bibliography.
There are also databases containing personal and place names and Domesday statistics. The whole collection is downloaded as a zipped file,
with the text files in RTF format and for the databases a choice of Microsoft Access or tabbed format.
The documents are also available on the University of Hull website
as individual files; the text files are in RTF and the databases in Microsoft Access format.
- Domesday Book (National Archives, DocumentsOnline)
Images of the manuscript with English translations, from the Alecto editions of Great and Little Domesday, available as pay-per-view, with a freely searchable index.
- Liber feodorum. The book of fees commonly called Testa de Nevill, ... part 1. A.D. 1198-1242. (1920) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
Latin transcripts.
- Liber feodorum. The book of fees commonly called Testa de Nevill, ... part 2. A.D. 1242-1293 and Appendix. (1923) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
Latin transcripts.
- Liber feodorum. The book of fees commonly called Testa de Nevill, ... [part 3] Index. (1931) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
Latin transcripts.
- Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 1. (1899) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bedfordshire-Devon.
[Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
- Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 2. (1900) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Dorset-Huntingdonshire.
[Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
- Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 3. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Kent-Norfolk.
[Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
- Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 4. (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Northamptonshire-Somerset.
[Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
- Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 5. (1908) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
Staffordshire-Worcestershire.
- Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431. Volume 6. (1920) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Yorkshire, with miscellaneous additions for other counties, including transcripts of knights' fees for the duchy of Lancaster.
[Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
- The
'Herefordshire Domesday' (Early Manuscripts at Oxford University)
Images of Balliol College, Oxford, manuscript 350 -
a copy of the Domesday text for Herefordshire, made in the 1160s, with annotations,
including more recent land holders
- Hundred Roll:
Alwalton Manor [Huntingdonshire], 1279
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
English translation, from J.H. Robinson, ed.,
Translations and Reprints from the Original
Sources of European history [1897].
- Kent Hundred Rolls Project (Bridgett Jones, Kent Archaeological Society)
Parallel Latin transcript and English translation of the Kent Hundred Rolls of 1274-5.
- Hundred Roll:
The verdict of those of greater standing of the town of
Stamford in Kesteven ... [1275]
(David Roffe, Sheffield Hundred Rolls Project)
English translation, from the forthcoming publication
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The survey of the county of York taken by John de Kirkby, commonly called Kirkby's inquest;
also inquisitions of knights' fees, the Nomina villarum for Yorkshire, and an appendix of illustrative documents
(Making of America, University of Michigan)
Choice of images, PDF files or text,
with a search facility (but beware of sometimes inaccurate text conversion);
from the edition of R. H. Skaife (Surtees Society, vol. 49, 1867)
- William Farrer, ed., Lancashire inquests, extents, and feudal aids. Part 2. A.D. 1307-A..D. 1333. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, volume 54. English transcripts.
- William Farrer, ed., Lancashire inquests, extents, and feudal aids. Part 3. A.D. 1313-A..D. 1355. (1915) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, volume 70. English transcripts.
- The
Leicestershire Survey (1124-1129) (Guy Etchells)
Latin text from J.H. Round, Feudal England (1909)
- Hubert Hall, ed., The Red Book of the Exchequer. Part 1. (1896) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
Rolls Series, number 99. Latin transcript. Scutages and barons' charters.
- Hubert Hall, ed., The Red Book of the Exchequer. Part 2. (1896) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
Rolls Series, number 99. Latin transcript. Serjeanties, knights' fees, abstracts of pipe rolls, 1154-62, wards, farms of counties etc.
- Hubert Hall, ed., The Red Book of the Exchequer. Part 3. (1896) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
Rolls Series, number 99. Latin transcript. Miscellaneous.
- John Horace Round, ed., Rotuli de dominabus et pueris et puellis de xii comitatibus [1185] (1913) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
Pipe Roll Society, volume 35. Latin transcript.