Medieval source material on the internet: Manorial records
Manorial records
For a brief guide to manorial records,
click here
For some medieval records in Ancestry's UK and Ireland Collection,
click here
- Manorial Documents Register
(Royal Commission on Historical Documents)
Currently searchable online for
Cumberland, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Lancashire north of the sands, Middlesex, Norfolk, Surrey, Westmorland, Yorkshire and Wales.
- Examples of English Manorial Documents
(Nicholas Pappas, Sam Houston State University, Texas)
A selection of English translations, from the 11th to the 14th centuries, from
E.P. Cheyney, ed., English Manorial Documents (1907)
- English
Manor Rolls Collection
(Harvard Law School Library)
Handlist to a collection of 170 parchment rolls, including records of the manors of
Moulton (Cheshire), Odiham Hundred (Hampshire), Herstmonceaux (Sussex), Chartley (Staffordshire) and Onhouse (Suffolk);
the descriptions include some names of lords of the manors and manorial officials
- Manors of the Abbey of Bec:
1246-1247,
1248,
1249,
3,4 Edward I
1280-1281
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
The manors include Wantage [Berkshire], Bledlow [Buckinghamshire],
Povington [Dorset], Ruislip [Middlesex], Weedon Beck [Northamptonshire], Cottisford, Swincombe [Oxfordshire],
Blakenham [Suffolk], Tooting [Surrey], Preston [Sussex], Atherstone [Warwick],
Deverill, Ogbourne [Wiltshire]
English translations, from F.W. Maitland, ed.,
Select Pleas in Manorial and Other Seignorial Courts: Volume 1--Reigns of Henry III and Edward I
(1889).
-
Survey of Brydithfield, in the manor of Brandon, Suffolk
(University of Kansas)
[see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from April 2003]
Latin text of a 16th-century survey, from Kenneth Spencer Research Library MS E112
- Manorial and franchisal courts:
Extracts from court rolls: Brigstock [Northamptonshire] court rolls
(David Postles, Leicester University)
Extracts from Latin text, 26 Edward I
- Survey
of the manor of Brinkworth [Wiltshire] 1587 (Clive Henly, GENUKI)
Transcript; later
manorial documents are also available
-
The Abbot of Battle's Court at Brithwaltham [Berkshire]
(1293-1296)
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
English translation from F.W. Maitland, ed.,
Select Pleas in Manorial and Other Seignorial Courts: Volume 1--Reigns of Henry III and Edward I
(1889)
- Ernest Straker, ed., The
Buckhurst [Sussex] Terrier 1597-1598 (1929) (The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex)
Extracts from a survey of landholders, from the Sussex Record Society edition of 1933,
covering the manors of Alchornes, Birchden, Blackham, Bolebrooke, Broome, Buckhurst, Collingherst, Buckhurst,
Fiskeridge, Framfeild, Munckloe, Sheffield and Torringe Peverell.
Scanned images (rather slow on a dial-up connection)
- [List of names from]
Court Rolls of the manor of Curry Rivel
1348-9 (Paul Mansfield) [not available, 4 November 2007; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from February 2007]
From Rev. J. F. Chanter, Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society (1910)
- An terrier and rental of the manors of Ulveston Hall and Sackvilles, in Debenham, Suffolk, dated 1594 (Historical Manuscripts, Kenneth Jacob)
Transcripts, in PDF format.
- Sample manorial account: Deverill
[Wiltshire] (David Postles, Leicester University)
Brief extract, Latin text and English translation
- Estate Records
(The Records of Earls Colne; Cambridge University)
Transcripts and abstracts of accounts, surveys, and records of copyhold and freehold tenure,
relating to the manors of Earls Colne and Colne Priory, Essex, 14th century and later
- Emmison's Elizabethan Life [Essex]:
Home, Work and Land
(Mike Foster, GENUKI)
Index to names from
F.G. Emmison's Elizabethan life:
Home, work & land:
from Essex wills and sessions and manorial records (1976)
- Hinderclay [Suffolk] court roll:
frames and
non-frames versions
(David Postles, Leicester University)
Short extract; Latin text and English translation
- William Farrer, ed., Some court rolls of the lordships, wapentakes, and demesne manors of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster, ... A.D. 1323-4. (1901) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, volume 41. English translations.
- Survey of the manor of Somersham, [Huntingdonshire] 1222:
frames and
non-frames versions
(David Postles, Leicester University)
Latin text and English translation
- Stubbington
[Hampshire] manorial records
(David Postles, Leicester University)
Material to be published in the Portsmouth Record Series; mainly relating to
the estate of Southwick Priory at Stubbington, 13th to 16th centuries, with some records
of land in Portsea and Portsmouth
-
Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield, 1274-1297
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
English translation, from the edition of William Paley Baildon,
in Yorkshire Archaelogical Society, Record Series vol. 29 (1900)
-
The 1585 Walkhampton [Devon] Survey
(ed. Peter R. Hamilton-Leggett)
[formerly at http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/hamleg/wsur.html;
not available, 6 April 2002; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from February 2002]
English translation
-
Names from article on the Manor [of] West Monkton, (Paul Mansfield) [not available, 4 November 2007; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from April 2007]
From E.E.Trotman, Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1944
- Manorial documents from Whitby, Yorkshire (Charles Russell)
