Medieval English genealogy: updates: 17 December 2013

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Contents:

• News
• New material
• New links
• Updated links
• Broken links

News

A further volume in the Victoria County History series has recently appeared:

• Mark Page and Matthew Bristow (with contributions by Cynthia Brown), A History of the County of Northampton, volume 7 (2013)
  Corby and Great Oakley. Further information is available here.

Several other relevant books have also been published:

• Christopher Grocock and I. N. Wood, eds, Historia Selebiensis Monasterii: The History of the Monastery of Selby (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  Four Latin texts from the Pre-Viking period, with English translations and commentary.
• Janet Burton, ed., The Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  Latin text and English translation, with notes and commentary.
• Adrian R. Bell, Anne Curry, Andy King, and David Simpkin, The Soldier in Later Medieval England (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  Study of those who served the English crown between 1369 and 1453, seeking to investigate the different types of soldier, their regional and national origins, and movement between ranks. By the compilers of the database The Soldier in later Medieval England.
• Marilyn Roberts, Anne Mowbray - The High and Excellent Princess (Queens-Haven Publications, 2013)
  A biography of the wife of Richard, Duke of York, one of the princes in the Tower. The contents page and an extract from the preface are available on the author's website.
• Onyeka, Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, their Presence, Status and Origins (Narrative Eyes, 2013)
  A reassessment of African people in Tudor England.

New material

In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines for Lincolnshire (1349-1358) (210 fines), Northamptonshire (1327-1357) (450 fines), Northumberland (1337-1355) (50 fines) and Nottinghamshire (1327-1359) (350 fines) have been added.

New links

• A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
  • Handwriting and language:
    • Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague)
      Searchable electronic text and page images; includes the supplement of 1921. (NB Unfortunately the interface does not appear to work in some older browsers.)
• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • County and local history:
    • Hendon, in the county of Middlesex (Kenneth Jacob, My Jacob Family)
      Some references from the plea rolls, 13th-15th centuries.
  • Modern biography and prosopography:
    • A brief listing of some goldsmiths in the period 1100-1500 (Kenneth Jacob, My Jacob Family)
      From the plea rolls and other sources.
  • Charters:
    • Charles Travis Clay and Edith Margaret Clay Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volumes 1-3. (1942) (Cambridge University Press)
      Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, Extra Series, volume 4. The front matter, including an introduction, is available here.
    • William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 4. (1935) (Cambridge University Press)
    • William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 5. (1936) (Cambridge University Press)
    • William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 6. (1939) (Cambridge University Press)
    • William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 7. (1947) (Cambridge University Press)
    • William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 8. (1949) (Cambridge University Press)
    • William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 9. (1952) (Cambridge University Press)
    • William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 10. (1955) (Cambridge University Press)
    • William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 11. (1963) (Cambridge University Press)
    • William Farrer and Charles Travis lay, eds, Index to Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 12. (1965) (Cambridge University Press)
    • A selection of 93 deeds relating to the county of Kent (1422-1671) (Kenneth Jacob, My Jacob Family)
      Abstracts made from original documents.
  • Probate records:
    • Devon Wills Project (GENUKI and others)
      Consolidated index, in the process of compilation from various sources, of Devon wills, administrations and inventories, currently including more than 300,000 entries. Nearly half the entries are also searchable at Origins.net.
  • Funeral monuments:
    • John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments. (1631) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
      Early work recording a large number of monumental inscriptions in south-east England, many of which have since been destroyed.
    • John Weever, Antient Funeral Monuments. (1767) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  • Church records and religious houses:
    • Regesta Pontificum Romanorum online (Klaus Herbers, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
      Database of papal documents before 1198, accompanying a series of printed volumes. The web pages are in German and free registration is required.
• Links:
  • Seals:
    • Duchy of Lancaster Seals (National Archives)
      Over 3,000 digital images of seals attached to Duchy of Lancaster Deeds (DL 25 and DL 26) are freely available, The form in section 3 of this online guide allows the descriptions of the deeds in these two series to be searched.
  • Modern armorials:
    • Sir Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. (first published London, 1844; enlarged edn 1884) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      This is the standard armorial work. Its great advantage is its sheer volume; its main disadvantage is the lack of source references for most of the entries, which makes it difficult to verify the information or research it further.

Updated links

• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Public records: Land taxes and feudal surveys:
    • The survey of the county of York ... 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)
      Surtees Society, vol. 49 (1867), edited by R. H. Skaife. Includes the returns for part of the West Riding relating to the aid collected in 1302, and other documents including 13th-century grants of wardship and marriage.
      [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Joseph G. Court, RootsWeb; Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
  • Public records: Feet of fines:
    • The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Journal, volume 19 (1913) (Archaeology Data Service)
  • Funeral monuments:
    • List of brass rubbings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
      An index to these has been compiled by Julian Goodwyn.
    • Heraldry and Church Brasses (Thurrock Local History Society)
  • Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
    • Frederic Thomas Colby, ed., The Visitation of the County of Devon In the Year 1564, with Additions from The Earlier Visitation of 1531. (1881) (Nigel Batty-Smith, UK Genealogy Archives)
• Medieval English families on the Internet:
  • J:
    • My Jacob Family (Kenneth Jacob)
      Includes Pedigrees and Histories of Jacob Families, Pedigrees of Various Families, an article entitled A vignette of Cinque Ports Jacobs, and information on Jacob coats of arms.
  • M:
    • Mead family history (Vance Mead)
      Includes information on Meads from various counties, and data from wills, public records and other sources.
    • Queens-Haven Publications (Marilyn Roberts)
      Web pages giving information about Marilyn Roberts's recent books, including The Mowbray Legacy (2004, revised edition 2012), which examines the history of the Mowbrays from the Conquest to 1481, and a biography, Anne Mowbray – The High and Excellent Princess (2013).
    • The Family of de Mulcaster (Sharon Mulcaster, Mulcaster Family)
      Cumberland and other counties, 13th century and later; text of a paper by T. H. B. Graham (1917).
• Links:
  • Heraldry:
    • Glossary of Heraldry (Burke's Peerage and Gentry)
      Glossary from the 106th Edition of Burke's Peerage and Baronetage.
  • Links to some useful societies and journals:
    • Transactions of the Berkshire Archaeological and Architectural Society for 1879-1882 (as PDF files) are freely available through the Archaeology Data Service
    • Berks, Bucks, and Oxon Archaeological Journal volumes 1-34 (as PDF files) are being made available through the Archaeology Data Service
    • Berkshire Archaeological Journal volumes 35-76 (as PDF files) are being made available through the Archaeology Data Service
    • Records of Early English Drama (Centre for Research in Early English Drama, University of Toronto)
      The REED Anglo-Latin Wordbook, in the process of compilation from the project's published collections, is available online.
    • Society Of Antiquaries Of Scotland Monograph Series , vols 1, 2, 6-10 (Archaeology Data Service)
      PDF files
    • From volume 137 (1999), abstracts and articles from Sussex Archaeological Collections (as PDF files) are freely available through the Archaeology Data Service
    • Victoria History of the Counties of England (known as the Victoria County History, or V.C.H. for short)

Broken links

The following page has recently become unavailable. If anyone can send me an updated URL for it, I'll be very grateful.

• Avril M. Morris, The Life of St Kyneburgha: From Northumbrian Queen to Mercian Saint (St Kyneburgha Church, Castor)
  [formerly at http://castorchurch.ds5075.dedicated.turbodns.co.uk/OldWebSite/kyne.htm]