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Abstracts of the feet of fines for Rutland between 1197 and 1509, edited by Bridget Wells-Furby, have recently been published by the Rutland Local History and Record Society. The volume covers 355 fines in the single-county series for Rutland. As well as indexes of personal names, place-names and subjects, it includes an introduction and a glossary. Further details are available here.

New material

In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines for Hertfordshire (1327-1358) (475 fines), Leicestershire (1327-1359) (225 fines) and Lincolnshire (1327) (16 fines) have been added.

Links to images of the original feet of fines on the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website have also been added for Buckinghamshire (1327-1359) (412 fines), Herefordshire (1327-1358) (183 fines) and Hertfordshire (1327-1358) (475 fines).

I am very grateful to James Poynor for sending me photographs of two further medieval documents in his possession - a charter of Robert Butler of Northill, Bedfordshire, from 1404, and a letter of attorney of John Borell of Writtle, Essex, from around 1520. The photographs and translations of the documents can be found by following the links above.

New links

A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Public records: Common law records:
  - Steve Sheppard, ed., Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke. (3 volumes, 2005)
    Excerpts from Coke's published works, with an introduction.
- Charters:
  - Gelila Tilahun, Andrey Feuerverger and Michael Gervers, Dating medieval English charters (Cornell University Library)
    Paper published in the Annals of Applied Statistics, volume 6 (2012), giving a detailed description of the DEEDS database of dated charters and the mathematical methods used to estimate the dates of undated charters.
Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts: by subject:
  - The Genealogy of the Kings of Britain, from Brutus to the Death of Alfred. (Susan Rhoads, Elfinspell)
    English translation of the French text of a chronicle sometimes attributed to Peter of Ickham, from A Collection of Eighteen Rare and Curious Historical Tracts and Pamphlets (1885).
- County and local history:
  - Loughborough [Leicestershire] Data (David Postles, Leicester University)
    Transcripts and notes from various sources relating to early-modern Loughborough.
- Modern biography and prosopography:
  - Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I. Volume 1. [A to E.] (1929) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 80.
  - John Walker, The patronage of the Templars and of the Order of St Lazarus in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (1991) (University of St Andrews)
    Ph. D. thesis examining the patronage of the two religious orders. The following families are particularly discussed: the English royal family and the families of Port, Caux, Sandford, Bosco, Esse, Mowbray, Burdet, Amundeville, Beler and Rampaine.
- Peerages and other compilations:
  - Carl Boyer, 3rd, Medieval Welsh Ancestors of Certain Americans. (2004) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
    Some people may find this useful, though sadly the poor quality of the images means that much of the text can be read only by guesswork.
  - Complete Baronetage. Volume 1. 1611-1625. (1900) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Complete Baronetage. Volume 2. 1625-1649. (1902) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Complete Baronetage. Volume 3. 1649-1664. (1903) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Complete Baronetage. Volume 4. 1665-1707. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Complete Baronetage. Volume 5. 1707-1800. (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Complete Peerage ... [First edition] Volume 1. A to Bo. (1887) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    [Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
  - Complete Peerage ... [First edition] Volume 2. Bra to C. (1889) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
  - Complete Peerage ... [First edition] Volume 3. D. to F. (1890) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
  - Complete Peerage ... [First edition] Volume 4. G. to K. (1892) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
  - Complete Peerage ... [First edition] Volume 5. L. to M. (1893) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
  - Complete Peerage ... [First edition] Volume 6. N. to R. (1895) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
  - Complete Peerage ... [First edition] Volume 7. S. to T. (1896) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    [Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
  - Complete Peerage ... [First edition] Volume 8. U to Z, Appendix, Corrigenda, Occurrences after 1 January 1898, and General Index to Notes, &c. (1898) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Vicary Gibbs, ed., Complete Peerage ... [Second edition] Volume 1. Ab-Adam to Basing. (1910) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
  - Vicary Gibbs, ed., Complete Peerage ... [Second edition] Volume 2. Bass to Canning. (1912) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
  - Vicary Gibbs with the assistance of H. Arthur Doubleday, eds, Complete Peerage ... [Second edition] Volume 3. Canonteign to Cutts. (1913) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]
  - Vicary Gibbs with the assistance of H. Arthur Doubleday, eds, Complete Peerage ... [Second edition] Volume 4. Dacre to Dysart. (1916) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive; Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University: 1 ; 2 .]
  - Familiae Minorum Gentium. Volume 1. (1894) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 37.
  - Familiae Minorum Gentium. Volume 3. (1895) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 39.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - Familiae Minorum Gentium. Volume 4. (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 40.
  - Familiae Minorum Gentium. Volume 2. (1895) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 38.
- Public records: Inquisitions post mortem:
  - Durham records: Cursitor's records: Inquisitions post mortem etc. [earliest-1438] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Brief English abstracts, arranged chronologically for each initial letter of the surname. Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix I, pp.153-282 (London, 1885).
  - Durham records: Cursitor's records: Inquisitions post mortem etc. [1438-Charles I] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Brief English abstracts, arranged chronologically for each initial letter of the surname. Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix, pp.310-542 (London, 1883).
  - Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. Henry VII. Volume 1. (1898) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Inquisitions Post Mortem in Common Law Records (WAALT: the Wiki for the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Website)
    Listing, in progress, of common law cases involving inquisitions post mortem, between the 13th and 16th centuries, with links to photographs of the records.
- Public records: Common law records:
  - F. W. Maitland, ed., Bracton's note book. A collection of cases decided in the King's courts during the reign of Henry the Third, annotated by a lawyer of that time, seemingly by Henry of Bratton. Volume 1. Apparatus. (1887) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin extracts, made in the 13th century by Henry de Bracton, from the rolls of the Bench, 1217-1234, and coram rege, 1234-1239, many from originals now lost.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
  - F. W. Maitland, ed., Bracton's note book. A collection of cases decided in the King's courts during the reign of Henry the Third, annotated by a lawyer of that time, seemingly by Henry of Bratton. Volume 2. Text. (1887) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin extracts, made in the 13th century by Henry de Bracton, from the rolls of the Bench, 1217-1234, and coram rege, 1234-1239, many from originals now lost.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
  - F. W. Maitland, ed., Bracton's note book. A collection of cases decided in the King's courts during the reign of Henry the Third, annotated by a lawyer of that time, seemingly by Henry of Bratton. Volume 3. Text. (1887) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin extracts, made in the 13th century by Henry de Bracton, from the rolls of the Bench, 1217-1234, and coram rege, 1234-1239, many from originals now lost.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
  - Modern indexes to some plea rolls (KB 27) of the reign of Henry VIII. (The Anglo-American Legal Tradition)
    Lists of parties, sorted by first plaintiff, first defendant and county; in progress.
- Public records: Chancery rolls:
  - Thomas Duffus Hardy, ed. Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi Asservati. Volume 1, part 1. [1199-1216] (1837) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Latin transcripts in record type. No more published.
  - Close rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office ... A.D. 1242-1247. (1916) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcripts.
  - Miscellaneous Chancery Records enrolled at Common Law (WAALT: the Wiki for the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Website)
    Listing, in progress, of stray chancery documents enrolled in common law records, with links to photographs of the documents.
- Charters:
  - William Hunt, ed., Two Chartularies of the Priory of St. Peter at Bath. (1893) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 7. Latin transcript and English abstracts.
  - Writings 1350-1359 (WAALT: the Wiki for the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Website)
    Listing, in progress, of documents recording land transactions enrolled in common law records, with links to photographs of the records.
- Manorial records:
  - C. J. Elton, ed., Rentalia et Custumaria Michaelis de Ambresbury, 1235-1252, et Rogeri de Ford, 1252-1261, Abbatum Monasterii Beatae Mariae Glastoniae ... (1891) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 5. Latin transcripts.
- Probate records:
  - Chester Wills Collection 1519-1940 (National Wills Index, Origins.net)
    Freely searchable index, including all Cheshire wills proved in the Consistory Court of Chester; addition of Lancashire wills proved at Chester is in progress.
- Church records and religious houses:
  - Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Registers of Walter Giffard, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1265-6, and of Henry Bowett, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1401-7. (1899) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 13. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 .]
  - Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of Ralph of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1329-1363. [Part 2.] (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 10. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
  - Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of Ralph of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1329-1363. [Part 1.] (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 9. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
  - Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of Nicholas Bubwith, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1407-1424. Volume 1. (1914) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 29. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
  - Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of Nicholas Bubwith, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1407-1424. Volume 2. (1914) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 30. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
  - Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1425-1443. Volume 1. (1915) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 31. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
  - Thomas Scott Holmes, ed., The Register of John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1425-1443. Volume 2. (1916) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 32. English abstracts with Latin transcripts of some entries.
  - Edmund Chisholm Batten, ed., The Register of Richard Fox, while Bishop of Bath and Wells, A.D. 1492-1494. (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcript.
  - W. N. Thompson, ed., The Episcopal Registers of Carlisle. The Register of Bishop John de Halton, [Volume 1,] Part 2, 1300-1309. (1909) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society/Canterbury and York Society (volume 12, part 2). Latin transcript.
  - Cecil Deedes, ed., The Episcopal register of Robert Rede, ordinis predicatorum, Lord Bishop of Chichester, 1397-1415. Part 2. (1910) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Sussex Record Society, volume 11. English abstracts.
  - Rev. F. C. Hingeston-Randolph, ed., The Register of John de Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter, (A.D. 1327-1369). Part 1, 1327-1330. (1894) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Latin transcript.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
  - Rev. F. C. Hingeston-Randolph, ed., The Register of Edmund Stafford, [Bishop of Exeter] (A.D. 1395-1419); an Index and Abstract of its contents. (1886) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Alphabetical index to people and places mentioned, with brief abstracts of some entries.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - Rev. R. G. Griffiths, ed., Registrum Thome de Cantilupo, Episcopi Herefordensis, A.D. 1275-1282. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Canterbury and York Series, volume 2. Latin transcript.
  - Consistory: Testimony in the Late Medieval London Consistory Court (Concordia University, Montreal)
    Database, in progress, to contain transcripts and translations of depositions in the consistory court of the diocese of London, 1487-96, from Guildhall Library MSS 9065 and 9065B. The site also provides introductory material and a bibliography.
  - William Dugdale, ed., Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 3. (1673) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - Sir William Dugdale; John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, eds., Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 6, part 1. (1830) (Gallica; Biblioth�que Nationale de France)
  - Sir William Dugdale; John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, eds., Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 6, part 2. (1830) (Gallica; Biblioth�que Nationale de France)
  - Sir William Dugdale; John Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, eds., Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 6, part 3. (1830) (Gallica; Biblioth�que Nationale de France)
  - Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 6, part 3. (1849) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - W. H. Rich Jones, ed., Vetus Registrum Sarisberiense alias dictum Registrum S. Osmundi Episcopi. The Register of S. Osmund. Volume 1. (1883) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Rolls Series 78, volume 1. Latin text.
    [Other copies at: Gallica.]
  - W. H. Rich Jones, ed., Vetus Registrum Sarisberiense alias dictum Registrum S. Osmundi Episcopi. The Register of S. Osmund. Volume 2. (1884) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Rolls Series 78, volume 2. Latin text.
    [Other copies at: Gallica.]
  - Somerset: Right Rev. Bishop [Edmund] Hobhouse, ed., Church-Wardens' Accounts of Croscombe, Pilton, Yatton, Tintinhull, Morebath, and St. Michael's, Bath. [1349-1560] (1890) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Somerset Record Society, volume 4. English and Latin transcripts.
  - J. W. Willis Bund, ed., The Register of the Diocese of Worcester during the vacancy of the see ... 1301-1435. (1897) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Worcestershire Historical Society. English abstracts. Covers periods of vacancy in this period, and also includes some entries for 1497.
- Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
  - Frederic Augustus Blaydes, ed., The Visitations of Bedfordshire, annis domini 1566, 1582, and 1634 ... together with additional pedigrees, chiefly from Harleian MS. 1531 [etc]. (1884) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 19. With a list of pedigrees entered at the visitation of 1669 and a list of knights and gentry from Lansdowne MS. 887.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - W. Harry Rylands, ed., The Four Visitations of Berkshire made and taken ...1532; ... 1566; ... 1623; and ... 1665-66. Volume 1. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 56.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - W. Harry Rylands, ed., The Four Visitations of Berkshire,1532, 1566, 1623, and 1665-6. Volume 2. (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 57. Additional pedigrees and notes.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - Walter C. Metcalfe, ed., The Visitation of Berkshire in 1566, ... (1885) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Walter C. Metcalfe, ed., The Visitation of Berkshire 1664-6. (1882) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Walter C. Metcalfe, ed., The Visitation of Buckinghamshire, In 1566, ... (1883) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - W. Harry Rylands, ed., The Visitation of the County of Buckingham made in 1634 ... together with pedigrees from the visitation made in 1566 ... and some pedigrees from other sources. (1909) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 58.
    [Other copies at: UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - Sir T[homas] P[hillipps], ed., The Cambridgeshire Visitation. By Henry St. George, 1619. (1840) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - J. L. Vivian and Henry L. Drake, eds, The Visitation of the County of Cornwall, in the year 1620. (1874) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 9.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - J. L. Vivian, The Visitations of the County of Devon, ... 1531, 1564. and 1620. With additions. ([1895]) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    N.B. Todd Farmerie (in soc.genealogy.medieval postings) points out that some of the material in Vivian's edition is inaccurate - particularly the earlier parts of the pedigrees and those immediately subsequent to the visitation records.
    [Other copies at: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University: 1 ; 2 .]
  - Frederic Thomas Colby, ed., The Visitation of the County of Devon In the Year 1620. (1872) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 6.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - Walter C. Metcalfe, ed., The Visitation of Dorsetshire A.D. 1565. ... (1887) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Sir John Maclean and W. C. Heane, eds, The Visitation of the County of Gloucester, taken in the year 1623, ... (1885) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 21.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - [Sir Thomas Phillipps, ed.] Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1684. (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Joseph Foster; ed. W. Harry Rylands, Grantees of Arms named in docquets and patents to the end of the seventeenth century ... [Volume 1.] (1915) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 66.
  - Joseph Foster; ed. W. Harry Rylands, Grantees of Arms named in docquets and patents between the years 1687 and 1898 ... [Volume 2, part 1. A-J.] (1916) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 67.
  - Joseph Foster; ed. W. Harry Rylands, Grantees of Arms named in docquets and patents between the years 1687 and 1898 ... [Volume 2, part 2. K-Z.] (1917) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 68.
  - W. Harry Rylands, ed., Pedigrees from the Visitation of Hampshire made ...1530 [and the visitations of] 1575 ... 1622 ... 1634 ... (1913) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 64. From a collection by Richard Mundy (Harleian manuscript number 1544).
    [Other copies at: UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - Frederic William Weaver, ed., The Visitation of Herefordshire made ... In 1569. (1886) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Walter C. Metcalfe, ed., The Visitations of Hertfordshire, made ... in 1572, and ... in 1634, with Hertfordshire Pedigrees from Harleian MSS. 6147 and 1546. (1886) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 22.
    [Other copies at: UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - Sir Henry Ellis, ed., The Visitation of the County of Huntingdon, ... [1613] (1849) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Camden Society, old series, volume 43.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - Joseph Jackson Howard, ed., The Visitation of the County of Kent, Taken in the Year 1619 ... Part 1. (1863) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Reprinted from Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 4.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - Robert Hovenden, ed., The Visitation of Kent, Taken in the Years 1619-1621. ... (1898) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Harleian Society, volume 42.
    [Other copies at: UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - Joseph Jackson Howard and Robert Hovenden, eds, Some Pedigrees from The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68. (1887) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Sir George J. Armytage, ed., A Visitation of the County of Kent, [1663-1668] (1906) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Harleian Society, volume 54.
    [Other copies at: UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - William Langton, ed., The Visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, ... A.D. 1533, ... Part 1. (1876) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Chetham Society, old series, volume 98.
  - Rev. F. R. Raines, ed., The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1567, ... (1870) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Chetham Society, old series, volume 81.
  - Sir George John Armytage, ed., Middlesex Pedigrees as collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian MS. No. 1551. (1914) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 65.
  - Walter Rye, ed., The Visitacion of Norffolk, made ... 1563, enlarged with another Visitacion made by Clarenceux Cooke ... and also the Vissitation made ... 1613. (1891) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 32.
    [Other copies at: UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - George W. Marshall, ed., The Visitation of Northumberland in 1615. (1878) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - William Henry Turner, ed., The Visitations of the County of Oxford Taken in the Years 1566 ... 1574 ... and in 1634 ... together with The Gatherings of Oxfordshire collected by Richard Lee in 1574. (1871) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 5.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - Frederic William Weaver, ed., The Visitations of the County of Somerset, In the Years 1531 and 1573, together with Additional Pedigrees, chiefly from the Visitation of 1591. (1885) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - H. Sydney Grazebrook, ed., The Visitacion of Staffordschire made ... 1583. (1883) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - H. Sydney Grazebrook, ed., The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire made ... in 1614, and ... in the years 1663 and 1664. (1885) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Sir George J. Armytage and W. Harry Rylands, eds, Staffordshire Pedigrees based on the visitation of that county made ... in the years 1663-1664, from the original manuscript written by Gregory King ... (1912) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 63.
  - Sir George J. Armytage, ed., A Visitation of the County of Surrey, ... [1662-1668] (1910) (UK Genealogy Archives)
    Harleian Society, volume 60.
  - W. Bruce Bannerman, ed., The Visitations of the County of Sussex, Made and taken in the years 1530 ... And 1633-4 ... (1905) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 53.
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - W. Harry Rylands, ed., The Visitation of the County of Warwick ... [1682-1683] (1911) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Harleian Society, volume 62.
  - Walter C. Metcalfe, ed., The Visitation of Wiltshire 1565 ... together with Additional Wiltshire Pedigrees ... (1897) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - [Sir Thomas Phillipps, ed.] Visitatio Heraldica Comitatus Wiltoniae, A.D. 1623. (1828) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - George W. Marshall, ed., The Visitation of Wiltshire 1623. (1882) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive; UK Genealogy Archives.]
  - J. W. Clay, ed., Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions. [1665-1666] (1894) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Medieval English families on the Internet:
- C:
  - Chasteleyn (Joe Cochoit)
    Article on the Le Chasteleyn family of Suffolk and Somerset, 12th to 14th centuries.
  - Armorial pedigree of the Cornwallis family (Seax - Essex Archives Online)
    Image of a pedigree showing the ancestry of the Cornwallis family, 14th century and later, drawn up in 1560.
- D:
  - F. N. MacNamara, Memorials of the Danvers Family (of Dauntsey and Culworth). (1895) (Internet Archive- Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
- G:
  - Sir George Duckett, Observations on the Parentage of Gundreda, the Daughter of William Duke of Normandy, and Wife of William de Warenne. (1878) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Reprinted with additions from the Cumberland and Westmorland Society's Translations, volume 3 (1878).
  - Edward A. Freeman, The Parentage of Gundrada, wife of William of Warren. (1888) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    From English Historical Review, volume 3, pages 680-701 (1888).
    [Other copies at: Wikimedia Commons; Wikipedia.]
  - M. A. Lower, Report on the Antiquities lately found at Lewes. (1845) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    Journal of the British Archaeological Association, volume 1, pages 346-353 (1845).
Links:
- Genealogical databases:
  - Janet Ariciu family Bush (Janet Ariciu, Rootsweb)
- Medieval (and early modern) armorials:
  - Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The Siege of Carlaverock in the XXVIII Edward I. A.D. MCCC ... [1300] (1828) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    French text of the poem illustrated with shields of arms, and English translation. With extensive historical and biographical notes.
- Links to some useful societies and journals:
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. New series, volume 1. (1874) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. New series, volume 2. (1876) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. New series, volume 3. (1880) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. New series, volume 4. (1884) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Second series, volume 1. (1886) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Second series, volume 2. (1888) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Second series, volume 3. (1890) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Second series, volume 4. (1892) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Second series, volume 5. (1894) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Third series, volume 1. (1896) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Third series, volume 2. (1898) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Third series, volume 3. (1900) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Third series, volume 4. (1902) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Third series, volume 5. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fourth series, volume 1. (1906) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fourth series, volume 2. (1908) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Victoria County History:
- Older County Histories:
  - Sir William Pole, Collections towards a description of the County of Devon. (1791) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  - Samuel Rudder, A new history of Gloucestershire. (1779) (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated links

A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Public records: Subsidies and other taxes:
  - Gazetteer of Military Levies from the City of London, 1509-1603 (Dr. Ian W. Archer, Keble College, Oxford)
    Although it contains no names of individuals, this is a very extensive list, with full details and references to manuscript and published sources for each levy.
- Miscellaneous sources:
  - Featherbedds and Flock Bedds (The Upholders' Company)
    A detailed history of the company, mentioning a number of medieval upholders (i.e. upholsterers)
Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts: by author, A-G:
  - De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (On the Laws and Customs of England) (Cornell Law School and collaborators)
    Latin text of George Woodbine, and English translation by S. E. Thorne.
- Medieval and early modern texts: by author, O-Z:
  - Dudo of St Quentin, Gesta Normannorum (ORB Online Library)
    English translation by Felice Lifshitz. Note that the Latin transcription is missing from the ORB site, so it has been made available by the author, together with an introduction and glossary, on her website.
- County and local history:
  - Great Dunmow: Essex Voices Past (Kate D)
    Blog dealing with the history of Great Dunmow between the late 15th and the 17th centuries. It includes images and transcripts (in progress) of the churchwardens' accounts for 1526-1621.
  - Hawkesbury History (Robert Millard)
    Includes a large number of abstracts, many of them medieval, in the Documents Index section; also a brief history, the texts of books on local history, extracts from the Domesday Book and from Bigland's Collections, transcripts of wills and the Military Survey of 1522. Also covers Didmarton, Oldbury on the Hill and Tormarton. (This replaces the website of the Hawkesbury and Hillesley Family History, formerly at http://www.hawkesburyfamilyhistory.co.uk/index.html).
  - Blanche's Yorkshire Tenants / Fieldnames (Ruth E. Richardson, Blanche Parry)
    Lists of tenants in Wheldrake, East Riding of Yorkshire, in the 16th century.
- Public records: Chancery and other equity suits:
  - Elizabethan Star Chamber Project (WAALT: the Wiki for the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Website)
    Listing of cases, in progress, from STAC 5. Unlike the National Archives catalogue, the list includes forenames. This continues the work begun by the University of Hull State Papers Project.
- Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
  - Elizabethan State Papers Project (WAALT: the Wiki for the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Website)
    Lists and transcriptions of documents from State Papers Domestic Elizabeth (SP 12), the Lansdowne Manuscripts at the British Library and the Cecil Papers at Hatfield House. This continues the work begun by the University of Hull State Papers Project. Some material on the old site has not yet been uploaded to WAALT.
- Probate records:
  - [Prerogative Court of Canterbury] Wills 1384-1858 (The National Archives)
    Images of registered wills available as pay-per-view, with a free index. Unfortunately the index is not very accurate for the earlier part of this period. Although wildcards can be used to try to find mistranscribed names, the indexes published by the British Record Society should still be checked for safety.
    The PCC was the highest probate court in England, and most of those with higher social status tended to have their wills proved there.
Medieval English families on the Internet:
- T:
  - English Thrale family history (Thrale.com)
    Notes on the Thrale family of Thrale's End, Bedfordshire, from the 14th century, and later of Sandridge, Hertfordshire. On the same site is the text and a pedigree from J. H. Busby, The Hertfordshire Descent of Henry Thrale, published in Notes & Queries (1948), relating to the same family.
Links:
- Links to some useful societies and journals:
  - Devonshire Association
  - Nottingham Medieval Studies Journal (The Institute of Medieval Studies, Nottingham University)
    Includes Lists of contents of vols 1-52 (1957-2008).