Medieval English genealogy: updates: 29 May 2009

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Contents:

• News
• New material
• New links
• Updated links
• Missing links

News

Professor Robert Palmer's huge Anglo-American Legal Tradition project, in which medieval English legal records are being photographed and made available through the Internet, has continued to make rapid progress. By the end of the Summer, the website will contain nearly 4 million images. The project licence has recently been extended to cover two additional series of records, including C 1 (early Chancery proceedings). However, the initial funding for this work has almost been exhausted, and further support is being sought for the acquisition of a further 4 million images over the next three years, which would complete all the series that are currently licensed.

To strengthen the case for further funding, Prof. Palmer is inviting comments from those who have used the site, and is also seeking established academics from major institutions who would be prepared to write letters of recommendation. Further details can be found here. I should emphasise that Prof. Palmer has been extremely helpful to me in photographing many thousands of feet of fines, to which I have links on this site. I know he has been similarly helpful to others working on feet of fines.

Brief abstracts of the Kent feet of fines of the reign of Richard II (1377-1399), edited by Duncan Harrington, have recently been published by the Kent Archaeological Society (Kent Records, new series, volume 4, parts 4-8, to be concluded in part 9 and indexed in part 10). Further details can be found on the Society's website. Also in preparation for publication in the same series are the Kent feet of fines for 1333-1377 and 1399-1422.

New material

In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines for Nottinghamshire (1390-1509) (199 fines) have been added.

New links

I am very grateful to Peter G. R. Howarth for suggesting a number of additional sources for and amendments to the text of the Links and bibliography for heraldry page.

• A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
  • Public records: Pipe rolls:
    • Introduction to the Study of the Pipe Rolls. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Pipe Roll Society, volume 3 (1884).
• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Medieval and early modern texts: by author, A-G:
    • Edward Kylie, translator and editor, The English Correspondence of Saint Boniface ... (1911) (Susan Rhoads, Elfinspell)
      English translation of correspondence of the eighth-century missionary to the Germans.
  • Medieval and early modern texts: by subject:
    • Stephen: Richard Clarke Sewell, ed., Gesta Stephani: regis Anglorum, et ducis Normannorum ... (1846)
      Latin transcript
      [Other copies at: Google Book Search:  1 ;  2  [Hints and tips].]
  • County and local history:
    • William Farrer, Feudal Cambridgeshire. (1920) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 1. (1797) (British History Online)
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 2. (1797) (British History Online)
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 3. (1797) (British History Online)
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 4. (1798) (British History Online)
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 5. (1798) (British History Online)
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 6. (1798) (British History Online)
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 7. (1798) (British History Online)
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 8. (1799) (British History Online)
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 9. (1800) (British History Online)
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 10. (1800) (British History Online)
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 11. (1800) (British History Online)
    • Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 12. (1800) (British History Online)
      [Other copies at: Google Book Search:  1 ;  2  [Hints and tips].]
    • Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, ed., A Survey of London by John Stow. Volume 1. (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, ed., A Survey of London by John Stow. Volume 2. (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  • Public records: Pipe rolls:
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the fifth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1158-1159. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 1 (1884).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the sixth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1159-1160. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 2 (1884).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the seventh year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1160-1161. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 4 (1885).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the eighth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1161-1162. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 5 (1885).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the ninth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1162-1163. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 6 (1886).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the tenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1163-1164. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 7 (1886).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the eleventh year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1164-1165. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 8 (1887).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the twelfth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1165-1166. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 9 (1888).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the thirteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1166-1167. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 11 (1889).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the fourteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1167-1168. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 12 (1890).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the fifteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1168-1169. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 13 (1890).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the sixteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1169-1170. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 15 (1892).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the seventeenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1170-1. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 16 (1893).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the eighteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1171-2. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 18 (1894).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the nineteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1172-3. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 19 (1895).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the twentieth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1173-1174. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 21 (1896).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the twenty-first year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1174-1175. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 22 (1897).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1180-1181. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 30 (1909).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1181-1182. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 31 (1910).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the twenty-ninth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1182-1183. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 32 (1911).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the thirtieth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1183-1184. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 33 (1912).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the thirty-first year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1184-1185. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 34 (1913).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the thirty-second year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1185-1186. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 36 (1914).
    • The Great roll of the pipe for the thirty-third year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1186-1187. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 37 (1915).
    • Thomas Stapleton, ed., Magni rotuli scaccarii Normanniae. Volume 2. (1844) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
      Latin transcript in record type, with lengthy "observations".
  • Public records: Common law records:
    • Three rolls of the king's court in the reign of King Richard the First, A.D. 1194-1195. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
      Curia regis rolls 1, 3 and 4. Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 14 (1891).
  • Public records: Feet of fines:
    • Sir John Maclean, Pedes Finium or excerpts from the Feet of Fines for the County of Gloucester from the 7th John to the 57th Henry III (Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society)
      English abstracts, from Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, volume 16, pages 183-195 (1891-92).
  • Public records: Chancery rolls:
    • Calendar of the liberate rolls ... Henry III. Volume 2. A.D. 1240-1245. (1930) (Digital General Collection, University of Michigan)
      English abstracts.
    • Calendar of the liberate rolls ... Henry III. Volume 3. A.D. 1245-1251. (1937) (Digital General Collection, University of Michigan)
      English abstracts.
    • Calendar of the liberate rolls ... Volume 4. 1251-1260. (1959) (Digital General Collection, University of Michigan)
      English abstracts.
    • Calendar of the liberate rolls ... Volume 5. 1260-1267. (1961) (Digital General Collection, University of Michigan)
      English abstracts.
    • Calendar of the liberate rolls ... Volume 6. 1267-1272 with Appendices 1220-1267. (1964) (Digital General Collection, University of Michigan)
      English abstracts.
  • Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
    • Thomas Rymer, Foedera, conventiones, literae, et cujuscunque generis acta publica ... ("Rymer's foedera"), Volume 3, parts 1 and 2 (3rd edn, 1740) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  • Charters:
    • Spotland: Medieval Deeds from Chetham's Library (Medieval Documentation for Salford Hundred)
      Scans of medieval deeds relating to Spotland (in Rochdale), Lancashire.
    • W. A. Hulton, ed., The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey, volume 3 (1848) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
      Chetham Society, old series, volume 16. Latin transcript.
      [Other copies at: Google Book Search:  1 ;  2  [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ; Grimshaw Origins and History.]
  • Church records and religious houses:
    • Barnwell: John Willis Clark, ed., Liber Memorandorum Ecclesie de Bernewelle. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Latin transcript.
      [Other copies at: Google Book Search [Hints and tips].]
• Links:
  • Medieval (and early modern) armorials:
    • C. Hunter Blair, The Armorials of Northumberland: an Index and an Ordinary (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Archaeologia aeliana, 3rd series, volume 6, pp. 89-190 (1910).
    • J. Foster, Two Tudor books of arms. Harleian MSS. Nos. 2169 & 6163. ([London,] 1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Introduction, transcript and illustrations: Randle Holme's Book (temp. Henry VI) and Peter le Neve's Book (c.1480-1500).
    • Thomas Willement, ed., A roll of arms of the reign of Richard the Second. (London, 1834) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Introduction and transcript: Willement's Roll (c.1395).
  • Seals:
    • Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. Volume 1. (1887) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Seals of England and Wales: sovereigns, royal officers, ecclesiastical.
      [Other copies at: Google Book Search [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
    • Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. Volume 2. (1892) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Seals of England and Wales: local, princes of Wales, equestrian, noble and other ladies, heraldic A-F.
      [Other copies at: Google Book Search [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
    • Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. Volume 4. (1895) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Seals of Scotland and Ireland.
      [Other copies at: Google Book Search:  1 ;  2  [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
    • Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. Volume 5. (1898) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Seals of the Byzantine Empire and of France.
      [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
    • Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. Volume 6. (1900) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Seals of foreign countries.
      [Other copies at: Google Book Search:  1 ;  2  [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
    • [Louis] Douët d'Arcq, Inventaires et documents publiés par ordre de l'Empereur sous la direction de M. le comte de Laborde. Collection de sceaux. Volume 1. (1863) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • [Louis] Douët d'Arcq, Inventaires et documents publiés par ordre de l'Empereur sous la direction de M. le comte de Laborde. Collection de sceaux. Volume 2. (1867) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • [Louis] Douët d'Arcq, Inventaires et documents publiés par ordre de l'Empereur sous la direction de M. le comte de Laborde. Collection de sceaux. Volume 3. (1868) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Walter de Gray Birch, History of Scottish seals from the eleventh to the seventeenth century ... Volume 1. The royal seals of Scotland. (1905) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      [Other copies at: Google Book Search [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
    • Walter de Gray Birch, History of Scottish seals from the eleventh to the seventeenth century ... Volume 2. Ecclesiastical and monastic seals of Scotland. (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      [Other copies at: Google Book Search [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
    • Henry Laing, Descriptive Catalogue of Impressions from Ancient Scottish Seals. (Bannatyne Club, 1850) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • William Rae Macdonald, Scottish Armorial Seals. (1904) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)

Updated links

• A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
  • Published works, bibliographies and indexes:
    • Burke's Peerage and Gentry
  • Chronology and dating:
    • Abbots and Deans of Westminster (Westminster Abbey - The Library and Archives)
• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • County and local history:
    • The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society On-line Publications
      Includes contents pages, general index and articles from the Society's Transactions, and searchable text of An Historical Gazetteer of Cheltenham (Record Series, volume 8).
    • Bath Past: The history of Bath, United Kingdom (Jean Manco)
      A collection of short articles about the history of Bath, including sections on Saxon, Medieval, Tudor & Stuart and Bath Abbey.
    • 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).
  • Public records: Common law records:
    • Emmison's Elizabethan Life [Essex]: Disorder and Home, Work and Land (Mike Foster, GENUKI)
      Indexes to names from F. G. Emmison's Elizabethan life series, from Disorder: mainly from Essex Sessions and Assize records (1970) and Home, work & land: from Essex wills and sessions and manorial records (1976).
  • Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
    • Volume 3, parts 1 and 2 (3rd edn, 1740) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  • Manorial records:
    • 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).
  • Probate records:
    • Emmison's Elizabethan Life [Essex]: Home, Work and Land, The wills of Gentry, The wills of Merchants and The wills of Yeomen (Mike Foster, GENUKI)
      Indexes to names from F. G. Emmison's Elizabethan life series - the first from Home, work & land: from Essex wills and sessions and manorial records (1976), and the other three from Wills of Essex gentry & yeomen preserved in the Essex Record Office (1980).
    • Transcript of the will of Laurence Lyndley of Leathley, Yorkshire, 1557 (Ronald A. Cawthorn)
  • Church records and religious houses:
    • Emmison's Elizabethan Life [Essex]: Morals and the Church Courts (Mike Foster, GENUKI)
      Index to names from F. G. Emmison's Elizabethan life: morals and the Church Courts, mainly from Essex Archidiaconal records (1973).
• Medieval English families on the Internet:
  • B:
    • Ballard Genealogy and Heraldry (Paul Ballard)
      Collection of material including narrative pedigrees from Kent, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, heraldry, and - in the "Archives" section - inquisitions post mortem, wills, chancery rolls, and chancery and star chamber records.
    • Origins of the Bicknell family in North America ... (Laurence Cook)
      Articles discussing the Somerset Bicknells, 13th-16th centuries.
  • D:
    • The Dimmick (Dymokes) Story and More Dymokes History (Marc Dimmick)
      Notes on the Dymokes of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, 14th century and later, from Dymock down the ages by J.E. Gethyn Jones.
  • N:
    • The Family of "le Norreys" (Steven D. Norris, Norris Families in America)
      Very detailed account of the family, Lancashire and other counties, 12th century and later.
    • The Beginnings of the Norris Family in Europe (Steven D. Norris, Norris Families in America)
      Very detailed account of individuals named de Noers, various counties, 11th to 15th centuries.
  • R:
    • British Royalty: The Royal Lineage (Burke's Peerage and Gentry)
      Narrative pedigree of the monarchs of England and Scotland, presented as a free sample of the subscription database available at the same site.
  • S:
    • The Sackett Family Association (Chris Sackett)
      Includes notes on the origin of the surname, and on Sacketts in Kent and elsewhere, 14th century and later.
    • Saunders of Pentre, Tymawr, and Glanrhydw (Ivan Sanders)
      Occurrences of the surname in Surrey and elsewhere, 13th century and later; a paper by Francis Green from the Historical Society of West Wales Transactions (1913).
    • The Smythe Family of Essex, 1500-1600 (Vaughn Baker/Pat Patterson)
      Biographical notes on Thomas Smith of Essex (1513-1577), with a note on two other Thomas Smiths of Berkshire.
• Links:
  • Miscellaneous:
    • Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles (Jean Manco)
      Extensive collection of bibliography and links, many relevant to genealogy as well as architecture.
  • Heraldry:
    • Guide to Heraldic Terms (Burke's Peerage and Gentry)
      Glossary from the 106th Edition of Burke's Peerage and Baronetage.
  • Seals:
    • Medieval Seals (Durham University)
      Photographs of more 60 seals from the cathedral muniments
  • Links to some useful societies and journals:
    • Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge University Press)
      Included in the Royal Historical Society's Bibliography of British and Irish History from volume 1 (1972) onwards.
    • Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
      Includes online access to the Society's Transactions, vols 1-124 (1876-2006), with an index to vols 1-120 (1876-2002), and other resources.
    • Harleian Society
      Includes a list of publications, with links to copies available for sale - either originals or CDs.
    • Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society
      The Society's Transactions are included in the Royal Historical Society's Bibliography of British and Irish History from volume 1 (1877) onwards (extracts).

Missing links

The following pages have recently become unavailable. Links to copies in the Internet Archive have been added. If anyone can tell me their current whereabouts I'll be very grateful.

• Edvin Loach (Roger Loach)
  [formerly at http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/Loach/precis.html]
• Northamptonshire by Postcards and Books (Paul Isaac)
  [formerly at http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/]
• The Origins of the Tew Name and Family (Alan Tew)
  [formerly at http://www.redflag.co.uk/ftree/tews.htm]