Medieval English genealogy: updates: 28 April 2013

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News

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

Updated links