Medieval English genealogy: updates: 18 December 2009

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News

Two new volumes in the Victoria County History series have recently appeared - Middlesex, volume 13, part 1, "The City of Westminster: Landownership and Religious History", and Sussex, volume 5, part 2, covering twelve parishes in the Littlehampton district.
[Further details can be found on the website of the publishers: Middlesex, volume 13, part 1 and Sussex, volume 5, part 2.]

Another recent publication is the third volume in the Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary series from the Society of Antiquaries of London. This is an ordinary of arms compiled from medieval sources, projected to be completed in four volumes. The new volume covers blazons lying alphabetically between Chief and Fess.
[Further details can be found on the website of the publishers.]

Sadly, a useful online resource, the Royal Historical Society Bibliography, is to be withdrawn at the end of this month, and replaced with a service costing £110 a year for an individual subscription. It's a shame that the bibliography will become effectively inaccessible to the general public, especially as it benefited from substantial state funding during the course of its compilation.

On a more positive note, the Internet Archive has recently made available online the first 12 volumes of the Calendar of inquisitions post mortem (with the exception of volume 10), which extend as far as 1370. There is already good coverage (albeit with a few gaps) of the calendars of close, fine and patent rolls at the Internet Archive and on the website of the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, which means that many of the most important published primary sources for medieval English genealogy are now freely accessible. Links to all of these are included in the Medieval source material on the internet section of this website.

New material

In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines for Kent (1461-1485) (348 fines) have been added.

New links

Updated links

Missing links

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