Medieval English genealogy: updates: 30 March 2025

This page contains brief details of the latest batch of updates to the site, and includes newly added and updated links. For brief details of these and older additions - without links, to make site maintenance easier - see the what's new page.

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Contents:

• News
• New material
• New links
• Updated links

News

The Complete Peerage has long been one of the most respected works on medieval English genealogy. The second edition was published between 1910 and 1959, and a volume of addenda and corrigenda followed in 1998. Now a fully revised and updated third edition is in preparation by Alan Sutton Publishing, and the first volumes are due to appear in May this year. Full details of the project are available in the publisher's Prospectus. It is planned that there will be 18 volumes in all, to be published in six groups of three volumes each, between 2025 and 2027. The first impression will be limited to 150 sets. Also from 2027, an online edition will be available as a subscription service. There will also be a free online version with limited content.

I am very sorry to say that Stephen Swailes died in September 2024. Over a long period Stephen had most generously provided transcripts of many Northamptonshire records to be made available through this website, for which I was very grateful. Links to the records which Stephen transcribed can be found here.

New material

I am grateful to Jim Poynor for sending me photographs of another charter:

• Grant by Christopher Worthyngton of messuage and lands in Ince-in-Makerfield [Lancashire], 1522

Since the last update of this website, some additions have been made to the two searchable databases of material on the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website. In the AALT Lists and Indexes database database, 10 new indexes of King's Bench (KB 27) plea rolls by Vance Mead have been added, from the period 1460-1479. Also, the Plea Roll database, which originally covered only the Court of Common Pleas (CP 40), has been extended by adding 26 of Vance's indexes for KB 27, from the period 1460-1494. All the KB 27 indexes are already included in the AALT Lists and Indexes database, but the Plea Roll database offers a more powerful search facility because surnames, forenames and place-names can be specified, rather than simply keywords. (I intend to add the rest of the KB 27 indexes as time permits.)

New links

• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Medieval and early modern texts: by author, A-G:
    • Edward Maunde Thompson, ed., Adæ Murimuth continuatio chronicarum. Robertus de Avesbury De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii. (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Rolls Series number 93. Latin texts of chronicles covering 1303-1346 (Murimuth) and 1308-1357 (Avesbury).
  • Medieval and early modern texts: by author, H-N:
    • Edward Maunde Thompson, ed., Adæ Murimuth continuatio chronicarum. Robertus de Avesbury De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii. (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Rolls Series number 93. Latin texts of chronicles covering 1303-1346 (Murimuth) and 1308-1357 (Avesbury).
  • Public records: Feet of fines:
    • Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Journal (Archaeology Data Service)
      Volumes 14-17, 19 and 20 include abstracts of 18th-century Berkshire feet of fines.
    • C. A. F. Meekings, ed., Abstracts of Surrey Feet of Fines 1509-1558. (1946; reprint, 1968)
      English abstracts; with indexes of names and places. Includes Divers Counties.
  • Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
    • Rosemary Horrox and P. W. Hammond, eds, British Library Harleian Manuscript 433 (4 volumes, 1979-1983) (Richard III Society)
      Transcripts of grants issued under the signet seal from the reigns of Edward V and Richard III, and registers and other records of the signet office.
  • Charters:
    • Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 4. The Honour of Richmond. Part 1. (1935) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 5. The Honour of Richmond. Part 2. (1936) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 6. The Paynel Fee. (1939) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 7. The Honour of Skipton. (1947) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 8. The Honour of Warenne. (1949) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 9. The Stuteville Fee. (1952) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 10. The Trussebut Fee. (1955) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 11. The Percy Fee. (1963) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Charles Travis Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters. Volume 12. The Tison Fee. (1965) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Charles Travis Clay and Edith Margaret Clay, compilers, Early Yorkshire Charters. Volumes 1-3. A consolidated index of persons and places. (1942) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Grant by Christopher Worthyngton of messuage and lands in Ince-in-Makerfield [Lancashire], 1522 (Jim Poynor, this site)
      Photographs of document and seal and abstract.
    • J. G. Jenkins, ed., The cartulary of Missenden Abbey. Part 1. (1938) (Buckinghamshire Record Society)
      Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, Records Branch, volume 2. Latin transcripts.
    • J. G. Jenkins, ed., The Missenden cartulary. Part 2. (1955) (Buckinghamshire Record Society)
      Buckinghamshire Record Society, volume 10. Latin transcripts.
    • J. G. Jenkins, ed., The cartulary of Missenden Abbey. Part 3. (1962) (Buckinghamshire Record Society)
      Buckinghamshire Record Society, volume 12 / Historical Manuscripts Commission, Joint Publication number 1. Latin transcripts.
  • Miscellaneous:
    • Casebooks (University of Cambridge)
      A digital archive of the medical records of over 60,000 people mentioned in the casebooks of the astrologers Simon Forman, Richard Napier, and their associates, around the year 1600.
• Victoria County History:
  • Older County Histories:
    • Joseph Hunter South Yorkshire. The history and topography of the deanery of Doncaster. Volume 1. (1828) (HathiTrust)
      [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
    • Joseph Hunter South Yorkshire. The history and topography of the deanery of Doncaster. Volume 2. (1831) (HathiTrust)
      [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]

Updated links

• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Church records and religious houses:
    • Papal Dispensations for Marriage (Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies, Strathclyde University / Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
      Online database of papal dispensations of marriage, initially compiled from the published volumes of papal letters relating to Great Britain and Ireland (1198-1534).
  • Urban and guild records:
    • York Bridgemasters' Accounts (York Archaeological Trust)
      Translations by Philip M. Stell of the surviving 15th-century accounts of the Ouse and Foss Bridges (PDF files), from volume 2 of The Archaeology of York series (Historical Sources for York Archaeology after AD 1100). The accounts are not indexed, but there is an alphabetical list of the names that occur, and the individual files are searchable.
• Medieval English families on the Internet:
  • B:
    • The Bluets - a baronial family and their historical connections 1066-1400 (Tony Pratt and Karen Repko, kingrichard3.com)
      Extensive history of the Bluet family associated with the manor of Lackham, in Lacock, Wiltshire.
• Links:
  • Modern ordinaries:
    • Hubert Chesshyre and Thomas Woodcock, editors, Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary. Volume 1. [Uncharged, then A - Bend between ...] (1992) (OAPEN Library)
    • Thomas Woodcock, Janet Grant and Ian Graham, editors, Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary. Volume 2. [On a Bend ... - Chevron.] (1996) (OAPEN Library)
    • Thomas Woodcock and Sarah Flower, editors, Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary. Volume 3. [Chief - Fess.] (2009) (OAPEN Library)
    • Thomas Woodcock and Sarah Flower, editors, Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary. Volume 4. [Fetterlock - Wreath.] (2014) (OAPEN Library)
  • Links to some useful societies and journals:
    • 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.