Fine Rolls
(1369-1377)
The fine rolls of the 43rd to 51st years of the reign of king Edward III record part of the government administration in England, with orders sent out day by day to individual officers, and commitment of particular responsibilities and duties. There is also some material relating to Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the English possessions in France. WATTESON. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Claro wapentake
(1379)
The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Aldborough, Boroughbridge, Knaresborough and Wetherby.WATTESON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Osgoldcross wapentake
(1379)
The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Pontefract.WATTESON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Strafforth wapentake
(1379)
The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Rotherham and Sheffield.WATTESON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: The Ainsty
(1379)
The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around the city of York.WATTESON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Tickhill wapentake
(1379)
The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Tickhill.WATTESON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Harthill wapentake
(1380)
The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Market Weighton, Pocklington and South Cave.WATTESON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clergy, the religious and the faithful in Britain and Ireland
(1362-1404)
These are abstracts of the entries relating to Great Britain and Ireland from the Regesta of popes Urban V, Gregory XI, (Anti-Pope) Clement VII, Urban VI and Boniface IX, and the Lateran Regesta of Boniface IX. Many of these entries relate to clerical appointments and disputes, but there are also indults to devout laymen and women for portable altars, remission of sins, &c. This source is particularly valuable for Ireland, for which many of the key government records of this period are lost. Urban V was consecrated and crowned 6 November 1362 (the day from which his pontificate is dated); Gregory XI was crowned 5 January 1371; Clement VII 31 October 1378; Urban VI 18 April 1378; Boniface IX 9 November 1389 and died 1 October 1404. Until 1376 the papacy was in exile at Avignon. The extracts were made by W. H. Bliss from Regesta ccxlv to cccxx and Lateran Regesta i to xliii, and published in 1902. Bliss remarked that 'although the writing of the Papal Registers of the 14th century is clearer than that of many contemporary English MSS., the entries in them were for the most part founded upon petitions or letters from different countries, and the scribes in the Papal Chancery must have experienced even greater difficulty in copying English proper names than English students experience nowadays in reading the early Chancery Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Not having local or personal knowledge, they constantly misread doubtful letters.'WATTESON. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Close Rolls
(1447-1454)
The close rolls of the 26th to 32nd years of the reign of king Henry VI record the main artery of government administration in England, the orders sent out day by day to individual officers, especially sheriffs of shires: they are an exceptionally rich source for so early a period. There is also some material relating to Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the English possessions in France. WATTESON. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Tradesmen of Lynn in Norfolk
(1292-1836)
Lists of admissions of freemen of Lynn from the earliest surviving records to 1836 were published by the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society in 1913. These lists were extracted from the tallage rolls of 1291 to 1306; the Red Register of Lynn from 1342 to 1395; from the assembly rolls for the reigns of Henry IV and V [1399 to 1422]; from the hall books from 1423; and from a list of freemen starting in 1443 in the Book of Oaths (but itself abstracted from entries in the hall books). Freedom of the borough, necessary to practise a trade there, could be obtained by birth (in which case the father's name and occupation are usually given); by apprenticeship to a freeman (the master's name and occupation being given); by gratuity; or by purchase. Both the freemen and the masters listed are indexed here. The main abbreviations used are: B., freedom taken up by right of birth; A., freedom taken up by right of apprenticeship; G., freedom granted by order of assembly (gratuity); and P., freedom acquired by purchase.WATTESON. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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