Grantees of offices, commissions and pardons
(1350-1354) The Patent Rolls are the Chancery enrolments of royal letters patent. Those for the 24th to the 27th years of the reign of king Edward III (25 January 1350 to 24 January 1354) were edited for the Public Record Office by R. F. Isaacson, and published in 1907. The main contents are royal commissions and grants; ratifications of ecclesiastical estates; writs of aid to royal servants and purveyors; and pardons. WALKAR. Cost: £2.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Agbrigg Ash wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Dewsbury, Huddersfield and Wakefield.WALKAR. 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.WALKAR. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Skyrack wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Bingley and Otley.WALKAR. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Staincross wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Penistone and Barnsley.WALKAR. 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.WALKAR. 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.WALKAR. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Douglas family charters
(1150-1400) The register of the more ancient writs of the Douglases of Dalkeith, Midlothian, Earls of Morton is probably the oldest chartulary of lay possessions in Scotland, and contains about 300 charters. It was edited by C. Innes and published by the Bannatyne Club in 1853 as part II of the Registrum Honoris de Morton. The names that occur are principally those of grantors, grantees and witnesses, mostly from Midlothian.WALKAR. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Sheffield in Yorkshire
(1440-1441) The Duchess of Norfolk allowed T. Walter Hall to examine the early archives of her Sheffield estates, and in 1926 he published a volume including abstracts (in translation) of the Sheffield manor court roll from October 1440 to September 1441. In this roll was also the Sheriff's tourn 18 April 1441 of the superior jurisdiction of Hallamshire, covering the sokes of Sheffield, Hannesworth, Bradfield, Southawe and Ecclesfield; and this is also printed. Hall found fragments of a Bradfield court roll of 1385; and devoted the latter half of his book to extracts from the Register of Copyholders' Surrenders, showing surrenders and admittances of copyhold tenants of the manor of Sheffield from 1403 to 1634; plus some miscellaneous deeds and documents relating to the manor and to Hallamshire. The index covers all these.WALKAR. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clergy, the religious and the faithful in Britain and Ireland
(1458-1471) These are abstracts of the entries relating to Great Britain and Ireland from the Lateran and Vatican Regesta of popes Pius II and Paul II. 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. Many of the names in the text were clearly a puzzle to the scribes in Rome, and spelling of British and Irish placenames and surnames is chaotic.WALKAR. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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