Patent Rolls: entries for Hertfordshire
(1278-1279) Calendars of the patent rolls of the reign of king Edward I are printed in the Calendars of State Papers: but these cover only a fraction of the material on the rolls. From 1881 to 1889 the reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Record Office also include calendars of other material from the rolls - about five times as many entries as in the State Papers - predominantly mandates to the royal justices to hold sessions of oyer and terminer to resolve cases arising locally; but also other general business. The calendar for the 7th year of king Edward I [20 November 1278 to 19 November 1279], hitherto unindexed, is covered here.PUTTENHAM. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Close Rolls
(1429-1435) The close rolls of the 8th to 13th 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. Also included is the Exchange Roll of 1424 to 1434, of licences to transmit sums of money out of the realm.PUTTENHAM. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Close Rolls
(1441-1447) The close rolls of the 20th to 25th 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. PUTTENHAM. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Bedfordshire Pedes Finium (1504) Sales of land were registered by means of fictitious suits of covenant entered in the Common Pleas, the details of which were recorded in separate parchment indentures called Feet of Fines or Pedes Finium. This calendar gives an abstract of each deed: in most cases the seller is the deforciant, the purchaser is the plaintiff, and the land is described in the broadest terms, as so many messuages, tofts, gardens, acres of (arable) land, meadow, pasture, woodland, furze and heath, rents &c. The properties range from large manors to single houses or plots of land. The calendar is indexed by the surnames of sellers, purchasers and trustees.
PUTTENHAM. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Inhabitants of Calais, and visitors
(1485-1543) Richard Turpyn, a burgess of Calais, the English enclave on the French coast, compiled (or possessed) a chronicle of events there from 1485 to 1540, a copy of which survived among the Stowe manuscripts in the Harleian collection in the British Museum. This was edited for the Camden Society, together with a number of other papers relating to events in Calais in that period, by John Gough Nichols, and printed in 1846. Many of the persons named in the resulting book are knights and noblemen attending king Henry VII and king Henry VIII when on the Continent on diplomatic or marital business; but there is also a muster roll of the garrison of Calais of 1533 (136-139).PUTTENHAM. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
London and Middlesex Feet of Fines
(1485-1569) Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership of land in London and Middlesex.PUTTENHAM. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Liegemen and Traitors, Pirates and Spies
(1558-1570) The Privy Council of queen Elizabeth was responsible for internal security in England and Wales, and dealt with all manner of special and urgent matters
PUTTENHAM. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Liegemen and Traitors, Pirates and Spies
(1571-1575) The Privy Council of queen Elizabeth was responsible for internal security in England and Wales, and dealt with all manner of special and urgent matters
PUTTENHAM. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Liegemen and Traitors, Pirates and Spies
(1575-1577) The Privy Council of queen Elizabeth was responsible for internal security in England and Wales, and dealt with all manner of special and urgent matters
PUTTENHAM. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Liegemen and Traitors, Pirates and Spies
(1577-1578) The Privy Council of queen Elizabeth was responsible for internal security in England and Wales, and dealt with all manner of special and urgent matters
PUTTENHAM. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Research your ancestry, family history, genealogy and one-name study by direct access to original records and archives indexed by surname.