Patent Rolls: entries for Nottinghamshire
(1277-1278) 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 6th year of king Edward I [20 November 1277 to 19 November 1278], hitherto unindexed, is covered here.WHIPPE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patent Rolls: entries for Warwickshire
(1277-1278) 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 6th year of king Edward I [20 November 1277 to 19 November 1278], hitherto unindexed, is covered here.WHIPPE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clerks and Clergy in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucestershire
(1327-1344) The register of bishop Thomas de Charleton of Hereford, containing general diocesan business, but also including ordination lists for monks and clergy. Only a small proportion of the clerks went on to acquire benefices and remained celibate. Hereford diocese covered almost all Herefordshire, southern rural Shropshire, a westward arm of Worcestershire, and a northwestern slice of Gloucestershire.WHIPPE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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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. WHIPPE. Cost: £2.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clerks and Clergy in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucestershire
(1344-1360) The register of bishop John de Trillek of Hereford, containing general diocesan business, but also including ordination lists for monks and clergy. Only a small proportion of the clerks went on to acquire benefices and remained celibate. Hereford diocese covered almost all Herefordshire, southern rural Shropshire, a westward arm of Worcestershire, and a northwestern slice of Gloucestershire.WHIPPE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clerks and Clergy in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucestershire
(1361-1370) The register of bishop Louis de Charltone of Hereford, containing general diocesan business, but also including ordination lists for monks and clergy. Only a small proportion of the clerks went on to acquire benefices and remained celibate. Hereford diocese covered almost all Herefordshire, southern rural Shropshire, a westward arm of Worcestershire, and a northwestern slice of Gloucestershire.WHIPPE. Cost: £6.00.  | 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.WHIPPE. 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.WHIPPE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Norfolk Feet of Fines
(1307-1485) Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership of land in Norfolk. These abstracts were prepared by Walter Rye.WHIPPE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Lancashire Feet of Fines
(1377-1509) Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership of land in Lancashire. These abstracts were prepared by William Farrer for the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society and published in 1905, under the title 'Final Concords of the County of Lancaster, from the Original Chirographs, or Feet of Fines, preserved amongst the Palatinate of Lancaster Records in the Public Record Office'. They cover the period from John duke of Lancaster to the end of the reign of king Henry VII. In addition, there are abstracts of fines paid for various Lancashire writs from 1377 to 1509, and a fine of 1195 that had been discovered during the preparation of the volume.WHIPPE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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