Biographies & Memoirs

Abbreviations

AHT

Atlas of Historic Towns, ed. M.D. Lobel and W.H. Johns, 2 vols. (London, (1969–75).

Anon. Chron.

The Anonimalle Chronicle, 1333–1381, ed. V.H. Galbraith (Manchester, 1927).

Avesbury

Robertus de Avesbury De Gestis Mirabilibus Regis Edwardi Tertii, ed. E.M. Thompson, Rolls Series (1889).

Baker

Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke, ed. E.M. Thompson (Oxford, 1889)

BIHR

Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research.

BJRL

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library.

BL

British Library.

BRUO

A.B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to 1500, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1957–9).

CChR

Calendar of Charter Rolls.

CCR

Calendar of Close Rolls.

CFR

Calendar of Fine Rolls.

CIM

Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous.

CIPM

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem.

CLBL

Calendar of Letter Books of the City of London, ed. R.R. Sharpe, 11 vols. (London, 1899–1912).

Concilia

Concilia Magna Britanniae et Hiberniae, ed. D. Wilkins (London, 1737).

CPML

Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls of the City of London, ed. A.H. Thomas and P.E. Jones, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1962–61).

CPR

Calendar of Patent Rolls.

CYS

Canterbury and York Society.

DNB

Dictionary of National Biography, ed. L. Stephen and S. Lee, 63 vols. (London, 1885–1900).

EcHR

Economic History Review.

EGW

The English Government at Work, 1327–1336, ed. J.F. Willard, W.A.Morris, J.R. Strayer and W.H. Dunham, 3 vols. (Cambridge, Mass., 1930–40).

EHR

English Historical Review.

Fasti

J. Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1300–1541, new edn, compiled by H.P.F. King, J.M. Horn and B. Jones, 12 vols. (London, 1962–7).

Foedera

Foedera, Conventiones, Literae et Cujuscunque Generis Acta, ed. T. Rymer, Record Commission edn, 3 vols. in 6 parts (1816–30).

Froissart

Chroniques de Jean Froissart, ed. S. Luce, G. Raynaud, L. and A. Mirot, Société de l’Histoire de France, 15 vols. (Paris, 1869–1875).

GEC

G.E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, new edn, rev. V. Gibbs et al., 13 vols. (London, 1910–59).

HBC

Handbook of British Chronology, ed. E.B. Fryde, D.E. Greenaway, S. Porter and I. Roy, 3rd edn (London, 1986).

HMC

Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.

HSEP

Historical Studies of the English Parliament, ed. E.B. Fryde and E. Miller, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1970).

JBS

Journal of British Studies.

JEH

Journal of Ecclesiastical History.

JMH

Journal of Medieval History.

LRDP

Report from the Lords’ Committees. . . for All Matters Touching the Dignity of a Peer, 4 vols. (London, 1820–9).

P&P

Past and Present.

PRO

Public Record Office.

Reading

Chronicon Johannis de Reading et Anonymi Cantuariensis, ed. J. Tait (Manchester, 1914).

Return of MPs

Return of the Name of Every Member of the Lower House of Parliament 1213–1874, 2 vols. (Parliamentary Papers, 1878).

RP

Rotuli Parliamentorum, 6 vols. (London, 1783).

RPHI

Rotuli Parliamentorum Angliae Hactenus Inediti, ed. H.G Richardson and G.O. Sayles, Camden Society, 3rd ser., li (1935).

RS

Rolls Series.

SCCKB

Select Cases in the Court of King’s Bench, ed. G.O. Sayles, 7 vols., Selden Society, lv, lvii, lviii, lxxiv, lxxvi, lxxxii, lxxxviii (1936–71).

SCH

Studies in Church History.

SMRH

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History.

SR

Statutes of the Realm, 11 vols., Record Commission (1810–28).

SS

Selden Society.

TRHS

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society.

VCH

Victoria County History.

Walsingham

Historia Anglicana of Thomas of Walsingham, ed. H.T. Riley, 2 vols., Rolls Series (1863–4).

WAM

Westminster Abbey Muniments.

YB

Year Book(s).

Unless otherwise stated, all manuscripts cited here are in the Public Record Office.

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