Friday, July 19, 2013

Medieval Record Sources in Printed Books and Articles

Medieval Record Sources in Printed Books & Articles

Compiled by Niall C.E.J. O’Brien

     As part of the Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series of publications, Dr. Philomena Connolly produced a book called Medieval Record Sources (number 4 in the Maynooth series) in 2002. The publication was very fortuitous as Dr. Connolly died in June of 2002.

     An abbreviated version of the introduction said = “The introduction of English institutions to Ireland after the arrival of the Normans, and the close administrative ties that existed between the two countries during the rest of the middle ages resulted in a wealth of archival sources on both sides of the Irish Sea. This book serves as a practical introduction to these sources, in both manuscript and printed form, from the 12th to the 15th centuries. The institutions, central and local, which produced the records, are described and the records placed in their administrative context. Advice is given on the scope and limitations of the surviving sources, and special attention is paid to the existence of substitutes for the records destroyed in 1922 in the Four Courts fire. In addition to the records of central and local government, ecclesiastical records in Ireland and abroad are dealt with, as are the private records of major Anglo-Irish families. Information is provided on the existence of guides, lists and indexes which facilitate access to unpublished material in various record repositories”.
   
     In the footnotes on nearly every page Philomena Connolly gave the name and publication details of books and articles where printed manuscripts can be found. This article makes a list of those books and articles as a further aid to research in medieval Irish history. Dr. Connolly left out of her book references to the Annals and other printed manuscripts from the Irish side of Ireland and so these important sources are not listed here.

     Since 2002 other books and articles have been published containing printed manuscripts (in full or abstract form) such as Paul Dryburgh & Brendan Smith (eds.), Handbook and Select Calendar of Sources for Medieval Ireland in the National Archives of the United Kingdom (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005); Brendan Smith (ed.), The Register of Nicholas Fleming, archbishop of Armagh, 1404-1416 (Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 2003); and Peter Crooks (ed.), ‘The background to the arrest of the fifth Earl of Kildare and Sir Christopher Preston in 1418: a missing membrane’, in Analecta Hibernica, No. 40 (2007). Another source of medieval documents pertaining to Ireland to increase in popularity since 2002 is the various internet sites which have come online. The C.I.R.C.L.E. project on www.chancery.tcd.ie comes to mind among others. This site has reconstructed over 20,000 documents once produced by the medieval Irish chancery office and destroyed in their original form in 1922 or before that date.

     Dr. Philiomena Connolly was an archivist at the National Archives, Dublin and a leading authority on medieval manuscripts. She edited many medieval manuscripts in books and articles. I hope someday to produce a book of essays in her memory. 

Front cover of Medieval Record Sources by Philiomena Connolly

THE BOOKS

Anon, Chartae, privilegia et immunitates (Dublin, 1829-30)
Anon, Rotuli parliamentorum (7 vols. London, 1783)
M. Archdall, Monasticon Hibericum (London, 1786)
T. Astle & J. Caley, Calendarium Rotulorum patentium (London, 1802)
J.C. Atkinson, The coucher book of Furness abbey (2 vols. Chetham Society, 1886-1919)
G. Beachcroft and A. Sabin, Two compotus rolls of St Augustine’s abbey, Bristol (Bristol Record Society, 1938)
H.F. Berry, Register of wills and inventories of the diocese of Dublin… 1457-1483 (R.S.A.I. 1898)
H.F. Berry, Statutes and ordinances and acts of the parliament of Ireland, king John to Henry V (Dublin, 1907)
H.F. Berry, Statute rolls of the parliament of Ireland, reign of Henry the sixth (Dublin, 1910)
H.F. Berry, (ed.), Statute rolls of the parliament of Ireland, first to the twelfth years of the reign of King Edward the fourth (Dublin, 1914)
J.S. Brewer and W. Bullen, Calendar of the Carew manuscripts preserved in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth (6 vols. London)
Eric St John Brooks, Register of the hospital of St John the Baptist without the new gate of Dublin (Dublin, 1936)
Eric St John Brooks, Knights’ fees in Counties Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny (Dublin, 1950)
Eric St John Brooks, The Irish cartularies of Llanthony Prima and Secunda (Dublin, 1953)
R. Butler, Registrum prioratus omnium sanctorum juxta Dublin (Irish Archaeological Society, 1845)
Calendar of ancient deeds and muniments preserved in the Pembroke estate office, Dublin (privately printed, 1891)
Calendar of charter rolls … 1226-[1516] (6 vols. P.R.O. London, 1903-27)
Calendar of entries in the papal registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland (15 vols. HMSO)
Calendar of entries in the papal registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland (6 vols. Irish Manuscripts Commission)
Calendar of entries in the papal registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland, petitions (HMSO), vol. 1
Calendar of inquisitions miscellaneous, 1219-[1422] (7 vols. P.R.O. London, 1916-69)
Calendar of inquisitions post mortem, Henry III-[15 Richard II] (16 vols. P.R.O. London, 1904-74)
Calendar of the close rolls.. 1272-[1509] (47 vols. P.R.O. London, 1892-1963)
Calendar of the fine rolls… 1272-[1509] (22 vols. P.R.O. London, 1911-62)
Calendar of the liberate rolls… 1226-[1272] (6 vols. P.R.O. London, 1916-64)
Calendar of the patent rolls… 1232-[1509] (53 vols. P.R.O. London, 1891-1971)
William Carrigan, The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory (4 vols. Dublin, 1905)
Richard Caulfield, Rotulus Pipae Clonensis (Cork, 1859)
D.A. Chart, The register of John Swayne, archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland, 1418-1439 (Belfast, 1935)
Chartae, privilegia et immunitates (Dublin, 1829-30)
Mary Clark & Raymond Refausse, Directory of historic Dublin (Dublin, 1993)
M.V. Clark, Register of the priory of Tristernagh (Dublin, 1941)
Close rolls of the reign of Henry III … 1227-[1272] (14 vols. P.R.O. London, 1902-38)
Philomena Connolly, Irish exchequer payments, 1270-1446 (Dublin, 1998)
Philomena Connolly & Geoffrey Martin, The Dublin guild merchant roll, c. 1190-1265 (Dublin, 1992)
M.A. Costello, De annatis Hibernia (Dundalk, 1909)
J.C. Crosthwaite, The book of obits and martyrology of the cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dublin (Dublin, 1844)
Edmund Curtis, Ormond deeds (6 vols. Dublin)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 36 (1904)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 26
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 35 (1903)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 36 (1904)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 37 (1905)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 38 (1906)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 39 (1907)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 42 (1911)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 43 (1912)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 44 (1912)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 45 (1913)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 47 (1915)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 53 (1926)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 54 (1927)
Reports of the deputy keeper of the public records of Ireland, number 55 (1928)
J.T. Gilbert, Calendar of ancient records of Dublin (19 vols. Dublin, 1889-1944)
J.T. Gilbert, Chartularies of St Mary’s abbey, Dublin (2 vols. London Rolls Series, 1884)
J.T. Gilbert, Crede mihi; the most ancient register book of the archbishop of Dublin before the reformation (Dublin, 1897)
J.T. Gilbert, Facsimiles of the national manuscripts of Ireland (4 vols. Dublin, 1874-1878)
J.T. Gilbert, Historic and municipal documents of Ireland (London, Rolls Series, 1870)
J.T. Gilbert, Register of the abbey of St Thomas, Dublin (London, Rolls Series, 1889)
J.T. Gilbert, A history of the city of Dublin (3 vols. Dublin, 1854-9)
J.T. Gilbert, Viceroys of Ireland (Dublin)
James Graves, A roll of the proceedings of the king’s council in Ireland, 1392-3 (London, Rolls Series, 1877)
Margaret Griffith, Calendar of justiciary rolls, 1308-14 (Dublin, 1956), volume 3
James Hardiman, The history of the town and county of Galway (Dublin, 1820)
T.D. Hardy, Rotuli chartarum … [1199-1216] (London, 1837)
T.D. Hardy, Rotuli litterarum clausorum... [1204-27] (2 vols. London, 1833-44)
T.D. Hardy, Rotuli litterarum patentium (London, 1835)
T.D. Hardy, Rotuli de liberate ac de misis et praestitis regnante Johanne (London, 1844)
R.J. Hayes, Sources for the history of Irish civilisation: articles in Irish periodicals (9 vols. Boston, Mass., 1970)
Historic Manuscripts Commission, report number 8, appendix 1
P.H. Hore, History of the town and county of Wexford (6 vols. London, 1900-11)
W. Hunt, Two chartularies of the priory of St Peter at Bath (Somerset Record Society, 1893)
Irish record Commission report 1811-1815
Irish record Commission report 1816-1820
Colm Lennon & James Murray, The Dublin city franchise roll (Dublin, 1998)
Lists and indexes, volume 11
Lists and indexes, volume 15
Lists and indexes, volume 35
James Lydon, (ed.), Law and disorder in thirteenth century Ireland (Dublin, 1997)
Paul MacCotter and K.W. Nicholls, The Pipe Roll of Cloyne (Cloyne Literary and Historical Society, 1996)
J. MacCaffrey, The Black Book of Limerick (Dublin, 1901)
Gearóid Mac Niocaill, Crown survey of lands, 1540-41 with the Kildare rental begun in 1518 (Dublin, 1994)
Gearóid Mac Niocaill, Na buirgeisi xii-xv aois (2 vols. Dublin, 1964)
Gearóid Mac Niocaill, The Red Book of the earls of Kildare (Dublin, 1964)
M.J. McEnery and Raymond Refausse, Christ Church deeds (Dublin, 2001)
Charles McNeill, Registrum de Kilmainham (Dublin, 1932)
Charles McNeill, Calendar of Archbishop Alen’s register, c. 1172-1534 (R.S.A.I. 1950)
Charles McNeill, Liber primus Kilkenniensis (Dublin, 1951)
Charles McNeill and A.J. Otway-Ruthven, Dowdall deeds (Dublin, 1960)
James Mills, Calendar of justiciary rolls, 1295-1303 (Dublin, 1905), volume 1
James Mills, Calendar of justiciary rolls, 1305-07 (Dublin, 1914), volume 2
James Mills, Account roll of the priory of Holy Trinity, Dublin, 1337-46 (Dublin, 1891; new edition, Dublin, 1996)
James Mills and M.J. McEnery, Calendar of the Gormanston register (Dublin, 1916)
J.F. Morrissey, (ed.), Statute rolls of the parliament of Ireland, twelfth and thirteenth to the twenty-first and twenty-second years of the reign of king Edward the fourth (Dublin, 1939)
A.J. Otway-Ruthven, Liber primus Kilkenniensis (Kilkenny, 1961)
Patent rolls of the reign of Henry III. 1216-[1232] (2 vols. P.R.O. London, 1901-3)
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, report of Deputy Keeper, 1928
W.G.H. Quigley and E.F.D. Roberts, Registrum Johannis Mey; the register of John Mey, archbishop of Armagh, 1443-1456 (Belfast, 1972)
W. Reeves, Acts of Archbishop Colton in his metropolitan visitation of the diocese of Derry, 1397 (Irish Archaeological Society, 1850)
W. Reeves, Ecclesiastical antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore (Dublin, 1847)
Raymond Refausse and Colm Lennon, The registers of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin (Dublin, 1998)
H.G Richardson & G.O. Sayles, Parliaments and councils of medieval Ireland, volume 1 (Dublin, 1947)
H.G. Richardson & G.O. Sayles, The administration of medieval Ireland, 1172-1377 (Dublin, 1963)
H.E. Salter, Cartulary of Oseney abbey (6 vols. Oxford His Society, 1929-36)
G.O. Sayles, Documents on the affairs of Ireland before the king’s council (Dublin, 1979)
M.P. Sheedy, Pontificia Hibernica: medieval papal chancery documents concerning Ireland, 640-1261 (2 vols. Dublin, 1962-5)
Brendan Smith, The register of Milo Sweeteman, archbishop of Armagh, 1361-80 (Dublin, 1996)
Mario Alberto Sughi, Registrum Octaviani alias Liber Niger: the register of Octavian de Palatio, archbishop of Armagh, 1478-1513 (2 vols. Dublin, 200)
H.S. Sweetman, Calendar of documents relating to Ireland, 1171-[1307] (5 vols. Public Record Office, London, 1875-86)
Edward Tresham, Rotulorum patentium et clausorum cancellariae Hiberniae calendarium (Dublin, 1828)
J.C. Walton, The royal charters of Waterford (Waterford, 1979) [1992 edition]
N.B. White, Extents of Irish monastic possessions, 1540-41 (Dublin, 1943)
N.B. White, Irish monastic and Episcopal deeds AD 1200-1600 (Dublin, 1936)
N.B. White, The Dignitus decani of St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin (Dublin, 1957)
N.B. White, The Red Book of Ormond (Dublin, Stationery Office, 1932)
Herbert Wood, A guide to the records deposited in the Public Record Office of Ireland (Dublin, 1919)
Herbert Wood, The court book of the liberty of St Sepulchre (Dublin, 1930)

THE ARTICLES

Obligations pro annatis in Archivium Hibernicum = Dublin and Kildare, No. 2 (1913)
Killaloe and Limerick, No. 10 (1943); Lismore and Waterford, No. 12 (1946); Ossory and Ferns, No. 20 (1957); Ardfert and Clonfert, No. 21 (1958); Elphin, No. 22 (1959); Cloyne, No. 24 (1961); Tuam, No. 26 (1963); Cashel and Emly in 28 (1966); Cork and Ross, No. 29 (1970)
Anon, “chancery fills in P.R.O., England” in Analecta Hibernica, number 31 (1984)
Anon, “Irish justiciar courts 1308-1377” in Irish Jurist, number 28 (1983)
Anon, “exchequer files in P.R.O. London” in Analecta Hibernica, number 1 (1930)
Anon, “List of Irish material on the memoranda rolls of Edward II” in Analecta Hibernica, number 36 (1995)
Anon, “Lists of Ancient Petitions” in Analecta Hibernica, number 34 (1987)
Anon, “Lists of Chancery Warrants” in Analecta Hibernica, number 35 (1995)
Anon, “Missing pages of the register of St John the Baptist without the new gate of Dublin” in R.S.A.I. Journal. Number 92 (1962)
Anon, “Records of the wardship of Galway” in Analecta Hibernica, number 14 (1944)
H.F. Berry, “Ancient charters in the Liber Albus Ossoriensis” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 27 (1908-09)
H.F. Berry, “Some ancient deeds of the parishes of St Catherine and St James, Dublin, 1296-1743” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 35 (1918-20)
H.F. Berry, “Some ancient deeds of the parishes of St Werburgh, Dublin, 1243-1676” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 35 (1918-20)
William Betham, “On the account of Thomas de Chaddisworth, custodee of the temporalities of the archbishop of Dublin from 1221 to 1256 [recte 1271 to 1276] from the great roll of the pipe” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 5 (1850-53)
Martin J. Blake, “Knockmoy abbey, otherwise called the monastery of the Hill of Victory” in Galway Arch Society Journal, number 1 (1900)
Martin J. Blake, “Ballintubber abbey, Co. Mayo: notes on its history” in Galway Arch Society Journal, number 3 (1904)
Martin J. Blake, “An old rental of Cong abbey” in R.S.A.I. Journal. Number 35 (1905)
Martin J. Blake, “The obituary book of the Franciscan monastery at Galway” in Galway Arch Society Journal, number 6 (1910)
E. Bolster, “A landgable roll of Cork city” in Collective Hibernica, volume 13 (1970)
Eric St John Brooks, “Unpublished charters relating to Ireland from the archives of the city of Exeter” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 43 (1936)
Eric St John Brooks, “Irish possessions of St Thomas of Acre” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 58 (1956)
Eric St John Brooks, “The sources for medieval Anglo-Irish history”; and Aubrey Gwynn, “Bibliographical note on medieval Anglo-Irish history” in Historical Studies, number 1 (1958)
C. Burns, “Papal letters of Clement VII (1378-94) relating to Ireland and England” in collective Hibernica, number 24 (1982)
C.M. Butler & J.H. Bernard, “The charters of the Cistercian abbey of Duiske” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 35 (1918)
A. Coleman, “Registrum monasterii fratrum predicatorum de Athenry” in Archivium Hibernica, number 1 (1912)
Philomena Connolly, “The Irish memoranda rolls: some unexplored aspects” in Irish Economic and Social History, number 3 (1970)
Edmund Curtis, “Sheriff’s account of the honour of Dungarvan, of Tweskard in Ulster and of Co. Waterford, 1261-3” in Royal Irish Academy proceedings, number 39 (1929-30)
Edmund Curtis, “Sheriff’s account for Co. Tipperary, 1275-6” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 42 (1934-5)
Edmund Curtis, “Feudal charters of the de Burgo lordship of Connacht, 1227-1325” in Feil-sgribhinn Eoin Mhic Neill (1940)
Oliver Davis & D.B. Quinn, “the Irish pipe roll of 14 John, 1211-12” in Ulster Journal of Archaeology 3rd series, number 4, supplement, 1941
Brian C. Donovan and David Edwards, “British sources for Irish history before 1485” in Analecta Hibernica, number 37 (1998)
Elizabeth Dowse & Margaret Murphy, “Rotulmus clauses de anno 48 Edward III – a reconstruction” in Analecta Hibernica, number 35 (1992)
P.J. Dunning, “Letters of Pope Innocent III to Ireland; a calendar” in Archivium Hibernicum, number 23 (1947)
S.G. Ellis, “medieval plea rolls for 19 Edward IV (1479-80)” in Analecta Hibernica, number 31 (1984)
S.G. Ellis, “Parliaments and great councils, 1483-99: addenda and corrigenda” in Analecta Hibernica, number 29 (1980)
J.F. Ferguson, “Ancient exchequer accounts of Ulster” in U.J.A., volume 3 (1855)
Robin Frame, “Commissions of the peace in Ireland, 1302-1461” in Analecta Hibernica, number 35 (1992)
J.T. Gilbert, “Corporation records of Dublin and Kilkenny” in Historic Manuscripts Commission report, volume 1, appendix
J.T. Gilbert, “Corporation records of Waterford and Galway” in Historic Manuscripts Commission report, volume 10, appendix V
Aubrey Gwynn, “Some unpublished texts from the Black Book of Christ Church, Dublin” in Analecta Hibernica, number 16 (1946)
G.J. Hand, “Material used in “Calendar of documents relating to Ireland”, in Irish Historical Studies, volume 12 (1960), pp. 99 – 104
G.J. Hand, “The dating of the early fourteenth century ecclesiastical valuations of Ireland” in Irish Theological Quarterly, number 24 (1957)
M.J. Hearn, “Vatican archives as a historical source to c. 1530” in Archivium Hibernicum, number 39 (1984)
H.J. Lawlor, “A calendar of the register of Archbishop Fleming” in R.I.A. Proceedings, volume 30 (1912-13)
H.J. Lawlor, “Calendar of the Liber Ruber of the diocese of Ossory” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 27 (1908-09)
H.J. Lawlor, “Fragments of the lost register of Clogher” in Louth Arch Society Journal, number 4 (1916-20)
H.J. Lawlor, “A calendar of the Liber Niger and Liber Albus of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 27 (1908)
J.F. Lydon, “A fifteenth-century building account from Dublin” in Irish Economic and Social History, number 9 (1982)
James F. Lydon, “Survey of the memoranda rolls of the Irish exchequer, 1294-1509” in Analecta Hibernica, number 23 (1966)
James Lydon, “The enrolled account of Alexander Bicknor” in Analecta Hibernica, number 30 (1982)
James Lydon, “The county of Uriel account, 1281-3” in Louth Archaeological Society Journal, number 19 (1977=80)
Gearóid Mac Niocaill, “missing page of the register of St John the Baptist without the new gate of Dublin” in Analecta Hibernica, number 8 (1938)
Gearóid Mac Niocaill, “Registrum cantariae Sancti Salvatoris Waterfordiensis” in Analecta Hibernica, number 23 (1966)
Charles McNeill, “The Gerrard papers at the Bodleian Library” in Analecta Hibernica, number 2 (1931)
Charles McNeill, “List of medieval contents in the Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis by Harris” in Analecta Hibernica, number 6 (1934)
James Mills, “Rental of the archbishopric estates of Dublin, 1382” in R.S.A.I. Journal, 4th series, number 9 (1889)
Canice Mooney, “Letters of Pope Innocent IV relating to Ireland” in Collective Hibernica, number 2 (1959)
L.P. Murray and A. Gwynn, “Archbishop Cromer’s register” in Louth Arch. Society Journal, number 7 (1929-32)
L.P. Murray and A. Gwynn, “Archbishop Cromer’s register” in Louth Arch. Society Journal, number 8 (1933-36)
L.P. Murray and A. Gwynn, “Archbishop Cromer’s register” in Louth Arch. Society Journal, number 9 (1937-40)
L.P. Murray and A. Gwynn, “Archbishop Cromer’s register” in Louth Arch. Society Journal, number 10 (1941-44)
K.W. Nicholls, “The Episcopal rentals of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh” in Analecta Hibernica, number 26 (1970)
William O’Sullivan, “A finding list of Sir James Ware’s manuscripts” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 97 (1997)
A.J. Otway-Ruthven, “Anglo-Irish shire government in the thirteenth century” in Irish Historical Studies, volume 5 (1946)
A.J. Otway-Ruthven, “The medieval Irish chancery” in Album Helen Maud Cam, volume 2 (Louvain, 1960)
P.B. Phair, “A Calendar of Betham extracts” in Analecta Hibernica, number 27 (1972)
D.B. Quinn, “The bills and statutes of the Irish parliaments of Henry VII and Henry VIII” in Analecta Hibernica, number 10 (1941)
J.L. Robinson, “On the ancient deeds of the parish of St John, Dublin” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 33 (1916-17)
J.L. Robinson, “Churchwardens accounts, 1484-1600 for St Werburgh’s church, Dublin” in R.S.A.I. Journal, number 46 (1914)
“Seagrave deeds” in Analecta Hibernica, number 15 (1944)
J.C. Smyly, “Old deeds in the library of Trinity College” in Hermathena, number 66 (1945)
J.C. Smyly, “Old deeds in the library of Trinity College” in Hermathena, number 67 (1946)
J.C. Smyly, “Old deeds in the library of Trinity College” in Hermathena, number 69 (1947)
J.C. Smyly, “Old deeds in the library of Trinity College” in Hermathena, number 71 (1948)
J.C. Smyly, “Old deeds in the library of Trinity College” in Hermathena, number 72 (1948)
J.C. Smyly, “Old deeds in the library of Trinity College” in Hermathena, number 74 (1949)
H. Wood, “The muniments of Edmund de Mortimer, third earl of March, concerning his liberty of Trim” in R.I.A. Proceedings, number 40 (1931-2)

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