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This is a collection of the late E J L Cole?s articles on Radnorshire History published between the mid-1930s and the 1980s. The first section consists of his abstracts of 382 sixteenth century wills proved in the ecclesiastical courts of Canterbury, Hereford and Brecon. This is accompanied by indexes of testators, their places of residence, their executors and overseers. The second section consists of thirty-eight articles and series of artic...

These documents cover the 300 year history of the Palmer's Gild up to its dissolution in 1551. Some 1, 495 deeds of various kinds, mostly in Latin, some in Norman-French or English are all shown in English. They demonstrate the extent of the Gild's interests and also provide the most important source of information about the families of the town and other places, their descents, the derivations of their names and their occupations. The Gild be...

A muster meant that men in the local shires were called together to identify those able to serve in the King's army. The muster records thereby created represent a valuable source of information about the local military resources and also gives the names of those involved. The documents which form the subject of this edition, the Herefordshire muster books for 1539 and 1542, came into existence during two military and diplomatic crises. Neithe...

In the later Middle Ages it was common for persons with property to endow chantries, chiefly for prayers to be said for the donor or members of his family for the indefinite future. From these endowments churches accumulated properties around the county, sometime in other counties. In the mid 1500s the properties were seized by the Crown and sold. Lists of properties, occupiers and purchasers were kept. The present volume covers Hereford Chant...

This book is a 'calendar' ie a list in chronological order of digests or abstracts of probate and administration acts and of wills registered in the Consistory Court of the Bishops of Hereford between 1407 and 1550. The court had jurisdiction over a range of matters deriving from the obligations of conscience and faith of persons in the diocese. The court's greatest single area of jurisdiction however related to the probate of testaments and w...

Transcription of original documents in the National Archives which list taxpayers in the various parts of Radnorshire during the reign of Henry VIII. This covers the Hundreds of Rhayader, Knighton, Cefnllys, Radnor, Painscastle and Cascob. Includes Assessment-Lists and Accounts of Subsidies and Benevolences 1543-1547. This is a paperback version. There is also a hardback version available from Lulu.com.

These Shropshire tax records from Henry VIII's time reveal the beginning of the modern income tax system. They are of interest to tax historians and to social historians. Family historians will also find the large number of names in the records a rare source for time before most of the earliest surviving parish register s and for which few wills exist. The comprehensive index aids searches. The book contains transcriptions or abstracts of the ...