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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504
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- Description
- Provides a full transcription of the original Latin, Anglo-Norman, or Middle English texts
and a modern English translation for all surviving official records of the sessions of the
medieval English parliament, with selected page images for each reign representing different
languages, scripts, and styles. For each parliamentary session there are new introductions,
annotations, and appendices with supplementary material composed by seven present day
scholars. All transcribed, translated, and newly written text can be searched for words and
phrases.
- Help
- Detailed, illustrated instructions for navigation, viewing, searching, and printing are provided
under Help.
Searching instructions are also duplicated under ? next to the Find field.
- Dates covered
- 1275-1504.
- Updating frequency
- The database is complete.
- Sources
- Rotuli Parliamentorum (RP) under the general editorship of the Reverend John Strachey
(1783)
and later editions by Cole, Maitland, and Richardson and Sayles as well as a substantial
amount of material from the Public Record Office and other British repositories that has
never been previously published.
- Type of coverage
- Transcriptions and translations of all text, selected page images, and modern scholarly
introductions and annotations.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- The Parliament rolls of medieval England 1275-1504 / general editor Chris
Given-Wilson.Woodbridge: Boydell Press; London : National Archives, 2005.
- Producer/content provider
- The National Archives
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Scholarly Digital Editions
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