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A.O.N.B. |
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
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A.-S. |
Anglo-Saxon |
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A.-S. Chron. |
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. D. Whitelock and others (1931) |
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Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.) |
Placitorum Abbreviatio, ed. W. J. Illingworth (Record Commission, 1811) |
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Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviatio, Henry III-Edward III (Record Commission, 1805-10) |
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Abs. |
Abstract |
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Acct. |
Account |
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Acts of P.C. |
Acts of the Privy Council of England (H.M.S.O. 1890-1964) |
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Agric. |
Agriculture; Agricultural |
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Alum. Cantab. |
Alumni Cantabrigienses, ed. J. and J. A. Venn |
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Alum. Oxon. |
Alumni Oxonienses, ed. J. Foster |
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Ann. Rep. |
Annual Report
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Ann. Rep. B. & W. Dioc. Assoc. S.P.C.K. |
Annual Report of the Bath and Wells Diocesan Association of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge
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Arch. |
Archaeology |
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Archit. Hist. |
Architectural History
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B.L. |
British Library |
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Bapt. |
Baptist |
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Bd. |
Board |
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Bd. of Educ., List 21
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Board of Education, List 21 (H.M.S.O.) |
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Bk. of Fees
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The Book of Fees (H.M.S.O. 1920-31) |
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Bodl. |
Bodleian Library, Oxford |
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Bull. Inst. Hist. Res. |
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
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Burke, Commoners
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J. Burke and others, A History of the Commoners (London, 1833-8) |
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Burke, Extinct Peerages
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J. Burke and others, Extinct, Dormant, and Abeyant Peerages
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Burke, Land. Gent. |
J. Burke and others, Landed Gentry
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Burke, Peerage
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J. Burke and others, A Dictionary of the Peerage
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Cal. Chanc. Wts. |
Calendar of Chancery Warrants preserved in the Public Record Office, 1244-1326 (H.M.S.O. 1927) |
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Cal. Chart. R. |
Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1903-27) |
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Cal. Close
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Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (1892-1963)
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Cal. Cttee. for Compounding
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Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding etc. (H.M.S.O. 1911-62) |
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Cal. Cttee. for Money
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Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for the Advance of Money, 1642-6 (H.M.S.O. 1888) |
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Cal. Fine R. |
Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1911-62) |
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Cal. Inq. Misc. |
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1916-68) |
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Cal. Inq. p.m. |
Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1904-88) |
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Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII
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Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, Henry VII (H.M.S.O. 1898-1955) |
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Cal. Lib. |
Calendar of the Liberate Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office 1226-67 (H.M.S.O. 1917-64) |
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Cal. Mem. R. |
Calendar of the Memoranda Rolls (Exchequer) preserved in the Public Record Office, 1326-7 (H.M.S.O. 1968) |
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Cal. Papal Pets. |
Calendar of Papal Registers: Petitions to the Pope (H.M.S.O. 1896) |
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Cal. Papal Reg. |
Calendar of Papal Registers: Papal Letters (H.M.S.O. and Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1893-1986) |
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Cal. Pat. |
Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1891-1986) |
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Cal. S.P. Dom. |
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series (H.M.S.O. 1856-1972) |
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Cal. Treas. Bks. |
Calendar of Treasury Books, preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1897-1955) |
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Calamy Revised, ed. Matthews |
Calamy Revised: being a Revision of Edmund Calamy's Account of the Ministers and others Ejected and Silenced, 1660-2, by A. G. Matthews (1934) |
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Camd. Soc. |
Camden Society |
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Cart. |
Cartulary |
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Cat. |
Catalogue |
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Cat. Anct. D. |
Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1890-1915) |
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Cath. |
Cathedral, Catholic |
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Cath. Rec. Soc. |
Catholic Record Society |
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Cath. Rel. in Som. |
Catholic Religion in Somerset (1826) |
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Ch. |
Church |
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Ch. Comm. |
Church Commissioners |
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Chadwyck Healey, Hist. W. Som. |
C. E. H. Chadwyck Healey, The History of the part of West Somerset comprising the parishes of Luccombe, Selworthy, Stoke Pero, Porlock, Culbone and Oare (1901) |
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Char. Com. |
Charity Commission |
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Char. Dig. |
Digest of Endowed Charities (1869-71) |
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Char. Don. |
Abstract of Returns of Charitable Donations made in 1787-8, H.C. 511 (1816), xvi |
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Char(s). |
Charities |
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Chyd. |
Churchyard |
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Clifford MSS. |
Clifford MSS. at Ugbrooke House, Devon, in 1983 |
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Close R. |
Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1902-15) |
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Cncl. |
Council |
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Co. |
Company, County |
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Co. Lic. Cttee. |
County Licensing Committee |
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Collinson, Hist. Som. |
J. Collinson, History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset (1791) |
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Colln. |
Collection |
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Com. |
Commission |
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Complete Peerage
|
G. E. C[ockayne] and others, Complete Peerage (1910-59) |
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Corp. |
Corporation |
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Crockford
|
Crockford's Clerical Directory
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Cur. Reg. R. |
Curia Regis Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1922-79) |
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D.C. |
District Council |
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D.N.B. |
Dictionary of National Biography
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Dept. |
Department |
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Dict. |
Dictionary |
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Dioc. |
Diocesan |
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Dioc. Dir. |
Bath and Wells Diocesan Directory (and Almanack) (1928- ; Almanack discontinued 1948) |
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Dir. |
Directory |
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Dist. |
District |
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Docs. |
Documents |
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Dom. Bk. ed. Thorn |
Domesday Book, Somerset, ed. C. and F. Thorn (1980) |
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Dom. Geog. SW. Eng. |
Domesday Geography of South-West England, ed. H. C. Darby and R. Welldon Finn (1967) |
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Dugdale, Mon. |
W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Caley and others (London, 1817-30) |
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Dwelly, Hearth Tax
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Dwelly's National Records (i) Hearth Tax for Somerset, 1664-5, ed. R. Holworthy (1916); (ii) Directory for Somerset (1929-32) |
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Dwelly, Par. Rec. |
E. Dwelly, Parish Records (priv. print 1913- ) |
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E.H.D. |
English Historical Documents, ed. D. C. Douglas and others (1953- ) |
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Econ. |
Economic |
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Educ. |
Education |
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Educ. Enq. Abstract
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Abstract of Educational Returns, H.C. 62 (1835), xlii |
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Educ. of Poor Digest
|
Digest of Returns to the Select Committee on the Education of the Poor, H.C. 224 (1819), ix (2) |
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Ekwall, Eng. Place-Names
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E. Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (1960) |
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Elect. Reg. |
The Register of Persons Entitled to Vote (the Electoral Register) |
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Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Cantab. |
A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge (1963) |
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Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. |
A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford (1957-74) |
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Employment of Women and Children in Agric. |
Report of the Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture [510], H. C. (1843), xii |
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Eng. |
England, English |
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Eton Coll. Recs. |
Records of Eton College, Bucks. |
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Ex. e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.) |
Excerpta e Rotulis Finium in Turri Londinensi asservati, Henry III, 1216-72 (Record Commission, 1835-6) |
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Feud. Aids
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Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1899-1920) |
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Fines Imposed in 1497, ed. A. J. Howard |
Fines Imposed on Persons who assisted the Rebels during the Cornish Rebellion and the Insurrection of Perkin Warbeck in 1497, ed. A. J. Howard (1986) |
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G.E.C. Baronetage
|
G. E. C[ockayne], Complete Baronetage (1900-9) |
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G.R.O. |
General Register Office |
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Gent. Mag. |
Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1867) |
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Geol. Surv. |
Geological Survey |
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Govt. |
Government |
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H.C. |
House of Commons |
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H.L. |
House of Lords |
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H.M.C. Wells
|
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Series 12, Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells (1907-14) |
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H.M.S.O. |
Her (His) Majesty's Stationery Office |
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Hamilton and Lawrence, Men and Mining in the Quantocks
|
J. Hamilton and J. Lawrence, Men and Mining in the Quantocks (1970) |
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Handbk. Brit. Chron. |
Handbook of British Chronology (Royal Historical Society, 1986) |
|
Harl. Soc. |
Harleian Society |
|
Hist. |
History |
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Hist. MSS. Com. |
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts |
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Hist. Parl. |
The History of Parliament (History of Parliament Trust, 1964- ) |
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Ho. |
House |
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Hutchins, Hist. Dors. |
J. Hutchins, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset (1861-70) |
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Ind. |
Independent |
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Inf. |
Information |
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Inscr. |
Inscription |
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Intro. |
Introduction |
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Jnl. |
Journal |
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Jnl. Som. Ind. Arch. Soc. |
Journal of the Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society
|
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Kelly's Dir. Som. |
Kelly's Post Office Directory of Somerset
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Knowles and Hadcock, Med. Religious Hos. |
D. Knowles and R. N. Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses of England and Wales (1971) |
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L. & P. Hen. VIII
|
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (H.M.S.O. 1864-1932) |
|
L.J. |
Journals of the House of Lords
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Lamb. Pal. Libr. |
Lambeth Palace Library |
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Leland, Itin. ed. Toulmin Smith |
Itinerary of John Leland, ed. L. Toulmin Smith (1907-10) |
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Libr |
Library |
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Lics. |
Licences |
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List of Sch. Boards
|
List of School Boards and School Attendance Committees, H.C. (1880-1902) |
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Local Hist. Libr. |
Local History Library, Taunton |
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Lond. Gaz. |
London Gazette
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Lond. Chron. |
London Chronicle
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M.I. in ch. |
Monumental Inscription in church |
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M.V.R.G. |
Medieval Village Research Group |
|
Macdermot, Hist. G.W.R. |
E. T. Macdermot, History of the Great Western Railway, revised by C. R. Clinker (1964) |
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Mag. |
Magazine |
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Med. |
Medieval |
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Min. |
Ministry; Minutes |
|
Mun. |
Municipal |
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N.R.A. |
National Register of Archives |
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N.S. |
New Series |
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Nat. |
National |
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Nat. Soc. Inquiry 1846-7
|
Results of the Returns made to the General Inquiry made by the National Society, 1846-7 (1849) |
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Nat. Trust |
National Trust |
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Nonconf. |
Nonconformity |
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O.S. |
Ordnance Survey (arch. rec. cards: archaeological record cards) |
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Orig. Rec. of Early Nonconf. ed. G. L. Turner |
Original Records of Early Nonconformity, ed. G. L. Turner (1911-14) |
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P.C.C. |
Prerogative Court of Canterbury |
|
P.O. Dir. Som. |
Post Office Directory of Somerset
|
|
P.R.O. |
Public Record Office |
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P.R.S. |
Pipe Roll Society |
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Par. rec. |
Parish records |
|
Pet. |
Petition |
|
Pevsner, S. & W. Som. |
N. Pevsner, Buildings of England: South and West Somerset (1958) |
|
Pigot, Nat. Com. Dir. |
Pigot's National Commercial Directory
|
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Plac. Coram Rege, 1297
|
Placita Coram Rege apud Westmonasterium, 1297 (Index Libr. 1898) |
|
Plac. de Quo Warr. |
Placita de Quo Warranto (Record Commission, 1818) |
|
Pole MS. |
Photocopy and Transcript of the Collections of Sir William Pole, V.C.H. Office, Taunton |
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Proc. Arch. Inst. |
Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
|
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Proc. before J.P.s, ed. B. Putnam |
Proceedings before the Justices of the Peace in the reigns of Edward III and Richard II, ed. B. Putnam (1938) |
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Proc. Dors. Arch. Soc. |
Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
|
|
Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. |
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society (from 1968 Somerset Archaeology and Natural History) |
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Public Elem. Schs. |
Return of Public Elementary Schools, H.C. 133 (1875), lix |
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R. |
Roll |
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R.D.C. |
Rural District Council |
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R.O. |
Record Office |
|
R.S., Rec. Soc. |
Record Society |
|
Red Bk. Exch. (Rolls Ser.) |
Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. H. Hall (Rolls Series, 1896) |
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Ref. |
Reformed |
|
Reg. |
Register |
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Reg. Regum Anglo-Norm. |
Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154, ed. H. W. C. Davis and others (1913-69) |
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15th Rep. Com. Char. |
15th Report of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales, H.C. 383 (1826), xiii |
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Rep. Com. Dep. Cond. of Agric. Interests
|
Report of the Royal Commission on Depressed Condition of the Agricultural Interests [C. 3309], H. C. (1882), xiv |
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Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues
|
Report of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Revenues [67], H.C. (1835), xxii |
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Rep. Com. Employment in Agric. |
Report of the Royal Commission on Children, Young Persons, and Women in Agriculture [4202 and 4202-I], H.C. (1868-9), xiii |
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Rep. Com. Mun. Corp. |
Report of the Royal Commission on Municipal Corporations, H.C. 116 (1835), xxiii |
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Rep. Com. Poor Law
|
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, H.C. 44 (1834), xxvii-xxxviii |
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Rep. Com. Roads
|
Report of the Royal Commission on Roads [256, 280], H.C. (1840), xxvii |
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Rep. Sel. Cttee. on Poor Law
|
Report of the Select Committee on the Poor Law, H.L. (1837-8), xix (i-ii) |
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Rep. Som. Cong. Union (1896) |
Annual Report of the Somerset Congregational Union and of the Evangelist Society presented at the One-Hundredth Anniversary (1896) |
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Return of M.P.s
|
Return of Every Member of the House of Commons, 1213-1874, H.C. 69-I and II (1878), lxii |
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Rev. |
Review, Revised |
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Rly. |
Railway |
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Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotuli Chartarum, 1199-1216 (Record Commission, 1837) |
|
Rot. Cur. Reg. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotuli Curiae Regis, 6 Richard I to 1 John (Record Commission, 1835) |
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Rot. de Ob. et Fin. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turri Londinensi asservati, temp. Regis Johannis (Record Commission, 1835) |
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Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotuli Hundredorum temp. Hen. III & Edw. I (Record Commission, 1812-18) |
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Rot. Lib. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotuli de Liberate ac de Misis et Praestitis, regnante Johanne (Record Commission, 1844) |
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Rot. Litt. Claus. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum, 1204-27 (Record Commission, 1833-44) |
|
Rot. Litt. Pat. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotuli Litterarum Patentium, 1201-16 (Record Commission, 1835) |
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S.D.N.Q. |
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries
|
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Sanders, Eng. Baronies
|
I. J. Sanders, English Baronies, 1086-1327 (1960) |
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Sch. |
School |
|
Sel. |
Select |
|
Sel. Cases Eccl. Ct. Cant. |
Select Cases from the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Province of Canterbury, c. 1200-1301 (Selden Society, 1981) |
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Ser. |
Series |
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Soc. |
Social, Society |
|
Som. C.C. |
Somerset County Council (Sites and Mons. Rec.: Sites and Monuments Record) |
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Som. Co. Gaz. |
Somerset County Gazette
|
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Som. Co. Herald, N. & Q. |
Somerset County Herald, Notes and Queries
|
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Som. Incumbents, ed. Weaver |
Somerset Incumbents, ed. F. W. Weaver (1889) |
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Som. Protestation Returns, ed. Howard and Stoate |
Somerset Protestation Returns and Subsidy Rolls, ed. A. J. Howard and T. L. Stoate (1975) |
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Som. Wills, ed. Brown |
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills etc., copied from the Manuscript Collections of the late Revd. F. Brown (priv. print. 1887-90) |
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Squibbs, Bridgwater
|
P. J. Squibbs, Squibbs' History of Bridgwater, rev. J. F. Lawrence (1982) |
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S.R.O. |
Somerset Record Office (cf. above, page xiv) |
|
S.R.S. |
Somerset Record Society (cf. below, page xxiii) |
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Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.) |
Taxatio Ecclesiastica Anglie et Wallie auctoritate P. Nicholai IV circa 1291 (Record Commission, 1801) |
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Trans. |
Transactions, Transcripts |
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Trans. Anct. Mon. Soc. |
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society
|
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Trans. R. Hist. S. |
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
|
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Uncat. |
Uncatalogued |
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Univ. Brit. Dir. |
Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce, and Manufacture (1791-8) |
|
V.C.H. |
Victoria County History
|
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Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.) |
Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. Hen. VIII (Record Commission, 1810-34) |
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Visit. |
Visitation |
|
W. Som. Free Press
|
West Somerset Free Press
|
|
Walker Revised, ed. Matthews |
Walker Revised; being a Revision of John Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy during the Grand Rebellion, 1642-60, ed. A. G. Matthews |
|
Wells Wills, ed. Weaver |
Wells Wills, ed. F. W. Weaver (1890) |
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Youngs, Local Admin. Units
|
F. A. Youngs, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, i: Southern England (1979) |
