Notes on Abbreviations

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NOTES ON ABBREVIATIONS

Abbrev. Plac. Placitorum in domo capitulari Westmonasteriensi asservatorum abbreviatio (Rec. Com. 1811)
Abbrev. Rot. Orig. Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviatio (Rec. Com. 1805)
Account of Wilts. Schools, 1859 An Account of Schools for the Children of the Labouring Classes in the County of Wiltshire (Parl. Papers 1859 Sess. 1 (27), xxi (2))
Acts of PC Acts of the Privy Council of England (HMSO, 1890–1964)
Alumni Cantab. Alumni Cantabrigienses, ed. J. and J. A. Venn, 10 vols (Cambridge, 1922–54)
Alumni Oxon. Alumni Oxonienses, ed. J. Foster, 8 vols (Oxford, 1888–92)
Andrews' and Dury's Map 1773 Andrews' and Dury's Map of Wiltshire 1773 (WRS 8, 1952)
Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Wilts., ed. Britton Aubrey's Natural History of Wiltshire, ed. J. Britton (facsimile, Newton Abbott, 1969)
Aubrey, Topog. Colln. ed. Jackson The Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, ed. J. E. Jackson (Devizes, 1862)
BL British Library
Add. Ch. Additional Charter
Book of Fees The Book of Fees (HMSO, 1920–31)
Burke's Landed Gentry J. Burke and others, Landed Gentry
Burke's Peerage J. Burke and others, A Dictionary of the Peerage
Cal. Chart. Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1903–27)
Cal. Close Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1892–1963)
Cal. Cttee. for Compounding Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, etc. 1643–1660 (HMSO, 1889–92)
Cal. Cttee. for Money Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for the Advance of Money, 1642–1646 (HMSO, 1888)
Cal. Fine Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1911–62)
Cal. Inq. Misc. Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1916–68)
Cal. Inq. p.m. Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1904–95)
Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, Henry VII (HMSO, 1898–1955)
Cal. Lib. Calendar of the Liberate Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1916–64)
Cal. Mem. Calendar of the Memoranda Rolls (Exchequer) preserved in the Public Record Office, Michaelmas 1326–Michaelmas 1327 (HMSO, 1968)
Cal. Papal Pets. Calendar of Papal Registers: Petitions to the Pope (HMSO, 1896)
Cal. Papal Reg. Calendar of Papal Registers: Papal Letters (HMSO, and Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1893–1994)
Cal. Pat. Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1891–1986)
Cal. SP Dom. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series (HMSO, 1856–1972)
Camd. Soc. Camden Society
Cant. & York Soc. Canterbury and York Society
Cart. Cirencester The Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey, 3 vols. (1964–77): I–II, ed. C. D. Ross; III, ed. M. Devine.
Cat. Ancient Deeds Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1890–1915)
Cat. of Drawings Colln. of RIBA J. Bettley (ed.), Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: a Cumulative Index, 20 vols (Farnborough, 1968–89)
Cath. Rec. Soc. Catholic Record Society
Ch. Com. Church Commissioners
Char. Com. Charity Commission
Charitable Donations, 1786–88 Abstract of Returns relative to Charitable Donations for the Benefit of Poor Persons 1786–88 (Parl. Papers 1816 (511), xvi (2))
Clark (ed.), Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery A. Clark (ed.), The English Register of Godstow Nunnery (Early English Text Soc. 142, 1911).
Close Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1902–75)
Complete Peerage G. E. Cockayne and others, The Complete Peerage (2nd edn, 1910–59)
Compton Census, ed. Whiteman The Compton Census of 1676: a critical edition, ed. A. Whiteman (British Academy Rec. Soc. and Econ. Hist. NS, 10)
Crockford Crockford's Clerical Directory
Crowley (ed.), Tax List 1332 D. A. Crowley (ed.), The Wiltshire Tax List of 1332 (WRS 45, 1989)
Cunnington (ed.), Wilts. Quarter Sessions Recs B. H. Cunnington (ed.), Records of the County of Wiltshire from the Quarter Sessions Rolls of the 17th Century (Devizes, 1932)
Cur. Reg. Curia Regis Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1922–91)
Dioc. Diocese/Diocesan
DOE, 'Bldgs List' Dept of the Environment, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historical Interest: N. Wilts. (1986–7)
Dugdale, Mon. W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Caley and others (1817–30)
Educ. in England Abstract, 1835 Abstract of Returns relative to the State of Education in England (Parl. Papers 1835 (62), xliii)
Educ. of the Poor Digest Digest of Returns to the Select Committee on the Education of the Poor (Parl. Papers 1819 (224), ix (2)
Elrington (ed.), Feet of Fines 1327–77 Elrington (ed.), Abstract of Feet of Fines relating to Wiltshire for the Reign of Edward III (WRS 29, 1974)
Endowed Charities, 1908 Endowed Charities of Wiltshire (Parl. Papers 1908 (273), lxxx: (1) N Division)
Feud. Aids Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1899–1920)
Finberg, Early Wessex Chart. H. P. R. Finberg, Early Charters of Wessex (Leicester, 1964)
Fry (ed.), Feet of Fines, 1195–1272 E. A. Fry (ed.), A Calendar of the Feet of Fines relating to Wiltshire, 1195–1272 (Devizes, 1930)
Gent. Mag. Gentleman's Magazine (1731–1867)
Geol. Surv. Geological Survey
Glebe Lands Return, 1887 Return of Glebe Lands (Parl. Papers 1887 (307), lxiv)
Glos. A. Gloucestershire Archives
HMSO Her (His) Majesty's Stationery Office
Harl. Soc. Harleian Society
Hist. Parl. The History of Parliament
HMC The National Archives: The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Hoare, Mod. Wilts. Sir Richard Colt Hoare and others, The History of Modern Wiltshire (London, 1822–44)
Hobbs (ed.), Glebe Terriers S. Hobbs (ed.), Wiltshire Glebe Terriers 1588–1827 (WRS 56, 2003)
Hodgson, Queen Anne's Bounty C. Hodgson, An Account of the Augmentation of Small Livings by the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne (second edition, 1845, with supplement of 1864)
Holmes, Cricklade D. Holmes, Cricklade (rev. edn, Stroud, 2002)
Horn (ed.), Reg. Hallum J. Horn (ed.), The Register of Robert Hallum, Bishop of Salisbury (Cant. & York Soc. 72, 1982)
Kirby (ed.), Feet of Fines 1377–1509 J. L. Kirby (ed.), Abstracts of Feet of Fines relating to Wiltshire, 1377–1509 (WRS 41, 1986)
LJ Journals of the House of Lords
L&P Hen. VIII Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (HMSO, 1864–1932)
Lewis, Topog. Dict. Eng. S. Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of England (1845)
Lond. Gaz. London Gazette
Nightingale, Church Plate J. E. Nightingale, The Church Plate of Wiltshire (Salisbury, 1891)
New DNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, http://www.oxforddnb.com
Non. Inq. G. Vandersee (ed.), Nonarum Inquisitiones in Curia Scaccarii (Rec. Com. 1807)
Old DNB Dictionary of National Biography
OS Ordnance Survey
PN Wilts. (EPNS) J. E. B. Gover, A. Mawer, and F. M. Stenton, Place-Names of Wiltshire (English Place-Name Society 16, 1939)
PRS Pipe Roll Society
Pat. Patent Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1901–3)
Pevsner, Wilts. (2nd edn) N. Pevsner, Buildings of England: Wiltshire, rev. B. Cherry (2nd. edn, 1975)
Phillipps, Institutions Sir Thomas Phillipps (ed.), Institutiones Clericorum in Comitatu Wiltoniae (priv. print. 1825; index in WAM 28, 1894–5)
Pipe R 1156–8 (Rec. Com.) J. Hunter (ed.), The Great Rolls of the Pipe for the Second, Third, and Fourth Years of the Reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1155, 1156, 1157, 1158 (Rec. Com. 1844)
Plac. de Quo Warr. W. Illingworth (ed.), Placita de Quo Warranto (Rec. Com. 1818)
Poor Law Abstract, 1804; 1818 Abstract of Answers and Returns relative to the Expense and Maintenance of the Poor (Parl. Papers 1804 (175), i); (Parl. Papers 1818 (82), xix)
Poor Law Com. 1st Rep. First Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales, (Parl. Papers 1835 (500), xxxv)
Poor Law Com. 2nd Rep. Second Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales, (Parl. Papers, 1836 (595), xxix (1))
Poor Rate Returns, 1816–21 Poor Rate Returns, 1816–21 (Parl. Papers 1822 (556) v) Supplementary Appendix
Poor Rate Returns, 1822–4 Poor Rate Returns, 1822–4 (Parl. Papers 1825 (334), iv), Supplementary Appendix.
Poor Rate Returns, 1825–9 Poor Rate Returns, 1825–9 (Parl. Papers 1830–1 (83), xi)
Poor Rate Returns, 1830–4 Poor Rate Returns, 1830–4 (Parl. Papers 1835 (444), xlvii)
Princ. Regy. Fam. Div. Principal Registry of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice
Pugh (ed.), Feet of Fines 1272–1327 R. B. Pugh (ed.), Abstracts of Feet of Fines relating to Wiltshire for the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II (WRS 1, 1939)
Ransome (ed.), Visitation Queries 1783 M. Ransome (ed.), Wiltshire Returns to the Bishop's Visitation Queries, 1783 (WRS 27, 1972)
Rec. Com. Record Commission
Red Book Exch. H. Hall (ed.), The Red Book of the Exchequer (RS 99, 1896)
Reg. Martival The Registers of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury (Cant. & York Soc 55, 57–9, 68, 1959–75): I, ed. K. Edwards; II, ed. C. Elrington; III, ed. S. Reynolds; IV, ed. D. M. Owen.
Reg. Malm. J. S. Brewer and C. T. Martin (eds), Registrum Malmesburiense: The Register of Malmesbury Abbey, 2 vols., (RS 72, 1879–80)
Reg. Regum Anglo-Norman Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066–1154, 4 vols (Oxford, 1913–69): I, ed. H. W. C. Davis; II, ed. C. Johnson and H. A. Cronne; III–IV, ed. H. A. Cronne and R. H. C. Davis.
Reg. Regum Anglo-Norman: Acta Wil. I D. Bates (ed.), Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum: The Acta of William I (Oxford, 1998).
Rep. Com. Ecclesiastical Revenues, 1835 Report of the Commissioners appointed to Inquire into the Ecclesiastical Revenues of England and Wales (Parl. Papers 1835 (67), xxii)
Rep. Com. on Women and Children in Agric. 1868–9 Report of the Royal Commission on Children, Young Persons, and Women in Agriculture (Parl. Papers 1868–9 (C 4202 and 4202–1), xiii)
Return of Churches, 1882 Return of Churches, Chapels, and Buildings Registered for Religious Worship (Parl. Papers 1882 (401) 1)
Return of Non-Provided Schools, 1906 Return of Schools Recognised as Non-Provided Public Elementary Schools (Parl. Papers 1906 (178), lxxxvii–lxxxviii)
Return of Public Elementary Schools, 1877 Return of Public Elementary Schools (Parl. Papers 1875–6 (C 1882), lxvii)
Returns relating to Elementary Educ. 1871 Returns relating to Elementary Education, (Parl. Papers 1871 (201), lv)
RO Record Office
Rogers (ed.), Early Trade Dir. K. H. Rogers (ed.), Early Trade Directories of Wiltshire (WRS 47, 1992)
Rot. Chart. T. D. Hardy (ed.), Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi asservati (Rec. Com. 1837)
Rot. Hund. W. Illingworth (ed.), Rotuli Hundredorum temp. Hen. III & Edw. I (Rec. Com. 1812–18)
Rot. Litt. Claus. T. D. Hardy (ed.), Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinensi asservati (Rec. Com. 1833–44)
Rot. Parl. Rotuli Parliamentorum [1783]
RS Rolls Series
SMR Sites and Monuments Register (maintained by Wiltshire Archaeology Service, in the WSHC)
Tax. Eccl. T. Astle, S. Ayscough, and J. Caley (eds), Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae auctoritate P. Nicholai IV circa A.D. 1291 (Rec. Com. 1802)
Thomson (ed.), Hist. Cricklade T. R. Thomson (ed.), Materials for a History of Cricklade (Oxford, 1958)
TNA: PRO The National Archives: The Public Record Office
TBGAS Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
VCH Victoria County History
Valor Eccl. J. Caley and J. Hunter (ed.), Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Hen. VIII (Rec. Com. 1810–34)
WAM Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine (formerly Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine)
WBR Wiltshire Building Record (in the WSHC)
WHM Library Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Library
Wilts. N&Q Wiltshire Notes and Queries (Devizes, 1893–1917)
WRS Wiltshire Record Society (formerly Records Branch of W.A.S.)
WSA Wiltshire and Swindon Archives
WSHC Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
Walker Revised, ed. Matthews A. G. Matthews (ed.), Walker Revised: being a Revision of John Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy during the Grand Rebellion, 1642–60 (Oxford, 1948)
Walters, Church Bells H. B. Walters, The Church Bells of Wiltshire (Devizes, 1927–9)
Williams, Cath. Recusancy J. A. Williams, Catholic Recusancy in Wiltshire, 1660–1791 (Cath. Rec. Soc. 1, 1968)
Wilts. Cuttings Volumes of newspaper and other cuttings in the WHM Library
Wilts. Gaz. Wiltshire Gazette
Wilts. Inq. p.m. 1242–1326 E. A. Fry (ed.), Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones post mortem in the reigns of Henry III, Edward I, and Edward II, 1242–1326 (Index Library 37, 1908)
Wilts. Inq. p.m. 1327–77 E. Stokes (ed.), Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones post mortem in the reign of Edward III, 1327–77 (Index Library 48, 1914)
Wilts. Inq. p.m. 1625–49 G. S. and E. A. Fry (eds), Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones post mortem in the reign of Charles I, 1625–49 (Index Library 23, 1901)
Youngs, Admin. Units F. A. Youngs, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, 2 vols., (London, 1979–1991)
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