Note on abbreviations

A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood With Southall, Hillingdon With Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow With Pinner. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1971.

Citation:

Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld, D C Yaxley, 'Note on abbreviations', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood With Southall, Hillingdon With Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow With Pinner, ed. T F T Baker, J S Cockburn, R B Pugh (London, 1971), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/xix [accessed 31 January 2025].

Among the abbreviations and short titles used the following may require elucidation:



Brewer, Beauties of Eng. and Wales, x(5)	J. N. Brewer, vol. x (1816) of The Beauties of England and Wales (1810-16), ed. E. W. Brayley and J. Britton. The part of the work cited is alternatively known either as the fifth part, or as the second part of vol. iv, of London and Middlesex, which is itself vol. x of The Beauties
Ft. of F. Lond. & Mdx.	Calendar to the Feet of Fines for London and Middlesex, ed. W. J. Hardy and W. Page (2 vols. 1892-3)
Foot, Agric. of Mdx.	P. Foot, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Middlesex (1794)
Gen. Reg. Off.	The General Register Office, Somerset House, London
Guildhall MSS.	City of London, Guildhall Library. The collection includes bishops' registers (MS. 9531), diocesan administrative records (MSS. 9532-60), and records of bishops' estates (MSS. 10234-51)
Hennessy, Novum Repertorium	G. Hennessy, Novum Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense (1898)
Hist. Mon. Com. Mdx.	Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex (H.M.S.O. 1937)
Kelly's Dir. Mdx.	The Post Office Directories. The directories for Middlesex between 1845 and 1863 are published as part of the Home Counties Directory
Lond. Dioc. Bk.	Yearbook of the diocese of London (1940 to date)
Lysons, Environs of Lond.	D. Lysons, The Environs of London (1792-6), vols. ii and iii (1795)
Lysons, Mdx. Pars.	D. Lysons, An Historical Account of those parishes in the County of Middlesex which are not described in the Environs of London (1800)
M.L.R.	Middlesex Land Registry. The enrolments are at the Greater London Record Office (Middlesex Records), the volumes and indexes throughout are at the Greater London Record Office
M.R.O.	Middlesex Record Office. On the incorporation of Middlesex within Greater London on 1 April 1965 the office became known as the Greater London Record Office (Middlesex Records)
Mdx. Cnty. Recs.	Middlesex County Records [1550-1688], ed. J. C. Jeaffreson (4 vols. 1886-92)
Mdx. Cnty. Recs. Sess. Bks. 1689-1709	Middlesex County Records, Calendar of the Sessions Books 1689 to 1709, ed. W. J. Hardy (1905)
Mdx. Sess. Recs.	Calendar to the Sessions Records [1612-18], ed. W. le Hardy (4 vols. 1935-41)
Middleton, View	J. Middleton, View of the Agriculture of Middlesex (1798)
Newcourt, Repertorium	R. Newcourt, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense (2 vols. 1708-10)
P.N. Mdx. (E.P.N.S.)	The Place-Names of Middlesex (English Place-Name Society, vol. xviii, 1942)
Pevsner, Mdx.	N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Middlesex (1951)
Robbins, Middlesex	M. Robbins, Middlesex (1953)
Thorne, Environs	J. Thorne, Handbook to the Environs of London [alphabetically arranged in two parts] (1876)
T.L.M.A.S.	Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (1856 to date). Consecutive numbers are used for the whole series, although vols. vii-xvii (1905-54) appeared as N.S. i-xi
W.A.M.	Westminster Abbey Muniments