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AMONG the abbreviations and short titles used, the following may require elucidation: |
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Abbrev. Plac.
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Placitorum Originalium, ed. W. J. Illingworth (Record Commission 1811) |
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Abbrev. Rot. Orig.
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Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviatio, Henry III - Edward III, ed. H. Playford (Record Commission 1805-10) |
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Acct.
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Account
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Alum. Cantab.
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Alumni Cantabrigienses, ed. J. and J. A. Venn |
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Alum. Oxon.
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Alumni Oxonienses, ed. J. Foster |
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Ann. Rep. B. & W. Dioc. Assoc. S.P.C.K.
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Annual Report of the Bath and Wells Diocesan Association of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge
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B.L.
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British Library
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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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Cal. Chanc. Wts.
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Calendar of Chancery Warrants preserved in the Public Record Office, 1244-1326 (H.M.S.O., 1927) |
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Cal. Chart. R.
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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 (H.M.S.O. 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.
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Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1911-62) |
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Cal. Inq. Misc.
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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.
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Calendar of inquisitions post mortem preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1904-95) |
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Cal. Inq. p. m. Hen. VII
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Calendar of Inquisitions port mortem, Henry VII (H.M.S.O. 1898-1956) |
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Cal. Mem. R.
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Calendar of the Memoranda Rolls (Exchequer) preserved in the Public Record Office, Michaelmas 1326-Michaelmas 1327 (H.M.S.O. 1968) |
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Cal. Papal Pets.
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Calendar of Papal Registers: Petitions to the Pope (H.M.S.O. 1896) |
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Cal. Papal Reg.
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Calendar of Papal Registers: Papal Letters (H.M.S.O. and Irish Manuscripts Commission 1893-1998) |
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Cal. Pat.
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Calendar of Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1891-1986) |
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Cal. S.P. Dom.
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Calendar of Sate Papers, Domestic Series (H.M.S.O. and Public Record Office Publications 1856-1998) |
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Calamy Revised, ed. Matthews
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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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Cat. Anct. D.
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Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1890-1915) |
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Char. Com.
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Charity Commission
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Char. Don.
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Abstract of Returns of Charitable Donations made in 1787-8, H.C. 511 (1816), xvi |
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Close R.
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Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1902-15) |
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Collinson, Hist. Som. |
J. Collinson,History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset (3 vols. 1791) |
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Complete Peerage
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G. E. C[ockayne] and others, Complete Peerage (2nd. edn. 1910-98) |
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Crockford
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Crockford's Clerical Directory
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Cur. Reg. R.
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Curia Regis Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. and Boydell Press 1922-99) |
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D.N.B.
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Dictionary of National Biography
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Dioc. Dir.
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Bath and Wells Diocesan Directory (and Almanack) (1928-) (Almanack discontinued 1948) |
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Dioc. Kal.
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(New) Bath and Wells Diocesan Kalendar (1888-1907) |
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Dom. Bk. ed. Thorn
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Domesday Book, Somerset ed. C. and F. Thorn (1980) |
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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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Educ. Enq. Abstract
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Abstract of Educational Returns, H.C. 62 (1835), xlii |
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Educ. of Poor Digest
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Digest of Returns to the Select Committee on the Education of the Poor H.C. 224 (1819), ix (2) |
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Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Camb. |
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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Eng. Episcopal Acta
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English Episcopal Acta, x. Bath and Wells 1061-1205, ed. F. R. Ramsey (British Academy 1995) |
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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
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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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Geol. Surv. |
Geological Survey
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H.C.
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House of Commons
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H.L.
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House of Lords
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H.M.C. Wells
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Royal Commission of Historical Manuscripts, Series 12,Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells (1907-14) |
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Harl. Soc.
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Harleian Society
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Hist. MSS. Com.
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Royal Commission of Historical Manuscripts
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Hist. Parl.
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History of Parliament
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Kelly's Dir. Som.
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Kelly's Post Office Directory of Somerset
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L. & P. Hen. VIII
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Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII (H.M.S.O. 1864-1932) |
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Lond. Gaz.
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London Gazette
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Nat. Soc., Inquiry, 1846-7
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Results of the Returns made to the General Inquiry made by the National Society, 1846-7 (1849) |
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O.N.S.
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Office of National Statistics
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Orig. Rec. of Early Nonconf. ed. G. L. Turner
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Original Records of Early Nonconformity, ed. G.L. Turner (1911-14) |
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P.O. Dir. Som.
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Post Office Directory of Somerset
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P.R.O.
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Public Record Office
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P.R.S.
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Pipe Roll Society
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Pigot, Nat. Com. Dir. |
Pigot'sNational Commercial Directory
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Plac. De Quo Warr.
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Placita de Quo Warranto, ed. W. Illingworth and J. Caley (Record Commission 1818) |
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Pole MS. |
Transcript of the Collections of Sir William Pole, V.C.H. Office, Taunton
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Proc. Som. Arch. Soc.
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Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society (from 1968 Somerset Archaeology and Natural History) |
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R.E.E.D.
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Records of Early English Drama
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Red Bk. Exch. (Rolls Ser.) |
Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. H. Hall (Rolls Series 1896) |
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Reg.-Gen.
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Registrar-General
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Rep. Com. Char.
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Report of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales
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Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues
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Report of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Revenues [67], H.C. (1835), xxii |
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Rep. Com. Children and Women in Agric.
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Report of the Royal Commission on Children, Young Persons, and Women in Agriculture [4202 and 4202-1], H.C. (1868-9), xiii |
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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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Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotuli Chartarum, 1199-1216, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1837) |
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Rot. Cur. Reg. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotuli Curiae Regis, 6 Richard I to 1 John, ed. F. Palgrave (Record Commission 1835) |
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Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotuli Hundredorum temp. Hen. III and Edw. I (Record Commission 1812-18) |
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Rot. Litt. Claus. (Rec. Com.) |
Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum, 1204-27, ed. T.D. Hardy (Record Commission 1833-44) |
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S.D.N.Q.
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Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries
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Sanders, Eng. Baronies
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I. J. Sanders, English Baronies, 1066-1327
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Som. C.C.
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Somerset County Council
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Som. C.C. Sites and Mons. Rec.
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Somerset County Council Sites and Monuments Record |
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Som. Incumbents, ed. Weaver
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Somerset Incumbents, ed. F. W. Weaver (1889) |
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Som. Protestation Returns, ed. Howard and Stoate
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Somerset Protestation Returns and Subsidy Rolls, ed. A. J. Howard and T. L. Stoate (1975) |
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Som. Studies Libr.
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Somerset Studies Library, Taunton
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Som. Wills, ed. Brown
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Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills etc., copied from the Manuscript Collections of the late Revd. F. Brown (1887-90) |
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S.R.O.
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Somerset Record Office, Obridge Road, Taunton
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S.R.S.
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Somerset Record Society (below, p. xvii for complete list) |
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Surveys of Glastonbury, ed. Stacy
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Surveys of the Estates of Glastonbury Abbey, ed. N. E. Stacy (2001) |
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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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V.C.H.
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Victoria County History
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Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.) |
Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. Hen. VIII (Record Commission 1810-34) |
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Walker Revised, ed. A. G. Matthews |
Walker Revised: being a Revision of John Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy during the Grand Rebellion, 1642-60, ed. A. G. Matthews |
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Youngs, Local Admin. Units
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F. A. Youngs, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: i. Southern England (1979) |
