BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN BOROUGH CUSTOMS AND CASES IN PRINT
ALL ENGLISH BOROUGHS (General)
Ballard, Adolphus, ed. British Borough Charters, 1216-1307. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1923.
Bateson, Mary, ed. Borough Customs. 2 vols. London: B. Quaritch, 1904-6.
Weinbaum, Martin, ed. British Borough Charters, 1307-1660. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1943.
BERKSHIRE
Reading
Guilding, J.M., ed. Records of the Borough of Reading. 4 vols. Reading: J. Parker, 1892-96.
BRISTOL
Bristol
Bickley, Francis B., ed. The Little Red Book of Bristol. 2 vols. Bristol: W.C. Hemmons, 1900.
Veale, Edward William Wodehouse, ed. The Great Red Book of Bristol. Bristol Record Society, Vol. II. Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 1931.
Ralph, Elizabeth, ed. The Great White Book of Bristol. Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 1979.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Chepping Wycombe
Charters and Grants Relating to the Borough Chepping Wycombe in the Country of Buckingham. Wycombe: E.W. Morris, 1817.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Cambridge
Maitland, F.W. and Mary Bateson, eds. Charters of the Borough of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901.
DERBYSHIRE
Chesterfield
Yeatman, John Pym., ed. Records of the Borough of Chesterfield. Chesterfield: Wilfred Edmunds, 1884.
DEVON
Exeter
Schopp, Jacob Wilhelm, ed. The Anglo-Norman Custumal of Exeter. Oxford University Press, 1925.
South Molton
Cock, John, ed. Records of ye Antient Borough of South Molton, in ye County of Devon. Published by author, 1893.
DORSET
Dorchester
Mayo, Charles Herbert and Arthur William Gould, eds. The Municipal Records of the Borough of Dorchester, Dorset. Exeter: W. Pollard, 1908.
Shaftesbury
Mayo, Charles Herbert. The Municipal Records of the Borough of Shaftesbury: A Contribution to Shastonian History. Sherborne: J.C. Sawtell, 1889.
DURHAM
Crossgate
Britnell, R.H., ed. Records of the Borough of Crossgate, Durham, 1312-1531. London: Boydell and Brewer, 2008.
ESSEX
Colchester
Benham, W. Gurney, ed. The Red Paper Book of Colchester. Colchester: Essex County Standard Office, 1902.
Benham, W. Gurney, ed. The Oath Book, or Red Parchment Book of Colchester. Colchester: Essex County Standard Office, 1907.
Jeayes, Isaac Herbert, ed. Court Rolls of the Borough of Colchester. 4 Vols. Introduction by W. Gurney Benham. Colchester: Borough of Colchester, 1921-41.
KENT
Dover
Jones, John Bavington, ed. “The Dover Customal.” In The Records of Dover: The Charters, Record Books and Papers of the Corporation, with the Dover Customal, 97-110. Dover: Dover Express Works, 1920.
Fordwich
New Romney
Sandwich
HAMPSHIRE
Portsmouth
East, Robert, ed. Extracts from Records in the Possession of the Municipal Corporation of the Borough of Portsmouth. Portsmouth: H. Lewis, 1884.
Southampton
Chapman, A.B. Wallis, ed. The Black Book of Southampton. 3 vols. Southampton: Southampton Record Society, 1912-15.
Gidden, H.W., ed. The Charters of the Borough of Southampton. 2 vols. Southampton: Southampton Record Society, 1909-10.
Gidden, H.W., ed. The Book of Remembrance of Southampton. 3 vols. Southampton: Southampton Record Society, 1927-30.
Hearnshaw, F.J.C. and D.M. Hearnshaw, eds. Southampton Court Leet Records. 4 vols. Southampton: Southampton Record Society, 1905-8.
Merson, A.L., ed. The Third Book of Remembrance of Southampton, 1514-1602. 3 vols. Southampton Record Series, 1952-65.
Studer, Paul, ed. The Oak Book of Southampton c. A.D. 1300. 3 vols. Southampton: Southampton Record Society, 1910-11.
Winchester
Bird, William Henry Benbow, ed. The Black Book of Winchester: British Museum, additional ms. 6036. Winchester: Warren and Son limited, 1925.
Furley, John Sampson and Ernest William Patchett, eds. The Ancient Usages of the City of Winchester: From the Anglo-French Version Preserved in Winchester College. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927.
Furley, John Sampson. Town Life in the XIV Century, As Seen in the Court Rolls of Winchester City. Warren and Son, 1947.
HUNTINGDONSHIRE
Huntingdon
Griffith, Edward, ed. A Collection of Ancient Records Relating to the Borough of Huntingdon, with Observations, Illustrative of the History of Parliamentary Boroughs in General. London: H. Butterworth, Fleet-Street, 1727.
LANCANSHIRE
Clitheroe
Harland, J., ed. Ancient Charters and other Muniments of the Borough of Clithero in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Manchester: Cave and Sever, 1851.
Salford
Mandley, J.G., ed. The Portmote or Court Leet Records of the Borough or Town and Royal Manor of Salford, from the Year 1597 to the Year 1669 Inclusive. Vol. 1. Chetham Society, 1902.
LEICESTERSHIRE
Leicester
Bateson, Mary, et al., ed. Records of the Borough of Leicester. 7 vols. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1899-1974.
LONDON
Chew, Helena. London Assize of Nuisance, 1301-1431: A Calendar. London Record Society, 1973.
Riley, Henry Thomas, ed. Liber albus: The White Book of the City of London. By John Clerk and Richard Whitington. London: Richard Griffin and Co., 1861.
Riley, Henry Thomas, ed. Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis: Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Horn. 2 vols. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.
NORFOLK
Great Yarmouth
Repertory of Deeds and Documents Relating to the Borough of Great Yarmouth. Great Yarmouth: Town Council, 1855.
King’s Lynn
Harrod, Henry. Report on the Deeds and Records of the Borough of King’s Lynn. London: Thew and Son, 1874.
Holcombe, Ingleby, ed. The Red Register of King’s Lynn. 2 vols. London: Thew and Son, 1922.
Norwich
Hudson, William and John Cottingham Tingey, eds. The Records of the City of Norwich. 2 vols. Corporation of the City of Norwich: Jarrold & Sons, 1906-10.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Northampton
Markham, Christopher A., ed. Liber Custumarum: The Book of the Ancient Usages and Customes of the Town of Northampton, from the Earliest Record to 1448. Northampton: Taylor & Son, the Dryden Press, 1895.
Markham, Christopher A., ed. The Records of the Borough of Northampton. Vol. 1. Northampton: E. Stock, 1898.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Newark-upon-Trent
Hodgkinson, R.F.B., ed. Extracts from the Records of the Borough of Newark-upon-Trent. Newark, 1920.
Nottingham
Corporation of Nottingham. Records of the Borough of Nottingham. 3 vols. London: B. Quaritch, 1882-85.
SHROPSHIRE
Shrewsbury
Calendar of the Muniments and Records of the Borough of Shrewsbury. Shrewsbury: L. Wilding, 1896.
SUFFOLK
Aldeburgh
Winn, Austin T., ed. Records of the Borough of Aldeburgh: The Order Book, 1549-1631. Printed by Austin, 1925.
Ipswich
Allen, David, ed. Ipswich Borough Archives, 1255-1835. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1999-2000.
Martin, G.H. The Early Court Rolls of the Borough of Ipswich. Department of English Local History, Occasional Papers, no. 5. Leicester: University College of Leicester, 1954.
Twiss, Travers, ed. “Le Domesday de Gippewtz.” In vol. 2 of The Black Book of the Admiralty, 16-209. London: Longman and Co., 1873.
SURREY
Guildford
Dance, Enid M., ed. Guildford Borough Records, 1514-1546. Frome: Surrey Record Society, 1958.
SUSSEX
Pevensey
Winchelsea
STAFFORDSHIRE
Tamworth
Wood, Henry, ed. Tamworth Borough Records: Being a Catalogue of Civic Records with Appendices. Tamworth: The Borough, 1952.
WARWICKSHIRE
Coventry
Harris, Mary Dormer, ed. The Coventry Leet Book, or Mayor's Register: Containing the Records of the City Court Leet, or, View of Frankpledge, A.D. 1420-1555. Early English Text Society and Oxford University Press, 1907.
Warwick
Kemp, Thomas, ed. The Black Book of Warwick. Warwick: H.T. Cook and Son, 1898.
WILTSHIRE
Chippenham
Goldney, Frederick Hastings. Records of Chippenham Relating to the Borough: From its Incorporation by Queen Mary, 1554, to its Reconstruction by Act of Parliament, 1889. Diprose, Bateman, and Company, 1889.
WORCESTERSHIRE
Evesham
Roberts, Stephen, ed. Evesham Borough Records of the Seventeenth Century, 1605-1687. Kendal: Titus Wilson, 1994.
YORKSHIRE
Beverley
Dennett, John, ed. Beverley Borough Records, 1575-1821. Wakefield: The Society, 1933.
Leach, Arthur F. Beverly Town Documents. Selden Society, Vol. 14. London: B. Quaritch, 1900.
Doncaster
Hardy, W.J., ed. A Calendar to the Records of the Borough of Doncaster. 4 vols. Doncaster, 1899.
York
York Civic Ordinances.
York Memorandum Book.
Ballard, Adolphus, ed. British Borough Charters, 1216-1307. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1923.
Bateson, Mary, ed. Borough Customs. 2 vols. London: B. Quaritch, 1904-6.
Weinbaum, Martin, ed. British Borough Charters, 1307-1660. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1943.
BERKSHIRE
Reading
Guilding, J.M., ed. Records of the Borough of Reading. 4 vols. Reading: J. Parker, 1892-96.
BRISTOL
Bristol
Bickley, Francis B., ed. The Little Red Book of Bristol. 2 vols. Bristol: W.C. Hemmons, 1900.
Veale, Edward William Wodehouse, ed. The Great Red Book of Bristol. Bristol Record Society, Vol. II. Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 1931.
Ralph, Elizabeth, ed. The Great White Book of Bristol. Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 1979.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Chepping Wycombe
Charters and Grants Relating to the Borough Chepping Wycombe in the Country of Buckingham. Wycombe: E.W. Morris, 1817.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Cambridge
Maitland, F.W. and Mary Bateson, eds. Charters of the Borough of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901.
DERBYSHIRE
Chesterfield
Yeatman, John Pym., ed. Records of the Borough of Chesterfield. Chesterfield: Wilfred Edmunds, 1884.
DEVON
Exeter
Schopp, Jacob Wilhelm, ed. The Anglo-Norman Custumal of Exeter. Oxford University Press, 1925.
South Molton
Cock, John, ed. Records of ye Antient Borough of South Molton, in ye County of Devon. Published by author, 1893.
DORSET
Dorchester
Mayo, Charles Herbert and Arthur William Gould, eds. The Municipal Records of the Borough of Dorchester, Dorset. Exeter: W. Pollard, 1908.
Shaftesbury
Mayo, Charles Herbert. The Municipal Records of the Borough of Shaftesbury: A Contribution to Shastonian History. Sherborne: J.C. Sawtell, 1889.
DURHAM
Crossgate
Britnell, R.H., ed. Records of the Borough of Crossgate, Durham, 1312-1531. London: Boydell and Brewer, 2008.
ESSEX
Colchester
Benham, W. Gurney, ed. The Red Paper Book of Colchester. Colchester: Essex County Standard Office, 1902.
Benham, W. Gurney, ed. The Oath Book, or Red Parchment Book of Colchester. Colchester: Essex County Standard Office, 1907.
Jeayes, Isaac Herbert, ed. Court Rolls of the Borough of Colchester. 4 Vols. Introduction by W. Gurney Benham. Colchester: Borough of Colchester, 1921-41.
KENT
Dover
Jones, John Bavington, ed. “The Dover Customal.” In The Records of Dover: The Charters, Record Books and Papers of the Corporation, with the Dover Customal, 97-110. Dover: Dover Express Works, 1920.
Fordwich
New Romney
Sandwich
HAMPSHIRE
Portsmouth
East, Robert, ed. Extracts from Records in the Possession of the Municipal Corporation of the Borough of Portsmouth. Portsmouth: H. Lewis, 1884.
Southampton
Chapman, A.B. Wallis, ed. The Black Book of Southampton. 3 vols. Southampton: Southampton Record Society, 1912-15.
Gidden, H.W., ed. The Charters of the Borough of Southampton. 2 vols. Southampton: Southampton Record Society, 1909-10.
Gidden, H.W., ed. The Book of Remembrance of Southampton. 3 vols. Southampton: Southampton Record Society, 1927-30.
Hearnshaw, F.J.C. and D.M. Hearnshaw, eds. Southampton Court Leet Records. 4 vols. Southampton: Southampton Record Society, 1905-8.
Merson, A.L., ed. The Third Book of Remembrance of Southampton, 1514-1602. 3 vols. Southampton Record Series, 1952-65.
Studer, Paul, ed. The Oak Book of Southampton c. A.D. 1300. 3 vols. Southampton: Southampton Record Society, 1910-11.
Winchester
Bird, William Henry Benbow, ed. The Black Book of Winchester: British Museum, additional ms. 6036. Winchester: Warren and Son limited, 1925.
Furley, John Sampson and Ernest William Patchett, eds. The Ancient Usages of the City of Winchester: From the Anglo-French Version Preserved in Winchester College. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927.
Furley, John Sampson. Town Life in the XIV Century, As Seen in the Court Rolls of Winchester City. Warren and Son, 1947.
HUNTINGDONSHIRE
Huntingdon
Griffith, Edward, ed. A Collection of Ancient Records Relating to the Borough of Huntingdon, with Observations, Illustrative of the History of Parliamentary Boroughs in General. London: H. Butterworth, Fleet-Street, 1727.
LANCANSHIRE
Clitheroe
Harland, J., ed. Ancient Charters and other Muniments of the Borough of Clithero in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Manchester: Cave and Sever, 1851.
Salford
Mandley, J.G., ed. The Portmote or Court Leet Records of the Borough or Town and Royal Manor of Salford, from the Year 1597 to the Year 1669 Inclusive. Vol. 1. Chetham Society, 1902.
LEICESTERSHIRE
Leicester
Bateson, Mary, et al., ed. Records of the Borough of Leicester. 7 vols. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1899-1974.
LONDON
Chew, Helena. London Assize of Nuisance, 1301-1431: A Calendar. London Record Society, 1973.
Riley, Henry Thomas, ed. Liber albus: The White Book of the City of London. By John Clerk and Richard Whitington. London: Richard Griffin and Co., 1861.
Riley, Henry Thomas, ed. Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis: Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Horn. 2 vols. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.
NORFOLK
Great Yarmouth
Repertory of Deeds and Documents Relating to the Borough of Great Yarmouth. Great Yarmouth: Town Council, 1855.
King’s Lynn
Harrod, Henry. Report on the Deeds and Records of the Borough of King’s Lynn. London: Thew and Son, 1874.
Holcombe, Ingleby, ed. The Red Register of King’s Lynn. 2 vols. London: Thew and Son, 1922.
Norwich
Hudson, William and John Cottingham Tingey, eds. The Records of the City of Norwich. 2 vols. Corporation of the City of Norwich: Jarrold & Sons, 1906-10.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Northampton
Markham, Christopher A., ed. Liber Custumarum: The Book of the Ancient Usages and Customes of the Town of Northampton, from the Earliest Record to 1448. Northampton: Taylor & Son, the Dryden Press, 1895.
Markham, Christopher A., ed. The Records of the Borough of Northampton. Vol. 1. Northampton: E. Stock, 1898.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Newark-upon-Trent
Hodgkinson, R.F.B., ed. Extracts from the Records of the Borough of Newark-upon-Trent. Newark, 1920.
Nottingham
Corporation of Nottingham. Records of the Borough of Nottingham. 3 vols. London: B. Quaritch, 1882-85.
SHROPSHIRE
Shrewsbury
Calendar of the Muniments and Records of the Borough of Shrewsbury. Shrewsbury: L. Wilding, 1896.
SUFFOLK
Aldeburgh
Winn, Austin T., ed. Records of the Borough of Aldeburgh: The Order Book, 1549-1631. Printed by Austin, 1925.
Ipswich
Allen, David, ed. Ipswich Borough Archives, 1255-1835. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1999-2000.
Martin, G.H. The Early Court Rolls of the Borough of Ipswich. Department of English Local History, Occasional Papers, no. 5. Leicester: University College of Leicester, 1954.
Twiss, Travers, ed. “Le Domesday de Gippewtz.” In vol. 2 of The Black Book of the Admiralty, 16-209. London: Longman and Co., 1873.
SURREY
Guildford
Dance, Enid M., ed. Guildford Borough Records, 1514-1546. Frome: Surrey Record Society, 1958.
SUSSEX
Pevensey
Winchelsea
STAFFORDSHIRE
Tamworth
Wood, Henry, ed. Tamworth Borough Records: Being a Catalogue of Civic Records with Appendices. Tamworth: The Borough, 1952.
WARWICKSHIRE
Coventry
Harris, Mary Dormer, ed. The Coventry Leet Book, or Mayor's Register: Containing the Records of the City Court Leet, or, View of Frankpledge, A.D. 1420-1555. Early English Text Society and Oxford University Press, 1907.
Warwick
Kemp, Thomas, ed. The Black Book of Warwick. Warwick: H.T. Cook and Son, 1898.
WILTSHIRE
Chippenham
Goldney, Frederick Hastings. Records of Chippenham Relating to the Borough: From its Incorporation by Queen Mary, 1554, to its Reconstruction by Act of Parliament, 1889. Diprose, Bateman, and Company, 1889.
WORCESTERSHIRE
Evesham
Roberts, Stephen, ed. Evesham Borough Records of the Seventeenth Century, 1605-1687. Kendal: Titus Wilson, 1994.
YORKSHIRE
Beverley
Dennett, John, ed. Beverley Borough Records, 1575-1821. Wakefield: The Society, 1933.
Leach, Arthur F. Beverly Town Documents. Selden Society, Vol. 14. London: B. Quaritch, 1900.
Doncaster
Hardy, W.J., ed. A Calendar to the Records of the Borough of Doncaster. 4 vols. Doncaster, 1899.
York
York Civic Ordinances.
York Memorandum Book.
WALES
Caernarvon
Jones, G.P. and Hugh Owen, eds. Caernarvon Court Rolls, 1361-1402. Caernarvonshire Historical Society, 1951.
Denbigh
Clwyd Record Office. Handbook of the Denbigh Borough Records. Denbigh: Clwyd Record Office, 1975.
Haverfordwest
Charles, Bertie George. Calendar of the Records of the Borough of Haverfordwest, 1539-1660. University of Wales Press, 1967.
Newport
Rees, William, ed. The Charters of the Borough of Newport in Gwynllwg. Newport: Newport Public Libraries Committee, 1951.
Jones, G.P. and Hugh Owen, eds. Caernarvon Court Rolls, 1361-1402. Caernarvonshire Historical Society, 1951.
Denbigh
Clwyd Record Office. Handbook of the Denbigh Borough Records. Denbigh: Clwyd Record Office, 1975.
Haverfordwest
Charles, Bertie George. Calendar of the Records of the Borough of Haverfordwest, 1539-1660. University of Wales Press, 1967.
Newport
Rees, William, ed. The Charters of the Borough of Newport in Gwynllwg. Newport: Newport Public Libraries Committee, 1951.
