Primary sources and research tools

Chancery

Calendars of chancery enrolments. The links go to free scans or free project sites, not to subscription collections.

• Calendar of Close Rolls: Edward III — Calendared letters close of Edward III. Each volume is a free scan of the Public Record Office edition.
• Calendar of Patent Rolls — Calendared letters patent. Volume-by-volume links are collected on the Online Books Page; I have not yet checked every individual scan.
• Calendar of the Charter Rolls — Calendared royal charters. Five of the six printed volumes are linked here as free scans; volume 6 is omitted until a free copy is confirmed.
• Fine Rolls of Henry III — The Henry III Fine Rolls Project publishes the fine rolls of 1216–1272 as a free digital edition.
• Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem — Inquiries into lands held by deceased tenants of the Crown. Mapping the Medieval Countryside is the free project site; two early calendar volumes are also linked as scans.

Exchequer

• Issues of the Exchequer — Frederick Devon’s published extracts from the Issue Rolls.
• Pipe Rolls — Pipe Roll Society editions of the Great Roll of the Pipe. Volumes 10 and 12 are omitted until free scans are confirmed.

Legal

• Anglo-American Legal Tradition — Free photographs of plea rolls and related legal records at The National Archives, published by the University of Houston.

Parliament

• Rotuli Parliamentorum — The eighteenth-century edition of the rolls of the medieval English parliament. Volume 7 is the index.
• Records of the Parliaments of Scotland — Free digital edition of the records of the parliaments of Scotland. This listing is for use up to the death of James I of Scotland in 1437.

Chronicles

Narrative sources in free digital editions. Further chronicles will be added as each volume is checked.

• Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon — Ranulf Higden’s universal chronicle, Rolls Series edition, with the English translation. Nine volumes.
• Froissart’s Chronicles — Jean Froissart’s account of the Hundred Years War and the political upheavals of fourteenth-century Europe.

Collections

Printed collections rather than a single class of enrolments.

• Foedera — Thomas Rymer’s printed collection of treaties and other public acts. The volumes below are the 1726 edition, volumes 1–10. A fuller note will follow.