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| A.-S. |
Anglo-Saxon |
| Acct(s). |
Account(s) |
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Acts of P.C. |
Acts of the Privy Council of England (H.M.S.O.) |
| Add. Ch. |
Additional Charter(s) |
| Add. MS. |
Additional Manuscript(s) |
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Alum. Cantab. to 1751
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Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part 1, to 1751, comp. J. Venn and J. A. Venn |
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Alum. Cantab. 1752-1900
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Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part 2, 1752-1900, comp. J. Venn and J. A. Venn |
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Alum. Oxon. 1500-1714
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Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714, ed. J. Foster |
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Ann. Cest. |
Annales Cestrienses, ed. R. C. Christie (R.S.L.C. xiv) |
|
Ann. Rep. |
Annual Report
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| App. |
Appendix |
| Arch. |
Archaeology, -ical |
| Archit. |
Architecture, -al |
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Archives and Records, ed. Kennett |
Archives and Records of the City of Chester, ed. A. M. Kennett |
| B.L. |
British Library |
| Bk(s). |
Book(s) |
| Bldg(s). |
Building(s) |
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Blk. Prince's Reg. |
Register of Edward the Black Prince (H.M.S.O.) |
| Bodl. |
Bodleian Library, Oxford |
| Boro. |
Borough |
| Brit. |
Britain, British |
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Bull. John Rylands Libr. |
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (formerly Bulletin of the John Rylands Library) |
| Burne, Chester Cath. |
R. V. H. Burne, Chester Cathedral from its Founding by Henry VIII to the Accession of Queen Victoria
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| Burne, Monks
|
R. V. H. Burne, The Monks of Chester
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| C.C.A.L.S. |
Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies (formerly Cheshire Record Office), Duke Street, Chester |
| C.H.H. |
Chester History and Heritage (formerly part of Chester City Record Office), St. Michael's church, Bridge Street Row, Chester |
|
C.J. |
Journals of the House of Commons
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| Cal. |
Calendar |
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Cal. Chanc. R. Var. |
Calendar of Chancery Rolls, Various, 1277-1326 (H.M.S.O.) |
|
Cal. Chart. R. |
Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.) |
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Cal. Ches. Ct. R. |
Calendar of County Court, City Court, and Eyre Rolls of Chester, 1259-97, with an Inquest of Military Service, 1288, ed. R. Stewart-Brown (Chetham Soc. 2nd ser. lxxxiv) |
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Cal. Chester City Cl. Mins. 1603-42
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Calendar of Chester City Council Minutes, 1603-42, ed. M. J. Groombridge (R.S.L.C. cvi) |
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Cal. Close
|
Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.) |
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Cal. Doc. Irel. |
Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.) |
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Cal. Fine R. |
Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.) |
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Cal. Inq. Misc. |
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.) |
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Cal. Inq. p.m. |
Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.) |
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Cal. Justiciary R. of Irel. |
Calendar of the Justiciary Rolls of Ireland preserved in the Public Record Office of Ireland (H.M.S.O.) |
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Cal. Lib. |
Calendar of the Liberate Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.) |
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Cal. Papal Reg. |
Calendar of Papal Registers: Papal Letters (H.M.S.O. and Irish MSS. Com.) |
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Cal. Pat. |
Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.) |
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Cal. S.P. Dom. |
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series (H.M.S.O.) |
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Cal. S.P. Irel. |
Calendar of the State Papers relating to Ireland preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.) |
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Cal. S.P. Venice
|
Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice and Northern Italy
|
| Camd. |
Camden |
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Cart. Chester Abbey
|
The Chartulary or Register of St. Werburgh's Abbey, Chester, ed. J. Tait (2 vols., Chetham Soc. 2nd ser. lxxix, lxxxii) |
| Cat. |
Catalogue |
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Cat. Anct. D. |
Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.) |
| Cath. |
Cathedral |
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Census
|
printed reports of the decennial Census of Population |
| Cent. |
Century, -ies |
| Ch. |
Charter(s) or Church |
|
Charters of A.-N. Earls
|
The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071-1237, ed. G. Barraclough (R.S.L.C. cxxvi) |
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Ches. Chamb. Accts. |
Accounts of the Chamberlains and other Officers of the County of Chester, 1301-60, ed. R. Stewart-Brown (R.S.L.C. lix) |
|
Ches. Hist. |
Cheshire History
|
|
Ches. in Pipe R. |
Cheshire in the Pipe Rolls, 1158-1301, ed. R. Stewart-Brown and M. H. Mills (R.S.L.C. xcii) |
|
Chester Chron. |
Chester Chronicle [newspaper] |
|
Chester City Cl. Mins. |
Chester City Council Minutes [printed and bound volumes from 1896] |
|
Chester Customs Accts. |
Chester Customs Accounts, 1301-1566, ed. K. P. Wilson (R.S.L.C. cxi) |
|
Chrons. |
Chronicles
|
| Cl. |
Council |
|
Close R. |
Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.) |
| Colln. |
Collection |
| Collns. Hist. Staffs. |
Collections for a History of Staffordshire [published by the Staffordshire Record Society, formerly called the William Salt Archaeological Society] |
|
Complete Peerage
|
G. E. C[okayne] and others, The Complete Peerage (2nd edn. 1910-98) |
| Ct. R. |
Court Roll |
| Cttee. |
Committee |
|
D.K.R. |
Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records
|
|
D.N.B. |
Dictionary of National Biography
|
|
Diary of Henry Prescott
|
The Diary of Henry Prescott, LL.B., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese, ed. J. Addy and P. McNiven (3 vols., R.S.L.C., cxxvii, cxxxii, cxxxiii) |
|
Dir. |
Directory
|
|
Domesday Surv. Ches. |
Domesday Survey of Cheshire, ed. J. Tait (Chetham Soc. N.S. lxxv) |
| E.E.T.S. |
Early English Text Society |
|
E.H.R. |
English Historical Review
|
| Eccl. |
Ecclesiastical |
|
Econ. H.R. |
Economic History Review
|
| Eg. |
Egerton |
| Eng. |
England, English |
|
Eng. Hist. Doc. |
English Historical Documents
|
|
Ex. e Rot. Fin. |
Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, Hen. III (Record Commission) |
| f./ff. |
folio, -s |
| Fam. |
Family |
| G.E.C. Baronetage
|
G. E. C[okayne], Complete Baronetage
|
| Gastrell, Not. Cest. |
Notitia Cestriensis, or Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester, by [Francis] Gastrell [Bishop of Chester], ed. F. R. Raines, i (Chetham Soc. [1st ser.] viii) |
|
Gent. Mag. |
Gentleman's Magazine
|
| H.C. |
House of Commons |
| H.L. |
House of Lords |
| Harl. |
Harleian |
|
Harris, Chester
|
B. E. Harris, Chester (Bartholomew City Guides, 1979) |
| Hemingway, Hist. Chester
|
J. Hemingway, History of the City of Chester (2 vols., 1831) |
| Hewitt, Med. Ches. |
H. J. Hewitt, Medieval Cheshire: A Social and Economic History of Cheshire in the Reigns of the Three Edwards (Chetham Soc. 2nd ser. lxxxviii) |
| Hist. |
History, Historical |
| Hist. MSS. Com. |
Historical Manuscripts Commission |
|
Hist. Parl. |
History of Parliament
|
| Hist. Soc. |
Historical Society |
| Hughes, Stranger's Handbk. (1856) |
T. Hughes, The Stranger's Handbook to Chester ([1st edn.] 1856) |
| Ind. |
Industry, -ies, -ial |
| Irel. |
Ireland |
|
J.C.A.S. |
Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society (formerly called Journal of the Chester and North Wales Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society, and variants) |
| J.R.U.L.M. |
John Rylands University Library of Manchester |
|
Jnl. |
Journal
|
| Johnson, 'Aspects' |
A. M. Johnson, 'Some Aspects of the Political, Constitutional, Social, and Economic History of the City of Chester, 1550-1662 (Oxf. Univ. D.Phil. thesis, 1971) |
| Jones, Ch. in Chester
|
D. Jones, The Church in Chester, 1300-1540 (Chetham Soc. 3rd ser. vii) |
|
King's Vale Royal
|
The Vale-Royall of England, or, The County Palatine of Chester Illustrated (publ. D. King, 1656; facsimile reprint 1972) |
|
L. & P. Hen. VIII
|
Letters & Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (H.M.S.O.) |
|
L.J. |
Journals of the House of Lords
|
| Lavaux, Plan of Chester
|
A. de Lavaux, Plan of the City and Castle of Chester [1745] |
| Leic. |
Leicester |
| Leland, Itin. ed. Toulmin Smith |
Itinerary of John Leland, ed. L. Toulmin Smith |
|
Letter Books of Brereton
|
The Letter Books of Sir William Brereton, ed. R. N. Dore (R.S.L.C. cxxiii, cxxviii) |
| Lich. |
Lichfield |
|
List of Clergy, 1541-2
|
A List of Clergy for Eleven Deaneries of the Diocese of Chester, 1541-2, ed. W. F. Irvine (R.S.L.C. xxxiii) |
| Lond. |
London |
|
Lond. Gaz. |
London Gazette
|
| Lucian, De Laude Cestrie
|
Liber Luciani de Laude Cestrie, ed. M. V. Taylor (R.S.L.C. lxiv) |
| m./mm. |
membrane, -s |
| Mins. |
Minutes |
| Morris, Chester
|
R. H. Morris, Chester in the Plantagenet and Tudor Reigns
|
| Morris, Siege of Chester
|
R. H. Morris, The Siege of Chester, 1643-6, ed. P. H. Lawson [also published in J.C.A.S. xxv] |
| MS. |
Manuscript |
| n.s. |
new series |
|
O.E.D. |
Oxford English Dictionary
|
| O.S. |
Ordnance Survey |
| o.s. |
old series |
| orig. ser. |
original series |
| Ormerod, Hist. Ches. |
G. Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, revised and enlarged edn. by T. Helsby (1882) |
| Oxf. |
Oxford |
|
P. & G. Dir. Chester
|
Phillipson and Golder, Directory for Chester and its Immediate Neighbourhood [various edns.] |
|
P.N. Ches. |
The Place-Names of Cheshire, ed. J. McN. Dodgson (English Place-Name Society) |
| Par. |
Parish |
| Parl. |
Parliament, -ary |
|
Parl. Deb. |
Parliamentary Debates [i.e. 'Hansard'] |
| pers. comm. |
personal comment |
| Pevsner, Ches. |
N. Pevsner and E. Hubbard, The Buildings of England: Cheshire
|
| P.R.O. |
Public Record Office, Kew |
|
Proc. |
Proceedings
|
| Q. Sess. |
Quarter Sessions |
| R.O. |
Record Office |
| R.S.L.C. |
Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire |
| Rec. Ser. |
Record Series |
|
Red Bk. Exch. |
Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. H. Hall (Rolls Ser.) |
|
REED: Chester
|
Records of Early English Drama: Chester, ed. L. M. Clopper |
| Reg. |
Register(s) |
| Rep. |
Report |
|
31st Rep. Com. Char. |
Thirty-first Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire Concerning Charities, H.C. 103 (1837-8), xxiv |
|
Rep. Com. Mun. Corp. |
Report of the Commission on Municipal Corporations, H.C. 116 (1835), xxiii |
|
Rev. |
Review
|
| Rolls Ser. |
Rolls Series [officially called Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores] |
| rot./rott. |
rotulet, -s |
| s.n. |
under the name (sub nomine) |
| s.v./s.vv. |
under the word/words (sub verbo/verbis) |
|
Sel. Cases concerning Law Merchant
|
Select Cases concerning the Law Merchant, ed. C. Gross and H. Hall (3 vols., Selden Soc.) |
|
Sel. Cases in K.B. |
Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, ed. G. O. Sayles (7 vols., Selden Soc.) |
|
Sel. R. Chester City Cts. |
Selected Rolls of the Chester City Courts, Late 13th and Early 14th Centuries, ed. A. Hopkins (Chetham Soc. 3rd ser. ii) |
| ser. |
series |
|
Sheaf
|
The Cheshire Sheaf [preceded by series number, followed by volume number within the series] |
| Soc. |
Society |
| sqq. |
and following pages (sequentia) |
|
T.H.S.L.C. |
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
|
|
T.L.C.A.S. |
Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
|
|
Trans. R.H.S. |
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
|
|
Trans. Salop. Arch. Soc. |
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society
|
| TS. |
Typescript |
| Univ. |
University |
|
V.C.H. |
Victoria County History
|
|
Valor Eccl. |
Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. Hen. VIII (Record Commission) |
| Wilson, 'Port of Chester' |
K. P. Wilson, 'The Port of Chester in the Later Middle Ages' (Liverpool Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1965) |