Note on Abbreviations

A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12. Originally published by Boydell & Brewer for Victoria County History, Woodbridge, 2010.

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'Note on Abbreviations', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12, (Woodbridge, 2010) pp. xvi-xix. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol12/xvi-xix [accessed 19 April 2024]

NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS

Abbrev. Rot. Orig. Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii abbreviatio, ed. H. Playford and J. Caley (2 vols., Rec. Com. 1805–10)
Acreage Returns, 1905 Board of Agriculture Returns of 1905, from a MS copy in possession of the editor, VCH Glos.
Alumni Cantab. J.A. Venn (ed.), Alumni Cantabrigienses 1752–1900 (6 vols. Cambridge, 1940–54)
Alumni Oxon. J. Foster (ed.), Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (4 vols. Oxford, 1891–2); 1715–1886 (4 vols. Oxford, 1887–8)
Atkyns, Glos. R. Atkyns, The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire (London, 1712)
Bibliotheca Glos. Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis: Collections of Scarce and Curious Tracts Illustrative of and Published during the Civil War (Gloucester, priv. printed, 1825)
Bigland, Glos. Historical, Monumental, and Genealogical Collections Relative to the County of Gloucester, Printed from the Original Papers of Ralph Bigland (3 vols. 1791–1889, issued in parts; vol. III is unpaginated)
BGAS Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
BL British Library
Book of Fees Book of Fees (3 vols., HMSO 1920–31)
Bp. Benson's Surv. of Dioc. of Glouc. 1735–50 Bishop Benson's Survey of the Diocese of Gloucester, 1735–1750, ed. J. Fendley (Gloucestershire Record Series 13, BGAS 2000)
Bryant, Map of Glos. (1824) A. Bryant, Map of the County of Gloucester in the years 1823 & 1824 (1824)
Cal. Chart. Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1903–27)
Cal. Close Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1892–1963)
Cal. Cttee for Compounding Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, etc. (HMSO 1889–92)
Cal. Doc. France Calendar of Documents preserved in France illustrative of the history of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. J.H. Round (HMSO 1899)
Cal. Fine Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1911–62)
Cal. Inq. Misc. Calendar of Inquisitions (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1916–68)
Cal. Inq. p.m. Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1904–95)
Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, Henry VII (HMSO 1898–1955)
Cal. Pat. Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1891–1986)
Cal. Regs. Priory of Llanthony Calendar of the Registers of the Priory of Llanthony by Gloucester 1457–1466, 1501–1525, ed. J. Rhodes (Gloucestershire Record Series 15, BGAS 2002)
Cal. SP Dom. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series (HMSO 1856–1972)
Cal. Treasury Books Calendar of Treasury Books (HMSO 1904–69)
Calamy Revised A.G. Matthews, Calamy Revised: being a Revision of Edmund Calamy's Account of the Ministers and Others Ejected and Silenced, 1660–2 (1934)
Cat. Ancient Deeds Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1890–1915)
Citizen Citizen (newspaper, established at Gloucester 1876)
Close Close Rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1902–75)
Complete Baronetage Complete Baronetage, ed. G.E.Cockayne (6 vols. 1900–9)
Complete Peerage G.E.Cockayne and others (eds.), The Complete Peerage... (2nd edn, 13 vols. 1910–50)
Compton Census Compton Census of 1676: a critical edition, ed. A. Whiteman (British Academy Records of Social and Economic History, new series X, Oxford, 1986)
1801 Crop Returns Eng. 1801 Crop Returns for England, I, ed. M. Turner (List and Index Society 189, 1978)
Cur. Reg. Curia Regis Rolls (HMSO 1923–72)
DoE List Department of the Environment List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest
Dugdale, Mon. W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Caley, H. Ellis, and B. Bandinel (1849)
Eccl. Misc. Ecclesiastical Miscellany (Records Section 11, BGAS 1976), including A.C. Percival and W.J. Sheils (eds.), 'A Survey of the Diocese of Gloucester, 1603'
Educ. Enq. Abstract Education Enquiry Abstract (Parliamentary Papers 1835 (62), xli)
Educ. of Poor Digest Digest of Returns to the Select Committee on Education of the Poor (Parliamentary Papers 1819 (224), ix (1))
EHR English Historical Review
Eng. Episc. Acta VII English Episcopal Acta VII: Hereford 1079–1234, ed. J. Barrow (British Academy 1993)
Feudal Aids Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids preserved in the Public Record Office (6 vols., HMSO 1899–1920)
Flaxley Cart. Cartulary and Historical Notes of the Cistercian Abbey of Flaxley, ed. A.W. Crawley-Boevey (Exeter, priv. printed, 1887)
Fosbrooke, Glos. T.D. Fosbrooke, Abstracts of Records and Manuscripts Respecting the County of Gloucester, formed into a history (2 vols. Gloucester, 1807)
Fosbrooke, Glouc. T.D. Fosbrooke, An Original History of the City of Gloucester, almost wholly compiled from new materials...including also the original papers of Ralph Bigland (London, 1819)
GA Gloucestershire Archives (formerly Gloucestershire Record Office: see above, Gloucestershire Archives Accumulations)
GBR Gloucester Borough Records (in Gloucestershire Archives)
GDR Gloucester Diocesan Records (in Gloucestershire Archives)
Glos. Ch. Bells M. Bliss and F. Sharpe, Church Bells of Gloucestershire (Gloucester, 1986)
Glos. Ch. Notes S.R. Glynne, Gloucestershire Church Notes, ed. W.P.W. Phillimore and J. Melland Hall (1902)
Glos. Ch. Plate Gloucestershire Church Plate, ed. J.T. Evans (BGAS 1906)
Glos. Colln. The Gloucestershire Collection (in Gloucestershire Archives, transferred from Gloucester Library), comprising printed works, manuscripts, prints and drawings, etc.
Glos. Feet of Fines 1199–1299 Abstracts of Feet of Fines relating to Gloucestershire 1199–1299, ed. C.R. Elrington (Gloucestershire Record Series 16, BGAS 2003)
Glos. Feet of Fines 1300–59 Abstracts of Feet of Fines relating to Gloucestershire 1300–1359, ed. C.R. Elrington (Gloucestershire Record Series 20, BGAS 2006)
Glos. N&Q Gloucestershire Notes and Queries (10 vols. 1881–1914)
Glos. Subsidy Roll, 1327 Gloucestershire Subsidy Roll I Edw. III, 1327 (priv. printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps [? 1856])
Glouc. Apprentices Reg. 1595–1700 Calendar of the Registers of Apprentices of the City of Gloucester 1595–1700, ed. J. Barlow (Gloucestershire Record Series 14, BGAS 2001)
Glouc. Cath. Libr. Gloucester Cathedral Library
Glouc. Freemen Reg. 1641–1838 Calendar of the Registers of the Freemen of the City of Gloucester 1641–1838, ed. J. Juřica (Gloucestershire Record Series 4, BGAS 1991)
Glouc. J. Gloucester Journal (established 1722)
Greenwood, Map of Glos. (1824) C. and J. Greenwood, Map of the County of Gloucester in the Year 1823 (1824)
GRO Gloucestershire Record Office (renamed in 2006 Gloucestershire Archives)
HCA Hereford Cathedral Archives
Herefs. RO Herefordshire Record Office, Hereford
Hist. & Cart. Mon. Glouc. Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae, ed. W.H. Hart (RS no 33, 3 vols. 1863–87)
Hist. Parl. Commons The History of Parliament: The House of Commons (The History of Parliament Trust)
HMSO Her (His) Majesty's Stationery Office
Hockaday Abs. The 'Hockaday Abstracts' (in Gloucestershire Archives), being abstracts of ecclesiastical records relating to Gloucestershire, compiled by F.S. Hockaday mainly from diocesan records
Hodgson, Queen Anne's Bounty C. Hodgson, An Account of the Augmentation of Small Livings, by 'The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy' (1st edn 1826; 2nd edn 1845 with supplement of 1864)
Inq. p.m. Glos. Abstracts of Inquisitions post mortem for Gloucestershire, 1236–1413, 1625–42 (6 vols. issued jointly by the British Record Society, Index Library vols. xxx, xl, xlviii, and ix, xxi, xlvii, and the BGAS, 1893–1914)
L&P Hen. VIII Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (HMSO 1864–1932)
LJ Journals of the House of Lords
MCA Madresfield Court Archives
Military Surv. of Glos. 1522 Military Survey of Gloucestershire, 1522, ed. R.W. Hoyle (Gloucestershire Record Series 6, BGAS 1993)
Nat. Soc. files Schools files of the National Society, Church of England Record Centre, South Bermondsey, London
Nat. Soc. Inquiry, 1846–7 Result of the Returns to the General Inquiry made by the National Society (1849)
Nonarum Inquisitiones Nonarum Inquisitiones in Curia Scaccarii, ed. G. Vandersee (Rec. Com. 1807)
Notes on Dioc. of Glouc. by Chancellor Parsons Notes on the Diocese of Gloucester by Chancellor Richard Parsons, c.1700, ed. J. Fendley (Gloucestershire Record Series 19, BGAS 2005)
NRA National Register of Archives
OED Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford DNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
Pat. Patent Rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1901–13)
Pipe R Pipe Roll
Plac. de Quo Warr. Placita de Quo Warranto... in Curia Receptae Scaccarii Westm. Asservata, ed. W. Illingworth and J. Caley (Rec. Com. 1818)
Pleas of the Crown for Glos. ed. Maitland Pleas of the Crown for the County of Gloucester, 1221, ed. F.W. Maitland (1884)
PN Glos. The Place-Names of Gloucestershire (English Place-Name Society vols. 38–41, 1964–5)
Poor Law Abstract, 1804 Abstract of Returns Relative to the Expense and Maintenance of the Poor (printed by order of the House of Commons, 1804)
Poor Law Abstract, 1818 Abstract of Returns to Orders of the House of Commons Relative to Assessments for Relief of the Poor (Parliamentary Papers 1820 (294), xii)
Poor Law Com. 2nd Rep. Second Report of the Poor Law Commission (Parliamentary Papers 1836 (595), xxxix (1))
Poor Law Returns (1830–1) Account of the Money Expended for the Maintenance and Relief of the Poor for the five years ending 25th March 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829 (Parliamentary Papers 1830–1 (83), xi)
Poor Law Returns (1835) Account of the Money Expended 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834 (Parliamentary Papers 1835 (444), xlvii)
PRO Public Record Office (renamed The National Archives)
Proc. CNFC Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club
Public. Elem. Schs. 1906 List of Public Elementary Schools in England and Wales on 1 Jan. 1906 (Parliamentary Papers 1906 [Cd 3182], lxxxvi)
Rec. Com. Record Commission
Reg. Bothe Registrum Caroli Bothe, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1516–35, ed. A.T. Bannister (Canterbury and York Society 1921)
Reg. Cantilupe Registrum Thome de Cantilupo, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1275–82, ed. W.W. Capes (Canterbury and York Society 1907)
Reg. Gilbert Registrum Johannis Gilbert, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1375–89, ed. J.H. Parry (Canterbury and York Society 1915)
Reg. Lacy Registrum Edmundi Lacy, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1417–20, ed. A.T. Bannister (Canterbury and York Society 1918)
Reg. Mascall Registrum Roberti Mascall, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1404–16, ed. J.H. Parry (Canterbury and York Society 1917)
Reg. Mayew Registrum Ricardi Mayew, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1504–16, ed. A.T. Bannister (Canterbury and York Society 1921)
Reg. Myllyng Registrum Thome Myllyng, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1474–92, ed. A.T. Bannister (Canterbury and York Society 1920)
Reg. of Dymock The Registers of the Church of St. Mary, Dymock, 1538–1790, ed. I. Gray and J.E. Gethyn-Jones (Records Section 4, BGAS 1960)
Reg. Orleton Registrum Ade de Orleton, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1317–27, ed. A.T. Bannister (Canterbury and York Society 1908)
Reg. Spofford Registrum Thome Spofford, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1422–48, ed. A.T. Bannister (Canterbury and York Society 1919)
Reg. Stanbury Registrum Johannis Stanbury, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1453–74, ed. A.T. Bannister (Canterbury and York Society 1919)
Reg. Swinfield Registrum Ricardi de Swinfield, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1283–1317, ed. W.W. Capes (Canterbury and York Society 1909)
Reg. T. de Charlton Registrum Thome de Charlton, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1327–44, ed. W.W. Capes (Canterbury and York Society 1913)
Reg. Trefnant Registrum Johannis Trefnant, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1389–1404, ed. W.W. Capes (Canterbury and York Society 1916)
Reg. Trillek Registrum Johannis de Trillek, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1344–61, ed. J.H. Parry (Canterbury and York Society 1912)
12th Rep. Com. Char. 12th Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire Concerning Charities (Parliamentary Papers 1825 (348), x)
16th Rep. Com. Char. 16th Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire Concerning Charities (Parliamentary Papers 1826–7 (22), ix (1))
18th Rep. Com. Char. 18th Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire Concerning Charities (Parliamentary Papers 1828 (62), xx (1))
1st Rep. Com. Employment in Agric. 1st Report of the Royal Commission on the Employment of Children, Young People and Women in Agriculture (Parliamentary Papers 1867–8 [C 4068-I], xvii)
Richardson, Wells and Springs of Glos. L. Richardson, Wells and Springs of Gloucestershire (HMSO 1930)
Rot. Chart. Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi asservati, 1199–1216, ed. T.D. Hardy (Rec. Com. 1837)
Rot. Litt. Claus. Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinensi asservati, 1204–27, ed. T.D. Hardy (2 vols., Rec. Com. 1833–44)
Rot. Parl. Rotuli Parliamentorum (6 vols. [1783])
RS Rolls Series
Rudder, Glos. S. Rudder, A New History of Gloucestershire (Cirencester, 1779)
Rudge, Agric. of Glos. T. Rudge, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Gloucester (London, 1807)
Rudge, Hist. of Glos. T. Rudge, The History of the County of Gloucester (2 vols. Gloucester, 1803)
Smith, Men and Armour The Names and Surnames of all the Able and Sufficient Men in Body fit for His Majesty's Service in the Wars, within the County of Gloucester, 1608, Compiled by John Smith (London, 1902)
SMR Glos. Gloucestershire Sites and Monuments Record (Gloucestershire county council archaeology service)
Tax. Eccl. Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae auctoritate P. Nicholai IV circa A.D. 1291, ed. S. Ayscough and J. Caley (Rec. Com. 1802)
Taylor, Domesday Glos. C.S. Taylor, Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (BGAS 1887–9, issued in parts)
Taylor, Map of Glos. (1777) I. Taylor, Map of the County of Gloucester (1777), republished in A Gloucestershire and Bristol Atlas (BGAS, 1961)
Turner, Agric. of Glos. G. Turner, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Gloucester (London, 1794)
TNA The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office: see above, Classes of Documents in The National Archives)
Trans. BGAS Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Univ. Brit. Dir. Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce, and Manufacture, ed. P Barfoot and J. Wilkes (5 vols. 1791–8)
Valor Eccl. Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Hen. VIII auctoritate regia Institutus, ed. J. Caley and J. Hunter, (6 vols., Rec. Com. 1810–34)
VCH Victoria County History
Verey and Brooks, Glos. II D. Verey and A. Brooks, Gloucestershire: vol. II, The Vale and the Forest of Dean (The Buildings of England 2002)
Visit. Glos. 1623 Visitation of the County of Gloucester, 1623, ed. J. Maclean and W.C. Heane (Harleian Society 21, 1885)
Visit. Glos. 1682–3 Visitation of the County of Gloucester, 1682, 1683, ed. T. FitzRoy Fenwick and W.C. Metcalfe (Exeter, priv. printed, 1884)
Walker Revised A.G. Matthews, Walker Revised: being a Revision of John Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy during the Grand Rebellion, 1642–60 (1948)
Westminster Abbey Mun. Westminster Abbey Muniments
Williams, Parl. Hist. of Glos. W.R. Williams, The Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester (Hereford, priv. printed, 1898)
Worcs. RO Worcestershire Record Office, Worcester

Map 1. Gloucestershire parishes in the Newent and May hill area 1850