List of Abbreviations

A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10. Originally published by Boydell & Brewer for Victoria County History, Woodbridge, 2010.

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'List of Abbreviations', in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10, (Woodbridge, 2010) pp. xvii-xviii. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol10/xvii-xviii [accessed 25 April 2024]

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Among the abbreviations and short titles used, the following may require elucidation:

a. acre(s)
Admin. Units F. A. Youngs, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. I Southern England (1979)
Alumni Oxon. J. Foster (ed.), Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714; 1715–1886 (Oxford, 1888–92)
BL British Library
Bodl. Bodleian Library
Cal. Chart. Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1903–7)
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 etc. (HMSO 1889–92)
Cal. Cttee. for Money Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Advance of Money, 1642–56 (HMSO 1888)
Cal. Fine Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1911–62)
Cal. Inq. Misc. Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (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 1904–87)
Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, Henry VII (HMSO 1898–1955)
Cal. Papal Reg. Calendar of Papal Registers: Papal Letters (HMSO. and Irish MSS. Com. 1893–1986)
Cal. Pat. Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Office (HMSO. 1891–1986)
Cal. SP. Dom. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series (HMSO, 1856–1972)
cart. cartulary
Cat. Ancient Deeds Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1890–1915)
Chanc. R. Chancellor's Roll (Pipe Roll Society Series)
Char. Com. Charity Commission
Close R. Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1902–15)
Complete Peerage G. E. C[okayne] and others, The Complete Peerage (1910, facsimile Gloucester, 1982)
Crockford Crockford's Clerical Directory
Cur.Reg. Curia Regis Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO and Boydell Press 1923–99)
Dioc. Dir. Bath and Wells Diocesan Directory
Dir. Directory
DNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (www.oxforddnb.com)
Dugdale, Mon. W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Caley and others (1817–30)
Excerpta e Rot. Finium Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, Hen. III (Record Commission, 1835–6)
Feudal Aids Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO 1899–1920)
ft. feet, foot
Geol. Surv. Geological Survey
ha. hectare(s)
Harl. Soc. Harleian Society
HMC Wells Historical Manuscripts Commission, Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells
HMSO Her Majesty's Stationery Office
Hodgson, QAB. C. Hodgson, Account of the Augmentation of Small Livings by the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne (2nd edn. 1845)
km. kilometre
L&P Hen. VIII Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (HMSO 1864–1932)
Lib. Library
m. metre
mag. magazine
Nat. Soc. Inquiry, 1846–7 Result of the Returns to the General Inquiry made by the National Society, 1846–7 (1849).
OS Ordnance Survey
Parl. Parliament, Parliamentary
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury
PRS Pipe Roll Society
PSAS Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society
Red Book Exch. Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. H. Hall (Rolls Series, 1896)
Reg. Register
RO Record Office
Rot. Cur. Reg. Curia Regis Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO. 1922–79)
Rot. de Ob. et Fin. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus (Record Commission, 1835)
Rot. Hund. Rotuli Hundredorum temp. Hen. III and Edw. I (Record Commission, 1812–18)
SANHS Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society
SDNQ Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries
Soc. Society
Som. Somerset
Som. CC. HER Somerset County Council, Historic Environment Record
Som. Rec. Soc Somerset Record Society
SRO Somerset Record Office
SVBRG Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group
Tax. Eccl. Taxatio Ecclesiastica Anglie et Wallie ... circa A.D. 1291 (Record Commission, 1801)
TNA (PRO) The National Archives (Public Record Office)
trans. transcript
uncat uncatalogued
VCH Victoria County History
VCH Som. Victoria County History of Somerset, I–VIII (1906-2003)
Valor Eccl. Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. Hen. VIII (Record Commission, 1810–34)