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*'''[http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/NewRegReg.html <i>Regesta Regum Anglorum</i>]'''
::A searchable edition of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters.
::With metadata and commentaries provided by Sean Miller.
::(670-1066; transcriptions)
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*'''[http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/asc/index.html The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]'''
::Georgetown e-edition (Old English transcription)
*'''[http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Anglo/ Berkeley e-edition]'''
::(Modern English translation)
::(1-1154)
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*'''[http://image.ox.ac.uk/ Early Manuscripts at Oxford University]'''
::(9th to 16th centuries; facsimiles) 
*'''[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1n.html Medieval  Sourcebook:  England]'''
::(Transcriptions and translations)
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*'''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=2 Sources: 11th and 12th Centuries]'''
::Includes records of religious houses, higher clergy and early urban government.
::From [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/Default.aspx British History Online]
::(11th & 12th centuries, transcriptions)

*'''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=3 Sources: 13th Century]'''
::Includes records of eyres, lay subsidies, higher clergy, religious houses and urban government.
::From [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/Default.aspx British History Online]
::(13th century, transcriptions)

*'''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=4 Sources: 14th Century]'''
::Includes records of lay subsidies raised, urban government, higher clergy and religious houses.
::From [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/Default.aspx British History Online]
::(14th century, transcriptions)

*'''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=5 Sources: 15th Century]'''
::Includes records of urban and metropolitan government, religious houses and higher clergy.
::From [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/Default.aspx British History Online]
::(15th century, transcriptions)
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*'''[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/dates.asp?date_id=1 Treasures of the National Archives: Middle Ages]'''
::Historical documentation displayed by various themes and date ranges.
::(1066-1484; facsimiles, transcriptions and images).
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*'''[http://battle1066.com/index.html The Battle of Hastings 1066]'''
::Maps and historical documentation  interspersed between commentaries and glossaries.
:: Also offers a section-by-section color rendering of the Bayeux Tapestry. 
::(Facsimiles, transcriptions and translations)
*'''[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/utk/default.htm Uniting the Kingdoms?]'''
:: Five principal sections that include primary documents online:  
::Scotland, England, France, Wales, and Ireland. 
::A well-designed site created by the UK Public Record Office
:: (1066 - 1603; facsimiles and transcriptions)
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*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/lawwill.asp The Statutes of William the Conquerer]'''
::(post-1066; modern English translation)
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*'''[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/domesday.asp The Domesday Book]'''
::The oldest surviving public record of Britain, a survey of boroughs and manors in England commissioned by William the Conqueror
::This online version, at the [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ National Archives], is searchable and includes downloadable images and other explanatory apparatus.
::(1085; searchable images and modern translations, explanatory materials)
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*'''[http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/flor00.html <i>Florilegium Urbanum</i>]'''
::Primary text sources illustrating medieval English urban life, selected and maintained by Stephen Alsford.
::(12th to 15th centuries; English translations from the original Latin, Anglo-Norman French, or Middle English)
*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/bullad.asp The Bull of Pope Adrian IV Empowering Henry II to Conquer Ireland. A.D. 1155]'''
::including commentary on the questionable authenticity of the papal bull.
::(1155; modern English translation).
*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/constcla.asp Constitutions of Clarendon]'''
::Proclamation of Henry II of England.
::(1164; modern English translation)<br> 
*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/assizecl.asp Assize of Clarendon]'''
::An assize of Henry II of England concerning justice.
::(1166; modern English translation)
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*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/richard.asp Laws of Richard I (The Lion-Hearted) Regarding Crusaders Who Were to Go by Sea]'''
::(1189: modern English translation)
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*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/excheq.asp Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer]'''
::(ca. 1190: modern English translation)
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*'''[http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC18109910&id=sjTE9qolmPoC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=macray+salisbury <i>Charters and Documents Illustrating the History of the Cathedral, City, and Diocese of Salisbury in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries...</i>]'''
::Ed. W. Rich Jones and W. Dunn Macray
::(London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1891)
::(12th-13th centuries; text searchable Google Print facsimiles, mostly in Latin)
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*'''[http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC64029864&id=AUgNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=halliwell+kings+of+england <i>Letters of the Kings of England  Now First Published from the Originals...</i>Ed. James Orchard Halliwell]'''
:: Vol. 1 (London: Henry Colburn, 1846)]
::(1190-1544; text searchable Google Print facsimiles with updated English transcriptions) 
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*'''[http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/magna.html Magna Carta: The Great Charter]'''
::Courtesy of the British Library
::(1215; facsimile & English translation from original Latin)
*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/medmenu.asp Magna Carta]'''
::From the Avalon Project
::including definitions and index
::(1215; modern English translation from original Latin)
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*'''[http://purl.org/neolography/JohnItinerary The Itinerary of King John and the Patent Rolls]'''
::A dynamic timeline and map displaying the itinerary of King John for each day of his reign. The data were captured from the itinerary published in the <cite>Rotuli Litterarum Patentium in Turri Londinensi Asservati</cite>, edited by Thomas Duffus Hardy, and published in 1835.
::Scanned page images of the complete text of the <cite>Rot. Lit. Pat.</cite> are included with Hardy's introduction, gazetteer, and indexes.
::(1199-1216; Timeline, Map, Facsimiles: introduction in English, the roll in Latin [record type])
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*'''[http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/documents/jjcrump/photofra.html A letter from Llywelyn ab Iorwerth Prince of Wales, to Stephen de Segrave, co-regent for King Henry III of England, during the summer of  1230.]'''
::This letter illuminates the complex dynastic and political  problems Llywelyn faced in the wake of William de Braose's execution.
::(1230; facsimile of original Latin, transcription and analysis)
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*'''[http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/ The Life of St. Edward the Confessor]'''
::Zoomable facsimile of only copy in Cambridge University Library
::One part of Cambridge's [http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/digital_image_collections/ Digital Image Collections].
::(1230-1240; facsimile of original Latin) 
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*'''[http://hlsl5.law.harvard.edu/bracton/ <i>De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ</i> (Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England)]'''
::Digitized by the Harvard Law School Library
::(1220-1250; English & Latin transcriptions)
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*'''[http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/atlas_ahrb_2005/index.cfm?CFID=305361&CFTOKEN=27033328 Mapping Medieval Townscapes: A Digital Atlas of the New Towns of Edward I].'''
::Digitised urban landscapes of a group of ‘new towns’ in Britain established in the reign of King Edward I.
::The project looks at thirteen towns in detail:
::England: Winchelsea
::Wales:Aberystwyth, Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Caerwys, Conwy, Cricieth, Flint, Harlech, Holt, Newborough, Overton, and Rhuddlan.
::(1277-1303; interactive online atlases).
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*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/confcha.asp Confirmation of the Charters]'''
::Proclamation of Edward I of England, reaffirming previous charters and assizes.
::(1297; English transcription)
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*'''[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1n.html#Parliamentary Origins in England Parliamentary Origins in  England]'''
::(Transcriptions and translations)
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*'''[http://www.scottisharchivesforschools.org/ffa/index.asp For Freedom Alone: The Scottish Wars of Independence]'''
::(1286-1329; facsimiles, transcriptions, translations and commentary).
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*'''[http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/arbroath.html The Declaration of Arbroath]'''
::Scotland's declaration of independence
::(1320; original Latin plus an English-language translation).
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*'''[http://www.rps.ac.uk/ The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS)]
::Searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.
::(1235-1707; manuscripts and translations)
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*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/statlab.asp Statute of Labourers]'''
::(1351; modern English translation)
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*'''[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/ttpbooks.html The Sherborne Missal]'''
::A virtual page-turner of the greatest British illuminated manuscript of the late Middle Ages.
::(Scroll down to ''Sherborne Missal'')
::Digitised by the British Library in its online gallery,[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/ttpbooks.html Turning the Pages].
::See also:
::(1400-1407; facsimiles and audio files)
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*'''[http://www.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/homepage.html Renaissance Festival Books]'''
::Hundreds of selected books describing festivals and ceremonies. 
::Digitised by the British Library in its online gallery, [http://www.bl.uk/treasures/treasuresinfull.html Treasures in Full].
::(1475-1700; facsimiles)
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*'''[http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/froissart/tales.htm The Chronicles (Tales of Froissart)]'''
::Excerpts from an 1805 translation by Thomas Johnes
::Edited by Steve Muhlenberger of Nipissing University (Canada)
::(14th century; English translations)
*'''[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/froissart-full.html The Chronicles of Froissart]'''
::Excerpted accounts of the Hundred Years' War
::(1369-1410; English translations)<p>
See also details for reading [http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/froissart/tales.htm#French Froissart's chronicles on the web in the original French or in modern French translation].
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<i>Faits d'armes</i> (Deeds of Arms)
*'''[http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/chroniqu/texts/deedsch.htm Accounts of French, Scot and English tournaments and battles]'''
*'''[http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/chroniqu/texts/document/deedarc.htm Archival documents of Deeds of Arms]'''
::Edited by Steve Muhlenberger of Nipissing University (Canada)
::(14th and early 15th centuries; transcriptions from Scots English, Middle English, Middle French and Latin; also English translations)
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*'''[http://www.quelle.org/emes/research.html Early Modern England]''':  Research Resources
::(Transcriptions: scroll down to "e-texts")
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*'''[http://www.chronique.com/Library/Knights/coronation.htm The Manner and Form of the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England]'''
::(1385 - 1460; Modern English translation  with [http://www.chronique.com/Library/Knights/coronacion.htm Middle English transcription] also available)
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*'''[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1z.html Exploration and Expansion]'''
::(transcriptions & translations)
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*'''[http://www.r3.org/bookcase/croyland/index.html Croyland Chronicle Continuations ]'''
::A primary source for the Wars of the Roses
::and the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III.
::(1453-1486; transcriptions) 
*'''[http://www.r3.org/bookcase/arrival1.html Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV in England and the Finall Recouerye of His Kingdomes from Henry VI. A.D. M.CCCC.LXXI]'''
::From a Yorkist perspective
::(1472; transcriptions)  
*'''[http://www.r3.org/bosworth/chronicl.html The Battle of Bosworth Field]'''
::with a number of links to contemporary reporters and chroniclers from various perspectives
::(chiefly 1483-1490; transcriptions)  
*'''[http://www.r3.org/bookcase/index.html Primary and Secondary Resources on Richard III]'''
::(transcriptions)  courtesy of the <i>Richard III Society</i>. 
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*'''[http://www.r3.org/bookcase/cely/index.html The Cely Papers]'''
::Contemporary correspondence of a wealthy family of English wool merchants.
::(1475-1488; transcriptions)  courtesy of the <i>Richard III Society</i>. 
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*'''[http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/document.html Sources of British History]'''
:: Britannia Internet Magazine collection of significant charters, histories, chronicles, accounts, laws and summonses.
:: (English transcriptions)
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*'''[http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/ Gathering the Jewels: The Website for Welsh Cultural History]'''
::Over 30,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, archives and libraries in Wales.
::(Medieval to 20th century; facsimiles and photographs)
*'''[http://history.powys.org.uk/history/intro/entry.html Powys Digital History Project]'''
::A documentation project of Powys County, Wales
::(Medieval to present; facsimiles, Latin and Welsh transcriptions and English transcriptions and translations)  
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*'''[http://www.gbhgis.org/ <i>Great Britain Historical GIS Project</i>]''' A major online Geographic Information System for Great Britain
::Combining historical atlases and gazeteers with a database of demographic and socio-economic statistics.
::Directed by Humphrey Southall of the University of Portsmouth.
::(Facsimiles and transcriptions).
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*'''[http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/documents Records of an English Village 1375-1854 (Earls Colne, Essex)]'''
::An impressive local history collection, 
::comprising church, state, estate and personal records.
::(1375 - 1854 transcriptions) 
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*'''[http://www.skell.org/explore/ballads.htm Popular Medieval English & Scottish Ballads]'''
::Each ballad transcription also appends a synopsis with its historical background.
::A subpage of [http://www.skell.org/explore/index.htm Mostly Medieval: Exploring the Middle Ages].
::(Transcriptions and commentary)
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