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Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > Family history
First published in 1973, this collection of notes and documents
relating to approximately 100 Yorkshire families who held land of
the Crown in Yorkshire in the middle ages was compiled by the
antiquary Sir Charles Travis Clay (1885 1978). Deeply interested in
the history of his home county, he was held in high esteem for his
editing of medieval charters, and the ten volumes of Early
Yorkshire Charters that he edited between 1935 and 1965 (also
reissued in this series as part of the complete thirteen-volume
set) were regarded as a masterpiece. In Early Yorkshire Families,
Clay's notes on each lineage establish its provenance, its
genealogy, the origin of its land tenure (with further illustrative
documents contained in the latter part of the work), and how land
was held and transmitted. This work is an invaluable source of
information for researchers interested in medieval Yorkshire or the
feudal system generally.
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