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Further informationParliamentary Rolls of Medieval England (British History Online) - Trial access until 20 October 2023. Transcriptions from the manuscript rolls of all parliaments which survive for the period 1275 to 1504. The transcriptions - in Latin, Anglo-Norman or Middle English - are presented in parallel with a modern English translation. There is also a description of each parliament of the period, including for those of which no roll survives.
Further informationState Papers Online: the Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle Digital Archive (Gale Cengage) - Trial access until 8 October 2023. The Stuart and Cumberland Papers mostly cover the period 1713 to 1770, providing details on Jacobite networks throughout Europe, the exiled Stuarts relations with European rulers including Louis XIV and successive popes who financed the Stuart court in exile. Later papers cover Cardinal York's relations with the Vatican until his death in 1807.