<<I have a question about the Beauchamp/Bello Campo's, I thought someone might know the answer to. I have a Janes family who were in Worcester in the 1327 Lay Subsiday Rolls in and around Emley Castle. It seems most of the parishes they were in were held by the Bello Campo's. I can find little else on them. I have found that Worcester Record Office houses the Court Rolls of Elmley Castle but I wondered if there are more records of the Earl of Warwick held somewhere that date to this period. I have written to Worcester Record Office about obtaining copies of the Court Rolls. Does anyone know if there are more records of the Earl of Warwick at this time?>> Dear Renee, Robert K. Field has produced a translation of the Elmley Castle manor court rolls which was published by the Worcestershire Historical Society in 2004 as "Court rolls of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire 1347-1564", . You may be able to find it in a reference library, which will save you the cost of obtaining copies of the original rolls, and a great deal of effort trying to decipher the medieval Latin in which they are written. Unfortunately, as you will see from the title, Elmley Castle's court rolls only begin in 1347 (there are seven courts from 1347-50, then a gap, then they start again in 1356 - their Worcester RO reference is (BA 899.95) 989/1). When you ask whether there are any other records of the Beauchamp earls of Warwick from this period (the first half of the fourteenth century), do you mean other types of records from Elmley Castle (ie other than court rolls)? I do not know if any exist, but Robert Field's introduction to his edition may tell you if there are any (if you're lucky there may be a rental or survey or extent, which would list all the manor's tenants by name and perhaps describe their tenancies - there may also be account rolls, but these are financial documents, unlikely to name many individuals). Otherwise the most certain simple way to discover what records survive from a given manor is to consult the Manorial Documents Register, now located at The National Records at Kew (the former PRO) - but unfortunately that can only be done by a personal visit, so far as I'm aware. If you mean, any records from other manors of the earls of Warwick near Elmley Castle, then I can tell that there are unlikely to be any such court rolls (none from before 1350, at least - I do not know about later periods), because two years ago I made an attempt to locate all surviving pre-1350 court rolls from manors in Worcestershire, Gloucs, Herefs, Salop and Staffs and found none from other manors of the earls of Warwick anywhere in those five counties. So far as court rolls from manors of other lords are concerned, the nearest I found to Elmley Castle were from the Worcester Priory manors of Cropthorne/Netherton, Sedgeberrow and Overbury/Teddington (which begin 1314 and are reasonably continuous up to 1350) and a Winchcombe Abbey manor at Twyning in Gloucs (just five pre-1350 courts, from 1341-2). For other types of manorial record you'd have to consult the Manorial Documents Register, though some Google searches might reveal some individual documents. Matt Tompkins