The group works on various sets of documents relating to Shropshire and the resulting transcripts and translations are deposited in Shropshire Archives. The descriptions here list the doucments studied and give an index of the names mentioned (to help those looking for particular surnames). To date, the following collections of documents have been made available:

In Autumn 2003, the manor court rolls for Longnor between 1484 and 1622 (reference SA 567/1/3-15) were studied.

In 2004, the Ditton Priors Manor Court Rolls 1510-1614 were published (ISBN 0-9548262-0-5) were published click here for details.

In the spring of 2004, several of the bailiff's accounts for Ness Strange between 1374 and 1430 (reference SA 3607/I/A/27, 29 & 30) were studied.

In the summer of 2004, two sets of documents relating to the township of Cantelop in Berrington parish (references SA 6000/6681-6691 and SA 6000/6592-6601) were studied.

In the autumn of 2004, manor court rolls for Hope Bowdler between 1497 and 1662 (SA 6000/2599) were studied.

In the first half of 2005 a number of individual documents were studied. These included accounts for Highley 1472-3 (PRO SCC/966/12/IP/311), Whitchurch 1485-6 (SA 212/Box 77), Ernewood 1373-4 (SC/6/967/3) and for the Shrewsbury Borough Bailiffs for 1479-81 (SA 3365/417-8) and 1457-8 (SA 3365/385).

In the autumn of 2005, they studied a group of manor court rolls relating to Waters Upton between 1509 and 1604.

In the spring of 2006, they studied two sets of accounts, those of the Earl of Shrewsbury for 1507-1508 and those of the Manor of Caus for 1563-1564.

In 2006, Shropshire Archives had obtained the "Lilleshall Collection", a large number of documents concerning Lilleshall Abbey. In Summer 2006, the Ordericus Vitalis Group worked on a collection of leases relating to properties in the "villa de Pola" (now called Welshpool) covering the period from 1285 to 1417.

In the autumn of 2006, they studied a document about mining in the Clee Hills and a number of deeds relating to the Manor of Langley between 1318 and 1346.

In late 2006 and early 2007, they studied a number of documents relating to the Mortimer family and two court rolls for Newport.

In the summer of 2007 they studied the manor court rolls for Worfield.

In the autumn of 2007 and early 2008, they studied documents relating to Madeley.

Later in 2008, they studied documents relating to Tempseter near Clun.

In the autumn of 2008, they studied documents relating to Bridgnorth.

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