Appendix Three: Pipe Rolls of the Exchequer: Difference between revisions

A copy of each pipe roll - known as the Chancellor's Roll - was sent to the Chancery.  (The unusual name - officially it started out as the 'Great Rolls of the Exchequer' and comes from the distinctive way in which the membranes were sewn together, which made them look like pieces of piping when rolled up)  

The early pipe rolls provide a useful source of information from a period when few other records are available.  Those from the late 12th and early 13th Century have been published with indexes, mainly by the Pipe Rolls Society.  It is therefore fairly straightforward to search the early pipe rolls for entries relating to particular names.  However, interpreting the names may be more difficult.  Nearly all the printed texts are in Latin, and many of the earlier volumes use 'record type' to reproduce the highly abbreviated style of the originals.  Beyond this, while the significance of many entries may be fairly clear, interpreting others may require some knowledge of the administrative procedures.  

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