Approaching Pipe Rolls

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Pipe rolls for beginners

What is a pipe roll?

How to begin

Language

Abbreviations

Headings

Numbers

Money

Dates

Chapter 2. The rolls system and background

Historical background

The rolls system

Chancellor's rolls

Pipe rolls on parchment

Pipe rolls in print

Pipe rolls online

Dialogue of the Exchequer

Literature about pipe rolls

Chapter 3. Pipe roll contents

Debts and payments

The sheriff's account

Farm, increment and profit

Manors and boroughs

Amercements

Fines and offerings

Taxes

Introducing the foreign accounts

What's in the foreign accounts?

What's not in the pipe rolls?

Chapter 4. An example: the 1259 pipe roll

The example, and where to find it

A county account: Northamptonshire

Details of the county account

The roll and revenue

County farm and profit

Fines in 1259

Profits of justice

Pipe roll timetable

Pipe rolls and receipt rolls

Pipe roll and memoranda roll accounts

The pipe roll and current events

The pipe roll and local and family history

Chapter 5. Pipe rolls in the thirteenth century

Too much information

Reducing new entries

Reducing old entries

Pipe rolls and other rolls

Appendix 1. Transcription examples

Oxfordshire account, 1237 pipe roll

Oxfordshire account, 1293 pipe roll

Appendix 2. Glossary

References