#Piperoll 117 series#

They record not only payments made to the government, but debts owed to the crown and disbursements made by royal officials. They were the records of the yearly audits performed by the Exchequer of the accounts and payments presented to the Treasury by the sheriffs and other royal officials and owed their name to the shape they took, as the various sheets were affixed to each other and then rolled into a tight roll, resembling a pipe, for storage.

#Piperoll 117 series#

A similar set of records was developed for Normandy, which was ruled by the English kings from 1066 to 1205, but the Norman Pipe rolls have not survived in a continuous series like the English. The Standards have been printed in the same typeface as shown in this paragraph. The early medieval ones are especially useful for historical study, as they are some of the earliest financial records available from the Middle Ages. MNL-117 4th Edition Page v INTRODUCTION MNL-117, Fourth Edition The Standards and Commentary are presented in a side-by-side column format with the Standards placed in the left column and the corresponding Commentary text aligned in the right column. They form the oldest continuous series of records kept by the English government, covering a span of about 700 years. The earliest date from the 12th century, and the series extends, mostly complete, from then until 1833. B3110 - Adjustable Steel Yoke Pipe Roll (TOLCO Fig.

Pipe rolls The Pipe rolls, sometimes called the Great rolls, are a collection of financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, or Treasury.