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
Chancellors 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 sheriffs account
Farm, increment and profit
Manors and boroughs
Amercements
Fines and offerings
Taxes
Introducing the foreign accounts
Whats in the foreign accounts?
Whats 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
Pipel#'
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