Charter Roll
A charter roll is an administrative record created by a medieval chancery that recorded all the charters issued by that office.
Origins
In medieval
patent rolls.[2] Instead of keeping the records in a register or book form, they were written on sheets of parchment stitched together into long rolls to form a roll for each year.[4]
Minority hiatus
During the minority of Henry III of England, no perpetual grants could be made by the Crown, so that the Charter Rolls were in abeyance until 1227.[5]
Publication
The Charter Rolls for the years 1199 to 1216 were published as abbreviated Latin texts (in a near-
folio volume entitled Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi asservati, edited by T. D. Hardy. Calendars (summaries) of the rolls from 1226 to 1516 were published in six volumes by the Public Record Office
between 1903 and 1927. Historians use the acronym Cal. charter R. for those published in calendar form.
See also
- Hanaper
- Pipe Rolls
- Patent roll
Citations
- ^ Sayles (1967), p. 291
- ^ a b Sayles (1967), p. 292
- ^ Chrimes (1966), p. 76
- ^ Saul (2000), p. 116
- ^ Bury (1929), p. 256
References
- Sayles, G. O. (1967). The Medieval Foundations of England. London.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Chrimes, S. B. (1966). An Introduction to the Administrative History of Mediaeval England (third ed.). Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell. OCLC 270094959.
- ISBN 0-7524-2969-8.
- Bury, J. B. (1929). The Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. VI. Cambridge University Press.
External links
National archives, Charter Rolls