Close Roll
The Close Rolls (
History
The first surviving Close Roll was started in 1204 (in the reign of King
Nature of contents
Copies of royal grants of land or money (further transcribed to the Exchequer) made up the earliest contents of the Close Rolls; but the latter soon came to contain much wider matter, exchequer-related material being hived off after 1226 in separate Liberate Rolls.[4] Indeed, in the early 13th century perhaps the bulk of executive action ran via instructions from Chancery to local sheriffs, and was recorded in the Rolls.[6] Over time, however, as new document series emerged, the scope of the Close Rolls narrowed; and after 1533 their contents consisted solely of copies of private deeds and awards of enclosure, and the like.[7]
Until that point, however, the Close Rolls contained a mine of information about late medieval England. Setting aside political and military matters,
Publication
The Close Rolls for the years 1204 to 1227 were published as abbreviated Latin texts (in a near-
The published texts and calendars from 1227 to 1509 have been made available online in a fully searchable form on a "premium" (subscription) section of the digital library British History Online (co-managed by the Institute of Historical Research).
See also
- Pipe Rolls
Citations
- ^ Burrill, Alexander M. (1859). "A Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the Principal Terms of the Common and Civil Law". New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co. – via Google Books.
- ^ Morrin, James (24 January 1861). Calendar of the patent and close rolls of chancery in Ireland, of the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth ... / Edited by James Morrin. Printed by Alex Thom for H.M.S.O.
- ^ "Close Rolls, - National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts". archifau.llyfrgell.cymru.
- ^ a b Sayles, G. O. The Medieval Foundations of England (London 1967) p. 291
- ISBN 0-7524-2969-8.
- ^ Morris, W. A. The Medieval English Sheriff (Manchester 1968) p. 143
- ^ Steinberg, S. H. A New Dictionary of British History (London 1963) p. 75
- ^ Morris, W. A. The Medieval English Sheriff (Manchester 1968) p. 152
- ^ Morris, W. A. The Medieval English Sheriff (Manchester 1968) p. 154
- ^ Richardson, H. G. The English Jewry under the Angevin Kings (London 1960) pp. 176–7
- ^ Tanner, J. R. ed., The Cambridge Medieval History Vol VI (Cambridge 1929) p. 229
- ISBN 978-1-84384-138-8.
- ^ Tanner, J. R. ed., The Cambridge Medieval History Vol VI (Cambridge 1929) p. 801 and p. 264
- ^ Poole, A. L. "William Henry Stevenson", in Dictionary of National Biography, 1922–1930 (Oxford, 1937), pp. 811–812
Further reading
- Winfield, P. H. The Chief Sources of English Legal History (Cambridge, Mass. 1925), pp. 103–144
External links
- Calendars of Close Rolls at Internet Archive
- "Calendar of Close Rolls". British History Online. Retrieved 15 January 2013. (subscription required)