Medieval History Term of the Week: Pipe Roll
Pipe Roll
1) Annual roll of the accounts presented at the Exchequer by the sheriffs, and including the farms of the shires and boroughs. (Reynolds, Susan. An Introduction to the History of English Medieval Towns, 199)
2) Properly known as The Great Roll of the Exchequer: the record of the annual audit of the accounts of the sheriffs and of other debtors to the Crown. (Warren, W.L. Henry II, 635)
The Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester, 1208-1209
*term definitions retrieved from Netserf’s Medieval Glossary (http://www.netserf.org/Glossary)
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Medieval Glossary, Medieval History on April 30th, 2010
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