Thomas Rymer (1641-1713)

Thomas Rymer (I641-I713), born in Yorkshire, and educated at Cambridge and Gray’s Inn, was appointed Historiographer Royal in 1692. It was almost immediately after this that, under the patronage of Lord Somers and Lord Halifax, he began to publish the state papers from the original documents preserved in the royal archives. The documents printed are nominally limited to the negotiations with foreign powers, though some latitude must be allowed to this description The early edition of this work extends to twenty volumes folio and embraces the period between 1101 and I654.


Bibliography:

Gerard (R.), "Rymer and history". Clio. 7 (3), 1978.

Curt (Z.), The Critical Works of Thomas Rymer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955.

Pipe Rolls

The Rolls, or Pipe Rolls, which contain the accounts of the Royal Exchequer date, as a continued series, from the early years of Henry II., though there is one roll belonging to 31, Henry I. Of these accounts three copies were made -one for the treasurer, one for the chancellor, and one (the Pipe Roll) for the king. The Pipe Rolls, so called from their being rolled up in the form of a pipe, are preserved almost complete from the year 1155. They are now being published (down to the year 1200) by the Pipe Roll Society.

Bibleography:

Archer (T. A.), The Crusade of Richard I: 1189-1192, London, 1912.

Britnell (R. H.), The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society, Woodbridge, 2003.

Pipe Rolls of the Exchequer of Normandy for the Reign of Richard I: 1194-5 Et 1197-8 ; Printed from the Originals in the National Archives, Pipe Roll Society, 2016.