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.

Epistolae Cantuarienses

This, Epistolae Cantuarienses, series of letters passing between Canterbury, Rome, and elsewhere in the latter part of the 1 2th century, extends from 1185-1199. The collection seems to have been made in the early days of the next century, possibly by that sub-prior Reginald whom the monks elected as successor to Hubert Walter in 1205. Tne MS. belongs to the ' earliest part, of the same century.

Bibleography:

Gervase of Canterbury, The Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury, Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Stubbs (W.), Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I, Cambridge University Press, 2012.