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Pipe rolls

The pipe rolls, sometimes called the Great Rolls or the Great Rolls of the Pipe, are a collection of financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, or Treasury, and its successors, as well as the Exchequer of Ireland. They record not only payments made to the government, but debts owed to the crown and disbursements made by royal officials. The…

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Genre
Accounting documents
Date
1129–1833
Language
Medieval Latin, Middle English, English
Period covered
1130–1833
Provenance
English Exchequer Exchequer of Ireland
Series
Pipe rolls

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related to history · 28
Pipe rolls → Abbey, After, Although, An, Anglo-Saxon, British Library, But, Cnut, Continuously, Cotton Library, Edgar, Exchequer, Henry, Henry I's, II, It, King Henry I's, King Henry II's, King John's, King Stephen
related to Studies by historians · 23
Pipe rolls → Although, Another, Because, Christelow, England, English, Exchequer, Henry, Henry I's, Henry II, Henry's, Historian David Carpenter, John, John's, Judith Green's, King Henry III's, Middle Ages, Nick Barratt, Recent, Richard
related to Composition · 18
Pipe rolls → Although, Besides, Crown, England, English, Exchequer, Given, If, In, King John, Michaelmas, Neither, Some, The, There, They, Treasury, Until
related to Publication · 15
Pipe rolls → Besides, English, In, It, James Greenstreet, Pipe Roll Society, Public Record Office, Record Commission, The, The Commission's, The Society's, This, Various, Walford Dakin Selby, Yale University Press
related to Influence on other records · 12
Pipe rolls → Bishop, Eleanor, England, Exchequer's, Montfort, Most, Peter, Roches, Simon, The, They, Winchester
related to External links · 5
Pipe rolls → E372, Monarchs, Pipe, The Anglo-American Legal Tradition, The Pipe Roll Society
Date · 1
Pipe rolls → 1129–1833
Genre · 1
Pipe rolls → Accounting documents
Language · 1
Pipe rolls → Medieval Latin, Middle English, English
Period covered · 1
Pipe rolls → 1130–1833

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pipe rolls roll records exchequer royal also henry recorded reign record income years payments english accounts financial series debts early

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Pipe rollsDate1129–18331.00infobox
Pipe rollsGenreAccounting documents1.00infobox
Pipe rollsLanguageMedieval Latin, Middle English, English1.00infobox
Pipe rollsPeriod covered1130–18331.00infobox
Pipe rollsProvenanceEnglish Exchequer Exchequer of Ireland1.00infobox
Pipe rollsSeriesPipe rolls1.00infobox
Pipe rollsSubjectRecords of the audits of the English Exchequer and Exchequer of Ireland1.00infobox
William Shakespeare's residence in the parish of St Helen's Bishopsgateinstance ofthe post 13th-century pipe rolls are occasionally the sole source for historical facts0.80text
in Southwarkinstance ofthe post 13th-century pipe rolls are occasionally the sole source for historical facts0.80text
Pipe rollsrelated to CompositionThe0.60section
Pipe rollsrelated to CompositionThere0.60section
Pipe rollsrelated to CompositionTreasury0.60section

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