Richard Cassidy has a PhD in medieval history from King’s College, London. He is the author of numerous articles on government finance and administration in England and Ireland in the thirteenth century. His edition of the 1259 pipe roll is to be published in 2024.

• ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Pipe rolls for beginnersWhat is a pipe roll?How to beginLanguageAbbreviationsHeadingsNumbersMoneyDatesChapter 2. The rolls system and backgroundHistorical backgroundThe rolls systemChancellor’s rollsPipe rolls on parchmentPipe rolls in printPipe rolls onlineDialogue of the ExchequerLiterature about pipe rollsChapter 3. Pipe roll contentsDebts and paymentsThe sheriff’s accountFarm, increment and profitManors and boroughsAmercementsFines and offeringsTaxesIntroducing the foreign accountsWhat’s in the foreign accounts?What’s not in the pipe rolls?Chapter 4. An example: the 1259 pipe rollThe example, and where to find itA county account: NorthamptonshireDetails of the county accountThe roll and revenueCounty farm and profitFines in 1259Profits of justicePipe roll timetablePipe rolls and receipt rollsPipe roll and memoranda roll accountsThe pipe roll and current eventsThe pipe roll and local and family historyChapter 5. Pipe rolls in the thirteenth centuryToo much informationReducing new entriesReducing old entriesPipe rolls and other rollsAppendix 1. Transcription examplesOxfordshire account, 1237 pipe rollOxfordshire account, 1293 pipe rollAppendix 2. GlossaryReferences

Richard Cassidy has a PhD in medieval history from King’s College, London. He is the author of numerous articles on government finance and administration in England and Ireland in the thirteenth century. His edition of the 1259 pipe roll is to be published in 2024.

• ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Pipe rolls for beginnersWhat is a pipe roll?How to beginLanguageAbbreviationsHeadingsNumbersMoneyDatesChapter 2. The rolls system and backgroundHistorical backgroundThe rolls systemChancellor’s rollsPipe rolls on parchmentPipe rolls in printPipe rolls onlineDialogue of the ExchequerLiterature about pipe rollsChapter 3. Pipe roll contentsDebts and paymentsThe sheriff’s accountFarm, increment and profitManors and boroughsAmercementsFines and offeringsTaxesIntroducing the foreign accountsWhat’s in the foreign accounts?What’s not in the pipe rolls?Chapter 4. An example: the 1259 pipe rollThe example, and where to find itA county account: NorthamptonshireDetails of the county accountThe roll and revenueCounty farm and profitFines in 1259Profits of justicePipe roll timetablePipe rolls and receipt rollsPipe roll and memoranda roll accountsThe pipe roll and current eventsThe pipe roll and local and family historyChapter 5. Pipe rolls in the thirteenth centuryToo much informationReducing new entriesReducing old entriesPipe rolls and other rollsAppendix 1. Transcription examplesOxfordshire account, 1237 pipe rollOxfordshire account, 1293 pipe rollAppendix 2. GlossaryReferences