Pipe Rolls

 

Financial Records of the Exchequer

 

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The Pipe Rolls

The Pipe Rolls are financial records held by the Exchequer, dating from the twelfth century. They were early audits by the Exchequer. Pipe rolls record payments made to government, debts owed to the Crown and expenditure of royal officials.

Various sheets of parchment were fixed together and rolled tightly for storage, looking like a pipe, from which the name derives. Rotulus is the Latin for roll.

Pipe Rolls cover the period 1129 to 1832. The earliest surviving single roll dates from 1129–1130 (reign of Henry I), and a continuous series runs from 1155 onward through the medieval period.

The National Archives at Kew hold pipe rolls 1130 to 1300 (Collection E 372 and E 352 for Chancellor Rolls, which are duplicates with some variations) and has a more detailed guide.

The Pipe Roll Society publishes Pipe Rolls.

Medieval Genealogy provides an index of source material.

 

Index to the Pipe Rolls

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1155).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1156).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1157).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1158).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1158 to 1159).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1159 to 1160).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1160 to 1161).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1161 to 1162).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1162 to 1163).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1163 to 1164).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1164 to 1165).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1165 to 1166).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1166 to 1167).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1167 to 1168).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1168 to 1169).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1169 to 1170).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1170 to 1171).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1171 to 1172).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1172 to 1173).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1173 to 1174).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1174 to 1175).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1175 to 1176).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1176 to 1177).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1177 to 1178).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1178 to 1179).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1179 to 1180).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1180 to 1181).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1181 to 1182).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1182 to 1183).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1183 to 1184).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1184 to 1185).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1185 to 1186).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1186 to 1187).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Richard I (1189 to 1190).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, John (1200 to 1201).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry III (1241 to 1242).

 

The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry III (1259).