Medieval source material on the internet: Pipe rolls
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- The Anglo-American Legal Tradition (Robert Palmer, University of Houston Law Center)
A huge project to digitise medieval and early-modern English legal records, and to make the images freely available through the Internet. The site currently contains more than 6 million images of documents, covering records covered from the period 1217-1800. The records include plea rolls, memoranda rolls, pipe rolls, liberate rolls, feet of fines, early chancery proceedings, exchequer accounts, some 13th-century patent rolls, some 16th-century close rolls, fine rolls and state papers, and a number of others. The classes of pre-1603 records covered include C 1, C 33, C 54 [1509-1540], C 60 [1529-1573], C 62, C 66 [1237-1281], C 78, CHES 14, CHES 29, CP 21, CP 25 [to 1509], CP 40, DL 5, E 9, E 13, E 101, E 123, E 124, E 126, E 159, E 361, E 364, E 368, E 372, JUST 1, JUST 2 [to 1483], JUST 3 [to 1483], KB 9 [to 1560], KB 21, KB 26, KB 27, KB 29, LR 1, REQ 1 and SP 12 [to 1580]. In addition to reference material, the site includes a wiki section with abstracts of some records, and some indexes compiled by volunteers.
- Joseph Hunter, ed., Magnum rotulum scaccarii, vel magnum rotulum pipae [1130] (1833) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Superseded by published edition of 2012.
[Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- Joseph Hunter, ed., The Great Rolls of the Pipe for the Second, Third, and Fourth Years of the Reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1155, 1156, 1157, 1158 (1844) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
- The Great roll of the pipe for the fifth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1158-1159. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 1 (1884).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the sixth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1159-1160. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 2 (1884).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the seventh year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1160-1161. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 4 (1885).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the eighth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1161-1162. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 5 (1885).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the ninth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1162-1163. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 6 (1886).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the tenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1163-1164. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 7 (1886).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the eleventh year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1164-1165. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 8 (1887).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the twelfth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1165-1166. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 9 (1888).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the thirteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1166-1167. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 11 (1889).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the fourteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1167-1168. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 12 (1890).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the fifteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1168-1169. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 13 (1890).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the sixteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1169-1170. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 15 (1892).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the seventeenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1170-1. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 16 (1893).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the eighteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1171-2. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 18 (1894).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the nineteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1172-3. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 19 (1895).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the twentieth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1173-1174. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 21 (1896).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the twenty-first year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1174-1175. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type. Pipe Roll Society, volume 22 (1897).
- The great roll of the pipe for the twenty-second year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1175-1176. (1904) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 25.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- The great roll of the pipe for the twenty-third year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1176-1177. (1905) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 26.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- The great roll of the pipe for the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1177-1178. (1906) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 27.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- The great roll of the pipe for the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1178-1179. (1907) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 28.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- The great roll of the pipe for the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1179-1180. (1908) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 29.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- The Great roll of the pipe for the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1180-1181. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 30 (1909).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1181-1182. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 31 (1910).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the twenty-ninth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1182-1183. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 32 (1911).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the thirtieth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1183-1184. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 33 (1912).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the thirty-first year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1184-1185. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 34 (1913).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the thirty-second year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1185-1186. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 36 (1914).
- The Great roll of the pipe for the thirty-third year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1186-1187. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript. Pipe Roll Society, volume 37 (1915).
- Joseph Hunter, ed., The Great roll of the pipe for the first year of the reign of King Richard the First, A.D. 1189-1190. (1844) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript, in record type.
- [J. Hunter, ed.] Rotulus Cancellarii, vel Antigraphum Magni Rotuli Pipae, de tertio anno regni Regis Johannis [1200-1201]. (1833)
Latin transcript, in record type. The Chancellor's Roll was a copy of the Pipe Roll sent to the Chancery.
[Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
- Henry Lewin Cannon, ed., The Great roll of the pipe for the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King Henry the Third, A.D. 1241-1242. (1918) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin transcript.
- Richard Cassidy, The Great Roll of the Pipe for the 43rd Year of the Reign of King Henry III Michaelmas 1259. (King's College, London)
Latin transcript, as an appendix to Richard Cassidy's Ph.D. thesis (2012), in which the record is analysed.
- The Pipe-Rolls, or Sheriff's Annual Accounts of the Revenues of the Crown for the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Durham, during the reigns of Henry I. [II], Richard I., and John. (1847) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Latin transcripts, in record type.
- Kent Extracts from Pipe Rolls (Kent Archaeological Society)
Scanned images from published Latin transcripts, twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.
Norman pipe rolls: