Charter Roll

Charter Roll

The Charter Roll is the administrative record created by the medieval office of the chancery that recorded all the charters issued by that office. In the medieval Kingdom of England, the first Charter Roll was started in 1199 under the Chancellorship of Hubert Walter.[1] This was during the reign of King John of England, and the Roll was started in order to keep track of charters that had been issued by the government. Instead of keeping the records in a register or book form, they were written on sheets which were stitched together into long rolls to form a roll for each year.[2]

Citations

  1. ^ Chrimes An Introduction to the Administrative History of Mediaeval England p. 76
  2. ^ Saul A Companion to Medieval England 1066–1485 p. 116

References

  • Chrimes, S. B. (1972). Henry VII. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-02266-1. 
  • Saul, Nigel (2000). A Companion to Medieval England 1066–1485. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-2969-8. 
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