Pipe rolls
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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
Extract from the 1194 pipe roll
Extract from the pipe rolls of Cloyne, Ireland, for the year 1354.
Entrance to The National Archives, where the pipe rolls are now held
Extract from the pipe roll for 21 Henry II (1174–5), as published by the Pipe Roll Society in 1897 using record type
Record type
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Record type is a family of typefaces designed to allow medieval manuscripts to be published as near-facsimiles of the originals. The typefaces include many special characters intended to replicate the
Pipe rolls
…have published parts of the rolls for various years that relate to their particular county. The Society's earliest volumes (to 1900) were printed in "record type", designed to produce a near-facsimile of the original manuscript, including its scribal abbreviations. This policy was abandoned in 1903, and all…
Entries for Croydon and Cheam, Surrey, in Domesday Book (1086), as published by Abraham Farley in 1783 using John Nichols' record type
Extract from the Patent Roll for 3 John (1201–2), as published by the Record Commission in 1835 using record type