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ˈpipe-ˌroll
[f. pipe n.1 5 + roll. n.]
The Great Roll of the Exchequer, comprising the various ‘pipes’, or enrolled accounts, of sheriffs and others for a financial year.
1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1787) 20 In all the ancient pipe-rolls in the times of Henry the Third, Edward the First, Edward the Second, and Edward the Third..there is this entry: In Thesauro nihil. 1698Wanley in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 258 The Pipe Roll; with the black and red Books of the Exchequer. 1711Madox Hist. Exchequer, Explanation of Breviatures: Magnus Rotulus, The Great Roll of the Exchequer commonly called the Pipe Roll. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. iv. 222 There are traces of it's payment..in the book of domesday and in the great pipe-roll of Henry the first. 1891Guide to Public Record Office 293 The Pipe Rolls or Great Rolls of the Exchequer contained the yearly charge against the Sheriffs of the several counties. |