Meaning of pipe roll | Babel Free

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Any of a collection of financial records maintained by the English Exchequer and its successors, the earliest dating from the 12th century.

historical

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“[Of Henry I, who reigned 1100–1135:] The king's overhaul of governmental administration also resulted in the establishment of the exchequer to control⟳ royal finances. This produced a kingdom-wide financial survey each year in the form⟳ of the pipe roll. Instituted in 1130, these accounts would continue⟳ to be taken for the next seven hundred years, and the pipe rolls form⟳ the oldest continuous series of records kept by the English government. Taken together, Henry I's reforms transformed medieval government from an itinerant and often poorly organised household into a highly sophisticated administrative kingship based on permanent, static departments.”

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