Patent Rolls
Britishplural noun
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No one would mistake the Calendar of Patent Rolls for scintillating reading.
From Forbes ● Jun. 3, 2015
Byles, Andrew, 35 Byrom, Margaret, 52 Bysack, of Waldingfield, 404 Calamy, Edmund, the elder, 178 Calendar of Patent Rolls, cited, 7 n.
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace
It was mentioned in the Patent Rolls so early as Edward III.'s reign.
From Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir
Footnote 142: The fact is recorded in the Patent Rolls, P. 2, 3 Hen.
From Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth by Tyler, James Endell
With the kind assistance of Mr. Duffus Hardy, I have obtained a complete list of the licences to crenellate contained in the Patent Rolls, and some other records preserved in the Tower.
From Notes and Queries, Number 228, March 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
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