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
The floor is covered with them, all the chairs are in use, three Patent Rolls are lying open and face downwards on the mantelpiece, there are several on the hearthrug.
From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.
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
Among the records concerning Kendal Church is a reference in the Patent Rolls of 1295, in which Walter de Maydenestane is described as “parson of a moiety of the church of Kirkeby, in Kendale.”
From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel
The Patent Rolls record grants of ten pounds per annum to John de Burgh, carpenter, because he had discovered and delivered up certain Lollards.
From Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth by Tyler, James Endell
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