pipe roll

British

noun

Also called: the Great Roll of the Exchequer. history an annual record of the accounts of a sheriff or other minister of the crown kept at the British Exchequer from the 12th to the 19th centuries

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Etymology

Origin of pipe roll

C17: from _pipe ¹ and _roll ; perhaps from documents being rolled into a pipe shape

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Half the annual revenue was payable at Easter, and at Michaelmas the balance was exacted, and the accounts made up for the year, and formally enrolled on the pipe roll.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

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