PIPE ROLL Definition & Meaning

pipe roll

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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 Also calledthe Great Roll of the Exchequer

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Origin of pipe roll¹

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

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Richard Serra’s “Bent Pipe Roll,” from 1968, is a free-standing lead pipe that lies along the floor, angles upward through a cylindrical lead roll, then leans against the wall.

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Although it is unlike “Bent Pipe Roll,” “A Roll in the Way” was created with Mr. Serra in mind.

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And so Bishop Stubbs' conjecture as to the 'rusticus verberatus' in Pipe Roll, 31 Henry I, p.

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Piece of canvas:—Bristles for shoemaker's use, bullets, short clay pipe, roll of waxed twine, a wooden button, small piece of a port-fire, two charges of shot tied up in the finger of a kid glove, fragment of a seaman's blue serge frock.

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These balances were accounted for in the exchequer itself, and entered on the pipe roll, but the preliminary accounts were filed by the king’s remembrancer, and enrolled separately by the treasurer’s remembrancer as a supplement to the pipe roll.

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