Appendix A - Description of the Rolls

Summary

As demonstrated above, the endorsements on the rolls and the portions of discarded local rolls preserved on the seal tags help to explain something of the way in which the taxers set about their work. In the following detailed description of the rolls I have set out (1) the size of each membrane—an oblique stroke between two figures indicates variation in the width of the parchment; (2) transcripts of the fragments of text on the tags—tags have been numbered from left to right; (3) notes on endorsements. Oblique strokes in the transcripts indicate the beginning and end of lines.

E179/71/2 Barford Hundred

11 mm. originally affixed at foot. On m. 9d. (the longest membrane) Hundredum de Bereford / Summa totalis none tocius Hundredi xxxviii li. vi. s. ii d. Probatur / Hundredum de Bereford / Bereford / Extracia.

m.1 Chawston and Colesden, continued from m.2. 14.5 X 10 cm.

m.2 Chawston and Colesden. 19 X 63 cm. Three tags for seals, blank. On dorse : at head, names of sub-taxers; at foot, S’ / Colesdene cum Chalvesterne.

m.3 Sudbury. 17.5 X 14 cm. Two tags for seals : (i) pars est inde extracta ad opus domini Regis in forma que sequitur. Anno r.r. E. xxv°; (ii) traces of script. On dorse : at foot, S / Suthbyry.

m.4 Goldington. 19.3 X 45 cm. Two tags for seals, blank. On dorse : at head, names of sub-taxers; at foot, continuation of assessment.

m.5 Great Barford. 18.8 X 62 cm. Two tags for seals, blank. No seal fold. On dorse : continuation of assessment; at foot, S / Bereford.

m.6 Roxton and Woodend. 20 X 72 cm. Two tags for seals : (i) Pabenham. Summa bonorum xxiiii^or li. xix s. vii d. / L--- s. v--- d. ob. ; (ii) Summa bonorum de Steventon xx li. v s. ii d. On dorse : vill total ; at foot, S /Rokesdone cum Wodehende.

m.7 Wilden. 21.5 X 61 cm. Two tags for seals, blank. On dorse : at foot, S / Willden.

m.8 Colmworth. 24.5 X 67 cm. Two tags for seals, blank. On dorse : at foot, S / Colmord.