govsct xuxb liing John. 



Notes on the Pipe Rolls (Dorset) of that Reign, 



SurPLEMENTED AND ILLUSTRATED BY REFERENCES TO THE PaTENT 



AND Close Rolls of the same Period. 



By Rev. W. MILES BARNES. 



'ERY few original records exist of a date so early as 

 John's reign. The Patent rolls, the Close Rolls, the 

 Charter and Curia Regis Rolls, with the Pipe Rolls, 

 nearly exhaust the list. The most important and by 

 far the least known of these ancient records are 

 undoubtedly the series known as the " Pipe 

 Rolls " or " Great Roll of the Exchequer." These 

 documents were described and illustrations of the 

 earliest of them extant were given in the volume of 



the transactions of the Dorset Antiquarian Field Club issued last 



year. 



Since preparing that paper I have read the Pipe Rolls relating 



to that most interesting and obscure period of our county history, 



the reign of John ; and in this paper I purpose giving extracts 



