Exploring the annual records of debts owed and payments made to the medieval English central government, this book explains how the pipe rolls of the thirteenth century worked and how to find information in them.
Richard Cassidy has a PhD in medieval history from King's College, London. He is the author of numerous articles on government finance and administration in England and Ireland in the thirteenth century. His edition of the 1259 pipe roll is to be published in 2024.