The Red Book of the Exchequer

A rich resource for medieval historians, this three-volume compilation of legal and administrative documents was first published in 1896.

Hubert Hall (Edited by)

9781108053266, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

710 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 4 cm, 1.03 kg

A rich resource for medieval historians, the Liber rubeus de Scaccario is a register, or book of remembrance, first compiled in the clerical offices of the Exchequer during the reign of Henry III. It contains documents from the post-Conquest period up to the year 1230. Including deeds and grants, as well as records of serjeanties and material from pipe rolls and various other sources, it has been deemed second only to the Domesday Book in importance for its wealth of genealogical and geographical information. The various records were brought together in order to provide a convenient single source for establishing legal precedents, and it remained in use throughout the middle ages. This three-volume edition was prepared by the archivist Hubert Hall (1857–1944) and published in 1896. Among the documents in Volume 3 are the Constitutio domus regis (c.1135) and selected writs of privilege.

Preface
Constitution domus regis
Allocationes per brevia
Brevia de privilegio
Dietae in scaccario
Memoranda pro rege
De separatione facienda in extractis justiciariorum de debitis
Ordinatio super compotis per attornatum
De scaccario tenendo
De ordinatione scaccarii annis xvi., xvii., et xix Edwardi Secundi
Processus de modo allocandi libertates magnatum regni
Provisio de diebus datis ad placitandum in scaccario
Brevia de ponderibus liberandis et talliis innovandis
De statu scaccarii Dublini
Provisiones de Judaismo
De cambio et moneta
Tractatus novae monetae
De Herefordiensi episcopo
De ecclesia de Etone
Breve pro ecclesia de Kirketone
De custodia terrarum Galfridi de Lucy
De diversis cartis comitissae Albemarlae, etc.
De speciali materia tangente episcopatum Dunolmensem
De querela Thomae nuper comitis Lancastriae
Expositiones vocabulorum
De multuris episcoporum
Memoranda de bullis liberatis camerariis ad custodiendum
Transcripta bullarum
Carta et litterae regis Franciae de terra Vasconiae
De libertatibus concessis mercatoribus vinetariis de ducatu Aquitaniae
Summa taxationis
De fidelitate archiepiscopi Rothomagensis
De Judaeis recedentibus ab Anglia
De inceptione datarum
De aqua Tynae
De assaio monetae anno xxvii. regis Henrici III.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]