Calendar of Patent Rolls

Description

The Calendar of Patent Rolls is a collection of records of Edward II and Edward III’s activity during specific years of their reign, including grants, appointments, receipts, and writs broken up into Membranes that decrease by numeral identification. Patent Rolls exist for monarchs from the early 13th to mid 15th centuries, and while the original loose documents are generally in Latin, published English summaries are available online for most Patent Roll collections. Seven volumes cover the reigns of Edward II and III, all containing indexes and appendices towards the back of the volume. Some have catalogs of public records from Ireland or Scotland. Volumes three, four, and five pertain to Edward II and volumes one, two, three, and nine to Edward III. The English summaries of these volumes were originally published in 1891 by The Great Britain Public Record Office, where the medieval documents remain to this day. Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte provided the preface for these modern resources, which are available digitally from a variety of sources.