The Red Book of the Exchequer

The Red Book of the Exchequer PDF

Author: Hall Hubert

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022011366

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In this meticulously researched book, Hubert Hall responds to the arguments put forward by historian J. H. Round regarding the authenticity of the Red Book of the Exchequer, a medieval English records book. By carefully examining the evidence, Hall provides a compelling case for the book's legitimacy, shedding new light on an important historical document. Whether you're a student of medieval history or simply interested in learning more about the Red Book, this book is a must-read. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Studies on the Red Book of the Exchequer

Studies on the Red Book of the Exchequer PDF

Author: John Horace Round

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781230360096

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... 17 THE BED BOOK OF THE EXCHEQUER. Second only in honour to Domesday Book itself, the 'Liber Rubeus de Scaccario' has, for more than six centuries, held a foremost place among our national records. Prized by officials for its precedents, by antiquaries for its vast store of topographical and genealogical information, its well-thumbed pages have been scanned by twenty generations of students. At last--one may use the term advisedly, for the work was announced as ' in the press' for years--almost all its unpublished contents are made accessible in print.1 The responsible authorities of the Rolls Series could not have selected an official more obviously qualified to edit the great Exchequer register than was Mr. Hubert Hall. Devoting himself with special zeal to the records of the ancient Exchequer, he had produced, as the fruit of his studies, 'Court Life under the Plantagenets' (1890), and 'Antiquities and Curiosities of the Exchequer' (1891), while the papers in the third and seventh volumes of the Pipe Roll Society on 'the system of the Exchequer' were also from his pen. 1 The Bed Booh of the Exchequer, 3 vols. Edited by Hubert Hall, F.S.A., of the Public Record Office... under the direction of the Master of the Bolls. There is, perhaps, no man living, certainly no Englishman, so intimately conversant with the early records of what to the men of the twelfth century was already the mysterious, the almost sacrosanct Court of the Exchequer. But Mr. Hall had further claims. As Director of the Royal Historical Society, he was clearly an authority on history, while his knowledge of palaeography and 'diplomatic, ' which was an essential requisite in the editor of a corrupt and derived MS., comprising a congeries of records, is vouched for by the..

The Red Book of the Exchequer

The Red Book of the Exchequer PDF

Author: Hubert Hall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1108053254

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

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