The first surviving Close Roll was started in 1204 (in the reign of King John), under the Chancellorship of Hubert Walter, though the actual practice may reach back to 1200, or even … See more

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1. ^ Burrill, Alexander M. (1859). "A Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the Principal Terms of the Common and Civil Law". … See more

• Calendars of Close Rolls at Internet Archive
• "Calendar of Close Rolls". British History Online. Retrieved 15 January 2013. (subscription required) See more

Copies of royal grants of land or money (further transcribed to the Exchequer) made up the earliest contents of the Close Rolls; but the latter … See more

The Close Rolls for the years 1204 to 1227 were published as abbreviated Latin texts (in a near-facsimile of the manuscripts, employing a special "record type" font) by the Record Commission, edited by T. D. Hardy, in 1833 and 1844, in two large folio volumes entitled … See more

• Winfield, P. H. The Chief Sources of English Legal History (Cambridge, Mass. 1925), pp. 103–144 See more