Before leaving the above case, we should notice, first, that the crown had a ‘roll,’ on which were recorded such charters as this of Henry I. I do not remember mention of such a roll elsewhere. The question irresistibly suggests itself whether we have not here the origin of those “Cartæ Antiquæ,” of which the existence, I am given to understand, has ever yet been accounted for. On turning to these most interesting records we find that Roll N commences with twenty-three charters to Holy Trinity Priory, all of them previous to the middle of Henry II.’s reign. They are transcribed in a hand of the period, those which follow being later additions. It seems to me, therefore, that in this “Roll N” we may have the actual “Rotulus Regis,” produced in court before Glanville, which contained, as does “Roll N,” the charter of Henry I. It would seem probable that such charters were already kept in the Treasury, for reference, under Henry I., though not as yet enrolled. For a writ of the latter king, addressed to Richard son of Baldwin (sheriff of Devon) and G. ‘de Furnellis’ directs them to discharge the land of the canons of Plympton “de geldis et assisis et omnibus aliis rebus, quia episcopus Sarum _recognovit per cartam de thesauro meo_ quod ipsa ex toto ita quieta est.”[193] Secondly, we should note that, although the narrative assigns the issue of the new coinage to November 11 (1180), yet the sheriff’s deputy raised his claim at Michaelmas (for that half year’s term). That he did so is in harmony with the current Pipe Roll, which, as Eyton has shown, had numerous references to the change of coinage having been in progress. Lastly, we have here an Exchequer case, hitherto, I believe, unknown, and learn the names of the officials present, which harmonize with what we know _aliunde_ of the judicial and financial _personnel_ at the time. Apart from the “rotulus Regis” discussed above, the Exchequer, it would seem, enrolled its decisions even under Henry II. We read in the chronicle of Jocelin de Brakelonde that Abbot Sampson, called upon to contribute, on behalf of St. Edmund’s Abbey, to a “communis misericordia” imposed on the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, went to the king at Clarendon [? February, 1187] and obtained from him a writ directing “ut sex milites de comitatu de Norfolchia et sex de Suffolchia summonerentur ad recognoscendum coram baronibus scaccarii utrum dominia Sancti Ædmundi deberent esse quieta de communi misericordia.”[194] When the knights had found their verdict, “justiciarii assidentes veredictum illorum inrollaverunt.” * * * * * We may now return to the reckonings in use at the early Exchequer.