C 2271531-1678Chancery: Sheriffs' Rolls from the Petty Bag Office
Lists of names of candidates for appointment as sheriff in England and Wales, with those of the sheriffs for the two preceding years.
The series also includes pricked lists of those appointed, in most cases with the royal sign manual appended. There are too a few enrolments of the appointments of sheriffs and occasionally of escheators.
The rolls often carry manuscript additions or alterations in different hands, and miscellaneous notes and memoranda, such as when the monarch rejected all three nominees for sheriff and imposed his own candidate.