Catalogue description Chancery: Supplementary Close Rolls

Rolls containing enrolments of writs of a special character which do not appear on the main series of close rolls.

These include writs of respite from taking up knighthood, 1256-58; mandates for the livery of the lands of rebels against Henry III, 1265-67; writs of respite from assizes, etc, for those in the king's service in Scotland, 1302-4; and writs of resumption of grants made by Edward II, 1311-12.

Also, writs of Richard II to the keepers of the passage in various ports, directing them to permit the persons specified to go beyond the sea; and writs to foreign merchants empowering them to issue letters of exchange, 1382-1434, which at one time formed a separate series known as 'Exchange Rolls'.

The records in this series have been transcribed or calendared as follows: Close Rolls (Supplementary) of the reign of Henry III, preserved in the Public Record Office, 1244-1266, ed Ann Morton (London, 1975); Calendar of Various Chancery Rolls: Supplementary Close Rolls...preserved in the Public Record Office...AD 1277-1326 (London, 1912); Calendar of the Close Rolls, preserved in the Public Record Office...Edward III. Vol xiv. AD 1374-1377 (London 1913); Calendar of the Close Rolls, preserved in the Public Record Office...Richard II. Vols i, iv and v. AD 1377-1396 (London, 1914-25); Calendar of the Close Rolls, preserved in the Public Record Office...Henry IV. Vol iv. AD 1409-1413 (London, 1932); Calendar of the Close Rolls, preserved in the Public Record Office...Henry VI. Vols i and ii. AD 1422-1435 (London, 1933).