Catalogue description Court of Common Pleas: Attorneys Rolls

All the surviving rolls are arranged in alphabetical sequences by the first letter of the attorneys' names, those names being preceded by the name of a county, presumably that in which they resided. At the right-hand side are two columns, initially headed 'proclam' and 'abinde', which include both figures of low denomination and punched holes whose significance has not been established, and occasionally the note of a term and regnal year. An occasional attorney is noted as having been struck off as a result of a rule of court. The last two surviving rolls are a little different, in that the holes disappear, although the occasional notes of terms continue. Additionally, the word 'mort' has been added alongside the names of many attorneys who had died, but their dates of death are not given, and the annotations may have been made some time later.