Exchequer: Pipe Office: Estreats: Rolls and Nichil Rolls

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Edward VI - Victoria

This series consists of estreat and nichil rolls from the Exchequer Pipe Office

The estreat rolls contain details of fines imposed and recognisances forfeited and which were due to be paid at the Exchequer, arising from proceedings in various local courts (largely assizes and quarter sessions) in England and Wales. The nichil rolls contain details of debts due to the Exchequer where the sheriff had claimed that nothing could be collected because debtors had insufficient money to pay.

Public Record(s)

English

169 bundle(s)

Topics

Government finances

Manors

Litigation

Debt

Details of fines owed as a result of legal processes were sent to the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office in the Exchequer and copies were enrolled in the Pipe Office. The Clerk of the Estreats would issue a summons of the green wax to the sheriffs to answer for outstanding debts from the profits of justice recorded on the Pipe Rolls and on the estreats rolls. The nichil rolls were compiled by the Clerk of the Nichils based on records maintained by the Clerk of the Estreats and the Foreign Apposer, and were sent to the Pipe Office for process to be issued to recover the debts.