Stamford in the Thirteenth Century

"The two rolls presented here were produced in the course of an inquest ordered by Edward I in 1274 to inquire into the alienation and appropriation of royal liberties and land and the conduct of royal seigneurial officials. They belong to a class of documents known as Hundred Rolls ... As an account of a realm, the Hundred Rolls of 1274/5 are second only to the Domesday Book." --Preface.