Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.
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'Close Rolls, Edward II: Preface', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327, (London, 1898) pp. v. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol4/v [accessed 20 April 2024]
PREFACE.
The present volume forms part of a series of Calendars of the Close Rolls from the reign of Edward II. to that of Edward IV. the object and character of which are explained in the Preface to the first volume for the reign of Edward II. (a.d. 1307–1313.) In addition to the rolls calendared in this and the three preceding volumes, there are in the series of Close Rolls at the Public Record Office two rolls "de terris forisfactis," belonging to the 15th, 16th and 17th years of Edward II., which have not been calendared separately, inasmuch as all the entries in them occur also in the normal Close Rolls of the period, and have consequently been calendared in their proper places. The text has been prepared, with the sanction of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by Mr. W. H. Stevenson, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. The Index has been compiled by Mr. C. H. Woodruff, B.C.L., Mr. Stevenson having assisted him by identifying most of the places.
H. C. MAXWELL LYTE.
Public Record Office,
28 May 1898.