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In tbe Record Tower, the earliest Rolls extant are forty- one containing a miscellaneous collection of grants and charters from the time of Edward the Confessor to the be- briefly comprehended under Ihe following heads. Almain “Rolls, Charter Rolls, Close Rolls, Conventiones Pacts, Coronation Rolls, Extracta Donationmn, Fine
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