Excerpt from The Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester, 1210-1211: P. R. O. Eccl. 2-22-159270b The object of this book is primarily to transcribe and edit the text of the pipe roll, and secondly, to estimate its importance as a source for administrative history in the early thirteenth century by attempting to describe the administrative machinery on the Winchester estates. Using the text itself as a primary source, and where this fails, drawing analogies from other estates, both lay and ecclesiastical, at a slightly later date. I have made no attempt therefore to comment on the economic aspect of the roll. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.