Henry III Fine Rolls Project

The fine rolls were the earliest rolls kept by the English royal chancery. Recording offers of money to the king for all manner of concessions and favours, they are central to the study of political, governmental, legal, social and economic history.

Preserved in The National Archives, there are 56 rolls for the reign of Henry III (1216-1272) one for each regnal year, containing 730 membranes of parchment. They have never before been properly edited and published.

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and combining the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London and The National Archives, the Henry III Fine Rolls Project is a unique and pioneering enterprise in publishing for the first time important medieval source material in the form of an electronic data base.

The first three year project will publish the rolls down to 1248 in the following forms:

	An English calendar of the rolls in electronic form on the King's College London (KCL) website, with a sophisticated search and analysis facility
	Four printed volumes, published by Boydell & Brewer, with full indexes
	Digital facsimile images of the rolls on the KCL website

Directors: David Carpenter, David Crook and Harold Short

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Last updated: 11 February 2010.