#Piperoll 123 pro#
The last of these is a debt of 20 marks of silver pro ministerio Osberti filii sui, and suggests a possible identification of Osbert Silvanus, sheriff of the year, as Serlo's son.Īs to Serlo's term of office, there can be little doubt that it must be assigned to a year or years preceding Michaelmas 1127. In the accounts of Yorkshire, Serlo de Burg is debited with £60 and more de veteri firma de Nottinghamscira et Derbiescira, as well as with sums for other items. The accounts of Serlo, Ivo's predecessor, suggest that he had been out of office for a number of years, so that Ivo's term may have begun as early as Michaelmas 1126 or 1125.
Immediately after the entries relating to Osbert comes one in which Ivo de Heriz accounts for an 'old farm', presumably that of 1127–8, since Ivo was the predecessor of Osbert. An item, quoted in the account of Serlo de Burg below, suggests a possibility that Osbert may have been the son of Serlo. It would seem highly probable, therefore, that Osbert, though at this time accounting for only half the farm, was nevertheless in office for the whole year 1129–30. Also in other respects it is a thoroughly normal, whole year's account. Moreover, the rest of his account gives no hint of a tenure of service for less than a whole year, since he apparently accounts for the danegeld and the aid of the boroughs for the whole year 1129–30. But there is no indication that he was supplanted at Easter 1130 by any other man. On the basis of this evidence, it appears that Osbert was sheriff at Michaelmas 1128–9, and from Michaelmas 1129 to Easter 1130. Osbert renders account for the 'old farm' of the counties and for the 'new farm' of the same for 'a half year'. The results of such an analysis are presented in thefollowing paper, where the sheriffs, given by counties, are followed by such discussion and proof as seems necessary. Careful analysis of this source both discloses a considerable number of sheriffs unnoticed in the List, and also enables one to make numerous corrections in the terms of service of many there given. But even in the unique Pipe Roll of Henry I there is much that escaped their notice. The editors made no attempt to supply these from material afforded by charters and chronicles. Thus, for the important period succeeding the Conquest, the gaps in the List are necessarily great. As a work of reference for the preceding period, however, it is much less satisfactory, since it does not attempt to do more than to indicate the sheriffs and their terms in so far as these may be gathered from Domesday and the Pipe Roll of 31 Henry I. This is a useful compilation, especially from the year 1155 onwards, when its editors were able to draw from the uninterrupted succession of the Pipe Rolls. Jennings issued their well-known List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to 1831.
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