ragman roll


noun

Usually ragman rolls. a series of documents in which the Scottish nobles acknowledged their allegiance to Edward I of England, 1291–92 and 1296.
Obsolete. a long list or record; register; catalogue.

Origin of ragman roll

1350–1400; Middle English rageman rolle, of uncertain origin

British Dictionary definitions for ragman rolls

Ragman rolls
/ (ˈræɡmən) /

pl n

history a set of parchment rolls of 1296 enumerating the Scottish nobles who owed allegiance to Edward I of England, important as the only full list of the nobility of Scotland in the later 13th century

Word Origin for Ragman rolls

C18: from obsolete ragman in the sense: statute, roll, list