The Clerk of the Pipe was a post in the Pipe Office of the English
Exchequer and its successors. The incumbent was responsible for the
pipe rolls on which the government income and expenditure was recorded as credits and debits.
The Dialogus de Scaccario or Dialogue concerning the Exchequer, written in about 1178, details the workings of the Exchequer and gives an early account of how the Pipe rolls were created. The Dialogue was written by
Richard FitzNeal, the son of
Nigel of Ely, who was
Treasurer for both
Henry I and Henry II of England.[1] According to the Dialogue, the Pipe rolls were the responsibility of the clerk of the Treasurer, who was also called the ingrosser of the great roll and, by 1547 at the latest, the Clerk of the Pipe.[2]
The Clerk of the Pipe was a post in the Pipe Office of the English
Exchequer and its successors. The incumbent was responsible for the
pipe rolls on which the government income and expenditure was recorded as credits and debits.
The Dialogus de Scaccario or Dialogue concerning the Exchequer, written in about 1178, details the workings of the Exchequer and gives an early account of how the Pipe rolls were created. The Dialogue was written by
Richard FitzNeal, the son of
Nigel of Ely, who was
Treasurer for both
Henry I and Henry II of England.[1] According to the Dialogue, the Pipe rolls were the responsibility of the clerk of the Treasurer, who was also called the ingrosser of the great roll and, by 1547 at the latest, the Clerk of the Pipe.[2]