| Order Number | CCA-DCc/AS |
| Title | ASSISA SCACCARII |
| Date | 1224-1539 |
| Description | The Assisa Scaccarii contain summarized digests of the accounts of the obedientaries and estate officials, listing receipts, expenses, and occasionally stock. Initially the estates are usually accounted for in groups by their respective monk warden; later each monk warden accounts for each estate individually. Such engrossed estate accounts do not survive beyond 1306, and by then separate accounts for each estate are available in the series of Bedels Rolls. The engrossed obedientaries' accounts survive to 1359, with the treasurer's account now the first item. Only the occasional example survives from the fourteenth century though.
For evaluating receipts in kind, the current values of certain items of agricultural produce are included at the head, initially just corn, oats, barley, peas, and honey, with fodder, cheese, white and black peas, rye, vetch, winter and palm barley, beans, and sacks of sheep's and lamb's wool all added later.
Up to the late 1230s, the accounts are written in three and then four columns on a single membrane. Then (AS 8) they are entered in single columns on membranes stitched head to foot. The rolls are often incomplete in the later thirteenth century and beyond. |
| AdminHistory | [URRY, W.G ], List of 22 accounts, ranging in date from 1224-5 to 1357-8.(3 PP-, typescript). |
| Extent | 27 rolls |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Publication Note | See R.A.L. Smith, 'The Central financial System of Christ Church, Canterbury, 1186-1512', English Historical Review, Vol. 55 (1940), pp.353-69,at pp.360-1 (largely reprinted in R.A.L. Smith, Collected Papers (London, etc., 1947), pp23-4l , at pp. 32-3);
Stone, E., 'Profit and Loss Accountancy at Norwich Cathedral Priory', TRHS, 5th ser. xii (1962), 25-47 |