Not an account of 1200 but the manual for reading its records: how the Exchequer sat at Easter and Michaelmas, how sheriffs accounted and were tallied, what the pipe rolls record, and the rules on danegeld, scutage, murder fines, the forest, Jews and the king's debtors. Written by the treasurer twenty years earlier, it describes the machine that produced the pipe roll of 2 John and the fines of 1200. Essential background for England's money.
About this source
- Title
- Dialogus de Scaccario
- Author
- Richard fitz Nigel
- Author's dates
- about 1130 to 1198; treasurer of England, bishop of London from 1189
- Written
- about 1177 to 1179
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- the working of the English Exchequer about 1178
- Kind
- Administrative records
The 1902 Oxford edition is public domain but was not located online in this pass; the Latin is also printed in Stubbs's Select Charters. Emilie Amt's 2007 Oxford Medieval Texts revision is under copyright.
Where to read it
Editions
- A. Hughes, C. G. Crump and C. Johnson (eds), De necessariis observantiis scaccarii dialogus, commonly called Dialogus de Scaccario (Oxford, 1902) (not freely online)
- C. Johnson (ed. and trans.), Dialogus de Scaccario, revised by F. E. L. Carter and D. E. Greenway, Oxford Medieval Texts (1983), not free (not freely online)