Richard Cassidy

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Potters around with pipe rolls, and sometimes memoranda rolls or even receipt and issue rolls. 13th century English government finance, in other words. Also does crosswords and dotes on grandchildren.

Extract from a list of fines and amercements: De Thom’ Gerewy pro murileg’ injuste detento - vi d.
Drawing of an elephant being fed by its keeper, with Latin text explaining that the size of the man demonstrates how big the elephant is.
Elaborate mosaic and marble altar.
Effigy of pope in a glass case.
Page of repulsive record type.
Front cover of The Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris, showing the drawing of Matthew’s death.
Grinning author holding up a slim volume called Approaching Pipe Rolls.
Extract from the miracles of Simon de Montfort: ‘The same man told of a fowl which had been dead, carved up and half eaten. After being measured, it was splendidly brought back to life through the merits of the earl …’
The front cover of a hardback book, Approaching Records of the Household and Wardrobe, by Abigail Armstrong. The book is propped up by volumes of just such records. The cover is mostly plain shiny black, ideal for showing fingerprints.
Line of text from pipe roll: Et in sustentatione elephantis Regis et custodis sui … usque ad festum Sancti Valentini antequam idem eleph’ moreretur.
Lego figures of characters from Jaws next to a very large book.
Boring book cover, mostly plain black.
A section of the 1259 pipe roll - very abbreviated Latin text, recording debts owed to the government.
Painting by Monet, showing a bridge over the Thames, with factory chimneys in the background.
An extract from a biography of F W Maitland, describing him having a monkey in his study.
Cuttings from an index, including Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster and Zombies.
A small piece of parchment, roughly triangular in shape, with untidy writing in a late 13th century hand.
An illuminated manuscript with a fish-human hybrid shown in the margin.
Michaelmas daisies flowering against a brick wall.
Michaelmas daisies, sunshine, brick wall