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RAGMAN ROLLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 816 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAGMAN ROLLS , the name given to the collection of See also:

instruments by which the See also:nobility and gentry of See also:Scotland were compelled to subscribe See also:allegiance to See also:Edward I. of See also:England between the See also:conference of Norham in May 1291 and the final See also:award in favour of See also:Baliol in See also:November 1292, and again in 1296. Of the former of these records two copies were preservedin the See also:chapter-See also:house at See also:Westminster (now in the See also:Record See also:Office, See also:London), and it has been printed by See also:Rymer (Foedera, ii. 542). Another copy, preserved originally in the See also:Tower of London, is now also in the Record Office. The latter record, containing the various acts of See also:homage and fealty extorted by Edward from Baliol and others in the course of his progress through Scotland in the summer of 1296 and in See also:August at the See also:parliament of See also:Berwick, was published by See also:Prynne from the copy in the Tower and now in the Record Office. Both records were printed by the See also:Bannatyne See also:Club in 1834. The derivation of the word " ragman " has never been satisfactorily explained, but various guesses as to its meaning and a See also:list of examples of its use for legal instruments both in England and Scotland will be found in the See also:preface to the Bannatyne Club's See also:volume, and in See also:Jamieson's Scottisk See also:Dictionary, s.v. " Ragman." The name " ragman See also:roll " survives in the colloquial " rigmarole," a rambling, incoherent statement. The name of " Ragman " has been sometimes confined to the 'record of 1296, of which an See also:account is given in See also:Calendar of Documents See also:relating to Scotland preserved in the Public Record Office, London (1884), vol. ii., Introd., p. See also:xxiv; and as to the See also:seals see p. lii and appendix. RAG-See also:STONE (probably See also:equivalent to " ragged " stone), a name given by some architectural writers to See also:work done with stones which are quarried in thin pieces, such as the See also:Horsham See also:sandstone, See also:Yorkshire stone, the See also:slate stones, &c.; but this is more properly See also:flag or slab work. By rag-stone, near London, is meant an excellent material from the neighbourhood of See also:Maidstone. It is a very hard See also:limestone of bluish-See also:grey See also:colour, and peculiarly suited for See also:medieval work.

It is often laid as uncoursed work, or See also:

random work (see RANDOM), sometimes as random coursed work and sometimes as See also:regular See also:ashlar. The first method, however, is the more picturesque.

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