address

[patrish]

I'm interested to know what this means in this address


"Liberty of the Rolls"
St. Clement Dane, Westminster.

thanks Patrish.

[Valda]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_(division)

Regards

Valda

[patrish]

Thanks Valda,

Have taken a look, now know what a "Liberty" is but still do not know what is meant by "the rolls" as it does not say

Patrish.

[Valda]

Same principle as before - Google

http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/RollsLiberty/index.html

Regards

Valda

[patrish]

Thanks again Valda for those links, I found it  most interesting.

Patrish.

[RJ_Paton]

Vision of britain has further information about Liberty of the Rolls at
Vision of Britain

although if you use google and search for "Liberty of the Rolls" and encase the phrase in inverted commas there are a number of other entries including Old Bailey trial links
as in Google - Liberty of the rolls

[Hackstaple]

The Liberties were areas consisting of one or more parishes  that were exempt from the jurisdiction of county justice courts - they were like small municipalities that were essentially self-governing.
The Liberty of the Rolls roughly occupied the lawyers area presently known as Lincoln's Inn Fields.