roll sb. (2 not pre-Eliz.)
1.
list, register
(fig.)
1H4 III. i. 43
“in the of common
men,”
Ant. V. ii. 180
“i' the roll of
conquest.”
2.
muster-roll 2H4 III. ii. 107.
3.
“master of the rolls,”
keeper of the rolls, patents, and grants that pass
the great seal, and of all records of the Court of
Chancery H8 V. i. 35.