I kl taster Master ader of 01 the Rolls Once Not riot Empty Title In the lie da days s 's before printing the thc old I records were always written In a n form which made mude them literally a roll says the Dearborn Independent dent One sheet of or parchment was used and the next one was sewed to Its bottom edge and the lIe process repeated until a document might consist of a hundred or more sheets or skins as they were then called all sewed sewed- together In one long strip A piece of wood was then fastened fastened fast fast- ened to either end In the time manner of ofa a 1 modern map and the strip rolled up from fromm the bottom Into a great geat roll or hundle hun lp The reader begun began ut at the top slowly unrolling one end as us one rolled up the time other end on another stick sUck I From Irom rout this form rolls came to stand for manuscripts particularly official manuscripts or court records The keeper or master of the rolls was then the time hl high h officer who kept the thc records of the time English courts of Justice To To- du day the president of the chancery division division di di- vision Islon of ot the high court of ot Justice In England ranking racking next to the lord chief Justice of England Englund Is called the master muster of the rolls Originally the time master of the rolls had the time custody of or the records rae rec oros but In the course of time this charge became merely nominal