Show M Master of the Rolls Once Not Empty Title In the days before printing the old records were here always ahva's written in a form which made them literally a roll says the Dearborn Independent One sheet of parchment was used and the next one was sewed to Its bottom edge and the process repeated until a document might consist of a hundred or more sheets or skins as they were then called all sewed together In one long strip A piece of wood was then fast fast- ened to either end In the manner ofa of ofa ofa a modern map and the strip rolled up from the bottom into a great roll or bundle The reader began beJan at the top slowly unrolling one end as ns one rolled up the other end on another stick From this form rolls came to stand for tor m manuscripts particularly official manuscripts or court records The keeper or master of the rolls was then the high officer who kept the records of the English courts of Justice TodAy Today Today To To- day the the president of the chancery division dl- dl di dl- vision of the high court of pf Justice In England ranking next to the lord chief Justice of England Is called the master of the rolls Originally the master of the rolls had the he custody of the records record record rec rec- rec- rec ord but In the tho course of ot time this charge became merely nominal |