Continuing the publication of the annual Recusant Rolls of the Exchequer, the present volume contains an abstract in English of the third and fourth rollsl- the smallest in the Elizabethan series. The method of publication is precisely similar to that initiated in Recusant Roll 1'{o. 2 (volume lvii of the Catholic Record Society)
and the analytical scheme there employed is again set forth below in the "Key to the Abstracts", and also on a loose book-mark. All the various types of entry are here again represented, each in its own constant form, the purport of which has been explained in the Introduction to the former volume, in the section entitled Classification of entries".2 The only noteworthy innovation is the inclusion, in the fourth roll, of "Ex-Sheriffs' Debts", which frequently appear as formal entries in all subsequent rolls.
