This Norfolk roll contains two documents produced in association with the fifteenth and tenth granted to Edward III in September 1336. The first three rotulets are a communal assessment for the entire county for an entire fifteenth and tenth so, presumably, they relate to both collections. The heading provides details of the grant and names the commissioners, Constantine de Mortimer and John de Hedersete. The following eleven rotulets contain individual assessments for parishes and hamlets within Freebridge, Mitford and Launditch hundreds for a new assessment of the tax ordered by writ of the king. No explicit reason is provided for the reassessment, however, in Cambridgeshire new orders were issued in connection with the collection of the fifteenth and tenth granted in March 1336. According to these, the men of certain vills had made petition that, 'through a sudden storm of hail and rain on the Sunday before St. Peter's Chains last', some of them had lost all and others part of their growing corn. As a result the vills concerned were to be re-assessed (see |Calendar of Fine Rolls 1327-1337|, 487-8). No similar entry appears in the |Calendar of Fine Rolls| for Norfolk, but the most likely explanation for this reassessment is that a similar disaster had taken place.

The final rotulet is endorsed with the date of return to the Exchequer, 21 January 1338.

An ultraviolet light is required to read some names on the dorse of the first rotulet, otherwise this piece is in very good condition.