Over forty years have passed since the Latin text of the first Recusant Roll was printed in the eighteenth volume of our Society's publications. To all except those acquainted with Exchequer studies it has remained largely enigmatic. With the aim, therefore, of making more widely available a source of high importance for
the history of recusancy-and in recent years the object of increasing interest among research students-the Society now ventures to continue the series by publishing Recusant Roll No.2 in the vernacular, and, at the same time, in a form concise enough to render the printing of the more bulky rolls of later years a feasible proposition.
