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In citing the several Statute Rolls, Parliament Rolls, and Close, Patent, Fine, and Charter Rolls, the Year of the King, the Part, if there are more Rolls than one of the same Year, the Membrane or Skin, and the Number of the Article, where is it so distinguished on the Roll, are particularised; and if it is on the Dorse or Back of the Roll that also is noticed.—The several Membranes or Skins of which of the Rolls are composed, are frequently numbered from the bottom to the top of the Roll, the Membrane at the End being numbered 1, and so progressively up to the beginning of the Roll;—Thus: