Obs. [f. checker, CHEQUER sb.1 + ROLL sb.] A roll of persons chargeable to the royal exchequer; CHECK-ROLL. transf. a roll or list of persons.
1461–82. Lib. Niger Edw. IV. (Chaucer Soc., 1876). Yeomen of Chambre iv, Taking for there wages, as yomen of Crowne doe in the Checkerrole.
1486. Act 3 Hen. VII., c. 13. Any seruaunt admytted to be his seruaunte sworne, and his name put into the cheker-roll of his householde.
1541. Act 33 Hen. VIII., c. 12. His maiesties seruauntes in his Chequer-roll.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxxiii. 2. To crosse out ye misbegotten children of Abraham out of the checker roll of the godly.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 302. The king of ordinarie calleth euery second, third or fourth yere for his Checker roll, and bestoweth his mercedes of his owne meere motion.
