in manufactories, something wound and folded up in a cylindrical form.

in law, signifies a schedule or parchment which may be rolled up by the hand into the form of a pipe.

Muster-Roll, that in which are entered the soldiers of every troop, company, regiment, &c.

ROLLS-OFFICE, is an office in Chancery-lane, London, appointed for the custody of the rolls and records in chancery.

ROLLS OF PARLIAMENT, are the manuscript registers, or rolls of the proceedings of our ancient parliaments, which, be- fore the invention of printing, were all engrossed on parch- ment, and proclaimed openly in every county. In these rolls are also contained a great many decisions of difficult points of law, which were frequently in former times re- ferred to the decision of that high court.

or ROLLER, is also a piece of wood, iron, brass, &c., of a cylindrical form, used in the construction of several machines, and in several works and manufactures.