Răg'man's-rōll, n.

n. [As ragman, made from rageman, stands in Piers Plowman for the devil, this tyrannical roll was probably originally stigmatized as the devil's roll. Nares. Perhaps it is a corruption for Bagimont's roll, i. e., a roll or record said to have been made by direction of one Bagimont, a legate from Rome, who, calling before him all the beneficed clergymen in the kingdom, caused them on oath to give in the true value of their benefices, according to which they were afterward taxed by the court of Rome. The old taxation of Bagimont is mentioned in old Scottish laws.] The record, contained on rolls of parchment, of those instruments by which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. See RIGMAROLE. P. Cyc.