beadroll

noun

1. (obsolete)A catalogue of people whose souls are to be prayed for.
2. A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series.

   “Dan Chaucer, well of English vndefyled, / On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”

   “It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line.”