Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Beadroll \Bead"roll`\, n. (R. C. Ch.)
   A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain
   number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads
   of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.

         On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field.
                                                  --Spenser.

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