Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Beadroll

Beadroll ({not transcribed}) , noun

(Roman Catholic Church) 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 filed. — 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