When the normal channels for righting wrongs or asking favours were unavailable, the people of medieval England petitioned their kings - in parliament, council, or chancery. Lincolnshire's inhabitants took full advantage of these opportunities, and their stories are told now through their petitions drawn from The National Archives, edited here.
Throughout the county, over three centuries, Lincolnshire's petitioners sought redress for their wrongs or requested special favours. Petitions were presented by all sections of society: men and women, aristocrats, peasants, merchants, townsmen, bishops, abbots, and other clergy. Their stories illuminate political turmoil, religious and economic change, and the influence of geography. They also show vividly how Lincolnshire's experience was part of the national, and even international, story.
The introduction to this volume sets the documents within England's administrative, legal, political, economic and social framework, and is followed by the texts of almost 200 petitions. These were selected from a much greater possible number for their interest and variety; and each is enhanced by extensive notes.
Volume 108 Petitions from Lincolnshire c.1200 – c.1500
Editors: Gwilym Dodd (Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham) and Alison K. McHardy (formerly Reader in Medieval English History at the University of Nottingham) with Lisa Liddy
Publication Date: 2020 for membership year 2018-2019
Size: 235 x 155 mm
Language: English and medieval French
Publisher: A Lincoln Record Society publication published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620-2731, USA
Website: www.boydellandbrewer.com
Printed & bound TJ International Ltd., Padstow, Cornwall
This publication is printed on acid-free paper
ISBN 978 1 910653 06 7
Errata slip: During the production process for this volume, two footnotes were inadvertently omitted. These are the first two notes on page xix, at the beginning of the Introduction: the numbers (1) and (2) remain in the body of the text but the notes themselves are missing. The missing notes read:
1 An excellent introduction to late medieval kingship and politics is provided by W. M. Ormrod, Political Life in Medieval England, 1300–1450 (Basingstoke, 1995), ch. 4.
2 The Antiquarian Repertory, ed. F. Grose (4 vols, London, 1807–9), I. 314.
Content:
Contents, 1 page
List of Petitions, 7 pages
Acknowledgements, 1 page
Abbreviations, 3 pages
Map of Lincolnshire (showing places mentioned in the petitions), 1 page
Introduction, 46 pages
Editorial Method, 2 pages
Part One. Petitions 1200-1327, 107 pages
Part Two. Petitions 1327-99, 118 pages
Part Three. Petitions 1399-1509, 115 pages
Index, 29 pages