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Volume 108

Petitions from Lincolnshire c.1200 – c.1500

31 May 2020 by

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LRS Vol 108 Jacket
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.
LRS Vol 108 Jacket

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

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