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Volume 49

Records of Some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire 1381-1396. Vol. I The Parts of Kesteven and the Parts of Holland

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The three Lincolnshire peace rolls for the reign of Richard II printed in this volume and in Volume 56 were discovered, as were the Edward III rolls published in Volume 30, by Professor B.H. Putnam. The preservation of these rolls is undoubtedly due to the visit of the King’s Bench to Lincoln in Easter term, 1396. When the bench came into a county all lesser judicial agencies were suspended and their unfinished business brought before a superior court. Undoubtedly the peace rolls were carried back to London with the records of the bench and so preserved. These rolls contain much material that will be of value to legal and economic historians as well as to local historians and to those interested in genealogy.

Adapted from the Preface and the Introduction.
LRS-Vol-49
Volume 49                   Records of Some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire  1381-1396. Vol. I  The Parts of Kesteven and the Parts of Holland

Editor                          Elisabeth G. Kimball M.A. (Mount Holyoke), B.Litt.(Oxon.), Ph.D. (Yale)

Date                            For the year ending 31st August 1953

Publication Date         1955

Size                             255 x 155 mm

Language                     Latin with English commentary

Printer                         The Hereford Times Limited, Hereford

Content                       Preface, 1 page

Table of Contents, 1 page

List of Abbreviations, 1 page

Rules for Transcription and Note of Explanation, 1 page

Introduction, 54 pages

Appendix, 4 pages

The Rolls, 82 pages

Index of Persons and Places, 21 pages

Index of Subjects, 7 pages

Description                 The three Lincolnshire peace rolls for the reign of Richard II printed in this volume and in Volume 56 were discovered, as were the Edward III rolls published in Volume 30, by Professor B.H. Putnam.  The preservation of these rolls is undoubtedly due to the visit of the King’s Bench to Lincoln in Easter term, 1396. When the bench came into a county all lesser judicial agencies were suspended and their unfinished business brought before a superior court.  Undoubtedly the peace rolls were carried back to London with the records of the bench and so preserved. These rolls contain much material that will be of value to legal and economic historians as well as to local historians and to those interested in genealogy.

Adapted from the Preface and the Introduction.
LRS-Vol-49
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