This volume is a calendar edition of the judicial proceedings held in Lincoln in January, February, April and October 1341 as part of a nationwide investigation into official misconduct and local disorder. This inquest, conducted by specially appointed royal justices, royal officials and trusted local men, was held in the aftermath of the opening campaign of the Hundred Years War and was intended by Edward III to uncover the reasons why he had not been adequately supported in his first Continental campaign, to quell popular unrest over corrupt officials and the unprecedented royal demands for money and supplies that had been imposed on the local communities during the late 1330s, and to deal with the constant problem of local disorder.
The resulting proceedings at Lincoln provide detailed evidence of the problems posed by unscrupulous royal and local officials and criminals and the limited extent to which royal judicial mechanisms could be used to deal with them. In a more general sense, the proceedings also reveal the impact of the growth of royal government on local communities, a process that had begun in the twelfth century. Finally, this calendar serves as a companion piece to W.S. Thompson’s edition of the 1298 royal inquest into official misconduct in Lincolnshire (Lincoln Record Society Volume 36 for 1944).
The resulting proceedings at Lincoln provide detailed evidence of the problems posed by unscrupulous royal and local officials and criminals and the limited extent to which royal judicial mechanisms could be used to deal with them. In a more general sense, the proceedings also reveal the impact of the growth of royal government on local communities, a process that had begun in the twelfth century. Finally, this calendar serves as a companion piece to W.S. Thompson’s edition of the 1298 royal inquest into official misconduct in Lincolnshire (Lincoln Record Society Volume 36 for 1944).
Volume 78 The 1341 Royal Inquest in Lincolnshire
Editor Bernard William McLane
Date For year ending 31st August 1987
Publication Date 1988
Size 230 x 150 mm
Language English
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. Wolfeboro, New Hampshire 03984-2069, USA
Printer & Binder Short Run Press Ltd, Exeter
Printed on long life paper made to the full American Standard
ISBN 0 901503 51 7
Content Contents, 1 page
Preface, 1 page
List of Abbreviations, 1 page
Introduction, 21 pages
Editorial Note, 3 pages
Calendar, 133 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 49 pages
Index of Subjects, 18 pages
Price on dust jacket £19.50
Dust jacket blurb This volume is a calendar edition of the judicial proceedings held in Lincoln in January, February, April and October 1341 as part of a nationwide investigation into official misconduct and local disorder. This inquest, conducted by specially appointed royal justices, royal officials and trusted local men, was held in the aftermath of the opening campaign of the Hundred Years War and was intended by Edward III to uncover the reasons why he had not been adequately supported in his first Continental campaign, to quell popular unrest over corrupt officials and the unprecedented royal demands for money and supplies that had been imposed on the local communities during the late 1330s, and to deal with the constant problem of local disorder.
The resulting proceedings at Lincoln provide detailed evidence of the problems posed by unscrupulous royal and local officials and criminals and the limited extent to which royal judicial mechanisms could be used to deal with them. In a more general sense, the proceedings also reveal the impact of the growth of royal government on local communities, a process that had begun in the twelfth century. Finally, this calendar serves as a companion piece to W.S. Thompson’s edition of the 1298 royal inquest into official misconduct in Lincolnshire (Lincoln Record Society Volume 36 for 1944).
Editor Bernard William McLane
Date For year ending 31st August 1987
Publication Date 1988
Size 230 x 150 mm
Language English
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. Wolfeboro, New Hampshire 03984-2069, USA
Printer & Binder Short Run Press Ltd, Exeter
Printed on long life paper made to the full American Standard
ISBN 0 901503 51 7
Content Contents, 1 page
Preface, 1 page
List of Abbreviations, 1 page
Introduction, 21 pages
Editorial Note, 3 pages
Calendar, 133 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 49 pages
Index of Subjects, 18 pages
Price on dust jacket £19.50
Dust jacket blurb This volume is a calendar edition of the judicial proceedings held in Lincoln in January, February, April and October 1341 as part of a nationwide investigation into official misconduct and local disorder. This inquest, conducted by specially appointed royal justices, royal officials and trusted local men, was held in the aftermath of the opening campaign of the Hundred Years War and was intended by Edward III to uncover the reasons why he had not been adequately supported in his first Continental campaign, to quell popular unrest over corrupt officials and the unprecedented royal demands for money and supplies that had been imposed on the local communities during the late 1330s, and to deal with the constant problem of local disorder.
The resulting proceedings at Lincoln provide detailed evidence of the problems posed by unscrupulous royal and local officials and criminals and the limited extent to which royal judicial mechanisms could be used to deal with them. In a more general sense, the proceedings also reveal the impact of the growth of royal government on local communities, a process that had begun in the twelfth century. Finally, this calendar serves as a companion piece to W.S. Thompson’s edition of the 1298 royal inquest into official misconduct in Lincolnshire (Lincoln Record Society Volume 36 for 1944).