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Stories of injustice, feuding, chicanery and natural disasters told through the words of Lincolnshire people in the Middle Ages. 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

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This edition is warmly welcomed, both for its most helpful introduction and for the provision of such vital source material. For anyone interested in Lincolnshire, or indeed England, in this period, this material offers a fascinating glimpse, wonderfully explained and edited, on what was actually going on, in terms of the concerns of local people as well as the machinery of government and providing justice.--MIDLAND HISTORY This fascinating book sheds light on ordinary and extraordinary life in medieval Lincolnshire.--The Local Historian

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GWILYM DODD is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham, UK. ALISON K. MCHARDY was formerly Reader in Medieval English History at the University of Nottingham.

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