Catalogue description Petitioners: ? No Petitioner named Nature of Request: Writ of Richard II,...

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Details of SC 8/21/1023B
Reference: SC 8/21/1023B
Description:
Petitioners: ? No Petitioner named
Nature of request: Writ of Richard II, ordering the Mayor and bailiffs of Lincoln to appear before the king and his council in parliament at Westminster on the Tuesday after the feast of the Purification, with sufficient instruction and information concerning all the matters contained in the petition enclosed in the writ, and with sufficient power and authority under the common seal of the city to answer for themselves and the community of the city concerning everything contained in the petition, and to discuss and come to a final decision on these things, and to do and receive what the king and his council ordains in this matter, on pain of £200.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned: Richard [II], King of England; the Mayor and bailiffs of Lincoln; John [Buckingham (Bokyngham)], Bishop of Lincoln; the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln.
Note: Dated at Westminster, 28 [January] 13 Richard II (1390).
Date: 1390
Related material:

The petition to which this writ relates is SC 8/21/1023A
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 5071
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Latin
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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