Catalogue description Petitioners: Commons of Wildmore and West Fen, Lincolnshire. Addressees: Commons...

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Details of SC 8/150/7490
Reference: SC 8/150/7490
Description:
Petitioners: Commons of Wildmore and West Fen, Lincolnshire.
Addressees: Commons of parliament.
Nature of request: The commons of the marshes of Wildmore and West Fen in Lincolnshire state that since pigs have been pastured in the marshes, the soil dug up and the grass ruined, so that oxen, cattle, horses and sheep can no longer be kept in the marshes over the winter, as they used to. They ask the commons to ask the King that, in consideration of this, and with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and by authority of parliament, to ordain by proclamation in the adjoining vills that no pigs should henceforth be pastured in the marshes between Martinmas and 12 May, on pain of forfeiture of the pigs to the lords of the marshes, and that all pigs there at present should be removed within twenty days; and that this ordinance might last for six years.
Nature of endorsement: [On face] [Let it be sent to the] lords.[On dorse] The King will be advised.
Places mentioned: Wildmore Fen, Lincolnshire; West Fen, Lincolnshire.
Note: From the hand and the language, this petition would seem likely to date from the reigns of Henry IV or Henry V.
Date: [c. 1399-c. 1421]
Related material:

For transcript, see p.193 of PRO 31/7/155
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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