Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln de Lacy; Countess of Lincoln Alice King and council...

Petitioners

Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln

Name(s)

de Lacy; Countess of Lincoln, Alice

Addressees

King and council

Nature of request

1) The petitioner seeks recovery of all manner of issues from the above manors in Lincolnshire from the first day that they were taken into the king's hands until delivery of the manors was made by the king's writ, including £57 3s 4d from the tenants, taken by Breton and rendered on his account in the exchequer.2) The petitioner seeks the same from the manor of Swaton in Lincolnshire, including sums taken by Breton and rendered on his account in the exchequer.

Nature of endorsement

An order to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that they scrutinise the accounts of the lands held by the sheriff of Lincoln, and if they are as stated in the petition [then] she is to have justice.

Places mentioned

Wainfleet, Lincolnshire

Wrangle, Lincolnshire

Steeping, Lincolnshire

Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire

Thoresby, Lincolnshire

Wath, Lincolnshire

Sutton in Holland (Long Sutton), Lincolnshire

Swaveton (Swaton), Lincolnshire.

People mentioned

Thomas [of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster

Robert Breton, lately Sheriff of Lincoln.

For a related petition see SC 8/56/2752

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.578 (order to restore to Alice issues from various lands in Lincolnshire)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.200 (acknowledgement of debt to Alice by Robert Breton and William de Paunton)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), pp.179-182 (various grants to Alice of manors and lands of her late father and husband, and the reversion of the dower lands of her step-mother)