Community of the land and merchants. King and council. The petitioners state that...

Petitioners

Community of the land and merchants.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The petitioners state that the transportation of goods and merchandise by water from Cambridge to Boston, Boston to Lincoln, and Lincoln to the River Trent, is being prevented by the weir (gorce) at Saxilby, where the people have blocked the course of the river, and where goods have to be unloaded and carried by land to Torksey. In the reign of the late King money was given for the repair of a canal there, but nothing has been done about this. They request a remedy, for the repair of this canal.

Nature of endorsement

Edmund de Eyncourt, Adam de Lymbergh, Gilbert de Toutheby and Robert de Malberthorp, three or two of them, to supervise the canal mentioned in the petition between the city of Lincoln and the River Trent, and to inquire by the oath both of knights and of others etc. both within liberties and outside, into when and by whom that canal was made and begun, and for what reason and by what person or persons that ditch was afterwards obstructed, and if it is to the greater advantage of the King and to the people of the adjacent parts that the obstruction should be removed, so that boats can pass along it between the said city and the aforesaid river, so that it be free from obstruction, and if it is of advantage or harm to the King or to others, then to what advantage or what harm to the King or others, and how and in what way, and if anyone is obliged to keep it free from obstruction or not, and how far the obstruction can be removed, and in whose hands those monies that were collected in the time of King Edward, the King's father, from the people of the adjacent parts to remove that obstruction are, and how much was collected for this reason, and into all other articles etc. And the inquisition is to be returned in Chancery, so that the King might do on this etc.

Places mentioned

Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire]

Seynt Botulph (Boston), [Lincolnshire]

Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]

River Trent

Saxilby, [Lincolnshire]

Torksey, [Lincolnshire].

People mentioned

[Edward I], King of England

Edmund de Eyncourt

Adam de Lymbergh

Gilbert de Toutheby

Robert de Malberthorp.

For transcript, see no.23 of PRO 31/7/95