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Robert Lincoln, clerk. Lincoln Robert King and Council in Parliament. clerk Robert...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/122/6059

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This record is about the Robert Lincoln, clerk. Lincoln Robert King and Council in Parliament. clerk Robert... dating from [? 1378] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/122/6059
Date
[? 1378]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Lincoln, clerk.
Name(s)
Lincoln, Robert
Addressees
King and Council in Parliament.
Occupation
clerk
Nature of request
Robert Lincoln requests that he be delivered from prison, where he has been committed following his wrongful arrest and conviction on a spurious trespass charge brought against him following allegations by Burton. He states that he had been summoned before the council to undertake secret business, but had then been arrested by officials of the Abbot of Westminster. He was initially released due to his privy seal letter of protection, but was then re-arrested on Burton's charge and committed to the Marshalsea, contrary to the special protection afforded to him on account of his business.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Westminster
Marshalsea prison, [Surrey].
People mentioned
Henry de Burton, outlaw
Abbot of Westminster.
Note
Dated on the guard to? c. 1381-3, but no firm evidence cited.This petition is clearly concerned with the same events as SC 8/122/6056-7, and, from the greater detail and the internal references, would seem to be the first of this series, being presented to the same Parliament as Lincoln was originally summoned. If the summons is that appearing in CPR 1377-81, pp.252-3, then the parliament in question is probably that of autumn 1378.
Related material

For transcript, see no.40 of PRO 31/7/108

For another petition once attached to this see SC 8/122/6056

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5091
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.252-3 (order to arrest a Robert Lincoln and others and bring them before the council)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208228/

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