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Commonalty of Lincolnshire. King and Council. The people of Lincolnshire ask the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/124/6151

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SC 8/124/6151
Date
[c. 1322]
Description
Petitioners
Commonalty of Lincolnshire.
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
The people of Lincolnshire ask the king to enquire into a series of complaints against Robert Breton, the former sheriff of Lincolnshire, his family and his other ministers.1) That they imprisoned various people on false charges of trespass, extracting fines and ransoms and taking goods and chattels from their houses.2) That they took carts and horses in which to transport the goods of the Earl of Lancaster, but took too many and made the owners pay fines to recover them, to the value of £100.3) That they took goods from people for their own use without payment, claiming that they were for the provisioning of Lincoln and Bolingbroke castles.4) That they seized all manner of goods from the people, claiming tat they had received a commission from the king.5) That when the king ordered the sheriff to summon the people of the county to him at Coventry, they gathered at Lincoln before Peter Breton, who then told them not to go. Instead they were ordered to pay large fines.6) [Incomplete entry regarding the keeping of the peace and selecting armed men to assist the king].
Nature of endorsement
[on face] Benyngworth.[on dorse] Concerning the transgressions and oppressions contained in this petition the king has assigned justices in chancery ... to enquire into the truth and to do justice ....
Places mentioned
Lincolnshire
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]
Bolingbroke, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
Robert Breton, former sheriff of Lincolnshire
Peter Breton, brother of Robert Breton
Guy Breton, brother of Robert Breton
William Breton, brother of Robert Breton
Roger Breton, brother of Robert Breton
Ralph Breton, brother of Robert Breton
[Thomas of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster.
Note
Robert le Breton served as sheriff of Lincolnshire between 29 January 1322 and 1 May 1322, and the petition presumably dates to soon after his dismissal. The Bretons were in trouble again in July 1323, when a commission of oyer et terminer was issued into a complaint by the Earl of Kent that the Bretons and others had attacked his close at Wold Newton (CPR 1321-4, pp.316-7).
Related material

For a separate petition relating to the petitioners' failure to attend the king at Coventry see SC 8/205/10224

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5299
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.439 (order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire superseding earlier orders to arrest people not answering the king's summons)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208321/

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