Final Concords of the Country of Lancaster, From the Original Chirographs, or Feet of Fines Preserved Among the Palatinate of Lancaster Records in the ... of Lancaster, to Henry VII. A. D. 1377-1509

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Excerpt from Final Concords of the Country of Lancaster, From the Original Chirographs, or Feet of Fines Preserved Among the Palatinate of Lancaster Records in the Public Record Office, London, Vol. 3: John, Duke of Lancaster, to Henry VII. A. D. 1377-1509 This, the third volume of Feet of Fines, or Final Concords, for Lancashire, contains abstracts of all the transcripts of Fines pre served amongst the Palatinate of Lancaster Records in the Public Record Oflice.1 As a rule these documents are in very bad condition, owing to disregard for their preservation prior to their removal from Lancaster Castle in The injury has mainly arisen from damp, and may probably be attributed to the wretched parsimony of Queen Elizabeth and a consequent failure to protect from the weather the building in which these and other Palatinate documents were then housed.3 Gonse quently this series of Fines, covering the period from 1377 to 1509, is marred by numerous deficiencies. Not a single Fine remains for the reign of Henry IV., and many years in the subsequent reigns are unrepresented. I have endeavoured to repair this defect to some extent by adding abstracts of any Fines which have been preserved in private mss., and also from the Chancellors' Rolls the record of Fines paid for writs, some of which relate to pleas which were terminated by the levying of a fine. But these additions represent only a trifling addition in comparison to the destruction effected by the negligence of former record keepers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.