Lincoln
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a Parliament at Lincoln · comitatus of Lincoln · see of Lincoln · the Lincoln MS
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
An English county named as an example of counties with subdivided 'trithings,' and the venue of a 1226 dispute over the sheriff's tourn.
while intermediate divisions existed, exceptionally, in some of the large counties such as York and Lincoln, each of which had three “trithings” or ridings.
In a curious case that came before the justices in 1226, this clause was pleaded as a defence against a charge of impeding the sheriff of Lincoln in the performance of his duties of holding “counties,” “thethings” (or courts of ridings), and wapentakes:
It is true that the men of London were scarcely more jealous of the citizens of Rouen or Paris than of those of York or Lincoln;