Rare Collection of Royal Charters to Be Preserved for Future Generations
7th March 2018
The ‘Lincoln Charters Project’, which is a partnership between the University of Lincoln, UK, and the City of Lincoln Council, will see conservators and medieval experts at the University working to preserve, digitally record, and analyse some of the city’s most prized manuscripts.
The collection of royal charters, which belong to the City of Lincoln, span nearly 400 years and include important documents from the reigns 25 kings, including King John, King Richard II and King Henry V.
This will be the first time that the city’s charters have been inspected and repaired since 1788 when Samuel Lyon, the city’s Town Clerk, carried out the work. While some of the documents have been put on display in the city’s Guildhall, many have not been seen since they were placed into the Lincolnshire Archives in 1904.