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INQUISITIONS POST MORTEM(pieces 3-30)

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Mostly relating to Lancashire.

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Title: INQUISITIONS POST MORTEM(pieces 3-30)
Description: Mostly relating to Lancashire.
Administrative / biographical background: Inquisitions post mortem were taken either before the escheator of the county palatine, or before special commissioners, by virtue of writs of diem clausit extremum, or commissions, emanating from the Chancery of the Duchy; they were returned into the same place.
Publication note(s): For a detailed description of the nature and procedure of these inquisitions post mortem see the introduction to J Rylands, ed, Lancashire Inquisitions returned into the chancery of the Duchy of Lancaster: Stuart Period, Part I. 1-11 James I, (Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, vol III, 1879), which can be found in the finding aids index. Also see the calender in ducatus Lancastriae, vol 1, pp 1-1-7 (London, 1823), which gives the volume number, item number, date by regnal year and name.
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