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Charter issued by the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar
The oldest complete document at The National Archives, this charter recording a grant of land dates back over 1,000 years.
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Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry IV
Catalogue reference: C 137
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C 137
The sixth series of inquisitions post mortem in Series I, dating to the reign of Henry IV.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- C 137
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry IV
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1399-c1413
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Description (What the record is about)
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The sixth series of inquisitions post mortem in Series I, dating to the reign of Henry IV.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Each file is usually made up of the documentation of inquisitions post mortem following the deaths of about twenty persons. The actual number of inquisitions in each file is likely to be rather greater than twenty, given that a tenant might well have held lands in more than one county, in which case separate inquisitions were required to be conducted in each shire concerned. The series is arranged, as far as possible, in chronological order.
Inquisitions made upon the lands of particularly wealthy magnates may take up several files on their own.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Accounts submitted to the Exchequer by the escheators are in E 136
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Copies of inquisitions post mortem sent to the Exchequer are in
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 90 file(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Landed estates
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records in this series were formerly housed in the Tower of London.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The writ of melius sciri - 'to be known better' - an alternative to plenius certiorari and similar writs used to obtain further details, seems to make its first appearance in the reign of Henry IV.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendared and indexed in Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, xviii-xix (HMSO, 1987-1992). The calendar omits the names of escheators and jurors, and extents, though mentioned, are not given in any detail.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3695/
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