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Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series II, and other Inquisitions, Henry VII...
Catalogue reference: C 142
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C 142
As well as inquisitions post mortem, this series also includes inquisitions ad quod damnum (taken, for example, when the grant of a market or some such privilege was solicited, or where an alienation to the church in mortmain was proposed, to...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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C 142
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series II, and other Inquisitions, Henry VII to Charles I
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1485-c1649
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Description (What the record is about)
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As well as inquisitions post mortem, this series also includes inquisitions ad quod damnum (taken, for example, when the grant of a market or some such privilege was solicited, or where an alienation to the church in mortmain was proposed, to ascertain whether such a grant would prejudice existing interests), inquisitions relating to idiots and lunatics, criminal inquisitions into the goods of felons, and other miscellaneous inquisitions.
Two of the files, known as Cardinal's Bundles (C 142/76 and C 142/77), contain inquisitions concerning religious houses surrendered to Cardinal Wolsey and suppressed to found his colleges, and inquisitions taken into his property after his death on the confiscation of the colleges' lands to the Crown.
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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
additional finding aid ZBOX 1/58/3
Copies of the inquisitions post mortem in this series may be found in: E 150 WARD 7
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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793 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The records in this series were formerly housed in the Rolls Chapel and Rolls House, Chancery Lane.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- There is a hard copy index in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew which includes further information on the series.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For the reign of Henry VII, the records are calendared and indexed in Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, Henry VII, i-iii (HMSO, 1898-1955).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3700/
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