Record revealed
Hoax letter signed by ‘Jack the Ripper’
This is one of hundreds of letters in police files claiming to have been written by the infamous Whitechapel Murderer – otherwise known as 'Jack the Ripper'.
Series
Chancery: Miscellaneous Inquisitions
Catalogue reference: C 145
What's it about?
C 145
A number of the varied inquisitions in this series arose out of rebellions against the king and cases of treason. Some of the inquisitions concerning rebels, from 1265 and later, contain minute returns from every county and hundred of the names...
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C 145
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Miscellaneous Inquisitions
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Date (When the record was created)
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1218-1485
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Description (What the record is about)
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A number of the varied inquisitions in this series arose out of rebellions against the king and cases of treason.
Some of the inquisitions concerning rebels, from 1265 and later, contain minute returns from every county and hundred of the names and possessions of all persons who were implicated in the rebellion of Simon de Montfort.
Other inquisitions, concerning forfeitures from the reign of Richard II, consist of inquisitions as to the possessions of persons against whom treason proceedings were taken in 1388 and 1397. Many of the later inquisitions took place following the rebellions of 1400 and 1403 against Henry IV.
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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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Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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332 file(s)
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- The series is calendared and indexed in Calendar of inquisitions miscellaneous, 1219-1485 (8 vols, HMSO, 1916-2003).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3703/
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