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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series...
Catalogue reference: E 150
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E 150
This series contains various types of inquisition held before the escheators within their separate escheatries. One copy of the resulting indented inquisition was returned to Chancery; the other was sent to the Exchequer in support of the...
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E 150
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series II, and other Inquisitions, Henry VII to Elizabeth I
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1485-c1603
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains various types of inquisition held before the escheators within their separate escheatries. One copy of the resulting indented inquisition was returned to Chancery; the other was sent to the Exchequer in support of the escheator's accounts.
Most of the records in this series are inquisitions post mortem into whether the deceased had held land direct of the Crown. These duplicate the inquisitions in C 142, but also include unique inquisitions taken on the escheators' own authority.
The escheators also handled inquisitions into idiocy or lunacy, inquisitions ad quod damnum, inquisitions as to the landholdings of the church during vacancies of office, inquisitions as to the goods and property of aliens, traitors and felons, and a variety of miscellaneous inquisitions concerning land or goods in which the Crown had an interest, particularly relating to unauthorised alienation of land, often in mortmain. The series also includes a substantial number of inquisitions into the lands amassed by Cardinal Wolsey for the foundation of his colleges.
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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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1249 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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Catalogued, with E 136, in the Deputy Keeper of Public Records, Tenth Report, App II (London, 1849) Calendared for the reign of Henry VII only in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII (London, 1898-1956)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6595/
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series II, and other Inquisitions, Henry VII to Elizabeth I
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