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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series...

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Reference E 149
Title Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry III to Richard III
Date c1216-c1485
Description

Inquisitions post mortem into the landholdings of tenants in chief of the Crown, sent to the Exchequer in support of the escheators' accounts.

These duplicate the inquisitions post mortem in C 132 - C 141, but also include unique inquisitions taken on the escheators' own authority.

Related material

Four manuscript volumes, indexed alphabetically by person, are in E 501/15 E 501/16 E 501/17 E 501/18

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

Latin

Physical description 249 file(s)