Catalogue description Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry III to Richard III

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Reference: E 149
Title: Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry III to Richard III
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.

Date: c1216-c1485
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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)

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