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

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.

Four manuscript volumes, indexed alphabetically by person, are in

E 501/15

E 501/16

E 501/17

E 501/18