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Writ

Legg inn av Paul Mackenzie » 19 aug 2006 04:28:31

Hi All:

Please find below an example of a Writ requesting an Inquisition Post
Mortem. These Writs generally speaking follow a standard format. The
Writ accompanies the actual Inquisition Post Mortem [which I have not
included]. The example may be helpful for anyone attempting to
translate a Writ. Please feel free to use it.


Regards

Paul Mackenzie


Henricus dei gra[cia] Rex Angl[ia] et Franc[ie] et D[omi]n[u]s Hib[eria]
Escaetori suo in com[iti] Glouc[estre] salt[u]m. Quia Georgius Brewes
Armig[us] qui de nob[is] tenuit in capite diem clausit extremum ut
accepimus tibi p[re]cipim[us] q[uo]d om[n]ia t[er]ras et ten[ementa] de
quibus idem Georgius fuit seisitus in d[omi]nico suo ut de feodo in
balliva tua die quo obiit sine dil[aci]one cap[er]eto in man[um]
n[ost]ram et ea salvo custodiri fac[iat] donec aliud inde p[re]cepim[us]
et per sacr[amentu]m p[ro]bo[rum] et leg[alium] homi[num] de d[ic]ta
balliva tua p[er] quod rei veritas melius sciri pot[er]it diligent
inquiras quantum t[er]re et ten[ementa] idem Georgius tenuit nob[is] in
capite tam in d[omi]nico q[ua]m in d[om]inio in d[ic]ta balliva tua
d[ic]to die quo obiit et quantum de aliis et p[er] quod s[er]vic[iu]m et
quantum t[er]re et ten[ementa] illa valeant p[er] annu in om[ni]b[us]
exitib[us] et quo die idem Georgius obiit et quis p[ro]pinquior heres
eius sit et cujus etatis. Et inquisic[i]o[n]em inde distincte et
ap[er]te factam nob[is] in cancellar[ia] n[ost]ram sub sigillo tuo et
sigillis eo[rum] p[er] quos facta fuerit sine dil[aci]one mittatis et
hoc bre[ve]. Johanne duce Bedford', custode Anglia apud Westm[instre]
quarto die ffebruar[us] anno R. sexto


Henry by the grace of God, King of England and France and Lord of
Ireland to his escheator in the county of the Gloucestershire,
greetings. Because George Brewes, squire, who held of us in chief, as
we understand, has died, we command you to take all those lands and
tenements of which the same George was seised in his demense as of fee
in his balliwick on the day which he died, without delay into our hands,
and to keep them safe until you have other orders, and by the oath of
upright and law-worthy men of your said balliwick through whom the truth
of the matter may best be known, you are to make a careful enquiry of
how much land and tenements the same George held of us in chief, both in
demesne and in lordship in your said balliwick on the day he died, and
how much he held from others, and by what service, and how much those
lands and tenements are worth a year in all their issues, and who is the
next heir of the same George on the day he died and of what age. And you
are to send the result of the enquiry on this to our chancery under your
seals and the seals of those by whom it was made and this writ. John,
Duke of Bedford, regent of England at Westminster on the 4th day of
February in the sixth year of our reign.


The National Archives, C138-35

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