| Alt Ref No | DDSW/Med/9 |
| Acc No | 3742 |
| Title | Inquistion Post Mortem |
| Description | Inquisition held at Altryncham (Altrincham) before Roger Maynwearyng, escheator of the county of Chester, of Mathilda Staveley
Neville: Matilda held four messuages, one toft, 40 acres of land, ten acres of meadow, 20acres of pasture and 16 acres of woodland in Stayley, 'in her desmesne land, freely held as dowry'. To revert to Elizabeth, wife of Ralph Assheton, 'one of the daughters and heiresses of Elizabeth wife of Thomas Assheton and daughter and heiress of Ralph Staveley. Also to revert to George Bothe son and heir of Margaret, once wife of William Bothe and other daughter and heiress of Elizabeth, wife of Thomas. Matilda died on 4 Aug 1503. Witnesses: Hamon Masty, George Bonden
Dated Saturday 7 October 19 Henry VII |
| Date | 7 Oct 1503 |
| Extent | 1 item |
| AdminHistory | An inquisitio post mortem (Latin for ‘inquiry after death’), sometimes called an ‘inquisition post mortem’ or simply an ‘inquisition’, is an official document recording the result of an inquiry following the death of a Crown tenant-in-chief. Such documents and records date from the early thirteenth century, when regional officials called ‘escheators’ were appointed to investigate and evaluate the lands and rights of any deceased tenant, and to ascertain any entitlements of the Crown. The latter might include the sovereign's right to assume wardship if the heir were a minor, aged less than twenty-one, and to extract appropriate revenues (such as profits for a year and a day). The escheators would send their report to the Court of Chancery, with a copy to the Court of Exchequer and, after 1540, also to the Court of Wards. Large numbers of these records, from c.1216 to the mid-seventeenth century, are preserved in the National Archives at Kew (C 132–142, E 149–150, WARD 7). An inquisitio post mortem differs from a modern post-mortem or coroner's inquest in that it is not concerned with the cause of death. Definition from A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000. Peter Beal. Oxford University Press 2008 |
| Related Material | Referenced as ESRCA 12 by Michael Nevell in "Tameside 1066-1700" |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Type | Archive |
| Ref No | GB131.3742/11/9 |
