Talk:Inquisition post mortem

Title change to "Inquisition post mortem"

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved  Alpha_Quadrant   (talk)  03:42, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Escheat roll → Inquisition post mortem – Maxwell-Lyte, op.cit. Introduction to "Calendars of Inquisitions post mortem", 1904, uses the term "inquisition post mortem" and states they were "formerly known as "escheats". Modern academic usage favours the term Inq.p.m., see e.g. the Winchester University project, op.cit. The last two words of the proposed new name are in a foreign language (i.e. Latin) and it would be preferable if they could therefore be shown in italics. (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 16:53, 17 March 2012 (UTC))
 * Strong support -- Modern usage is always to refer to them as individually as Inquisition Post Mortem, probably due to what is on the spine of the calendars. I have periodically used the original documetns and the almost invariably arrive as flat sheets of parchment bound in a cover, not as a Chancery roll (with membranes sewn end to end) or an Exchequer style roll (where they are bound as a file).  Escheat refers to landed property reverting to the crown or a superior lord for want of heir.  I would guess that the old name derived from the inquisitions being conducted by officals called escheators, but they were more concerned with identifying wardships that the crown could sell or assigning dower to widows.  Peterkingiron (talk) 14:30, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
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Published Calendars
British History Online has fully transcribed versions of 23 volumes of the Inquisitions: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/inquis-post-mortem Only 13 of the vols listed on this page have links to actual copies. Not editing the page itself as I am the editor of BHO, so there would be a Conflict of interest. Technolalia (talk) 14:35, 28 February 2023 (UTC)