Medieval source material on the internet: Inquisitions post mortem

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• The Inquisitions Post-Mortem Project (University of Winchester)
  Project to digitise the existing calendars of inquisitions post mortem and make them freely available online. In the longer term it is hoped to add further detail to the text of the older calendars. The project's website includes detailed information on the documents themselves, their administrative use and their historical importance.
• Inquisitions Post Mortem in Common Law Records (WAALT: the Wiki for the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Website)
  Listing, in progress, of common law cases involving inquisitions post mortem, between the 13th and 16th centuries, with links to photographs of the records.
• [J. Caley and J. Bayley, eds,] Calendarium inquisitionum post mortem sive escaetarum ... volume 1. [1216-1327] (1806) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
  Record Commission. Lists, including brief details of property. Superseded by subsequent calendars.
• [J. Caley and J. Bayley, eds,] Calendarium inquisitionum post mortem sive escaetarum ... volume 2. [1327-1377] (1808) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
  Record Commission. Lists, including brief details of property. Superseded by subsequent calendars.
• [J. Caley and J. Bayley, eds,] Calendarium inquisitionum post mortem sive escaetarum ... volume 3. [1377-1413] (1821) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
  Record Commission. Lists, including brief details of property. Superseded by subsequent calendars.
• [J. Caley and J. Bayley, eds,] Calendarium inquisitionum post mortem sive escaetarum ... volume 4. [1413-1485] and Appendix [1216-1625] (1828) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
  Record Commission. Lists, including brief details of property. Superseded by subsequent calendars.
• Charles Roberts, ed., Calendarium Genealogicum. Henry III and Edward I. (1865) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Volume 1 of 2. Latin abstracts of inquisitions post mortem and related records.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• Charles Roberts, ed., Calendarium Genealogicum. Henry III and Edward I. (1865) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Volume 2 of 2. Latin abstracts of inquisitions post mortem and related records.
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 1. Henry III. [1236-1272] (1904) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ; British History Online.]
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 2. Edward I. [1272-1291] (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: British History Online.]
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 3. Edward I. [1291-1300] (1912) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 4. Edward I. [1300-1307] (1913) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 5. Edward II. [1307-1316] (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 6. Edward II. [1316-1327] (1910) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 7. Edward III. [1327-1336] (1909) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 8. Edward III. [1336-1347] (1913) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 9. Edward III. [1347-1352] (1916) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 11. Edward III. [1361-1365] (1935) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office ... volume 12. Edward III. [1365-1370] (1938) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. Henry VII. Volume 1. (1898) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
• Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. Henry VII. Volume 2. (1915) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office. Henry VII. Volume 3. (1955) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• Edward Alexander Fry, A Calendar of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Cornwall and Devon from Henry III to Charles I. (1216-1649). (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Index of the names of those for whom inquisitions were taken.
• [Cornwall and Devon] The Tapley-Soper Collection of Inquisitions Post Mortem. (GENUKI)
  Index to the names of those for whom inquisitions were taken, from typescript abstracts held at the Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter. Covers Cornwall. Devon and a few inquisitions from elsewhere, 13th-17th centuries.
• Edward Alexander Fry, A Calendar of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Cornwall and Devon from Henry III to Charles I. (1216-1649). (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Index of the names of those for whom inquisitions were taken.
• [Cornwall and Devon] The Tapley-Soper Collection of Inquisitions Post Mortem. (GENUKI)
  Index to the names of those for whom inquisitions were taken, from typescript abstracts held at the Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter. Covers Cornwall. Devon and a few inquisitions from elsewhere, 13th-17th centuries.
• Durham records: Cursitor's records: Inquisitions post mortem etc. [1438-Charles I] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Brief English abstracts, arranged chronologically for each initial letter of the surname. Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix, pp.310-542 (London, 1883).
• Durham records: Cursitor's records: Inquisitions post mortem etc. [earliest-1438] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Brief English abstracts, arranged chronologically for each initial letter of the surname. Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix I, pp.153-282 (London, 1885).
• Sidney J. Madge, ed., Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Gloucestershire returned into the court of Chancery during the Plantagenet period. Part 4. 20 Henry III to 29 Edward I. 1236-1300. (1903) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  British Record Society, volume 30.
• W. P. W. Phillimore and George S. Fry, eds, Abstracts of Gloucestershire Inquisitiones Post Mortem returned into the court of Chancery in the reign of King Charles I. Part 1. 1-11 Charles I. 1625-1636. (1893) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  British Record Society, volume 9.
• W. P. W. Phillimore and George S. Fry, eds, Abstracts of Gloucestershire Inquisitiones Post Mortem returned into the court of Chancery in the reign of King Charles I. Part 2. 12-18 Charles I. 1637-1642. (1895) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  British Record Society, volume 13.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• Edw. Alexander Fry, ed., Abstracts of Gloucestershire Inquisitiones Post Mortem returned into the court of Chancery in the reign of King Charles I. Miscellaneous Series. Part 3. (1899) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  British Record Society, volume 21. Covers 1625-1642.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• William Langton, ed., Abstracts of inquisitions post mortem made by Christopher Towneley and Roger Dodsworth. Volume 1. (1875) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Chetham Society, volume 95. Latin abstracts of Lancashire inquisitions, covering 1423-1637.
• William Langton, ed., Abstracts of inquisitions post mortem made by Christopher Towneley and Roger Dodsworth. Volume 2. (1876) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Chetham Society, volume 99. Latin abstracts of Lancashire inquisitions, covering 1423-1637.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• J. Paul Rylands, ed., Lancashire inquisitions returned into the chancery of the duchy of Lancaster ... Stuart period, part 3. 20-23 James I. (1888) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, volume 17. English abstracts.
• George S. Fry, Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to the city of London, ... Part I. 1 Henry VII to 3 Elizabeth, 1485-1561. (1896) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  British Record Society, Index Library volume 15.
  [Other copies at: British History Online.]
• Sidney J. Madge, ed., Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the city of London ... during the Tudor period. Part II. 4-19 Elizabeth, 1561-1577. (1901) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  British Record Society, Index Library volume 26.
• Edward Alexander Fry, ed., Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the city of London ... during the Tudor period. Part III. 19-45 Elizabeth, 1577-1603. (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  British Record Society, Index Library volume 36. Includes inquisitions omitted from parts 1 and 2.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive; British History Online.]
• F. W. T. Attree, ed., Notes of post mortem inquisitions taken in Sussex. 1 Henry VII to 1649 and after. (1912) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Sussex Record Society, volume 14.
• Edw. Alex. Fry, ed, Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem, returned into the court of Chancery in the reigns of Henry III, Edward I, and Edward II. A.D. 1242-1326. (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  British Record Society, volume 37. English abstracts.
• Ethel Stokes, Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem returned into the court of Chancery in the reign of King Edward III. A.D. 1327-1377. (1914) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  British Record Society, volume 48. English abstracts.
• George S. Fry and Edw. Alex. Fry, eds, Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem returned into the court of Chancery in the reign of King Charles I (1901) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  British Record Society, volume 23. English abstracts, covering 1625-1649.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• W. Paley Baildon and J. W. Clay, eds, Inquisitions post mortem relating to Yorkshire, of the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V. (1918) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Yorkshire Archaeological Society, record series, volume 59.
• John Sykes, A Catalogue of the Inquisitions Post Mortem for the County of York, for the Reigns of James I. and Charles I., in the Courts of Chancery and of Wards and Liveries. (1885) (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
  In Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association, Record Series volume 1.