inquisitions

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 677 words | Copyright

inquisitions are sworn statements by local juries as to the value and ownership of moveables or property, returned to chancery or exchequer by the escheator, who made the inquiry. They were taken for a wide range of reasons including attainder, proof of royal title, or after death to establish royal rights. Inquisitions were also used to compile land surveys. Most inquisitions were destroyed in 1922 (see public records), but both the chancery and exchequer series were calendared by the Irish record commissioners. Two volumes of the chancery series, for Ulster and Leinster, were published in 1829 and a volume of the exchequer series appeared in 1991.

Raymond Gillespie

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