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FROM HENRY VII. TO CHARLES I. (1485-1649). 



By EDWARD ALEXANDER FRY. 



(Read December 15th, 1898.) 



'AVING already described (Proc. Vol. XVIL, p. i), 

 in the introduction to the Calendar of Dorset 

 Inquisitiones Post Mortem from Henry III. to 

 Richard III., what these documents are, it is 

 unnecessary to do so again here, so that the 

 following remarks will be confined to stating 

 that the Calendar now printed is a continua- 

 tion of the first one, and comes down to the 

 ( time when Inquisitiones were no longer taken ; 



that is to say, to the end of the reign of King 

 Charles I. 



For this period, Henry VII. to Charles L, there are four series 

 of Inquisitiones preserved at the Public Record Office, London, 

 viz. : 



i. The Chancery Series from i Henry VII. to 24 Charles L, 

 indicated in this Calendar by a letter C. 



ii. The Miscellaneous Chancery Series for the reigns of 

 Elizabeth, James I., Charles L (and a few in Charles II.), 

 indicated by a letter M 



