Also to the escheator of the county of Kent, riding sometimes with twenty, sometimes with thirty horsemen, for fear of the soldiers and other malefactors obstinately favouring Sir John Oldcastle.
Writ to Edmund Clyre, Escheator of Norfolk, touching the above outlawry.
Therefore by the discretion of the said assigns he was hanged; and order was made to the escheator to enquire diligently of his lands and tenements, goods and chattels, and to make due execution thereof for the lord the King.
The office of escheatorpassed through a period of experimental fluctuation during the first half of the fourteenth century; Edward I.
The King to his beloved and faithful, Simon de Bereford, his escheator on this side Trent, greeting.
Inquisition made at Bishop's Lynn before the escheator of the lord the King on 30 March in the 12th year of the reign of King Edward, son of King Edward, by Robert de Causton.
The King to his beloved and trusty, William Trussel, his escheatoron this side Trent, greeting.
We pray that no man shall be put by your escheator and feodary to find any office unless he holdeth of your Grace in chief or capite above xl.
And order was made to Ralph atte Wyk, escheator of the lord the King, that he should make due execution thereof forthwith for the lord the King, etc.
The King to his beloved and trusty, Richard de Monte Caniso, his escheator in the counties of Essex, Hertford and Middlesex, greeting.
And command is given to Richard de Rodeney, the King's escheator on this side Trent, that he deliver to the same Adam the body of the heir aforesaid, to be married in the form aforesaid.
Ralph atte Wyk, escheator of the lord the King, seized forthwith and made further execution for the lord the King, etc.
Two years after his death his son Walter obtained the King's precept to his escheator to hand over the lands of his mother's inheritance to him, and shortly afterwards he secured his father's also.
A Robert Arden, who had been Escheator to the Crown for Nottingham and Derby under Henry VII.
King Edward accordingly commanded the mayor of London, his escheator in that city, to take inquisition concerning the premises.
The king to the mayor of London, his escheator in the same city.
William Brandon was Escheator of Norfolk and Suffolk from 13th November 33 Hen.
An Escheator was a county officer who certified into the Exchequer the King's escheats, i.
Sometimes the king’s escheator came to investigate into lapsed estates, to ascertain whether any socage tenants had died, and claim the customary fines.
Sometimes the escheator divided the fines levied between himself and the King; in other cases the office was farmed out and the King took a fixed sum leaving the escheator a free hand to do what he pleased.
The Mayor of Norwich received as escheator £10; that is, an equal salary to that which he received as Mayor (Blomefield, iii.
Sometimes several such writs are addressed at one time to the Escheator to inquire into many deaths in the same place.
The general state of the country parts in the county may be gauged by the account given by the King's Escheator for Worcester at this time.
The Escheator put in lists of tenants from whom alone he had received anything, and in the end the jury came to the conclusion that his statement was correct.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escheator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
