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escaetaria

escaëtaria [AN escheterie] , escheatry, escheatorship. 1248 de bonis ‥ Stephani de H. levari faciat ‥ xix li‥. de arreragiis in quibus tenetur regi de officio eschaeterie dum fuit choeschaetor in comitatu illo [Glouc’] Cl 53; 1250 Willelmus de S. amotus est ab officio ~ie in comitatu Norf’ Cl 278; 1265 me ‥ recepisse iiij m. argenti de eschaetria ‥ regis per manus magistri Willelmi de B., eschaetoris ‥ regis in Hibernia Chanc. Misc. 35/14 (8); 1290 venit ad Scaccarium coram ipso [thesaurario] et baronibus, set pro nullo debito eschaeterye (Pet. Parl.) DocExch 59; 1296 commisimus ‥ Petro de Donewyk officium ~ie RScot 27b; 1304 onerantur ‥ in quodam alio compoto eskaeterie (Chanc. Misc.) Doc. Scot. II 429; 1320 cives civitatis London’ non permiserunt ipsum escaetorem officium suum escaetrie exercere infra eandem civitatem RParl I 370a; c1336 quod major ‥ officium escaetrie infra civitatem exerceat MGL I 145.

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