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- 1832 — In each county an officer was appointed, called the 'Escheator', whose duty it was to seize into the King's hands all lands held in capite of the Crown... — Charles Purton Cooper, An account of the most important public records of Great Britain, and the publications of the Record commissioners: Together with Other Miscellaneous, Historical, and Antiquarian Information
- 1960 — In 1275 there were two chief escheators responsible respectively for the lands north and south of the Trent. Below these two chief officials were the sub-escheators, one for each county, who are often simply called escheators in the Hundred Rolls. — Helen Maud Cam, The Hundred and the Hundred Rolls