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Letter from John Fisher to Sir Thoms Mawdsley, asking him to deliver to Mr Parker £9 the rest of the £19 received by Lady Margaret and due to Parker at the christening of his children.

Letter, no year, John Fisher to William Bolton Prior of St Bartholomew's, Smithfield, asking him to pay to Roger Notte on Fisher's behalf £4 for the almsfolk maintained by Lady Margaret's executors at Hatfield; and [in Fisher's own hand] to inspect the work of Pietro Torrigiano on her tomb at Westminster.
Lambeth 14 June [no year]

Letter from John Fotehede, Michaelhouse, Cambridge, to John Fisher, about Robert Cutlers' wish to retain the provostship of Rotherham College with his fellowship.
Undated

John Fotehede (Fotehed), Master of Michaelhouse, to John Fisher, about surrender of goods of St John's Hospital by the Bishop of Ely's commissary, stone from Barrington, Cambridgeshire, intended for St John's College, boundary problems with King's Hall due to opposition of junior fellows

John Fothed (Fotehed) to John Fisher, about an agreement with King's Hall and progress in building St John's College, and need to put in the Master and to hold divine service there especially since Easter approaches; also Mr Melton and Queen's College

Recommending Robert Harry (?Harris) to a St John's College fellowship. Only dated with day and month

John Renatus, Rome to John Fisher, reporting his efforts to locate a work by John Anianus required by Fisher; has found only the 'Antiquitates' of John Annius of Viterbo. Annius was a noted forger of classical inscriptions and other writings devoted to 'proving' the distinction of his native Viterbo. See R. Weiss 'An Unknown Epigraphic Tract...' in Italian Studies presented to E.R. Vincent, ed. C.P.Brand, K. Foster, U. Limentani (Cambridge, 1962)

The Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Dorset, the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Durham, (the King's councillors), to John Fisher about arrangements to receive the Pope's ambassador

Lease, John Camell [Camil] to Richard Warde of a croft near the highway, Ware, Hertfordshire. [for 10 years]

Lease for twenty years, Robert and Johanna Camil [Camell] to Bartholomew, son of John Warde lands in Heyfield and Brantingscroft, Amwell, Hertfordshire. [This equated to 3 acres plus the croft]

Indenture of a lease by Margaret, Countess of Richmond, reciting Letters Patent of Henry VII, dated 22 May 1487, granting her the third part of the manors of Kendall and Wiresdale, Lancashire and Westmoreland, for life, to Sir Thomas Laurence, of lands in Assheton alias Essheton alias Eston, and Kernford [Carnforth] in Lonesdale, Lancashire, formerly held by William Lyndessey.
8 July 1503. Signed Margaret R., and T. Laurence, knyght.

Brief legal expenses in proceedings by Lady Margaret's executors v. various persons, probably for debt, signed Henry Hornby.

Letter, Geoffrey Blyth[e] Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield, to Henry Hornby, enclosing will of Margaret Warton of Coventry, who bought jointly with her first husband Richard Clerk lands which she has left to the use of Christ's College, Cambridge. The messenger who brought this was probably the Prior of Coventry Charterhouse, who was rewarded in Lady Margaret's household accounts of the year 1507-1508.

Letters of attorney, Lady Margaret to Gilbert Gilpyn [Gilpin] and Thomas Atkyns, to take seisin of lands conveyed to her by Lord Stanley for her life.

Letters of attorney, Lady Margaret to Gilbert Gylpyn [Gilpin] and Thomas Atkyns, to take seisin of lands outlined in SJLM/4/3/1/3.
Signed: M. Rychemond

Letter of attorney, Thomas, Lord Stanley to Richard Parker and Thomas Colbronde, to take seisin from Sir John Mainwaring et al. of the manor of Moldesdale, Flintshire.

Letter to the Lady Margaret informing her that the Pope [Alexander VI] has acceded to a request that she and others [unnamed] shall receive the spiritual benefits of the Jubilee by the visit of a suitable confessor to Rome as their representative at the places of pilgrimage.
Rome, 8 January 1501

Letter, undated, from Henry Hornby to John Fisher, concerning repairs needed at Christ's College's estates at Malton, Cambridgeshire & near Lincoln; work on the College itself & payment for an inventory of Lady Margaret's goods made by Humphrey Wallcote (Walcot).

Letters of attorney from Richard [Hill], Bishop of London, and Richard Skypton, clerk to John Gilbert, William Assheley, William Jenney and Thomas Bury, to take seisin of lands in Devon and Somerset from Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Sir Reginald Brary, Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Richard Page.

Letters of sequestration addressed by Thomas [Bourchier], Archbishop of Canterbury and Papal Legate, to Margaret, Countess of Richmond, Sir William Husee, Thomas Rydley, rector of Clypsham, Lincolnshire, William Fairfax, Reginald Bray and Thomas Rodgers, of the goods of Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, deceased.
Knoll [near Sevenoaks, Kent], 16 September 1482