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A sheet of expenses of John Wood at Waltham Cross, Ware and Barkway.; at foot in John Fisher's hand: "Rydyng [riding] for John Wodd to Cambridge."

Expenses paid by Robert Shorton to John Wood including those for enrolments concerning the foundations of Christ's College, Cambridge and SJC (from 1509); a reward of 40 s. to William Tomlyn [Tomlin] SJH master `by desire and mind' of John Fisher, and payment to Roger Nott by Thomas Amyas hosteler at Hatfield, for the almsfolk; signed Henry Hornby.

Expenses of John Wood on behalf of the executors of Lady Margaret, in travelling and for the fine for land at Cottenham and the purchase of Thomas Lucas's land at Great Bradley, Suffolk.
Signed: John Woode

For the expenses of ix dayes [days] of my lord of Rochester [John Fisher], Mr Hornby with other of my ladies [lady's] freinds [friends] in the chanters houes of Pawles [Chaunter's House, St Paul's] iij li. xix s. vij d.
Signed: Jo. Roffs. Henry Hornby

Expenses for board and horsemeat beginning 'when my lord sent me to Windsor to the King's Secretary'.
'for my lady' at the foot in Fisher's hand

Expenses visiting Mr Harsdekyn at Gravesend for barge hire, board and lodging. 'For my lady' at foot.
Signed: John Fisher

Exemplification at request of J[ohn Fisher],Bishop of Rochester and Henry Hornby, clerk, of a licence dated 22 May 1472 by which Lady Margaret granted lands in Devon and Somerset to trustees.

Expenses of a dinner for the executors of Lady Margaret, with details of fare and prices; note in hand of John Fisher to `Sir Thomas' [Mawdsley] authorising him to deliver the cost, 55s 1d, to Nicholas Saunder.

Copy of a deed of Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, concerning the disposal of her personal property after death; includes gifts to servants, and to Sir Robert Southwell, Sir Edmund Jenney, Doctor Thomas Cosyn, Doctor John Talbot, and Maister [Master] William Holme; £13.6s.8d. to 'my Lorde of Canterbury and his Officers under him of his jursidiction ordinary.'
6 November 1506

Letter from Edmund Jackson, Fellow of King's Hall to John Fisher, about conceding ground to build part of St John's College. No year

A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret, with marginal notes and headings. [most likely prepared for probate] It is entitled and endorsed as a copy of the will of the Lady Margaret.

• pp. 3-29: copy of will
• pp. 30-38: an estimate of her funeral expenses, amounting to £1033.2s.8d.
• pp. 39-48: a list of her legacies

Draft petition, University of Cambridge to 'my lord treasurer' asking help should anything prejudicial to the University be moved in parliament; note of copies to 'my lord of Oxford' and 'my lord steward'

Draft petition, University of Cambridge to Sir Thomas Lovell, Treasurer of the King's household, telling him of his election as high steward of the University and asking help should anything prejudicial to it be moved in parliament; note of copies to Sir Harry Marney and Sir Thomas Engelfield, omitting the first item

Draft letter, no year, John Fisher to Mr (Robert) Barray about bond he holds delaying entry of first fellows to St John's College

Endorsed is a list of garments and prices (also Fisher's hand?)

Drafts of accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond's executors. Items of expenditure from 3 July 1513 to 16 March 1512/3 are listed on pages 16-20.

Inventory of plate in the cellar, spicery, pantry, ewery [office of the ewerer] and scullery at Colyweston. It begins with:
"first ii greate pottes gilet graven full of porternalions and margarettes with the kings armes inaelde above the two lidis bother ponderying [weighing] ccccxxviij unc. at iij s viij d. le unce

The goods are listed under the headings:

• cellar (pp.2-13)
• spicery (p.14)
• pantry (pp.15-18)
• ewery (pp.19-24)
• scullery (pp. 25-30)

Deed of John the son of William est of Beseby, in which he acknowledges himself to have received from Anycya, the widow of William le Long of North Cateby, six marks by reason of the sale and relaxation of the wards, reliefs, … and heriots of William, which had been in his care (?)

Declaration of uses by Lady Margaret of a grant dated 22 May 1472 related to the performance of her will, namely to pay the debts of Edmund, earl of Richmond and Sir Henry Stafford her former husbands; the cost of translating the bones of Edmund out of Wales where he is buried to the abbey of Bourne, Lincolnshire and for making a tomb for Edmund and herself, and for a tomb at Plesshey, Essex where Stafford's bones lie; for the foundation of a chantry at Bourne and a chantry at Plesshey, with an income of 12 marks a year for the priests serving them; the reversion of the issues to go to her son Henry earl of Richmond

Bawessey, 2 June 1472
Seal of the Countess.
Endorsed: an olde wyll mayd and revoked by my ladyes grace
Slit through by way of cancellation.