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"An inventary of my ladys goods founde within her closett by her bed chamber."
"An inventary of my ladys goods founde within her closett by her bed chamber."
Bequests of Plate: Christ's College
List of plate belonging to Lady Margaret, some of which was given to Christ's College. Includes the following entries:
Bequests of the Lady Margaret, valued. Begins: "To Crists Colege: first a crucifix with mary and John full gilt and enameld [weighing 11 ounces]
Bill of Hugh Ashton, executor of ' my ladys Grace [the King's] late Graundame', recording that he has deposited certain sums with Doctor Lyshefeld [William Lichfield, d.1517], 'son of the Chanons of Seynt Stephen att Westmynster' and with John Mundy, goldsmith of London.
Signed: Hugh Assheton
Ashton, Hugh
Bill of Expenses: Thomas Symson
Receipted bill of expenses of Thomas Symson for transport and security of the wardrobe stuff [sic] of Lady Margaret from Hatfield to London; signed by Symson, John Fisher and Hugh Ashton.
Thys [this] bill witnessyth [witnessed] made the xiiij day of October for alowens [allowence] of my bord [board] waages for ij wekes [weeks] and j day after xviij d. a wek [week] and for bote hyr [boat hire] for iij days iiij d.
per me Thomas Mawdislay.
Countersigned: Jo Roffs.
Item a lowens [allowence] for Morgan Mores first for Weynsday [Wednesday] at nyght [night] when my lord departed for hys soper [his supper] ij d.
Item thrusday [Thursday] iiij d. fryday [Fridya] iij d. setreday [Saturday] iij d. Sunday iij d. and thys weke [this week] last in commons xviij d. and for bote hyre [boat hire] vj d at diverse tymys [times] to my lord Tresurer [Treasurer].
Summa iij s. xij d.
SignedL Morgan Mores
Countersigned: Jo. Roffs.
Bond of Lady Elizabeth Scrope, widow of Sir Henry Wentworth, to Lady Margaret, to abide by her arbitration in a dispute with Richard Wentworth.
Signed: Elysabeth Scrope
Scrope, Elizabeth
Bond of Henry Stanhope, of Houghton, Nottinghamshire, to the Lady Margaret in £200, to keep the award made by Robert Urmeston, Robert Brudenell and William Cutlers, serjeants at law, concerning the title and possession of the Manor of Houghton, now in variance betwixt [between] Henry Stanehop [Stanhope] and Edward Stanehop [Stanhope], and to bring to Collyweston evidence, charters and muniments.
Bond of John Lee of Revesby to Robert Pygott of Grymesby [Little Grimsby]
12 November, 13 Henry VI
Bond of John Manby of Bisshopnorton in the county of Lincoln, "gentilman", in which he acknowledges himself to owe Leo, lord of Welles, forty pounds
Bond of Robert Pygott, husbandman, wherein he promises to pay Richard Gyeresbye (?), chapman, one hundred marks at Michaelmas next following. The feast of St, Laurence, 2 Henry VI
Bond: Peter Thoryson [Torrigiano]
Bond of Peter Thoryson [Pietro Torrigiano] graver, Leonard Friscobald, and John Cavalcant acknowledging their obligation to pay the executors of the Lady Margaret fifty pounds before 1 February next following.
23 November, 3 Hen: VIII
Signed: "Pietro Torrigiani. schultore fiorentino" "per me leonardus frescobald". "per me giovanni caualle per me"
Bond of Richard Wentworth to Lady Margaret, to abide by her arbitration in a dispute with Lady Elizabeth Scrope.
Signature and seal of: Rychard Wentworth
Dorse: Lady Scrope, who married as her second husband Sir Henry Wentworth, of Nettlestead, Suffolk.
Wentworth, Richard
Bond of Roger Bell, Throuthorpe, Yorkshire yeoman, to the Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond, for the payment of 32 s. 9 d. at the feast of Corpus Christi and the Exaltation of the Cross; with a note of receipt by Hugh Ashton.
Book of receipts and deliverances [sic].
180 pages
An inventory of chapel & other household plate, vestments and service books priced and marked with a note by John Fisher in the margin of their destination. Many of the items were intended for Christ’s and St John’s Colleges. Folio 60 lists the obligations due to Lady Margaret at her death.
The headings are:
Copes, vestments, aulter clothes, palles, and canapes, curtayns for the aulter, vailes and banerclothes, corporas, couchers and other books…. All the books to cristes collage…, masse books, graylles, processyonalles, alter clothes of lynyn, surplesses….
Accounts of Sir Roger Ormeston for expenses on behalf of the Lady Margaret; includes a reference to the making of the sluice at Boston, Lincolnshire; additionally includes a summary in fair hand of some material in the Ormeston's accounts for Coldharbour, London.
Pages 1, 7 and 8 are blank.
Account of the treasurer of the Lady Margaret's chamber, Robert Fremyngham, signed by John Fisher, Henry Hornby and Hugh Ashton. The accounts end on the day of Lady Margaret's death.
Page 4 is blank
Charter: Lady Margaret (Cambridge)
Indented charter of the Lady Magaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Cambridge with the appointment of John Fisher as the first occupant of the post, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]
Charter: Lady Margaret (Oxford)
Indented charter of the Lady Margaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Oxford, with the appointment of John Roper as first reader, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]