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Goods delivered to Robert Hilton, yeoman of the wardrobe for Lady Margaret. The first page of the volume contains the following entry: "This boke made the xxi day of August xvth yere of the reyn of King Henry the VIIth at Coleweston witnesseth that theises parcelles folowyng of the stuf and guds of the Right high and might princesse Margarete Moder unto our said soverayne lord and Countesse of Richemonde and Derby be put and delivered to Robert Hilton yoman of hir wardrobe by him to be surely kept as here aftre appereth.

The items are listed under the headings:

• gownes (pp.3-4)
• kirtles (p.6)
• manteles (p.7)
• furres (pp.9-10)
• all maner of silks (p. 17)
• broken gownes with other stuf (p.24)
• remanents of peces of clothes (p.31)
• frice and cotton (p.36)

Individual items are also listed:

• item: iii grete standarts boudne with iron
• item: a pyle of cloth for the presse with ii curtyns
• item: a canvas for the presse

W (William) Compton, Richmond, to John Fisher requesting his continued favour to James Morice "one of the king's receivers" to obtain for Morice the wardship of Thomas Champneys

William Burbank, secretary to Cardinal Wolsey, to John Fisher, requesting lease of a church belonging to St John's College for his kinsman, surveyor of the King's Stables; bids Fisher farewell 'in our great business'.
Undated, but Whit Monday

Will of Sir Henry Stafford, third husband of Lady Margaret. A later will, dated October 1471, was proved 4 May 1482. The proved version has gifts including a horse to John, Earl of Wiltshire which are not in the 1470 version.

Contemporary copy of the will of Margaret Warton, leaving property to the Carthusians of Coventry, and lands in Warwickshire for a chantry in Christ's College, and naming Lady Margaret as her executor.

A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret, with certain corrections concerning the gifts to those who should attend her funeral, the dispositions of Maxey [Cambridgeshire] and Torpell [Northamptonshire], and those of the Somerset manors which she has enfeoffed with licence of Edward IV.

A view of the wardrobe of beds at Hatfield. The items are listed under the headings:

• pp. 1-2: arrase
• p. 3: sarcenet
• pp.5-7: verdours
• p. 8: square bedds of fyne arras and coutersetts
• pp.11-12: square bedds of counterpoynts of cloth of gold and silk
• p.13: counterpoynt palid of aras cloth gold and silk
• p. 14: counteropoynts of tapestre
• p.15: counterpoynts of vardors
• p.16: curtens of sarcenet; canapes of sarcenet
• p.17: bedds of downe; bolsters of downe
• p.18: pyllows of downe
• p.19: bedds of fethers
• p.20: fustyans, quylts of silke, etc
• p.21: mattress, volster, blanketts, etc
• p.22: coverletts
• p.23: letter maters [leather materials]
• p.24: travesses of sarcenet, clothes of astate
• p.25: cosshens of cloth gold and silk
• p.26: carpetts of dyvers sortes - written at bottom of the page: "Md that all theis carpetts before written be fownd in sauff over the wardop which is supposed to be in John Birds chamber"
• p.27: cheyers of cloth of gold and silk; cheyers of covered lether; coveryng of the chare and litter
• p. 28: stayned sayez; rede sayes, grene sayes; black sayez;
• pp. 29-31: white sayez
  "Store of canvens called ... by Mr Assheton bought"

Values of estates formerly belonging to the Lady Margaret, 1519-1520, by George Quarles, King's Auditor [Henry VIII].

• in the hand of Thomas Baker: "E libro [ut videtur] Scarcarii. Donum ornstissimi viri Jacobi West, Armigeri [Jacob West, Knight]. Bought at Mr Le Neve's auction, who having been employ'd in the exchequer, I've very much doubt, had borrow'd it from thence, with some other manuscripts, in the catalogue for they wer most properly lodge. Mr Le Neve has left such a character behind him, as mver much confirms this suspicion."

Letter, undated, Thomas Hobson to John Fisher about expedition of suits for land; has consulted Fitzjames, attorney of the duchy of Lancaster

Letter (undated) from Thomas Hobson to John Fisher, sending a book of accounts for approval.

Inventory of furniture & vestments of the Lady Margaret's chapel.

• The items are listed under the headings: copes, vestments, aulter clothes, palles and canapes, curtaynes, vayles and baner clothes, coproras, coyssnynes to ley books upon [cushions to lay books upon], cruetts and paxes, cowchers and other books, antyphoners, mass books, grayles, processionales, prikesong books, surplices, coffers ...

Inventory of the wardrobe of the beds:

• pp. 1-3: Arras [the story of Hercules]
• pp. 4-6: Verdonis
• p.8: beds and counterpoynts of cloth of gold and sylver
• pp. 9-10: spervers
• pp.11-16: counterpoynts
• pp.17-18: curtens of sarsenet
• pp.-18-19: beddys of down
• pp.19-21: fetherbeds and bolsters
• p.21: tykys for fetherbedds
• p.22: pylowes of down
• p.23: fustians
• p.25: clothes of estate
• pp.26-27: kosshens of cloth of gold
• pp. 28-29: carpets
• p.31: chayers [chairs]
• p.33: coveryngs of the chare and lytter

Surrender (or release) by Sir John Hussey of an annuity of £5 granted to him by the Lady Margaret, by letters patent, on the manors of Bourne and Deeping, Lincolnshire.
Signature and seal of John Hussey

Expenses at law by John Wood, solicitor, on behalf of Lady Margaret's executors; signed by Fisher & Hornby.

Small trasshe [treasure] left in three coffers at the Chanter's place at St Paul's [London].

Letter, no year, Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flamborough to John Fisher, discussing a royal composition concerning the town of Scarborough and the conduct of Ralph Fisher; asks a fellowship for (?John) Shaw son of the bailiff of Hayton, Yorkshire

Letter under the signet desiring John Fisher and the other executors of the Lady Margaret to reserve to Thomas Farthing, a gentleman of the Royal Chapel an annuity of 10 marks out of the Lordships of Maxey and Torpell, Northamptonshire.

Indenture of sale, dated 11 February 1508/9, by the right excellent Princesse Margarete, Countesse of Richmond and Derby, and moder [sic] to the King, to William Lang, of Caundell purse [Purse-Caundle], Dorset, for £00, of the manore of Gotehill [Goathill], Somerset, with the advowson of the church of Gotehill.
Per me Willm Lang.

Regrets Fisher's illness, says that the queen (Catherine of Aragon) will soon give birth; alludes to secret matters which cannot be written.

Riding expenses of a servant of John Fisher for journeys to Haldnam [Aldenham?], St Albans, Stevenage, Cambridge, Barkway, Ware and Waltham, 18-23 January; and to Barkway, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Foderynga [Fotheringhay] and back, 31 January - 7 February.
Signed: Jo. Roffs. [John Rochester]