Allowance: John Haryson [Harrison]
Expenses of John Haryson from Hatfield to Greenwich by command of Lady Margaret to be with the Queen [Katherine of Aragon]; and his boat hire to Westminster the night before the coronation to `open the back gates'; and boat hire to London again to fetch black cloth for the frater [brotherhood ?]; signed by Thomas Mawdesley.
A signed draft copy of Lady Margaret’s will, annotated with additions and corrections in various hands. It includes a list of her particular benefactions to ‘Cristes College’ and ‘to my lord Prince’ which has been altered to read ‘the kinges grace’. Also includes a paper about the purchase of Bassingbourne in Fordham, Cambridgeshire inserted at front.
A folio paper book of 72 pages.
Pages 1-38: annotated draft will
Pages 39-56: list of legacies
Pages 57-72: blank
Answer in Chancery of Richard [Foxe] Bishop of Winchester explaining that he was not present when Lady Margaret made her will but that he has it on good authority that she left the College lands in the "countees [counties] of Devynshyre [Devonshire] and Somersettshyre [Somerset]".
Fox [Foxe], Richard, Bishop of Winchester
Includes: 2 leases for land in Amell and Ware, Hertfordshire.
Includes: letters patent and a grant for land held in the Honour of Richmond.
"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.