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Account of James Morice:
First for the bordyng [boarding] of Maistres [Mistress] Jan by the space of iij wek [weeks] and v dayes [days] at xvj d. the wek [week iiij s. xj d.
Item for th ebordyng [boarding] of M Elyner Massingham by the space of v wek [weeks] iiij daies [days] at vvj d. the wek [week] summa vij s. v d.
Item for the cost of ij men with ij horses by the space of ij daies [days] comyng [coming] and goyng [going] from Roydon to London for the breyng [bringing] the said M Elyner to my lord of Surret at xid the day ech [each] man and horse iiij s.
Item paid to Mayne the paynter [painter] in party [part] payment of vj li. xiij s. iiij d. for the making of ij tables of the pictur[e] of my ladies [lady's] grace lij s. iiij d.
Item in reward to the said James [Morice] towards his bothier [boat hire] ad [and] his cost for his attendyng [attending] abowt [about] such besnes [business] as my ladies [lady's] executors comaunded [commanded] hym [him] to do in London, for Cristes College.
To James Mores [Morrice] xxiij s. viij d.
Signed. Jo. roffs.

Account of John Scott, Fellow: includes expenses for completing Christ's College Chapel and repairs to the manor of Malton, Cambridgeshire.

An account for Lady Margaret's executors:
In primis [first] to Tybyll bor meny [many] writyngs [writings] perteynyng [pertaining] to my lady xx s.
Item to John Bear to wrytyng [writing] for hur [her] testament ij s.
Item to Myddleton [Middleton] for a gown whych [which] he shuld [should] have had at my ladies [lady's] interment not alowed [allowed] in the funeralls [funerals] xxvj s. viij d.
Signed. Jo Roffs.

Furst [First] of Thursday the xxix day of November whyn wentt [when went] to London to Master Arsdekyn [Archdeacon] with letteres [letters] furst [first] at grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my drenyke j d.
Item for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iiij d.
Item the smae day at London for my dener and sopper [dinner and supper] iiij d.
Item the same neytt [night] for my bott hayre [boat hire] to Lambeth and fro j d.
Item for my bede [bed] and my dreynke [drink] j d. ob.
Item of fryday [Friday] the xxx day of November for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iij d.
Item the same day at Grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my dreynke [drink] ob.
Summa xv d.
Signed: Jo Roffs.

Account of expenditure 'for my lady'
Furst [First] of Monday the xxij day of Julii [July] when I ewent to Master Harsdeynke for my dener [dinner[ at Grayffyshend [Gravesend] ij d.
Item for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iij d.
Item the same neytt [night] at London for my sopper [supper] and my bede [bed] iij d.
Item of Tewysday the xxiij day of Julii [July] for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iij d.
Item my dreynke [drink] at j d.
Summa xij d.
Signed: Jo Roffs.

On reverse: Item to the mesynger [messenger] that broght the Kyngs [King's] letters by the hands of Mr Officiall xiij s. iiij d.

Account of Henry Hornby, executor of Lady Margaret.

Account of Roger Noott [Notte] for £33.18.5d, £4, besides 54s delivered by Nicholas Sanders for clothes and his labour for the almsfolk at Hatfield.

Account of Roger Noott [Notte] for £34 received from John Fisher for board, clothes and rent of almshouse of nine poor persons at Hatfield.

Account of Roger Noott [Notte] for £26 received from John Fisher for board, clothes and rent of almshouse, of 10 poor persons at Hatfield for 1 year.

The account of James Clarell, cofferer to the Lady Margaret. (76 pages)

Accounts related to Lady Margaret's various households, her estates and those of her executors.

Accounts of receipts & expenses by Nicholas Metcalfe.

Includes the accounts of James Morice, clerk of works for Lady Margaret Beaufort. Morice was clerk of works at many of Lady Margaret's estates and houses.

Accounts of Lady Margaret's executors.

An account or receipt, " for my lady the Kings [King's] grandame whoe soulle [soul] God pardonne [pardon], account for 'patron' [patterns] for her tomb, amounting to £4.13.4." The document mentions Master Peter [Torregiano] and the Prior of St Bartholomeu
Signed: Jo. Roffs

Letter, Adrian de Castello, Bishop of Bath and Wells, in Rome, to John Fisher, re-introducing Francis the Bishop of Castoria who is visiting England

Agreement between Lady Margaret and Foulk Woodhall [Fulk Woodhull] of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, for his marriage settlement with Elizabeth Webb, one of Lady Margaret's gentlewomen.

Agreement, Lady Margaret and Thomas Lord Stanley, in the presence of Edward IV, whereby Stanley undertakes:

• not to oppose Margaret's settlement of her Somerset estates, [see SJLM/3/2/1]
• to grant her life interest in his estates as before agreed [see SJLM/4/3/2/1 and SJLM/4/3/2/4]
• that Henry, Earl of Richmond [Margaret's son] be allowed a share in the estates of Margaret, Duchess of Somerset if he come to England and be in the king's favour.

Indenture, whereby John Tornay, "Sqwier pf lyncoln schir", agrees to take money from Robert Barnoldeby "of ye cownte of Kente" for land and meadow in Barnoldby field in the manor of north Cateby in Lincolnshire. Agrees to take six shillings eight pence instead of eighteen shillings and eight pence, being sixteen years' arrears in rent. To be paid in two installments, the rent thereafter being sixteen pence. In the parish church of Weldenewton. Seal lost