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Receipt by Philip Morgan, physician to Lady Margaret, of 5s 2d, in addition to money paid him for sale of certain 'stuff' by her executors and of 40s for his expense (which include the creation of an inventory for the items sold).
Signed: Hugh Ashton and John Fisher.

Receipt by Reynold [Reginald] Bray, citizen and fremason [freemason OR mason] of London, from Doctor Metcalfe, of 20 s. in part payment.

Receipt for 5 marks from John Wode [Wood] signed by Richard Regnay, for the costs of the examination of the will of Lady Margaret.
23 November 1511

Receipt by Thomas Thomson, Master of Christ's College, from Robert Shorton SJC Master, by the order of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and Dr Hornby of £20.
Signed: per me Thomas Thomson

Receipts and bills of deposit for/from Lady Margaret's executors.

Three page account of the meeting of Henry VII and Philip, King of Castile near Windsor on 31 January 1505. The description may have been written by or for John Fisher for Lady Margaret. The account includes a description of archers shooting for the two Kings. It ends with narrator telling Lady Margaret (`Madame... your grace') that Holt will tell her fuller detail about the decoration of royal rooms and persons .

A copy of the directions of the Lady Margaret concerning the lands left to St John's College, that those in feoffment in Northamptonshire shall revert to the King [Henry VIII] when her will has been performed.

Remise and quitclaim by Richard [Fox], Bishop of Winchester, Thomas [Ruthall], Bishop of Durham, John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, and John Cutte, knight to Thomas Thomson, clerk and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, of all their rights in the lands, holdings, rents, reversions and services which they had in the parish of St Egidius [St Giles], Cambridge, and which were formerly John Smyth's of London, gent[leman].
13 July 8 Hen: VIII

Remise and quitclaim [undated] by the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge, to Thomas Thomson, clerk, and rector of Wellwyn, Hertfordshire, of all their rights in lands etc in the parishes St Giles, Cambridge and of Coton which were formerly Richard [Foxe], Bishop of Winchester's, Thomas [Ruthall] Bishop of Durham's, John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester's and John Cutte's ,knight, and which Thomas had of their gift. And the Master and Fellows will guarantee the lands against John [Islip], Abbot of Westminter and his successors.

Bull of Alexander VI to Lady Margaret. Alexander VI has recently commended to Henry VII Hadrian Castellensis [Adrian de Castello], Domestic Secretary, for the see of Worcester, but it had been promised by his Queen Elizabeth to a certain confessor; Henry VII prposed to appoint Hadrian one of his Proctors at the Curia. The Pope is content, but asks the favour of the Margaret for Hadrian.
St Peter's, Rome, 8 December 1498
Signed: Jo. Mutinen

List of payments, probably by the executors of the Lady Margaret, headed 'Rewardes'. It is a formed of a sheet folded in four containing 91 names followed by payments totalling £200 16s 8d.

Richard Chetham, Prior of Ledes [Leeds], Kent, to John Fisher, about rates of exchange between ducats and stirling, prior to Fisher's journey (not made) to the Lateran council

Richard Henrison Commissary of the Bishop of Ely, to John Fisher, describing the removal [expulsion] of the brethren of St John's Hospital by water to Ely, and surrender of the goods of the house.
No year on letter, but must be 1511

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]

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

Includes: accounts of Roger Fremyngham [Fremingham] treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret.

Includes: accounts of Sir Roger Ormeston for expenses on behalf of Lady Margaret Beaufort.

Documents from Henry VIII to Lady Margaret's executors concerning payments, estates, foundations and lands.

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.

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.