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Expenses for board and horsemeat beginning 'when my lord sent me to Windsor to the King's Secretary'.
'for my lady' at the foot in Fisher's hand

Expenses visiting Mr Harsdekyn at Gravesend for barge hire, board and lodging. 'For my lady' at foot.
Signed: John Fisher

Exemplification at request of J[ohn Fisher],Bishop of Rochester and Henry Hornby, clerk, of a licence dated 22 May 1472 by which Lady Margaret granted lands in Devon and Somerset to trustees.

Includes: accounts, letters, receipts, payments and correspondence related to Lady Margaret's will and estates and to the foundation of St John's College. Also includes letters of John Fisher.
Lady Margaret appointed as her executors Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester; John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Charles Somerset, Lord Herbert, the King's Chamberlain; Sir Thomas Lovell, Treasurer of the King's Household; Sir Henry Marney, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Sir John St John, her chamberlain; Henry Hornby, her chancellor, and Sir Hugh Ashton, comptroller of her household

Expenses of a dinner for the executors of Lady Margaret, with details of fare and prices; note in hand of John Fisher to `Sir Thomas' [Mawdsley] authorising him to deliver the cost, 55s 1d, to Nicholas Saunder.

Letters and notes between Lady Margaret's executors and between individual executors and others concerning business arising from the terms of her will. Also includes letters to John Fisher which are not related to Lady Margaret's will or to St John's College

Accounts related Lady Margaret's executors.

Includes documents related to Lady Margaret's various households and her jurisdiction over properties and estates.

Part of the accounts of the exectuors of Lady Margaret, containing entries of the sale of plate, arras [sic], bedding etc. to various important persons such as Lord Herbert, Lord Burgavenny, the Bishop of Durham [and others.]. The entries correspond with the full accounts.

Copy of a deed of Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, concerning the disposal of her personal property after death; includes gifts to servants, and to Sir Robert Southwell, Sir Edmund Jenney, Doctor Thomas Cosyn, Doctor John Talbot, and Maister [Master] William Holme; £13.6s.8d. to 'my Lorde of Canterbury and his Officers under him of his jursidiction ordinary.'
6 November 1506

Letter from Edmund Jackson, Fellow of King's Hall to John Fisher, about conceding ground to build part of St John's College. No year

A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret, with marginal notes and headings. [most likely prepared for probate] It is entitled and endorsed as a copy of the will of the Lady Margaret.

• pp. 3-29: copy of will
• pp. 30-38: an estimate of her funeral expenses, amounting to £1033.2s.8d.
• pp. 39-48: a list of her legacies

Draft petition, University of Cambridge to 'my lord treasurer' asking help should anything prejudicial to the University be moved in parliament; note of copies to 'my lord of Oxford' and 'my lord steward'

Draft petition, University of Cambridge to Sir Thomas Lovell, Treasurer of the King's household, telling him of his election as high steward of the University and asking help should anything prejudicial to it be moved in parliament; note of copies to Sir Harry Marney and Sir Thomas Engelfield, omitting the first item

Draft letter, no year, John Fisher to Mr (Robert) Barray about bond he holds delaying entry of first fellows to St John's College

Endorsed is a list of garments and prices (also Fisher's hand?)

Drafts of accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond's executors. Items of expenditure from 3 July 1513 to 16 March 1512/3 are listed on pages 16-20.

Inventory of plate in the cellar, spicery, pantry, ewery [office of the ewerer] and scullery at Colyweston. It begins with:
"first ii greate pottes gilet graven full of porternalions and margarettes with the kings armes inaelde above the two lidis bother ponderying [weighing] ccccxxviij unc. at iij s viij d. le unce

The goods are listed under the headings:

• cellar (pp.2-13)
• spicery (p.14)
• pantry (pp.15-18)
• ewery (pp.19-24)
• scullery (pp. 25-30)