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The Records of Lady Margaret Beaufort
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The Records of Lady Margaret Beaufort

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  • c 1200-1529

Records and household accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the College’s foundress and mother of King Henry VII.
Also includes letters to John Fisher, catalogued here in Subfonds 7: Executors of Lady Margaret. Many of these do not relate to St John's College

Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby

The Chapell Stuff

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 ...

Tapestry of Hercules

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: Sir John Hussey

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

Hussey, Sir John

Sir Marmaduke Constable to John Fisher

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

Sale: Gotehill, Somerset

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.

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