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- 1509-1516
Account of Henry Hornby, executor of Lady Margaret.
Hornby [Horneby], Henry
Account of Henry Hornby, executor of Lady Margaret.
Hornby [Horneby], Henry
The account of James Clarell, cofferer to the Lady Margaret. (76 pages)
Clarell, James
Accounts of Receipts & Expenses
Accounts of receipts & expenses by Nicholas Metcalfe.
Metcalfe, Nicholas
Accounts of Lady Margaret's executors.
Agreement: inheritance of Henry of Richmond
Agreement, Lady Margaret and Thomas Lord Stanley, in the presence of Edward IV, whereby Stanley undertakes:
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
"An inventary of my ladys goods founde within her closett by her bed chamber."
Bequests of the Lady Margaret, valued. Begins: "To Crists Colege: first a crucifix with mary and John full gilt and enameld [weighing 11 ounces]
Book of receipts and deliverances [sic].
180 pages
An inventory of chapel & other household plate, vestments and service books priced and marked with a note by John Fisher in the margin of their destination. Many of the items were intended for Christ’s and St John’s Colleges. Folio 60 lists the obligations due to Lady Margaret at her death.
The headings are:
Copes, vestments, aulter clothes, palles, and canapes, curtayns for the aulter, vailes and banerclothes, corporas, couchers and other books…. All the books to cristes collage…, masse books, graylles, processyonalles, alter clothes of lynyn, surplesses….
Accounts of Sir Roger Ormeston for expenses on behalf of the Lady Margaret; includes a reference to the making of the sluice at Boston, Lincolnshire; additionally includes a summary in fair hand of some material in the Ormeston's accounts for Coldharbour, London.
Pages 1, 7 and 8 are blank.
Account of the treasurer of the Lady Margaret's chamber, Robert Fremyngham, signed by John Fisher, Henry Hornby and Hugh Ashton. The accounts end on the day of Lady Margaret's death.
Page 4 is blank
Account of Sir Roger Ormeston, knight, of expenses on behalf of Lady Margaret, mostly the repair and equipment of the house of Coldharbour, London and rewards for entertainments, these probably for the retinue of Catherine [Katherine] of Aragon.
Signatures 'Margaret R.' at bottom of pp. 3 & 18
Pages 4, 19 and 20 are blank
The account of Miles Worsley, cofferer to Lady Margaret.
Account of James Morice clerk of works to the Lady Margaret, for the manor at Collyweston, Northamptonshire; also includes accounts for building a new house at Collyweston using timber from Bourne Park, Lincolnshire and freestone. (pp.117-145)
Morice, James
Computus (account) of William Bedell, Treasurer of the Household of the Lady Margaret [Beaufort]. The accounts refer to Lady Margaret's houses in Croydon and Hatfield.
Bedell, William
A contemporary (16th century) copy of the will of Lady Margaret.
Copy of indulgence: Pope Julius II
Copy of a bull of Pope Julius II, dated Rome, 20 May 1504, adressed to Henry VII, giving licence to choose a confessor, and approviing of John Burnell, of the order of Friars Minor 'de observantia'; also similar licence to the Lady Margaret.
Julius II, Pope
Accounts of Miles Worsley cofferer to Lady Margaret, for the household at Croydon & Hatfield.
Croydon, Haling, Fotheringhay & others
Accounts of James Morice for works at Collyweston Croydon, Halyng (Haling), Fotheringhay, Coldharbour, Hatfield, Christ's College.
Morice, James