Letters Patent: Ranulph Pygot et al
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Letters Patent, Edward III to Ranulph Pygot et al for land held of the honour of Richmond in Donington and Swineshead, Lincolnshire.
Letters Patent: Ranulph Pygot et al
Letters Patent, Edward III to Ranulph Pygot et al for land held of the honour of Richmond in Donington and Swineshead, Lincolnshire.
Letters Patent: trustees of Lady Margaret
Letters patent by Henry VII granting trustees of Lady Margaret licence to convey lands in Devon and Somerset to new trustees.
Henry VII, King of England
Marriage settlement: Thomas, Lord Stanley, and Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond
Grant: Thomas, Lord Stanley, to Lady Margaret, of the Castle of Hawarden, Cheshire, and the manors of Bidston, Chesire, Alston, Lancashire, Flintham and Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire; and lands in the Wirral, Prescot and Anlesargh, Lancashire, for term of her life.
Stanley, Thomas, 1st Earl of Derby
Papal bull of Pope Alexander VI for the confirmation of the Feast of Jesus, with indulgences similar to those for Corpus Christi, at the instance of Lady Margaret.
Alexander VI, Pope
Petition to Pope Innocent VIII
A petition to Pope Innocent VIII for indulgences for King Henry VII, his Queen [Elizabeth of York] and his mother [Lady Margaret Beaufort].
Admission of confraternity granted by Anthony, Prior of the Carthusian Order, to Thomas, Lord Stanley, and Margaret [Beaufort] his wife, to the Lady Elianor [Eleanor], deceased, formerly his wife, and to Sir Thomas Stanley and Johanna his wife and their children.
"Datum Carthusie sedente nostro capitulo generali 23 April 1478"
A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret. Attached is a sealed deed of William, Archbishop of Canterbury and papal legate, dated 22 October 1512 at Lambeth, granting probate of the will.
Incorporating her original will (6 June 1508) and the memorandum for founding St John's College.
Stored in a wooden box
Release by Richard Burgeys, son of Thomas Burgeys, of Wokkyng [Woking], Surrey, husbandman, for 75s., to Thomas, Earl of Derby, and Margaret, Countess of Rychemound and Derbie [sic], of his rights in his father's lands in Wokkyng.
Chertesey, 24 March 1486/7
Receipt, by Alice Stanhope from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, for a chain of gold weighing 4oz & £4.6s.8d, in excess of £3.6s.8d. delivered to her by Hugh Ashton, bequeathed by Lady Margaret; in Fisher's hand.
Signed by Alice Stanhope and countersigned, Jo. Roffs.
Stanhope, Alice
Receipt by the King's clerk, John Walles from Lady Margaret's chamberlain, Sir Roger Ormeston, for the fine of £26.13.4 for the fine of knighthood from John Markham.
Signed: Per me Johnnes Walles.
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.
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
Alexander VI, Pope
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.
SJC Accounts: donations & Countess of Devonshire
Part of The Records of St John's College
Accounts of donations received (pp. 1-3) and for money assigned by Henry VIII from Katherine, Countess of Devonshire to Lady Margaret Beaufort's executors (pp 9-15). The last item listed on p.3 is for 6s. paid for a Greek vocabulary bought for the use of the College's library.
Also includes the account of Nicholas Metcalfe for money due to the estate of Lady Margaret.
Inventory of the wardrobe of the beds:
Inventory of furniture & vestments of the Lady Margaret's chapel.
Values of estates formerly belonging to the Lady Margaret, 1519-1520, by George Quarles, King's Auditor [Henry VIII].
Quarles, George
Wardrobe of the Beds: Hatfield
A view of the wardrobe of beds at Hatfield. The items are listed under the headings:
A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret, with certain corrections concerning the gifts to those who should attend her funeral, the dispositions of Maxey [Cambridgeshire] and Torpell [Northamptonshire], and those of the Somerset manors which she has enfeoffed with licence of Edward IV.
Will of Sir Henry Stafford, third husband of Lady Margaret. A later will, dated October 1471, was proved 4 May 1482. The proved version has gifts including a horse to John, Earl of Wiltshire which are not in the 1470 version.
Stafford, Henry