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Furst [First] of Thursday the xxix day of November whyn wentt [when went] to London to Master Arsdekyn [Archdeacon] with letteres [letters] furst [first] at grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my drenyke j d.
Item for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iiij d.
Item the smae day at London for my dener and sopper [dinner and supper] iiij d.
Item the same neytt [night] for my bott hayre [boat hire] to Lambeth and fro j d.
Item for my bede [bed] and my dreynke [drink] j d. ob.
Item of fryday [Friday] the xxx day of November for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iij d.
Item the same day at Grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my dreynke [drink] ob.
Summa xv d.
Signed: Jo Roffs.

Account of Roger Noott [Notte] for £26 received from John Fisher for board, clothes and rent of almshouse, of 10 poor persons at Hatfield for 1 year.

Accounts related to Lady Margaret's various households, her estates and those of her executors.

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….

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

Accounts related Lady Margaret's executors.

For the expenses of ix dayes [days] of my lord of Rochester [John Fisher], Mr Hornby with other of my ladies [lady's] freinds [friends] in the chanters houes of Pawles [Chaunter's House, St Paul's] iij li. xix s. vij d.
Signed: Jo. Roffs. Henry Hornby

Grant, Richard [Foxe], Bishop Winchester, Thomas [Ruthall], Bishop Durham, John [Fisher]. Bishop of Rochester, Sir John Cutte to Thomas Thomson Master of Christ's College, Cambridge for lands listed in SJLM/8/2/3/6 to hold of the lords by service. Also includes a power of attorney for Oliver Scales and John Kyllyngworth [Killingworth], y[e]oman, to deliver seisin.
11 July, 8 Hen: VIII
Endorsed to the effect that seisin was delivered by John Kyllyngworth in the presence of 'magister' Nicholas Metcalfe, Archdeacon of Rochester, John Wyatt, William Smythe, clerks, Gerald Croft[es], Francis Berebruar, and other laymen.

List of tapestries from Lady Margaret's furnishings which were sold & paid for. Purchasers include: John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Henry Hornby; Morgan and Lord Mountjoy.

The items are listed as:

• First the historye of paris and helyn sowlde to my lorde of Surrey £22
• Item the storye of Nabingodenesar to my lorde Surray £18
• Item the historye of Saule Episcope Roffensis [Bishop of Rochester]
• Item the vij sages sowld to Mr Sir John Saynt John £11.11.8 etc.

Letter [no year] from Henry Hornby in Cambridge to John Fisher, about keeping Lady Margaret's anniversary [of her death] and the evidence of her intention to found St John's College.

Indulgence and certificate of admission of John Fisher and his brother Ralph into the confraternity of the Hopsital of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas the Martyr of Canterbury 'in villa Roman fundata'. [The Hospital of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas the Martyr de Urbe, Rome; the English Hospice of St Thomas]
London, 1 May 1494

Indenture between Richard, Bishop of Winchester, John, Bishop of Rochester, Sir Charles Somerset, Lord Herberd, Chamberlain to the King [Henry VIII], Sir Thomas Lovell, Sir Henry Marney, Sir John Saint John, Henry Hornby and Hugh Ashton, clerks, executors of the testament of the Lady Margaret and Petur Thoryson [Pietro Torrigiano] of Florence, graver (sic) concerning the tomb of the Lady Margaret.
Signed: per me piero torrigiani schultore fiorentino

Injunctions given by Bishop John Fisher as Visitor to Christ's College 21 July 1510, witnessed by John Bere Apostolic notary. The statutes of Christ's required Visitation to take place in the second half of November, so the actual visitation may have occurred in November 1509.

Letter, undated, from Henry Hornby to John Fisher, concerning repairs needed at Christ's College's estates at Malton, Cambridgeshire & near Lincoln; work on the College itself & payment for an inventory of Lady Margaret's goods made by Humphrey Wallcote (Walcot).

Letter from Perrott Doryn to John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester concerning a patent for her annuity due from Lady Margaret's estate.

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.

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 .

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.

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