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List of plate belonging to Lady Margaret, some of which was given to Christ's College. Includes the following entries:

• p.1: Bequestis [bequests] item ij plaine [plain] pottis [pots] gilt ponderyng [weighing] cxxvj uncie [ounces] xxxx £25.4s
  item on[e] gilt standing cuppe [cup] coverde [covered] bequethid [bequeathed] unto Sir Sir John Saynt [Saint] John
  Bequest to Maistress [Mistress] Parker, master [Alexander] Frognall, Master Chamber[lain], Mr Chancelor [Chancellor]
• pp.3-4: of the gyfftis [gifts] Plate given to Christ's College, with one item a gilt spoon, to Master Edward Boothe
• p. 5: Lakkyng [lacking] of there [their] wight [weight]
• p.7: Dyvers platt unpayd [diverse plate unpaid] Items in the hands of or sold to my Lord Chamberlyn [Chamberlain], Master Marney, Sir John Saint John, Master Chauncelor [Chancellor] for my Lord of Exceter [Exeter], Maistres [Mistress] Edeithe [Edith], Master Chamberlaine {Chamberlain], Master Parker.
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Book of receipts and deliverances [sic].
180 pages

• p. 2: receyts at diverse tymes from 1 Jan 1498/9
• p. 26: money receyved the 7 day of February 1501/2 of Miles Worsley of his debet of his last accounts at Candlemas last past.
• p. 31: receyte made by Dr Hugh Assheton and Mr Hugh Olden, 1502/3
• pp. 35-37: Delyverance at diverses tymes by my lady from 14 January 1499/1500 - mostly payments to William Bedell, treasurer of my ladys household
• pp. 38-40: Delyveraunces at certain tymes from 4 January 1499/1500 - payments to Miles Worsley
• pp.46-48: Delyveraunces at diverse tymes from 14 January 1500/1 to Miles Worsley
• pp. 50-52: Money delyvered to the Tresorer for the expenses of her household from 7 February 1501/2 to 17 January 1502/3
• p.53: ...delyvered by the hands of Mr Chauncelor to John Dautre of Southampton 21 August
• pp.55-58: Money delyvered to Myles Worsley from 7 February 1501/2 to 19 January 1502/3
• pp.59-60: Money delyvered to William Bedell from 14 January 1502/3 to 12 January 1503/4
• pp. 61-62: Notes of arrears. Memorandum of mony delyvered unto the foresaid Tresorer [William Bedell] by the hands of Myles Worsley whereoff the said Miles hath alowance in hys account among pryor payments.
• pp.65-67: Money delyvered to Miles Worlsey from 19 January 1502/3 to 10 January 1503/4
• pp69-71: Memorandum of money delyvered to William Bedell from 14 Jan 1503/4 to 11 Dec 1504
• pp.75-78: Memorandum of money delyvered to Miles Worsley from 14 Jan 1503/4 to 21 Dec 1504
• pp. 83-84: Receyts of mony from 17 Jan 1503/4 to 15 Jan 1504/5.
• pp. 85-86: Receyts of mony to may lady Cofferes from 15 Jan 1505/5 to [Jan 1505/6]
• p.87: Somme totall of all mony receyved of Hugh Assheton clerke within the tyme aforesaid £4102.3.7½
• pp.91-93: Memorandum of mony delyvered unto the Tresour of household from 13 Jan 1504/5 to [12 Jan 1505/6] [Item paid by the hands of Nicholas Sanders]
• pp.101-104: Memorandum of mony delyvered unto Myles Worsley from 13 Jan 1504/3 to [December 1505] [ - with other money received by Worsley]
• pp. 107-109: Money delyvered to James Morise for the works from 2 March 1504/5. Includes: item delyvered to the said James [Morice] ... by the hands of Miles Worsley for the bildyng Cristes Colledge in Cambryge. .... Item delyvered a nother tyme... by the hands of Mr Chanceller and Mr Controller .. the foresaid reparations of Christs Colledge... to the hands of Mr Sykelyng [John Sycling, first Master of Christ's College]
• pp.111-114: Receytes of mony from 15 Jan 1503/6 to [January 1506/7][Mostly from Hugh Ashton some by the hands of Miles Worsely. Other payments by Sir Henry Willoughby (money lent), John Turney (for the ward of Jane Godston), William Bedell, Treasurer of the Household, James Mores [Morice], clerk of works
• pp.117-120: Mony delivered unto the tresourer of household from 13 Jan 1505/6 to Jan 1506/7; payments made by the hands of Nicholas Saunder
• pp.123-125: Mony delivered unto Myles Worsley from 13 Jan 1505/6 [to Jan 1506/7]
• pp. 126-129: “The iij day of October the first yer of Kinge Henry the viij [1509]. Memorandum than the money received of M Fotehede as appareth in the thred lefe folowinge ther remaineth the day afore written as appereth in lower ende of the said iijd lefe the parcellis as ensuing” [list of items, numbered 1-15; some have ‘Mettcalf’ in margin. – receipts from John Mundy, goldsmith London, in part payment for plate sold; mony found in the coffers in the custody of Maister Garth Fowler as apperith in con bagge sealed with the seale of Sir John Saynt John… Mony received from Sir Thomas Mawdyslay as well for plate as for other stuff of my lady by him sold. (p.127).
• pp.130-131: Recyeytt of mony from 13 Jan 1506/7 to [December 1507] mostly from Hugh Ashton
• pp.132-133: Memorandum received 12 July [1509] of John Fotehed, Master of Michael House in Cambridge, by my lorde of Rochester, Sir John Saint John and Henry Hornsby, with particulars of payments to the Abbot of Peturborough and John Fotehead, for my ladys use

Inventories of plate, fabrics, foodstuffs, glassware, furniture, vestments, service books and other goods belonging to Lady Margaret Beaufort.

Inventories for the wardrobe of beds of the Lady Margaret.

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

Inventory of robes; also wine sold or given away, glassware, small precious items in Lady Margaret's chamber and closet.
Items listed under the following headings:

• p.3: peticottes
• p.4: mantills, clokes
• p.5: cloth of glod [sic], silkks, furres
• pp.6-7: stuf ina gret standard
• p. 8: in a coffer
• p.9: in my ladys chamber
• pp. 11-14: dyaper and napery
• p.15: glasses
• pp. 16-17: cupbords, pewter, stuf in the closet
• p. 18: stanard in the juell [jewel] house, gardyviaunts, standards
• p.19: coffers in the closet, standards in the bed chamber, standards in the gallery
• p.20: standards in the wardrobe of robes
• pp. 22-23: spices
• p.23: pewter
• pp. 24-28: smalle tresses prysed by Jon Mondy with other.

Also listed:

• p.21: wyne. Item of Gascon Wyne v tonne
• sold to Thomas Lovell 1 tonne
• to my Lord Rochester 1 pipe
• to Sir John Saint John 1 pipe
• to the Abbot of Saint Albans 1 tonne
• to the same Abbot 1 pipe
• to Mr Chamber[lain] 1 pipe
• expended at Hatfeld 1 tonne

Also listed:

• sweet wyne
• item whit wyne of angey remanet 1 pipe
• item in malmesay ij butte
• of ruermerey i butte
• to the Abbot of Saint Albans if whit wyne of anger 1 pipe
• to the same abbot i but of malmesey
• to my Lord of Rochester j but of malmesey
• to the abbot of Saint Albans j but of ruermerey

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.

Items found in London following Lady Margaret's death.

Includes documents related to lands and estates passed onto Lady Margaret through her family, husband(s) and assigns.

Account of Roger Noott [Notte] for £34 received from John Fisher for board, clothes and rent of almshouse of nine poor persons at Hatfield.

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

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.

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, no year, Thomas Thomson Master of Christ's and vicar of Enfield, to Nicholas Metcalfe about enforcing a debt; mentions Archbishop's visitation of Enfield.

Mentioning the priory of St John, Cambridge.
Undated

With the confirmation of the Prior and Convent of Ely, given on 12 March following

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).

Henry Hornby, Cambridge, to John Fisher, about St John's College and the Bishop of Ely's intent to remove the brethren of St John's Hospital to Ely