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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.

"Stuff aperteynyng to my Ladies Wardrobe of beddys, 8 September 1509, which remayned unsowled. And Thomas Symson charged with the same."

Inventory of the wardrobe of robes of Lady Margaret.
"Certayn apparelle clothe of golde, silkes, and furres withe other stuff remaynyng in the said wardrobe prised by Olyver Scales."

The inventory begins: "first a gowne of blake velvet..."

• p.7: stuf remaynyng in a grete standard in the galery under the custodie of mastre Fowler of silkes and napery
• p.9: in an other coffer
• p.10: In my Ladies bedechambre
  *p.13: a remembraunce of drapery napery lat[e] apertayng unto my ladies grace

Inventory made at Hatfield by Robert Hylton yoman [yeoman] of my ladies [lady's] wardrobe of her Robes ther[e] from [14 January 1508/9] unto [16 August 1509].
Begins: Blak [black] velvet. Fyrst [first] of the remanes [remains] of the last accompt. [account]. 11 gownes, 1 hoode, 1 typett [tippet], 70 yards of velvet (provision of 24 yards made by Robert Fremyngham), "wherof Delyvered [delivered] to Maistres [Mistress] Mabell [Mabel] Clifford 1 gown lyned [lined] with blak [black] damask, given to hir [her] by my ladies grace..."

Under headings: Blak Satens [black satins], p.3; Tawny saten [satin], 4; Bla[c]k damask 5; tynseld saten [tinselled satin], 6; bla[c]k brevet, 7; tawny velvet, 9; tawny damask, 9; russet damask, russet saten [satin], 10; yelowe [yellow] saten [satin], whyte [white] damask, 11; tawny chamlet, 12; black chamlet, bukram [buckram], 13; silke [silk] remaynyng [remaining], 14.
p. 15. Certayn [certain] apparaill [apparel] of clothe [cloth] remaynyng [remaining], gownes, peticots [petticoats], mantills [mantles], clokes [cloaks]
pp16-19: blank
p.20. avewe [ A view] taken of Robert Hilton for my ladys robis [robes] by William Bedell and James Morice.

Inventory made at Hatfield by Richard Gough, Richard Lyster & Peter Baldewyn; includes copy of the inventory of the beds for Hatfield.

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

Includes: accounts of Roger Fremyngham [Fremingham] treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret.

A contemporary (16th century) copy of the will of Lady Margaret.

A view of the wardrobe of beds at Hatfield. The items are listed under the headings:

• pp. 1-2: arrase
• p. 3: sarcenet
• pp.5-7: verdours
• p. 8: square bedds of fyne arras and coutersetts
• pp.11-12: square bedds of counterpoynts of cloth of gold and silk
• p.13: counterpoynt palid of aras cloth gold and silk
• p. 14: counteropoynts of tapestre
• p.15: counterpoynts of vardors
• p.16: curtens of sarcenet; canapes of sarcenet
• p.17: bedds of downe; bolsters of downe
• p.18: pyllows of downe
• p.19: bedds of fethers
• p.20: fustyans, quylts of silke, etc
• p.21: mattress, volster, blanketts, etc
• p.22: coverletts
• p.23: letter maters [leather materials]
• p.24: travesses of sarcenet, clothes of astate
• p.25: cosshens of cloth gold and silk
• p.26: carpetts of dyvers sortes - written at bottom of the page: "Md that all theis carpetts before written be fownd in sauff over the wardop which is supposed to be in John Birds chamber"
• p.27: cheyers of cloth of gold and silk; cheyers of covered lether; coveryng of the chare and litter
• p. 28: stayned sayez; rede sayes, grene sayes; black sayez;
• pp. 29-31: white sayez
  "Store of canvens called ... by Mr Assheton bought"

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

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.

Includes the accounts of Miles Worsley cofferer or treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret. The accounts are for the households of Hatfield, Colyweston [Collyweston] and Croydon

Account of Miles Worsley treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret. Signature 'Margaret R.' at the bottom of most pages.

• pp.49: blank
• pp. 65-67: similar accounts to 14 Jan 1507/8 to 14 Jan 1508/9 [no signature]
• pp. 69-125: costs and expenses, rewards, with other dyverse [sic] payments... payd by the hands of Miles Worsley: signtures at the bottom of pp. 69-112.

Exemplification at request of J[ohn Fisher],Bishop of Rochester and Henry Hornby, clerk, of a licence dated 22 May 1472 by which Lady Margaret granted lands in Devon and Somerset to trustees.

Includes the accounts of James Morice, clerk of works for Lady Margaret Beaufort. Morice was clerk of works at many of Lady Margaret's estates and houses.

Bequests of the Lady Margaret, valued. Begins: "To Crists Colege: first a crucifix with mary and John full gilt and enameld [weighing 11 ounces]

Letter, Geoffrey Blyth[e] Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield, to Henry Hornby, enclosing will of Margaret Warton of Coventry, who bought jointly with her first husband Richard Clerk lands which she has left to the use of Christ's College, Cambridge. The messenger who brought this was probably the Prior of Coventry Charterhouse, who was rewarded in Lady Margaret's household accounts of the year 1507-1508.