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Letter, no year, Ralph Fisher, Scarborough, to John Fisher, complaining of the financial exactions of Sir Walter Griffith; mentions Ralph's brother Robert

A note of the names of those appointed to meet the Pope's ambassadors at Dover and convey them to Dartford. Sent to John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester

Account of Henry Hornby, executor of Lady Margaret.

Letter, Adrian de Castello, Bishop of Bath and Wells, in Rome, to John Fisher, re-introducing Francis the Bishop of Castoria who is visiting England

Letter, no year, Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flamborough to John Fisher, discussing a royal composition concerning the town of Scarborough and the conduct of Ralph Fisher; asks a fellowship for (?John) Shaw son of the bailiff of Hayton, Yorkshire

Henry Hornby at Cambridge to John Fisher, about his wish to take Hornby's servant Henry Day to Rome, and the progress of building at St John's College supervised by the Master and Oliver Scales

Richard Chetham, Prior of Ledes [Leeds], Kent, to John Fisher, about rates of exchange between ducats and stirling, prior to Fisher's journey (not made) to the Lateran council

George, Lord Bergavenny [Abergavenny], Erige, (Eridge?), to John Fisher, about hunting and arrangements for the royal subsidy in Kent

About Fisher's need of horses to travel to the Lateran council

John Renatus, Rome to John Fisher, reporting his efforts to locate a work by John Anianus required by Fisher; has found only the 'Antiquitates' of John Annius of Viterbo. Annius was a noted forger of classical inscriptions and other writings devoted to 'proving' the distinction of his native Viterbo. See R. Weiss 'An Unknown Epigraphic Tract...' in Italian Studies presented to E.R. Vincent, ed. C.P.Brand, K. Foster, U. Limentani (Cambridge, 1962)

Also with the Bishop of Ely's Commissary

Letter, no year, James Stanley Bishop of Ely at Somersham to John Fisher, asking him to send obligations by which Stanley was bound to the Lady Margaret, and saying that he has made Fisher, Bishop Fox of Winchester and Bishop Nykke of Norwich his proctors in the next convocation

The Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Dorset, the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Durham, (the King's councillors), to John Fisher about arrangements to receive the Pope's ambassador

Bill of Hugh Ashton, executor of ' my ladys Grace [the King's] late Graundame', recording that he has deposited certain sums with Doctor Lyshefeld [William Lichfield, d.1517], 'son of the Chanons of Seynt Stephen att Westmynster' and with John Mundy, goldsmith of London.
Signed: Hugh Assheton

Expenses at law by John Wood, solicitor, on behalf of Lady Margaret's executors; signed by Fisher & Hornby.

Expenses of John Wood on behalf of Lady Margaret's executors; payment ratified in Fisher's hand at foot.

Mony layd howt [money laid out] for my ladys [lady's] causis [causes] by me Rowland Baxster [Baxter], clark [clerk].
Item for j copy off a wrytt [of a writ] in the exchequer againys [against] the executors to Webe xij d.
Item for my boytt hyre dyvars tymes [for my boat hire diverse times] goyng for ytt [going for it] ij d.
Item to Mayster Broke [Master Brooke] on the sonday [Sunday] afoyr sant andre daye [before Saint Andrew's day] and ij off [of] the Kyngs [King's] sergents [serjeants] xiij s. iiij d.
Item for my bott hyre goyng and comyng [boat hire going and coming] iij tymes [times] to the Kyngs [King#s] atornay [attorney] and the solicitor and to mayster Brok [Master Brook] and the Kyngs [King's] sergents [serjeants] and to mayster [Master] Mod xij d.
Item for goyng [going] to gyt a byll [get a bill] off Mr Smyth to the exchecer [exchequer] off [of] sommersydshyre [Somersetshire] to Westminster and to London ij tymys [times] to Mr Dene vj d.
Item for goyng [going] to My Wyndhowr on owr [our] Ladys [Lady's] ay for a proviso for my ladys [lady's] lands and to Mr Conysby for consell [counsel] for the same to London and after to dyvors [diverse] other[s] viij d.
Item for goyng [going] iij tymys [times] from Westmynster [Westminster] to Lambeth for my ladys [lady's] wyll [will] to be selyt [sealed] iiij d.
Item for goyng [going] to my lord Chamerlan [Lord Chamberlain] and ij tymys [times] to Mayster [Master] Cartar [Carter] for to mak[e] schotshouys [escutcheons] for my ladys tome [lady's tomb] iiij d.
Item payt [paid] to the wrytarys [writers] at ..... at the syne [sign] off [of] the whyt [white] hart in paternoster towe[r] in party [part] payment for wrytyng [writing] the grat [great] rowyll [roya] consornyng [concerning] sant Johannis [Saint John] xx d.
Summa huius xix s.
Signed: Jo Roffs. pro domina

Drafts of accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond's executors. Items of expenditure from 3 July 1513 to 16 March 1512/3 are listed on pages 16-20.

Expenses paid by Robert Shorton to John Wood including those for enrolments concerning the foundations of Christ's College, Cambridge and SJC (from 1509); a reward of 40 s. to William Tomlyn [Tomlin] SJH master `by desire and mind' of John Fisher, and payment to Roger Nott by Thomas Amyas hosteler at Hatfield, for the almsfolk; signed Henry Hornby.

Brief legal expenses in proceedings by Lady Margaret's executors v. various persons, probably for debt, signed Henry Hornby.