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
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].
Indulgence: Pope Innocent VIII
Copy of indulgence from Pope Innocent VIII to Henry VII and his Queen Elizabeth [and his mother].
Rome, 13 August 1488.
Innocent VIII, Pope
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
Grant: Robert Stillington et al.
Grant by Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Richard Page, by licence of the King [Henry VII] given by letters patent of 10 November 1490, to Richard [Hill], Bishop of London, and Richard Skypton, clerk, of [lands in Devon and Somerset] with letters of attorney to Hugh Oldeham, clerk, John Jakson and Nicholas Compton.
Letters of attorney: John Gilbert et al
Letters of attorney from Richard [Hill], Bishop of London, and Richard Skypton, clerk to John Gilbert, William Assheley, William Jenney and Thomas Bury, to take seisin of lands in Devon and Somerset from Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Sir Reginald Brary, Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Richard Page.
Grant: lands in Devon and Somerset
Grant by Richard [Hill], Bishop of London, and Richard Skipton, clerk, to Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, John [Morton], Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard [Fox], Bishop of Exeter, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Sir Giles Daubeney, of Daubeney, Sir William Huse, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Oliver King, clerk, the King's secretary, David William, clerk, Keeper of the Roles of Chancery, William Smyth, clerk, Dean of the free chapel of St Stephen within the palace of Westminster, Sir Thomas Lovell, counsellor, and Richard Emson, attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster of the [lands in Devon and Somerset] which by the Letters patent of 10 November 1490, Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Richard Page, were licenced to convey to them for this purpose. With appointment of Hugh Oldeham, clerk, John Jakson and Nicholas Compton as attorneys.
16 December 1490.
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
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
Grant by Gratian de Villanova, warden of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit, Rome, to the Lady Margaret, who has been admitted to the confraternity, by her proxy, John Harington, LL.D, of the right to choose her confessor.
Rome, 22 September 1495
Lady Margaret Professorship (Cambridge)
Includes documents related to the foundation of Lady Margaret's Professorship in Cambridge.
Lady Margaret Professorship (Oxford)
Documents related to the foundation of Lady Margaret's Professorship in Oxford
Oxford and Cambridge Universities
Includes documents related to the foundations in Oxford and Cambridge; does not include St John's College
Includes document related to Lady Margaret's foundations in Oxford.
Includes documents related to Lady Margaret's foundations within the University of Cambridge, does not include St John's College.
Letters patent of King Henry VII, giving permission to the Lady Margaret or her executors to found a readership [professorship] in the University of Oxford, to the glory and honour of the Holy Trinity.
Westminster, 1 March 12 Hen: VII [1497]
Letters patent of King Henry VII giving permission to the Lady Margaret or her executors to found a readership [professorship] in the University of Cambridge, to the glory and honour of the Holy Trinity
Westminster, 1 March 12 Hen: VII [1497]
Grant of confraternity by brother Donald Gylbert [Gilbert], Commissary in England of brother Francis Sagarra, Vicar-General of the Observants the Lady Margaret.
Dated: at the Convent at Grenewych [Greenwich], 10 May 1497
Signed: Frater Donaldus Reverendi patris vicarii generali commissarius manu propria
Endorsed: a letter of fraternyte [fraternity] of all the Relygyous [religious] of Freres Mynors [friar minor]
Gilbert, Donald
Accounts from Lady Margaret's various households.
Accounts related to Lady Margaret's various households, her estates and those of her executors.