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Accounts of Sir Roger Ormeston for expenses on behalf of the Lady Margaret; includes a reference to the making of the sluice at Boston, Lincolnshire; additionally includes a summary in fair hand of some material in the Ormeston's accounts for Coldharbour, London.

Pages 1, 7 and 8 are blank.

• p.2: Sum totall. of alle the payments aforesaid £911.19.5. And so the said Sir Roger owith [sic] to my ladys grace £25.8.1.
• pp.3-6: items bought, beginning - velvet of divers coloures and prises bought for my ladeys grace at divers tymes £141.7.6
• p.9: Memorandum payd by Roger Ormeston knight for divers neccessaries and implements to the steward [?] att Boston of my lady the Kings moder money.

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

The account of Miles Worsley, cofferer to Lady Margaret.

• pp13-61: From 2 Feb 1501/2 to 14 Jan 1502/3 have signature 'Margaret R.' at bottom
• pp 69-70: are blank
• pp71-129: Similar account from 14 Jan 1502/3 to 14 Jan 1503/4 with signatures
• pp134-140: Summary of accounts [?]
• pp141-191: Similar account from 14 Jan 1503/4 to 14 Jan 1504/5
• pp 191-192: Paid by Sir Roger Urmeston [Ormeston] since 20 Jan 1503/4
• pp194-200: Summary of accounts [?]
• pp201-218: blank

Receipt by the King's clerk, John Walles from Lady Margaret's chamberlain, Sir Roger Ormeston, for the fine of £26.13.4 for the fine of knighthood from John Markham.
Signed: Per me Johnnes Walles.

Bond of Lady Elizabeth Scrope, widow of Sir Henry Wentworth, to Lady Margaret, to abide by her arbitration in a dispute with Richard Wentworth.
Signed: Elysabeth Scrope

Bond of Richard Wentworth to Lady Margaret, to abide by her arbitration in a dispute with Lady Elizabeth Scrope.
Signature and seal of: Rychard Wentworth

Dorse: Lady Scrope, who married as her second husband Sir Henry Wentworth, of Nettlestead, Suffolk.

Indented charter of the Lady Margaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Oxford, with the appointment of John Roper as first reader, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]

One of the counterpart indented charters of the Lady Magaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Cambridge. [The indenture was tripartite]

Counterpart of the indented charter of the Lady Margaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Oxford, with the appointment of John Roper as first reader, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]

Indented charter of the Lady Magaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Cambridge with the appointment of John Fisher as the first occupant of the post, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]

Accounts of James Morice clerk of works at Collyweston.

Grant, Westminster Abbey to John Fisher and his successors as readers in theology at Cambridge, stipend. Sealed with what might possibly be the seal of William Warham (c. 1450 - 22 August 1532) who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1503 to his death in 1532)

Indenture of a lease by Margaret, Countess of Richmond, reciting Letters Patent of Henry VII, dated 22 May 1487, granting her the third part of the manors of Kendall and Wiresdale, Lancashire and Westmoreland, for life, to Sir Thomas Laurence, of lands in Assheton alias Essheton alias Eston, and Kernford [Carnforth] in Lonesdale, Lancashire, formerly held by William Lyndessey.
8 July 1503. Signed Margaret R., and T. Laurence, knyght.

Petition from Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquis of Dorset, to the Pope, in consideration of his assistance against Louis XII of France, for licence for his men of the Fee of Winchester to eat eggs, butter etc during Lent.

Agreement between Lady Margaret and Foulk Woodhall [Fulk Woodhull] of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, for his marriage settlement with Elizabeth Webb, one of Lady Margaret's gentlewomen.

Bond of Roger Bell, Throuthorpe, Yorkshire yeoman, to the Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond, for the payment of 32 s. 9 d. at the feast of Corpus Christi and the Exaltation of the Cross; with a note of receipt by Hugh Ashton.