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The Records of Lady Margaret Beaufort
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Expenses: Rowland Baxter, clerk

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

Valuation of Estates

Values of estates formerly belonging to the Lady Margaret, 1519-1520, by George Quarles, King's Auditor [Henry VIII].

  • in the hand of Thomas Baker: "E libro [ut videtur] Scarcarii. Donum ornstissimi viri Jacobi West, Armigeri [Jacob West, Knight]. Bought at Mr Le Neve's auction, who having been employ'd in the exchequer, I've very much doubt, had borrow'd it from thence, with some other manuscripts, in the catalogue for they wer most properly lodge. Mr Le Neve has left such a character behind him, as mver much confirms this suspicion."

Quarles, George

Charter: Lady Margaret (Oxford)

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]

Letters Patent: Henry VII

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]

Counterpart Charter: Lady Margaret (Oxford)

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]

Letters Patent: Henry VII

Letters patent of King Henry VII giving permission to the Lady Margaret or her executors to found a chantry for a preacher in the University of Cambridge, to the glory and honour of the name of Jesus and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Westminster, 7 February 19 Hen:VII [1504]

Letters Patent: Henry VII

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]

Charter: Lady Margaret (Cambridge)

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]

Will: Margaret Warton

Contemporary copy of the will of Margaret Warton, leaving property to the Carthusians of Coventry, and lands in Warwickshire for a chantry in Christ's College, and naming Lady Margaret as her executor.

Grant: Thomas Thomson

Grant, Richard [Foxe], Bishop Winchester, Thomas [Ruthall], Bishop Durham, John [Fisher]. Bishop of Rochester, Sir John Cutte to Thomas Thomson Master of Christ's College, Cambridge for lands listed in SJLM/8/2/3/6 to hold of the lords by service. Also includes a power of attorney for Oliver Scales and John Kyllyngworth [Killingworth], y[e]oman, to deliver seisin.
11 July, 8 Hen: VIII
Endorsed to the effect that seisin was delivered by John Kyllyngworth in the presence of 'magister' Nicholas Metcalfe, Archdeacon of Rochester, John Wyatt, William Smythe, clerks, Gerald Croft[es], Francis Berebruar, and other laymen.

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