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Documents relating to Lady Margaret's lands in Woking, Surrey.

Letters patent of Henry VII, granting manors in Devon, Somerset, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Northamptonshire, Dorset, South Wales and property in London to his mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond.
Westminster, 22 March 1486/7

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

A petition to Pope Innocent VIII for indulgences for King Henry VII, his Queen [Elizabeth of York] and his mother [Lady Margaret Beaufort].

Copy of indulgence from Pope Innocent VIII to Henry VII and his Queen Elizabeth [and his mother].
Rome, 13 August 1488.

Letters patent by Henry VII granting trustees of Lady Margaret licence to convey lands in Devon and Somerset to new trustees.

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 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 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.

Includes: deeds and related documents for Pyckeryng's lands at Atwick; also includes a lease for Little Markham Manor house in Nottinghamshire between the College and Robert Chapell; sale documents for Robert White and his wife Maude of Bishop's Lynn, Norfolk and material relating to Garton's holding in Atwick.

Also includes a case of the opinion of counsel which involves Francis Carleill [sic] and Matthew Oates. In the margin of the document there is a notation concerning William Babthorpe, John Pickering and Pickering's heirs.

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.

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

3 strips of parchment, tied together at top left corner. Each contains a copy of an entry from a Court Roll, in a near-contemporary hand. On the dorse of one is written: 'Copyes of henry the viith dayes'. From Courts held on 13 May and 20 July 11 Henry VII (1496). The first extract has a seal

Includes documents related to the foundation of Lady Margaret's Professorship in Cambridge.

Documents related to the foundation of Lady Margaret's Professorship in Oxford

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]