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Admission of confraternity granted by Anthony, Prior of the Carthusian Order, to Thomas, Lord Stanley, and Margaret [Beaufort] his wife, to the Lady Elianor [Eleanor], deceased, formerly his wife, and to Sir Thomas Stanley and Johanna his wife and their children.
"Datum Carthusie sedente nostro capitulo generali 23 April 1478"

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

Bull of Alexander VI to Lady Margaret. Alexander VI has recently commended to Henry VII Hadrian Castellensis [Adrian de Castello], Domestic Secretary, for the see of Worcester, but it had been promised by his Queen Elizabeth to a certain confessor; Henry VII prposed to appoint Hadrian one of his Proctors at the Curia. The Pope is content, but asks the favour of the Margaret for Hadrian.
St Peter's, Rome, 8 December 1498
Signed: Jo. Mutinen

Copy of a bull of Pope Julius II, dated Rome, 20 May 1504, adressed to Henry VII, giving licence to choose a confessor, and approviing of John Burnell, of the order of Friars Minor 'de observantia'; also similar licence to the Lady Margaret.

Indulgence and admission of Thomas Kyme, generosus [gentleman], by the alderman and camerarii [chamberlains] of the gild or fraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the church of St Bothus [Botulph] of Boston, Lincolnshire, by authority of a bull of Innocent VIII, dated 1489.
Boston, 2 April 1499
The deed is engrossed and the name has been written in.

Letters Patent of Henry VII, granting to the Countess of Richmond [Lady Margaret Beaufort], his mother, on the authority of Parliament, all the profits of the estates of the late Henry, Duke of Buckingham, which had been granted to the King for the period of the minority of Edward, Henry's heir. The Countess is to be the guardian of Edward, and is to pay the King as much yearly as shall be agreed between them before next Easter.
Westminster, 3 August, 1 Hen:VII [1486]
By writ of the Privy Seal and on the authority of Parliament. Written by Heed.
Endorsed: Enrolled in the Treasury in 2 Hen: VII, on the 10th roll of the Michaelmas term.

Includes documents related to the royal family, their heirs and assigns.

List of officers & servants of the Queen's [Elizabeth of York household, chamber & stable, & servants of princess of Wales [Katherine of Aragon]; end.'a remembrance for the queen's servants, for my lady's grace'. Includes chamberlain, vice-chamberlain, confessor, kervers [carvers], cuppebearer [cupbearer], master of the horses and secretary.

Three page account of the meeting of Henry VII and Philip, King of Castile near Windsor on 31 January 1505. The description may have been written by or for John Fisher for Lady Margaret. The account includes a description of archers shooting for the two Kings. It ends with narrator telling Lady Margaret (`Madame... your grace') that Holt will tell her fuller detail about the decoration of royal rooms and persons .

Includes: receipts, contracts, bonds, memos and agreements relating to the design and construction of Lady Margaret's tomb in Westminster Abbey.

A general pardons for the executors of the Lady Margaret from Henry VIII.
Lancaster, 20 May, 4 Hen: VIII [1512]

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

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

Expenses of John Haryson from Hatfield to Greenwich by command of Lady Margaret to be with the Queen [Katherine of Aragon]; and his boat hire to Westminster the night before the coronation to `open the back gates'; and boat hire to London again to fetch black cloth for the frater [brotherhood ?]; signed by Thomas Mawdesley.

Note of sums paid by Henry Hornby at for Lady Margaret's causes and matters.

Receipt for 5 marks from John Wode [Wood] signed by Richard Regnay, for the costs of the examination of the will of Lady Margaret.
23 November 1511

Memorandum pd [paid] the xxvj day of October when that my lorde [lord] sent me to Wendsor [Windsor] to Mister Secortort. Pd [paid] the smae day at Dartforth [Dartford] for my drenke [drink] j ob. ....
Signed: Jos Roffs. for my lady

Account of James Morice:
First for the bordyng [boarding] of Maistres [Mistress] Jan by the space of iij wek [weeks] and v dayes [days] at xvj d. the wek [week iiij s. xj d.
Item for th ebordyng [boarding] of M Elyner Massingham by the space of v wek [weeks] iiij daies [days] at vvj d. the wek [week] summa vij s. v d.
Item for the cost of ij men with ij horses by the space of ij daies [days] comyng [coming] and goyng [going] from Roydon to London for the breyng [bringing] the said M Elyner to my lord of Surret at xid the day ech [each] man and horse iiij s.
Item paid to Mayne the paynter [painter] in party [part] payment of vj li. xiij s. iiij d. for the making of ij tables of the pictur[e] of my ladies [lady's] grace lij s. iiij d.
Item in reward to the said James [Morice] towards his bothier [boat hire] ad [and] his cost for his attendyng [attending] abowt [about] such besnes [business] as my ladies [lady's] executors comaunded [commanded] hym [him] to do in London, for Cristes College.
To James Mores [Morrice] xxiij s. viij d.
Signed. Jo. roffs.

An account for Lady Margaret's executors:
In primis [first] to Tybyll bor meny [many] writyngs [writings] perteynyng [pertaining] to my lady xx s.
Item to John Bear to wrytyng [writing] for hur [her] testament ij s.
Item to Myddleton [Middleton] for a gown whych [which] he shuld [should] have had at my ladies [lady's] interment not alowed [allowed] in the funeralls [funerals] xxvj s. viij d.
Signed. Jo Roffs.

Furst [First] of Thursday the xxix day of November whyn wentt [when went] to London to Master Arsdekyn [Archdeacon] with letteres [letters] furst [first] at grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my drenyke j d.
Item for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iiij d.
Item the smae day at London for my dener and sopper [dinner and supper] iiij d.
Item the same neytt [night] for my bott hayre [boat hire] to Lambeth and fro j d.
Item for my bede [bed] and my dreynke [drink] j d. ob.
Item of fryday [Friday] the xxx day of November for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iij d.
Item the same day at Grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my dreynke [drink] ob.
Summa xv d.
Signed: Jo Roffs.