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A signed draft copy of Lady Margaret’s will, annotated with additions and corrections in various hands. It includes a list of her particular benefactions to ‘Cristes College’ and ‘to my lord Prince’ which has been altered to read ‘the kinges grace’. Also includes a paper about the purchase of Bassingbourne in Fordham, Cambridgeshire inserted at front.
A folio paper book of 72 pages.
Pages 1-38: annotated draft will
Pages 39-56: list of legacies
Pages 57-72: blank

A view of the wardrobe of beds at Hatfield. The items are listed under the headings:

• pp. 1-2: arrase
• p. 3: sarcenet
• pp.5-7: verdours
• p. 8: square bedds of fyne arras and coutersetts
• pp.11-12: square bedds of counterpoynts of cloth of gold and silk
• p.13: counterpoynt palid of aras cloth gold and silk
• p. 14: counteropoynts of tapestre
• p.15: counterpoynts of vardors
• p.16: curtens of sarcenet; canapes of sarcenet
• p.17: bedds of downe; bolsters of downe
• p.18: pyllows of downe
• p.19: bedds of fethers
• p.20: fustyans, quylts of silke, etc
• p.21: mattress, volster, blanketts, etc
• p.22: coverletts
• p.23: letter maters [leather materials]
• p.24: travesses of sarcenet, clothes of astate
• p.25: cosshens of cloth gold and silk
• p.26: carpetts of dyvers sortes - written at bottom of the page: "Md that all theis carpetts before written be fownd in sauff over the wardop which is supposed to be in John Birds chamber"
• p.27: cheyers of cloth of gold and silk; cheyers of covered lether; coveryng of the chare and litter
• p. 28: stayned sayez; rede sayes, grene sayes; black sayez;
• pp. 29-31: white sayez
  "Store of canvens called ... by Mr Assheton bought"

Account of the treasurer of the Lady Margaret's chamber, Robert Fremyngham, signed by John Fisher, Henry Hornby and Hugh Ashton. The accounts end on the day of Lady Margaret's death.
Page 4 is blank

Includes: accounts of Roger Fremyngham [Fremingham] treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret.

A contemporary (16th century) copy of the will of Lady Margaret.

A list of jewels belonging to the Lady Margaret in the keeping of Mistress Fowler

An undated letter from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester to another bishop [possibly Richard Fox of Winchester] about the problems in securing the King's signature [Henry VIII] in connection with causes affecting the Lady Margaret's estate.

Inventory made at Hatfield by Richard Gough, Richard Lyster & Peter Baldewyn; includes copy of the inventory of the beds for Hatfield.

Inventory of plate, books and vestments bequeathed to Christ's College by the Lady Margaret.

Inventory made at Hatfield by Robert Hylton yoman [yeoman] of my ladies [lady's] wardrobe of her Robes ther[e] from [14 January 1508/9] unto [16 August 1509].
Begins: Blak [black] velvet. Fyrst [first] of the remanes [remains] of the last accompt. [account]. 11 gownes, 1 hoode, 1 typett [tippet], 70 yards of velvet (provision of 24 yards made by Robert Fremyngham), "wherof Delyvered [delivered] to Maistres [Mistress] Mabell [Mabel] Clifford 1 gown lyned [lined] with blak [black] damask, given to hir [her] by my ladies grace..."

Under headings: Blak Satens [black satins], p.3; Tawny saten [satin], 4; Bla[c]k damask 5; tynseld saten [tinselled satin], 6; bla[c]k brevet, 7; tawny velvet, 9; tawny damask, 9; russet damask, russet saten [satin], 10; yelowe [yellow] saten [satin], whyte [white] damask, 11; tawny chamlet, 12; black chamlet, bukram [buckram], 13; silke [silk] remaynyng [remaining], 14.
p. 15. Certayn [certain] apparaill [apparel] of clothe [cloth] remaynyng [remaining], gownes, peticots [petticoats], mantills [mantles], clokes [cloaks]
pp16-19: blank
p.20. avewe [ A view] taken of Robert Hilton for my ladys robis [robes] by William Bedell and James Morice.

Inventories and lists of items from Lady Margaret's house at Hatfield.

Inventory of the wardrobe of robes of Lady Margaret.
"Certayn apparelle clothe of golde, silkes, and furres withe other stuff remaynyng in the said wardrobe prised by Olyver Scales."

The inventory begins: "first a gowne of blake velvet..."

• p.7: stuf remaynyng in a grete standard in the galery under the custodie of mastre Fowler of silkes and napery
• p.9: in an other coffer
• p.10: In my Ladies bedechambre
  *p.13: a remembraunce of drapery napery lat[e] apertayng unto my ladies grace

"Stuff aperteynyng to my Ladies Wardrobe of beddys, 8 September 1509, which remayned unsowled. And Thomas Symson charged with the same."

Small trasshe [treasure] left in three coffers at the Chanter's place at St Paul's [London].

Receipt by John Wolf "setezen [citizen] and peynter [painter] of London from the executors of the Lady Margaret of £3 6 s. 8 d. by the hands of Sir Thomas Mawdysley [Mawdisley], for making 33 skochans [escutcheons] in metallis [metals] per paly with a cronnall and in colors"
2 October 1509 per me Johnnem Wolfe
Countersigned: Jo. Roffe. Henry Hornby

Grant by the Lady Margaret's executors of certain tenements and lands at Maxey to 'Perot Daron' for the term of her life. (indented)
Endorsed with the contents in brief.
Dated: 23 October, 1 Hen: VIII
Signed by all but one of the executors.

Inventories of items at Collyweston, Northamptonshire

Receipted bill of expenses of Thomas Symson for transport and security of the wardrobe stuff [sic] of Lady Margaret from Hatfield to London; signed by Symson, John Fisher and Hugh Ashton.

Petition (undated), Sir Robert Southwell to the executors of Lady Margaret Beaufort, asking compensation for losing a wardship wrongly adjudged to be of a fee held of the Duchy of Lancaster; Southwell had lost it through letters being addressed by the King [Henry VII] to Lady Margaret.

Possibly includes Fisher, but name lost by damage