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
Bequests of the Lady Margaret, valued. Begins: "To Crists Colege: first a crucifix with mary and John full gilt and enameld [weighing 11 ounces]
Croydon, Haling, Fotheringhay & others
Accounts of James Morice for works at Collyweston Croydon, Halyng (Haling), Fotheringhay, Coldharbour, Hatfield, Christ's College.
Morice, James
Mandate: Keeper of the Hanaper
Contemporary copies of the mandate of King Henry VIII to Roger Lupton "Keeper of our Haniper [Hanaper] in our Chauncery [Chancery]", to deliver letters patent in favour of the executors of the Lady Margaret, for the foundation of a chantry at Wimborne, for the licence to buy land for Christ's College, [Cambridge] and for the foundation of St John's College.