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Documents from Henry VIII to Lady Margaret's executors concerning payments, estates, foundations and lands.

Copy of the first part of Letters Patent of Henry VIII cancelling the licence dated 10 July 1515, to the executors of the Lady Margaret to acquire land from the College, replacing it with a new licence.

Indenture between Nicholas Metcalf[e], clerk, Master of the College; William Longford [Longforth] SJC Fellow; and Cornelyus [Cornelius] Symondson, for the railings of Lady Margaret's tomb.

Receipt by Cornelys Symonson [Cornelius Symonson], smyth [smith], from Doctor Metcalfe, of £15 in part payment of £25 for the makyng [making] of a certen [certain] grate.
Sealed in the presence of Ranulph Hall and William Lamkin by me Gabriell [Gabriel] Metcalf[e].

Receipt by Cornelys Symondeson [Cornelius Symonson] from Doctor Metcalf[e], of 33 s. 4 d. in part payment of £21. 13. 4. for makyng [making] a tumbe [tomb] for my lady the Kyngs [King's] grandemother [grandmother]

Includes lists of payments, expenses and receipts regarding Lady Margaret's will and her estates.

Receipt by Reynold [Reginald] Bray, citizen and fremason [freemason OR mason] of London, from Doctor Metcalfe, of 20 s. in part payment.

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

Includes: accounts, letters, receipts, payments and correspondence related to Lady Margaret's will and estates and to the foundation of St John's College. Also includes letters of John Fisher.
Lady Margaret appointed as her executors Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester; John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Charles Somerset, Lord Herbert, the King's Chamberlain; Sir Thomas Lovell, Treasurer of the King's Household; Sir Henry Marney, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Sir John St John, her chamberlain; Henry Hornby, her chancellor, and Sir Hugh Ashton, comptroller of her household

Records and household accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the College’s foundress and mother of King Henry VII.
Also includes letters to John Fisher, catalogued here in Subfonds 7: Executors of Lady Margaret. Many of these do not relate to St John's College

Receipt by Cornellys (Cornelius) Symonson from Nycholas [Nicholas] Metcalfe, Master [of St John's College] of £5 in part payment of a more sum for makyng [making] my lady the Kynges [King's] grandmother the viiij [Henry VIII] grate at Westminster.
23 May 1527

Accounts of James Morice for works at Collyweston Croydon, Halyng (Haling), Fotheringhay, Coldharbour, Hatfield, Christ's College.