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The cartulary is a volume of 90 parchment folios. It was produced in the middle of the period of the the Hospital's greatest territorial expansion: a majority of the deeds included record transactions between c.1220 and c.1280; also includes a folio of kitchen accounts from 1344.

Alice Grant of Wakefield, Yorkshire, widow. Bond for £160 to maintain one Fellow, for which the College has received £150. College seal

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 Stafford family.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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]

Letters patent of King Henry VII giving permission to the Lady Margaret or her executors to found a readership [professorship] in the University of Cambridge, to the glory and honour of the Holy Trinity
Westminster, 1 March 12 Hen: VII [1497]

Grant of confraternity by brother Donald Gylbert [Gilbert], Commissary in England of brother Francis Sagarra, Vicar-General of the Observants the Lady Margaret.
Dated: at the Convent at Grenewych [Greenwich], 10 May 1497
Signed: Frater Donaldus Reverendi patris vicarii generali commissarius manu propria
Endorsed: a letter of fraternyte [fraternity] of all the Relygyous [religious] of Freres Mynors [friar minor]