Counterpart charter: Lady Margaret (Cambridge)
One of the counterpart indented charters of the Lady Magaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Cambridge. [The indenture was tripartite]
Counterpart Charter: Lady Margaret (Oxford)
Counterpart of the indented charter of the Lady Margaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Oxford, with the appointment of John Roper as first reader, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]
Charter: Lady Margaret (Cambridge)
Indented charter of the Lady Magaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Cambridge with the appointment of John Fisher as the first occupant of the post, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]
Indenture of a lease by Margaret, Countess of Richmond, reciting Letters Patent of Henry VII, dated 22 May 1487, granting her the third part of the manors of Kendall and Wiresdale, Lancashire and Westmoreland, for life, to Sir Thomas Laurence, of lands in Assheton alias Essheton alias Eston, and Kernford [Carnforth] in Lonesdale, Lancashire, formerly held by William Lyndessey.
8 July 1503. Signed Margaret R., and T. Laurence, knyght.
Petition: Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquis of Dorset
Petition from Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquis of Dorset, to the Pope, in consideration of his assistance against Louis XII of France, for licence for his men of the Fee of Winchester to eat eggs, butter etc during Lent.
Grey, Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Dorset
Agreement between Lady Margaret and Foulk Woodhall [Fulk Woodhull] of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, for his marriage settlement with Elizabeth Webb, one of Lady Margaret's gentlewomen.
Woodhull, Fulk
Bond of Roger Bell, Throuthorpe, Yorkshire yeoman, to the Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond, for the payment of 32 s. 9 d. at the feast of Corpus Christi and the Exaltation of the Cross; with a note of receipt by Hugh Ashton.
Grant, Westminster Abbey to John Fisher and his successors as readers in theology at Cambridge, stipend. Sealed with what might possibly be the seal of William Warham (c. 1450 - 22 August 1532) who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1503 to his death in 1532)
Bond of Henry Stanhope, of Houghton, Nottinghamshire, to the Lady Margaret in £200, to keep the award made by Robert Urmeston, Robert Brudenell and William Cutlers, serjeants at law, concerning the title and possession of the Manor of Houghton, now in variance betwixt [between] Henry Stanehop [Stanhope] and Edward Stanehop [Stanhope], and to bring to Collyweston evidence, charters and muniments.
Letters patent of King Henry VII giving permission to the Lady Margaret or her executors to found a chantry for a preacher in the University of Cambridge, to the glory and honour of the name of Jesus and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Westminster, 7 February 19 Hen:VII [1504]
Indulgence, granted 20 May 1504, by Pope Julius II to the Lady Margaret and Henry VII. The bull grants licence to choose confessors, with privileges relating to absolution, permission to relax the Lenten fast and to visit enclosed religious houses.
Julius II, Pope
Copy of indulgence: Pope Julius II
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.
Julius II, Pope
A general release for the Lady Margaret to do what she will with her properties, without asking the leave of, or making a payment to King Henry VII or his successors.
Westminster, 21 July, 19 Hen: VII [1504]
Endorsed: for the first roll of the Michaelmas term, 20 Hen: VII
Henry VII, King of England
Indenture: Lady Margaret Preachership (Cambridge)
Indented charter of the Lady Margaret for the foundation of a preachership in the University of Cambridge, with the appointment of John Ffawn [Fawn] as the first preacher, and the statutes governing the foundation.
30 October 20 Hen. VII [1504]
Counterpart indenture: Lady Margaret preachership (Cambridge)
One of the counterparts of Lady Margaret's indenture for the creation of her preachership in Cambridge.
Inventory of goods & clothes belonging to Henry Hornby, Dean of the Lady Margaret's chapel. The volumes lists the following items:
Hornby [Horneby], Henry
The account of Miles Worsley, cofferer to Lady Margaret.
Grant: Maxey and Torpell, Northamptonshire
Grant of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, to John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, Hugh [Oldham], Bishop of Exeter, William Knyvett and David Phellipp, knights, Henry Horneby [Hornby], clerk, Humfrey Conyngesby, Robert Brudewell and William Cutlard, serjeants-at-law, James Whitsans, Gabries Sylvester, John Ffotehed, Robert Barnard and Hugh Assheton, clerks and John Saint John and William Bedill [Bedell], esquires, of the manors of Maxey and Torpell in Northamptonshire, in order to carry out the last wishes of the Countess and her executors; John Byrde and Nicholas Trygge, her attorneys there, are to deliver seisin of the two manors.
Attached to by the seal-tab is the delivery by the above two attorneys to John Saint John, acting in the name of the grantees of the two manors.
[Main document] 1 April, 20 Hen: VII [1505]
[Main document] signed "Margaret R" at the bottom
Endorsed: "A graunte from the Countesse of Richmond of lands in Northamptonshire"
Confirmation: Maxey & Torpell, Northamptonshire
Confirmation by Margaret, Countess of Richmond of a lease to John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, Hugh [Oldham], Bishop of Exeter, William Knyvett and David Phellipp, knights, Henry Horneby [Hornby], clerk, Humfrey Conyngesby, Robert Brudewell and William Cutlard, serjeants-at-law, James Whitsans, Gabries Sylvester, John Ffotehed, Robert Barnard and Hugh Assheton, clerks and John Saint John and William Bedill [Bedell], esquire, of a field or 'clausure' of pasture called Newclose at Maxey, to William Radclyf [Radcliffe], David Syssell and Thomas Williams of Stamford, for the term of life of Margaret White, anchorite of Stamford, at a yearly rent of 17 s. payable at Easter and Michaelmas in equal parts. The lease to run from 9 October, 21 Hen: VII on which day the documents are sealed.
28 October, 21 Hen: VII
"A view of the stuff ... belonging to my ladys grace': an inventory of cloth materials incl. bed furnishing and coverings for her chair and litter."