Bull of Alexander VI to Lady Margaret. Alexander VI has recently commended to Henry VII Hadrian Castellensis [Adrian de Castello], Domestic Secretary, for the see of Worcester, but it had been promised by his Queen Elizabeth to a certain confessor; Henry VII prposed to appoint Hadrian one of his Proctors at the Curia. The Pope is content, but asks the favour of the Margaret for Hadrian.
St Peter's, Rome, 8 December 1498
Signed: Jo. Mutinen
Alexander VI, Pope
The accounts of James Clarell, cofferer to Lady Margaret.
Clarell, James
The account of James Clarell, cofferer to the Lady Margaret. (76 pages)
Clarell, James
Gild [Guild] of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Indulgence and admission of Thomas Kyme, generosus [gentleman], by the alderman and camerarii [chamberlains] of the gild or fraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the church of St Bothus [Botulph] of Boston, Lincolnshire, by authority of a bull of Innocent VIII, dated 1489.
Boston, 2 April 1499
The deed is engrossed and the name has been written in.
Innocent VIII, Pope
Indulgence granted by Pope Alexander VI to Thomas Kyme via the Pope's comissary Robertus Castellensis.
Signed: de Ro. Castellen'
Alexander VI, Pope
Yeoman of the Wardrobe: R Hilton
Goods delivered to Robert Hilton, yeoman of the wardrobe for Lady Margaret. The first page of the volume contains the following entry: "This boke made the xxi day of August xvth yere of the reyn of King Henry the VIIth at Coleweston witnesseth that theises parcelles folowyng of the stuf and guds of the Right high and might princesse Margarete Moder unto our said soverayne lord and Countesse of Richemonde and Derby be put and delivered to Robert Hilton yoman of hir wardrobe by him to be surely kept as here aftre appereth.
The items are listed under the headings:
Individual items are also listed:
Hilton, Robert
A slip of paper, headed "My worshyppfull lady the Kings moder", with a list of purchases beginning:
Item 4 bolts and 4 lynkhys [links] for the chayne [chain] 3 s. 2 d.
Royal protection and pardons; papal indulgences and absolution; episcopal inspeximi concerning more than one church or right. Cataloguing of this section is ongoing: please ask the archivist for more information
Account of James Morice clerk of works to the Lady Margaret, for the manor at Collyweston, Northamptonshire; also includes accounts for building a new house at Collyweston using timber from Bourne Park, Lincolnshire and freestone. (pp.117-145)
Morice, James
Letter to the Lady Margaret informing her that the Pope [Alexander VI] has acceded to a request that she and others [unnamed] shall receive the spiritual benefits of the Jubilee by the visit of a suitable confessor to Rome as their representative at the places of pilgrimage.
Rome, 8 January 1501
Alexander VI, Pope
Grant, Sir Ralph Shirley to Sir Thomas Bousher [Bourchier], Walter Colpeper Esq., Thomas Barton and Roberty Byngham, gentlemen, that the bond of Sir Sampson Norton to be void on the death of Anne, heiress of Thomas Warner.
Seal and signature of Ranuffe Shyrley
Shirley, Ralph
Account of Sir Roger Ormeston, knight, of expenses on behalf of Lady Margaret, mostly the repair and equipment of the house of Coldharbour, London and rewards for entertainments, these probably for the retinue of Catherine [Katherine] of Aragon.
Signatures 'Margaret R.' at bottom of pp. 3 & 18
Pages 4, 19 and 20 are blank
Includes: accounts of Sir Roger Ormeston for expenses on behalf of Lady Margaret Beaufort.
Ormeston, Roger
Accounts of Sir Roger Ormeston for expenses on behalf of the Lady Margaret; includes a reference to the making of the sluice at Boston, Lincolnshire; additionally includes a summary in fair hand of some material in the Ormeston's accounts for Coldharbour, London.
Pages 1, 7 and 8 are blank.
List of Officers and Servants: Elizabeth of York
List of officers & servants of the Queen's [Elizabeth of York household, chamber & stable, & servants of princess of Wales [Katherine of Aragon]; end.'a remembrance for the queen's servants, for my lady's grace'. Includes chamberlain, vice-chamberlain, confessor, kervers [carvers], cuppebearer [cupbearer], master of the horses and secretary.
Receipt by the King's clerk, John Walles from Lady Margaret's chamberlain, Sir Roger Ormeston, for the fine of £26.13.4 for the fine of knighthood from John Markham.
Signed: Per me Johnnes Walles.
Bond of Lady Elizabeth Scrope, widow of Sir Henry Wentworth, to Lady Margaret, to abide by her arbitration in a dispute with Richard Wentworth.
Signed: Elysabeth Scrope
Scrope, Elizabeth
Bond of Richard Wentworth to Lady Margaret, to abide by her arbitration in a dispute with Lady Elizabeth Scrope.
Signature and seal of: Rychard Wentworth
Dorse: Lady Scrope, who married as her second husband Sir Henry Wentworth, of Nettlestead, Suffolk.
Wentworth, Richard
Charter: Lady Margaret (Oxford)
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]
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]