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Includes documents related to the foundation of Lady Margaret's Professorship in Cambridge.

Deeds and charters by which Lady Margaret founds her Cambridge preachership.

Accounts of James Morice clerk of works at Collyweston.

The account of Miles Worsley, cofferer to Lady Margaret.

• pp13-61: From 2 Feb 1501/2 to 14 Jan 1502/3 have signature 'Margaret R.' at bottom
• pp 69-70: are blank
• pp71-129: Similar account from 14 Jan 1502/3 to 14 Jan 1503/4 with signatures
• pp134-140: Summary of accounts [?]
• pp141-191: Similar account from 14 Jan 1503/4 to 14 Jan 1504/5
• pp 191-192: Paid by Sir Roger Urmeston [Ormeston] since 20 Jan 1503/4
• pp194-200: Summary of accounts [?]
• pp201-218: blank

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 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."

Letters patent of Henry VII, granting to Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, the manor of Canford, with the town of Pole [Poole], Dorset for her life.
Westeminster, 21 January 1505/6

Includes documents related to the royal family, their heirs and assigns.

Three page account of the meeting of Henry VII and Philip, King of Castile near Windsor on 31 January 1505. The description may have been written by or for John Fisher for Lady Margaret. The account includes a description of archers shooting for the two Kings. It ends with narrator telling Lady Margaret (`Madame... your grace') that Holt will tell her fuller detail about the decoration of royal rooms and persons .

Surrender (or release) by Sir John Hussey of an annuity of £5 granted to him by the Lady Margaret, by letters patent, on the manors of Bourne and Deeping, Lincolnshire.
Signature and seal of John Hussey

Copy of a deed of Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, concerning the disposal of her personal property after death; includes gifts to servants, and to Sir Robert Southwell, Sir Edmund Jenney, Doctor Thomas Cosyn, Doctor John Talbot, and Maister [Master] William Holme; £13.6s.8d. to 'my Lorde of Canterbury and his Officers under him of his jursidiction ordinary.'
6 November 1506

Includes documents related to trusts and settlements with the Beaufort and Stafford families.

Documents relating to the manor of Canford and the town of Poole, Dorset.

Includes documents related to Lady Margaret's various households and her jurisdiction over properties and estates.

Includes the accounts of William Bedell, treasurer of Lady Margaret's household.