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Accounts from Lady Margaret's various households.

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

Account of the treasurer of the Lady Margaret's chamber, Robert Fremyngham, signed by John Fisher, Henry Hornby and Hugh Ashton. The accounts end on the day of Lady Margaret's death.
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Inventory made at Hatfield by Richard Gough, Richard Lyster & Peter Baldewyn; includes copy of the inventory of the beds for Hatfield.

Grant: Thomas, Lord Stanley, to Lady Margaret, of the Castle of Hawarden, Cheshire, and the manors of Bidston, Chesire, Alston, Lancashire, Flintham and Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire; and lands in the Wirral, Prescot and Anlesargh, Lancashire, for term of her life.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Values of estates formerly belonging to the Lady Margaret, 1519-1520, by George Quarles, King's Auditor [Henry VIII].

• in the hand of Thomas Baker: "E libro [ut videtur] Scarcarii. Donum ornstissimi viri Jacobi West, Armigeri [Jacob West, Knight]. Bought at Mr Le Neve's auction, who having been employ'd in the exchequer, I've very much doubt, had borrow'd it from thence, with some other manuscripts, in the catalogue for they wer most properly lodge. Mr Le Neve has left such a character behind him, as mver much confirms this suspicion."

Letter from Perrott Doryn to John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester concerning a patent for her annuity due from Lady Margaret's estate.

Letter from John Fotehede, Michaelhouse, Cambridge, to John Fisher, about Robert Cutlers' wish to retain the provostship of Rotherham College with his fellowship.
Undated

Letter, no year, John Fisher to William Bolton Prior of St Bartholomew's, Smithfield, asking him to pay to Roger Notte on Fisher's behalf £4 for the almsfolk maintained by Lady Margaret's executors at Hatfield; and [in Fisher's own hand] to inspect the work of Pietro Torrigiano on her tomb at Westminster.
Lambeth 14 June [no year]

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]

Draft petition, University of Cambridge to Sir Thomas Lovell, Treasurer of the King's household, telling him of his election as high steward of the University and asking help should anything prejudicial to it be moved in parliament; note of copies to Sir Harry Marney and Sir Thomas Engelfield, omitting the first item

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]

Accounts related to Lady Margaret's various households, her estates and those of her executors.