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Includes: letters patent and a grant for land held in the Honour of Richmond.
Includes: letters patent and a grant for land held in the Honour of Richmond.
Indenture of sale, dated 11 February 1508/9, by the right excellent Princesse Margarete, Countesse of Richmond and Derby, and moder [sic] to the King, to William Lang, of Caundell purse [Purse-Caundle], Dorset, for £00, of the manore of Gotehill [Goathill], Somerset, with the advowson of the church of Gotehill.
Per me Willm Lang.
Declaration of uses by Lady Margaret of a grant dated 22 May 1472 related to the performance of her will, namely to pay the debts of Edmund, earl of Richmond and Sir Henry Stafford her former husbands; the cost of translating the bones of Edmund out of Wales where he is buried to the abbey of Bourne, Lincolnshire and for making a tomb for Edmund and herself, and for a tomb at Plesshey, Essex where Stafford's bones lie; for the foundation of a chantry at Bourne and a chantry at Plesshey, with an income of 12 marks a year for the priests serving them; the reversion of the issues to go to her son Henry earl of Richmond
Bawessey, 2 June 1472
Seal of the Countess.
Endorsed: an olde wyll mayd and revoked by my ladyes grace
Slit through by way of cancellation.
Computus (account) of William Bedell, Treasurer of the Household of the Lady Margaret [Beaufort]. The accounts refer to Lady Margaret's houses in Croydon and Hatfield.
Bedell, William
Book of receipts and deliverances [sic].
180 pages
Inventories: wardrobe of the beds
Inventories for the wardrobe of beds of the Lady Margaret.
Inventory of robes; also wine sold or given away, glassware, small precious items in Lady Margaret's chamber and closet.
Items listed under the following headings:
Also listed:
Also listed:
Grant by Sir John Mainwaring, Sir John Bromley and Sir Thomas Manley to Thomas Lord Stanley of the manor of Moldesdale [Flintshire] held by themselves and the collegiate church of St John Chester.
Indenture dated 26 May 1507, of a grant by the Princess Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derbie [sic], mother of the King, to Humphry Conyngsby, sejeant [sic] at law, of closes called Great Medbourne, Oxlea, Asshmore and Coletts, and of 7 acres of meadow, in the parish of Aldenham, Hertfordshire, for a yearly rent of 51s.
Per me Humfridum Conyngesby.
Indulgence from John (Sante), Abbot of Abingdon, nuntio of Pope Sixtus IV in England, Wales and Ireland, to Margaret, Countess of Richmond, in regard to her contributions to the wars against the Turks.
London, 5 March 1476/7
Sante, John
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
SJC Accounts: donations & Countess of Devonshire
Part of The Records of St John's College
Accounts of donations received (pp. 1-3) and for money assigned by Henry VIII from Katherine, Countess of Devonshire to Lady Margaret Beaufort's executors (pp 9-15). The last item listed on p.3 is for 6s. paid for a Greek vocabulary bought for the use of the College's library.
Also includes the account of Nicholas Metcalfe for money due to the estate of Lady Margaret.
Agreement: inheritance of Henry of Richmond
Agreement, Lady Margaret and Thomas Lord Stanley, in the presence of Edward IV, whereby Stanley undertakes:
Accounts of James Morice clerk of works at Collyweston.
Morice, James
Inventory made at Hatfield by Robert Hylton yoman [yeoman] of my ladies [lady's] wardrobe of her Robes ther[e] from [14 January 1508/9] unto [16 August 1509].
Begins: Blak [black] velvet. Fyrst [first] of the remanes [remains] of the last accompt. [account]. 11 gownes, 1 hoode, 1 typett [tippet], 70 yards of velvet (provision of 24 yards made by Robert Fremyngham), "wherof Delyvered [delivered] to Maistres [Mistress] Mabell [Mabel] Clifford 1 gown lyned [lined] with blak [black] damask, given to hir [her] by my ladies grace..."
Under headings: Blak Satens [black satins], p.3; Tawny saten [satin], 4; Bla[c]k damask 5; tynseld saten [tinselled satin], 6; bla[c]k brevet, 7; tawny velvet, 9; tawny damask, 9; russet damask, russet saten [satin], 10; yelowe [yellow] saten [satin], whyte [white] damask, 11; tawny chamlet, 12; black chamlet, bukram [buckram], 13; silke [silk] remaynyng [remaining], 14.
p. 15. Certayn [certain] apparaill [apparel] of clothe [cloth] remaynyng [remaining], gownes, peticots [petticoats], mantills [mantles], clokes [cloaks]
pp16-19: blank
p.20. avewe [ A view] taken of Robert Hilton for my ladys robis [robes] by William Bedell and James Morice.
Hilton, Robert
Letters Patent: Ranulph Pygot et al
Letters Patent, Edward III to Ranulph Pygot et al for land held of the honour of Richmond in Donington and Swineshead, Lincolnshire.
Includes: 2 leases for land in Amell and Ware, Hertfordshire.
Will of Sir Henry Stafford, third husband of Lady Margaret. A later will, dated October 1471, was proved 4 May 1482. The proved version has gifts including a horse to John, Earl of Wiltshire which are not in the 1470 version.
Stafford, Henry
Includes: grants and a letter of attorney related to Stanley lands in Lancashire and Cheshire.
Admission of confraternity granted by Anthony, Prior of the Carthusian Order, to Thomas, Lord Stanley, and Margaret [Beaufort] his wife, to the Lady Elianor [Eleanor], deceased, formerly his wife, and to Sir Thomas Stanley and Johanna his wife and their children.
"Datum Carthusie sedente nostro capitulo generali 23 April 1478"