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Records and household accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the College’s foundress and mother of King Henry VII.
Also includes letters to John Fisher, catalogued here in Subfonds 7: Executors of Lady Margaret. Many of these do not relate to St John's College

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

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.

Includes: petitions, legal notices and court documents related to the Lady Margaret's estates.

Exemplification at request of J[ohn Fisher],Bishop of Rochester and Henry Hornby, clerk, of a licence dated 22 May 1472 by which Lady Margaret granted lands in Devon and Somerset to trustees.

Receipt by Reynold [Reginald] Bray, citizen and fremason [freemason OR mason] of London, from Doctor Metcalfe, of 20 s. in part payment.

Expenses of William Carlton, probably submitted to the excuctors of Lady Margaret.

Letter, undated, Thomas Hobson to John Fisher about expedition of suits for land; has consulted Fitzjames, attorney of the duchy of Lancaster

Account of Roger Noott [Notte] for £26 received from John Fisher for board, clothes and rent of almshouse, of 10 poor persons at Hatfield for 1 year.

Letter, no year, James Stanley Bishop of Ely at Somersham to John Fisher, asking him to send obligations by which Stanley was bound to the Lady Margaret, and saying that he has made Fisher, Bishop Fox of Winchester and Bishop Nykke of Norwich his proctors in the next convocation

Henry Hornby at Cambridge to John Fisher, about his wish to take Hornby's servant Henry Day to Rome, and the progress of building at St John's College supervised by the Master and Oliver Scales

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

Account of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, of money received by him from Katherine, Countess of Devonshire. Three payments of 250 marks, at Christmas 1516, Midsummer 1517 and Christmas 1517; total £500; with expenditure amounting to £377.1.41/2.

Receipt by Cornelys Symondeson [Cornelius Symonson] from Doctor Metcalf[e], of 33 s. 4 d. in part payment of £21. 13. 4. for makyng [making] a tumbe [tomb] for my lady the Kyngs [King's] grandemother [grandmother]

List of payments, probably by the executors of the Lady Margaret, headed 'Rewardes'. It is a formed of a sheet folded in four containing 91 names followed by payments totalling £200 16s 8d.

Letters and notes between Lady Margaret's executors and between individual executors and others concerning business arising from the terms of her will. Also includes letters to John Fisher which are not related to Lady Margaret's will or to St John's College

Includes documents related to the foundations in Oxford and Cambridge; does not include St John's College

Grant by Richard [Hill], Bishop of London, and Richard Skipton, clerk, to Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, John [Morton], Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard [Fox], Bishop of Exeter, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Sir Giles Daubeney, of Daubeney, Sir William Huse, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Oliver King, clerk, the King's secretary, David William, clerk, Keeper of the Roles of Chancery, William Smyth, clerk, Dean of the free chapel of St Stephen within the palace of Westminster, Sir Thomas Lovell, counsellor, and Richard Emson, attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster of the [lands in Devon and Somerset] which by the Letters patent of 10 November 1490, Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Richard Page, were licenced to convey to them for this purpose. With appointment of Hugh Oldeham, clerk, John Jakson and Nicholas Compton as attorneys.
16 December 1490.