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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.

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.

Agreement between Lady Margaret and Foulk Woodhall [Fulk Woodhull] of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, for his marriage settlement with Elizabeth Webb, one of Lady Margaret's gentlewomen.

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

Papal bull of Pope Alexander VI for the confirmation of the Feast of Jesus, with indulgences similar to those for Corpus Christi, at the instance of Lady Margaret.

A petition to Pope Innocent VIII for indulgences for King Henry VII, his Queen [Elizabeth of York] and his mother [Lady Margaret Beaufort].

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

Grant by Gratian de Villanova, warden of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit, Rome, to the Lady Margaret, who has been admitted to the confraternity, by her proxy, John Harington, LL.D, of the right to choose her confessor.
Rome, 22 September 1495

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.

Indulgence granted by Pope Alexander VI to Thomas Kyme via the Pope's comissary Robertus Castellensis.
Signed: de Ro. Castellen'

Grant of confraternity by brother Donald Gylbert [Gilbert], Commissary in England of brother Francis Sagarra, Vicar-General of the Observants the Lady Margaret.
Dated: at the Convent at Grenewych [Greenwich], 10 May 1497
Signed: Frater Donaldus Reverendi patris vicarii generali commissarius manu propria
Endorsed: a letter of fraternyte [fraternity] of all the Relygyous [religious] of Freres Mynors [friar minor]

Receipt by John Wood, solicitor to the executors of 'my lady the Kyngs grandame', by commandment of my Lord of Rochester and Master Henry Hornby, two of the said executors, from Master Robert Shorton, of £20 in part payment of greater sum as well as for diverse 'writyng in the Chauncery and Escheker and other weyse' as payment for learned men and other for their services and rewards for Michaelmas term last.
Signed: per me John Woode
Countersigned: per me Henricum Hornby

Receipt by Thomas Thomson, Master of Christ's College, from Robert Shorton SJC Master, by the order of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and Dr Hornby of £20.
Signed: per me Thomas Thomson

Includes: receipts, contracts, bonds, memos and agreements relating to the design and construction of Lady Margaret's tomb in Westminster Abbey.

Receipt by Cornelys Symonson [Cornelius Symonson], smyth [smith], from Doctor Metcalfe, of £15 in part payment of £25 for the makyng [making] of a certen [certain] grate.
Sealed in the presence of Ranulph Hall and William Lamkin by me Gabriell [Gabriel] Metcalf[e].

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.

Bond of Peter Thoryson [Pietro Torrigiano] graver, Leonard Friscobald, and John Cavalcant acknowledging their obligation to pay the executors of the Lady Margaret fifty pounds before 1 February next following.
23 November, 3 Hen: VIII
Signed: "Pietro Torrigiani. schultore fiorentino" "per me leonardus frescobald". "per me giovanni caualle per me"

Receipt by John Wolf "setezen [citizen] and peynter [painter] of London from the executors of the Lady Margaret of £3 6 s. 8 d. by the hands of Sir Thomas Mawdysley [Mawdisley], for making 33 skochans [escutcheons] in metallis [metals] per paly with a cronnall and in colors"
2 October 1509 per me Johnnem Wolfe
Countersigned: Jo. Roffe. Henry Hornby

Memorandum payd [paid] by Morgan Mores on Mounday [Monday] the iij th daye [day] of November [1511] for his boot hyre [boat hire] frome [from] London to Mourtlake [Mortlake] and from thens [thence] to London whyen [when] he and the franchine was with my lord chaumerlane [Chamberlain] with a pateron [pattern] of my ladeys toume [Lady's tomb] ij s. iiij d.
Item payd by hym [him] on Tysda [Tuesday] the fourte [fourth] daye [day] of the same mounth [month] for hys bothyr [his boat hire] frome [frome] Stangate [Stonegate] to London and from London to Stangate [Stonegate] j d.
Summa ij s. v d.

A sheet of notes advising courses of action concerning the Lady Margaret's affairs including "the matter concernynge Sancte Johnannes house in Cambridge "; this was most likely drawn up by her executors.