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Photograph of North Court showing bird's eye perspective of development scheme B modified by Edward Maufe, view from Bridge St.

Contemporary copy of the will of Margaret Warton, leaving property to the Carthusians of Coventry, and lands in Warwickshire for a chantry in Christ's College, and naming Lady Margaret as her executor.

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 .

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.

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

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.

Includes documents related to the Stafford family.

Draft petition, University of Cambridge to 'my lord treasurer' asking help should anything prejudicial to the University be moved in parliament; note of copies to 'my lord of Oxford' and 'my lord steward'

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

Remise and quitclaim [undated] by the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge, to Thomas Thomson, clerk, and rector of Wellwyn, Hertfordshire, of all their rights in lands etc in the parishes St Giles, Cambridge and of Coton which were formerly Richard [Foxe], Bishop of Winchester's, Thomas [Ruthall] Bishop of Durham's, John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester's and John Cutte's ,knight, and which Thomas had of their gift. And the Master and Fellows will guarantee the lands against John [Islip], Abbot of Westminter and his successors.

Grant, Richard [Foxe], Bishop Winchester, Thomas [Ruthall], Bishop Durham, John [Fisher]. Bishop of Rochester, Sir John Cutte to Thomas Thomson Master of Christ's College, Cambridge for lands listed in SJLM/8/2/3/6 to hold of the lords by service. Also includes a power of attorney for Oliver Scales and John Kyllyngworth [Killingworth], y[e]oman, to deliver seisin.
11 July, 8 Hen: VIII
Endorsed to the effect that seisin was delivered by John Kyllyngworth in the presence of 'magister' Nicholas Metcalfe, Archdeacon of Rochester, John Wyatt, William Smythe, clerks, Gerald Croft[es], Francis Berebruar, and other laymen.

Remise and quitclaim by Richard [Fox], Bishop of Winchester, Thomas [Ruthall], Bishop of Durham, John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, and John Cutte, knight to Thomas Thomson, clerk and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, of all their rights in the lands, holdings, rents, reversions and services which they had in the parish of St Egidius [St Giles], Cambridge, and which were formerly John Smyth's of London, gent[leman].
13 July 8 Hen: VIII

Account of John Scott, Fellow: includes expenses for completing Christ's College Chapel and repairs to the manor of Malton, Cambridgeshire.

Injunctions given by Bishop John Fisher as Visitor to Christ's College 21 July 1510, witnessed by John Bere Apostolic notary. The statutes of Christ's required Visitation to take place in the second half of November, so the actual visitation may have occurred in November 1509.

Letter, undated, from Henry Hornby to John Fisher, concerning repairs needed at Christ's College's estates at Malton, Cambridgeshire & near Lincoln; work on the College itself & payment for an inventory of Lady Margaret's goods made by Humphrey Wallcote (Walcot).

Letter, Geoffrey Blyth[e] Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield, to Henry Hornby, enclosing will of Margaret Warton of Coventry, who bought jointly with her first husband Richard Clerk lands which she has left to the use of Christ's College, Cambridge. The messenger who brought this was probably the Prior of Coventry Charterhouse, who was rewarded in Lady Margaret's household accounts of the year 1507-1508.

Inventory of plate, books and vestments bequeathed to Christ's College by the Lady Margaret.

Charters, accounts, deeds and other documents related to the creation and re-foundation of Christ's College. Christ's College was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as God's House. In 1505, the College was granted a new royal charter, was given a substantial endowment by Lady Margaret Beaufort, and changed its name to Christ's College.