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Goods delivered to Robert Hilton, yeoman of the wardrobe for Lady Margaret. The first page of the volume contains the following entry: "This boke made the xxi day of August xvth yere of the reyn of King Henry the VIIth at Coleweston witnesseth that theises parcelles folowyng of the stuf and guds of the Right high and might princesse Margarete Moder unto our said soverayne lord and Countesse of Richemonde and Derby be put and delivered to Robert Hilton yoman of hir wardrobe by him to be surely kept as here aftre appereth.

The items are listed under the headings:

• gownes (pp.3-4)
• kirtles (p.6)
• manteles (p.7)
• furres (pp.9-10)
• all maner of silks (p. 17)
• broken gownes with other stuf (p.24)
• remanents of peces of clothes (p.31)
• frice and cotton (p.36)

Individual items are also listed:

• item: iii grete standarts boudne with iron
• item: a pyle of cloth for the presse with ii curtyns
• item: a canvas for the presse

Documents relating to Lady Margaret's lands in Woking, Surrey.

Includes copies of Lady Margaret's will and lists of her bequests.

W (William) Compton, Richmond, to John Fisher requesting his continued favour to James Morice "one of the king's receivers" to obtain for Morice the wardship of Thomas Champneys

William Burbank, secretary to Cardinal Wolsey, to John Fisher, requesting lease of a church belonging to St John's College for his kinsman, surveyor of the King's Stables; bids Fisher farewell 'in our great business'.
Undated, but Whit Monday

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

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.

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.

A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret, with certain corrections concerning the gifts to those who should attend her funeral, the dispositions of Maxey [Cambridgeshire] and Torpell [Northamptonshire], and those of the Somerset manors which she has enfeoffed with licence of Edward IV.

Inventories and lists of items found in Lady Margaret's wardrobe following her death.

A view of the wardrobe of beds at Hatfield. The items are listed under the headings:

• pp. 1-2: arrase
• p. 3: sarcenet
• pp.5-7: verdours
• p. 8: square bedds of fyne arras and coutersetts
• pp.11-12: square bedds of counterpoynts of cloth of gold and silk
• p.13: counterpoynt palid of aras cloth gold and silk
• p. 14: counteropoynts of tapestre
• p.15: counterpoynts of vardors
• p.16: curtens of sarcenet; canapes of sarcenet
• p.17: bedds of downe; bolsters of downe
• p.18: pyllows of downe
• p.19: bedds of fethers
• p.20: fustyans, quylts of silke, etc
• p.21: mattress, volster, blanketts, etc
• p.22: coverletts
• p.23: letter maters [leather materials]
• p.24: travesses of sarcenet, clothes of astate
• p.25: cosshens of cloth gold and silk
• p.26: carpetts of dyvers sortes - written at bottom of the page: "Md that all theis carpetts before written be fownd in sauff over the wardop which is supposed to be in John Birds chamber"
• p.27: cheyers of cloth of gold and silk; cheyers of covered lether; coveryng of the chare and litter
• p. 28: stayned sayez; rede sayes, grene sayes; black sayez;
• pp. 29-31: white sayez
  "Store of canvens called ... by Mr Assheton bought"

Valuations of Lady Margaret's estates and property

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."

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

Includes documents related to trusts and settlements with the Beaufort and Stafford families.

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

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

Letter (undated) from Thomas Hobson to John Fisher, sending a book of accounts for approval.

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