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Includes documents related to lands and estates passed onto Lady Margaret through her family, husband(s) and assigns.

Inventory of furniture & vestments of the Lady Margaret's chapel.

• The items are listed under the headings: copes, vestments, aulter clothes, palles and canapes, curtaynes, vayles and baner clothes, coproras, coyssnynes to ley books upon [cushions to lay books upon], cruetts and paxes, cowchers and other books, antyphoners, mass books, grayles, processionales, prikesong books, surplices, coffers ...

Inventory of the wardrobe of the beds:

• pp. 1-3: Arras [the story of Hercules]
• pp. 4-6: Verdonis
• p.8: beds and counterpoynts of cloth of gold and sylver
• pp. 9-10: spervers
• pp.11-16: counterpoynts
• pp.17-18: curtens of sarsenet
• pp.-18-19: beddys of down
• pp.19-21: fetherbeds and bolsters
• p.21: tykys for fetherbedds
• p.22: pylowes of down
• p.23: fustians
• p.25: clothes of estate
• pp.26-27: kosshens of cloth of gold
• pp. 28-29: carpets
• p.31: chayers [chairs]
• p.33: coveryngs of the chare and lytter

Surrender (or release) by Sir John Hussey of an annuity of £5 granted to him by the Lady Margaret, by letters patent, on the manors of Bourne and Deeping, Lincolnshire.
Signature and seal of John Hussey

Includes documents related to the Stafford family.

Documents relating to land held by the Stafford family.

Expenses at law by John Wood, solicitor, on behalf of Lady Margaret's executors; signed by Fisher & Hornby.

Small trasshe [treasure] left in three coffers at the Chanter's place at St Paul's [London].

Letter, no year, Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flamborough to John Fisher, discussing a royal composition concerning the town of Scarborough and the conduct of Ralph Fisher; asks a fellowship for (?John) Shaw son of the bailiff of Hayton, Yorkshire

Letter under the signet desiring John Fisher and the other executors of the Lady Margaret to reserve to Thomas Farthing, a gentleman of the Royal Chapel an annuity of 10 marks out of the Lordships of Maxey and Torpell, Northamptonshire.

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.

Documents from Henry VIII to Lady Margaret's executors concerning payments, estates, foundations and lands.

Includes: accounts of Sir Roger Ormeston for expenses on behalf of Lady Margaret Beaufort.

Includes: accounts of Roger Fremyngham [Fremingham] treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret.

Regrets Fisher's illness, says that the queen (Catherine of Aragon) will soon give birth; alludes to secret matters which cannot be written.

Riding expenses of a servant of John Fisher for journeys to Haldnam [Aldenham?], St Albans, Stevenage, Cambridge, Barkway, Ware and Waltham, 18-23 January; and to Barkway, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Foderynga [Fotheringhay] and back, 31 January - 7 February.
Signed: Jo. Roffs. [John Rochester]

Richard Henrison Commissary of the Bishop of Ely, to John Fisher, describing the removal [expulsion] of the brethren of St John's Hospital by water to Ely, and surrender of the goods of the house.
No year on letter, but must be 1511