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Documents relating to the manor of Canford and the town of Poole, Dorset.
Documents relating to the manor of Canford and the town of Poole, Dorset.
Account of the treasurer of the Lady Margaret's chamber, Robert Fremyngham, signed by John Fisher, Henry Hornby and Hugh Ashton. The accounts end on the day of Lady Margaret's death.
Page 4 is blank
Chambers within Lady Margaret's houses
Items found in the chambers of Lady Margaret's houses following her death.
Charter: Lady Margaret (Cambridge)
Indented charter of the Lady Magaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Cambridge with the appointment of John Fisher as the first occupant of the post, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]
Charter: Lady Margaret (Oxford)
Indented charter of the Lady Margaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Oxford, with the appointment of John Roper as first reader, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]
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.
"A view of the stuff ... belonging to my ladys grace': an inventory of cloth materials incl. bed furnishing and coverings for her chair and litter."
Account of Sir Roger Ormeston, knight, of expenses on behalf of Lady Margaret, mostly the repair and equipment of the house of Coldharbour, London and rewards for entertainments, these probably for the retinue of Catherine [Katherine] of Aragon.
Signatures 'Margaret R.' at bottom of pp. 3 & 18
Pages 4, 19 and 20 are blank
Inventories of items at Collyweston, Northamptonshire
Hornby [Horneby], Henry
Accounts of James Morice clerk of works at Collyweston.
Morice, James
The account of Miles Worsley, cofferer to Lady Margaret.
Account of James Morice clerk of works to the Lady Margaret, for the manor at Collyweston, Northamptonshire; also includes accounts for building a new house at Collyweston using timber from Bourne Park, Lincolnshire and freestone. (pp.117-145)
Morice, James
Computus (account) of William Bedell, Treasurer of the Household of the Lady Margaret [Beaufort]. The accounts refer to Lady Margaret's houses in Croydon and Hatfield.
Bedell, William
Letters patent of Edward IV, confirming at the request of Alianor [Eleanor], Duchess of Somerset, the inquisition held by John Knottesford, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, at Southwark 12 September 1455. The inquisition found that Edmund, Duke of Somerset, had no goods or chattels in Surrey at his death, but that John, Duke of Somerset, was seized of the manors of Wokkyng and Sutton and had granted them to Edmund and Alianor, his wife, and to Henry, Duke of Somerset, son and heir of Edmund, for life.
Westminster, 23 April 1466.
Confirmation: Maxey & Torpell, Northamptonshire
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
A contemporary (16th century) copy of the will of Lady Margaret.
Copy of indulgence: Pope Julius II
Copy of a bull of Pope Julius II, dated Rome, 20 May 1504, adressed to Henry VII, giving licence to choose a confessor, and approviing of John Burnell, of the order of Friars Minor 'de observantia'; also similar licence to the Lady Margaret.
Julius II, Pope
Also with the Bishop of Ely's Commissary