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

A signed draft copy of Lady Margaret’s will, annotated with additions and corrections in various hands. It includes a list of her particular benefactions to ‘Cristes College’ and ‘to my lord Prince’ which has been altered to read ‘the kinges grace’. Also includes a paper about the purchase of Bassingbourne in Fordham, Cambridgeshire inserted at front.
A folio paper book of 72 pages.
Pages 1-38: annotated draft will
Pages 39-56: list of legacies
Pages 57-72: blank

A contemporary (16th century) copy of the will of Lady Margaret.

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.

A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret, with marginal notes and headings. [most likely prepared for probate] It is entitled and endorsed as a copy of the will of the Lady Margaret.

• pp. 3-29: copy of will
• pp. 30-38: an estimate of her funeral expenses, amounting to £1033.2s.8d.
• pp. 39-48: a list of her legacies

A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret. Attached is a sealed deed of William, Archbishop of Canterbury and papal legate, dated 22 October 1512 at Lambeth, granting probate of the will.
Incorporating her original will (6 June 1508) and the memorandum for founding St John's College.
Stored in a wooden box

Declaration of uses by Lady Margaret of a grant dated 22 May 1472 related to the performance of her will, namely to pay the debts of Edmund, earl of Richmond and Sir Henry Stafford her former husbands; the cost of translating the bones of Edmund out of Wales where he is buried to the abbey of Bourne, Lincolnshire and for making a tomb for Edmund and herself, and for a tomb at Plesshey, Essex where Stafford's bones lie; for the foundation of a chantry at Bourne and a chantry at Plesshey, with an income of 12 marks a year for the priests serving them; the reversion of the issues to go to her son Henry earl of Richmond

Bawessey, 2 June 1472
Seal of the Countess.
Endorsed: an olde wyll mayd and revoked by my ladyes grace
Slit through by way of cancellation.

Receipt, by Alice Stanhope from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, for a chain of gold weighing 4oz & £4.6s.8d, in excess of £3.6s.8d. delivered to her by Hugh Ashton, bequeathed by Lady Margaret; in Fisher's hand.
Signed by Alice Stanhope and countersigned, Jo. Roffs.

Bequests of the Lady Margaret, valued. Begins: "To Crists Colege: first a crucifix with mary and John full gilt and enameld [weighing 11 ounces]

Answer in Chancery of Richard [Foxe] Bishop of Winchester explaining that he was not present when Lady Margaret made her will but that he has it on good authority that she left the College lands in the "countees [counties] of Devynshyre [Devonshire] and Somersettshyre [Somerset]".

List of plate belonging to Lady Margaret, some of which was given to Christ's College. Includes the following entries:

• p.1: Bequestis [bequests] item ij plaine [plain] pottis [pots] gilt ponderyng [weighing] cxxvj uncie [ounces] xxxx £25.4s
  item on[e] gilt standing cuppe [cup] coverde [covered] bequethid [bequeathed] unto Sir Sir John Saynt [Saint] John
  Bequest to Maistress [Mistress] Parker, master [Alexander] Frognall, Master Chamber[lain], Mr Chancelor [Chancellor]
• pp.3-4: of the gyfftis [gifts] Plate given to Christ's College, with one item a gilt spoon, to Master Edward Boothe
• p. 5: Lakkyng [lacking] of there [their] wight [weight]
• p.7: Dyvers platt unpayd [diverse plate unpaid] Items in the hands of or sold to my Lord Chamberlyn [Chamberlain], Master Marney, Sir John Saint John, Master Chauncelor [Chancellor] for my Lord of Exceter [Exeter], Maistres [Mistress] Edeithe [Edith], Master Chamberlaine {Chamberlain], Master Parker.
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Includes documents related to lands and estates passed onto Lady Margaret through her family, husband(s) and assigns.

Includes: letters patent and a grant for land held in the Honour of Richmond.

Letters Patent of Edward III granting petition of several tenants (named) to retain 54 a at Barm, Quadryng [Quadring], Lincolnshire, free from interference by royal officials, as held of the honour of Richmond.

Endorsed: evidence pertaining to the manor of Wykes for baron in Quadryng'.
Karliolum, 14 July 1335. By fine of 40s. Lincoln.

Letters Patent, Edward III to Ranulph Pygot et al for land held of the honour of Richmond in Donington and Swineshead, Lincolnshire.

Grant, Ranulph Pygot of Donington to William his son, parcels of land and salt pans in Donington and Quadring, Lincolnshire.

Includes: 2 leases for land in Amell and Ware, Hertfordshire.