Indenture of a lease by Margaret, Countess of Richmond, reciting Letters Patent of Henry VII, dated 22 May 1487, granting her the third part of the manors of Kendall and Wiresdale, Lancashire and Westmoreland, for life, to Sir Thomas Laurence, of lands in Assheton alias Essheton alias Eston, and Kernford [Carnforth] in Lonesdale, Lancashire, formerly held by William Lyndessey.
8 July 1503. Signed Margaret R., and T. Laurence, knyght.

Letters of attorney from Richard [Hill], Bishop of London, and Richard Skypton, clerk to John Gilbert, William Assheley, William Jenney and Thomas Bury, to take seisin of lands in Devon and Somerset from Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Sir Reginald Brary, Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Richard Page.

Release by Richard Burgeys, son of Thomas Burgeys, of Wokkyng [Woking], Surrey, husbandman, for 75s., to Thomas, Earl of Derby, and Margaret, Countess of Rychemound and Derbie [sic], of his rights in his father's lands in Wokkyng.
Chertesey, 24 March 1486/7

Documents relating to property in Hertfordshire.

Indenture dated 26 May 1507, of a grant by the Princess Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derbie [sic], mother of the King, to Humphry Conyngsby, sejeant [sic] at law, of closes called Great Medbourne, Oxlea, Asshmore and Coletts, and of 7 acres of meadow, in the parish of Aldenham, Hertfordshire, for a yearly rent of 51s.
Per me Humfridum Conyngesby.

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

Bond of Lady Elizabeth Scrope, widow of Sir Henry Wentworth, to Lady Margaret, to abide by her arbitration in a dispute with Richard Wentworth.
Signed: Elysabeth Scrope

Bond of Richard Wentworth to Lady Margaret, to abide by her arbitration in a dispute with Lady Elizabeth Scrope.
Signature and seal of: Rychard Wentworth

Dorse: Lady Scrope, who married as her second husband Sir Henry Wentworth, of Nettlestead, Suffolk.

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.

Agreement between Lady Margaret and Foulk Woodhall [Fulk Woodhull] of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, for his marriage settlement with Elizabeth Webb, one of Lady Margaret's gentlewomen.

Indulgence from John (Sante), Abbot of Abingdon, nuntio of Pope Sixtus IV in England, Wales and Ireland, to Margaret, Countess of Richmond, in regard to her contributions to the wars against the Turks.
London, 5 March 1476/7

Papal bull of Pope Alexander VI for the confirmation of the Feast of Jesus, with indulgences similar to those for Corpus Christi, at the instance of Lady Margaret.

A petition to Pope Innocent VIII for indulgences for King Henry VII, his Queen [Elizabeth of York] and his mother [Lady Margaret Beaufort].

Bull of Alexander VI to Lady Margaret. Alexander VI has recently commended to Henry VII Hadrian Castellensis [Adrian de Castello], Domestic Secretary, for the see of Worcester, but it had been promised by his Queen Elizabeth to a certain confessor; Henry VII prposed to appoint Hadrian one of his Proctors at the Curia. The Pope is content, but asks the favour of the Margaret for Hadrian.
St Peter's, Rome, 8 December 1498
Signed: Jo. Mutinen

Grant by Gratian de Villanova, warden of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit, Rome, to the Lady Margaret, who has been admitted to the confraternity, by her proxy, John Harington, LL.D, of the right to choose her confessor.
Rome, 22 September 1495

Indulgence, granted 20 May 1504, by Pope Julius II to the Lady Margaret and Henry VII. The bull grants licence to choose confessors, with privileges relating to absolution, permission to relax the Lenten fast and to visit enclosed religious houses.

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."

Drafts of accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond's executors. Items of expenditure from 3 July 1513 to 16 March 1512/3 are listed on pages 16-20.