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

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.

Copy of indulgence from Pope Innocent VIII to Henry VII and his Queen Elizabeth [and his mother].
Rome, 13 August 1488.

Inventory made at Hatfield by Robert Hylton yoman [yeoman] of my ladies [lady's] wardrobe of her Robes ther[e] from [14 January 1508/9] unto [16 August 1509].
Begins: Blak [black] velvet. Fyrst [first] of the remanes [remains] of the last accompt. [account]. 11 gownes, 1 hoode, 1 typett [tippet], 70 yards of velvet (provision of 24 yards made by Robert Fremyngham), "wherof Delyvered [delivered] to Maistres [Mistress] Mabell [Mabel] Clifford 1 gown lyned [lined] with blak [black] damask, given to hir [her] by my ladies grace..."

Under headings: Blak Satens [black satins], p.3; Tawny saten [satin], 4; Bla[c]k damask 5; tynseld saten [tinselled satin], 6; bla[c]k brevet, 7; tawny velvet, 9; tawny damask, 9; russet damask, russet saten [satin], 10; yelowe [yellow] saten [satin], whyte [white] damask, 11; tawny chamlet, 12; black chamlet, bukram [buckram], 13; silke [silk] remaynyng [remaining], 14.
p. 15. Certayn [certain] apparaill [apparel] of clothe [cloth] remaynyng [remaining], gownes, peticots [petticoats], mantills [mantles], clokes [cloaks]
pp16-19: blank
p.20. avewe [ A view] taken of Robert Hilton for my ladys robis [robes] by William Bedell and James Morice.

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.

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.

The account of Miles Worsley, cofferer to Lady Margaret.

• pp13-61: From 2 Feb 1501/2 to 14 Jan 1502/3 have signature 'Margaret R.' at bottom
• pp 69-70: are blank
• pp71-129: Similar account from 14 Jan 1502/3 to 14 Jan 1503/4 with signatures
• pp134-140: Summary of accounts [?]
• pp141-191: Similar account from 14 Jan 1503/4 to 14 Jan 1504/5
• pp 191-192: Paid by Sir Roger Urmeston [Ormeston] since 20 Jan 1503/4
• pp194-200: Summary of accounts [?]
• pp201-218: blank

Accounts of Miles Worsley cofferer to Lady Margaret, for the household at Croydon & Hatfield.

• pp. 1-80: Croydon. Account from 14 Jan 1504/5 to 14 Jan 1505/6
• pp. 81-82: blank
• pp. 83-163: Hatfield. Account from 14 Jan 1505/6 to 14 Jan 1506/7
• pp. 166-172: blank

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)

Accounts of James Morice for works at Collyweston Croydon, Halyng (Haling), Fotheringhay, Coldharbour, Hatfield, Christ's College.

Accounts of receipts & expenses by Nicholas Metcalfe.

Account of Henry Hornby, executor of Lady Margaret.

Inventory of goods & clothes belonging to Henry Hornby, Dean of the Lady Margaret's chapel. The volumes lists the following items:

• pp.1-2: gownes lyned
• p.3: riding gownes and cloke, doublette, jaquets lyned.
• p.4: jaquets furred, petticotts, hose
• p.5 beces of wollen
• pp.7-8: beding and other necessary things
• p.9: superpellice [surplice]
• p.11: in tharmory chamber [in the armory chamber?]
• p.12: basons, candlesticks and other thyngs
• p.13: sadells and harnesses

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

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"

Letter of attorney, Thomas, Lord Stanley to Richard Parker and Thomas Colbronde, to take seisin from Sir John Mainwaring et al. of the manor of Moldesdale, Flintshire.

Indenture of grant by Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, Henry Pole and Robert Southworth to John [Russell], Bishop of Lincoln, John [Morton], Bishop of Ely, Sir John Denham, Lord Denham, Sir William Huse, Sir Thomas Borough, John Cheyny [Chesne], Richard Pygot, serjeant at law, William Catesby, John Brown, Reginald Bray, Thomas Roggers, and John Denton, of the Castle of Hawarden, Cheshire, the manors of Mahuntesdale in the Marches of Wales, and the manors of Bydston, Neston, Donham, Maxey, Kynghey, Bosley and Dorfold, Cheshire, and of Hoveryngham and Flyntham, Nottinghamshire, for the life of Margaret [Beaufort], Countess of Richmond.
With appointment of Hugh Gartesside, Robert Shakerley and Gilbert Gilpyn as attorneys to give seisin.

Grant by Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham [and] Earl of Hertford, Stafford and Northampton, by royal licence to Thomas [Bourchier], Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas [Rotherham], Archbishop of York, John [Morton], Bishop of Ely, William [Dudley], Bishop of Durham, John [Hales], Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, John [Russell], Bishop of Lincoln, Henry [Bourchier], Earl of Essex, William, Lord Hastyngs, John, Lord Howard, Walter, Lord Ferres, Sir William Knyvet, Sir Richard Chok, Sir Guy Fayrfax, Richard Pygot and John Catesby, serjeant at law, John Jeffery,clerk, William Catesby, William Paston, John Denton, William Harpour, Richard Harpour, John Broun, Richard Isham and Andrew Dymmok, of the manors of Hatfeld Regis, Writtel and Boyton, in the hundreds of Ongre and Harlow in the county of Essex, and the manors of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Rothwell, Northamptonshire, held in chief of the King [Edward IV].
26 February 1480/1

Letters of sequestration addressed by Thomas [Bourchier], Archbishop of Canterbury and Papal Legate, to Margaret, Countess of Richmond, Sir William Husee, Thomas Rydley, rector of Clypsham, Lincolnshire, William Fairfax, Reginald Bray and Thomas Rodgers, of the goods of Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, deceased.
Knoll [near Sevenoaks, Kent], 16 September 1482

Letters patent of Henry VII, granting manors in Devon, Somerset, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Northamptonshire, Dorset, South Wales and property in London to his mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond.
Westminster, 22 March 1486/7