Lady Margaret Beaufort

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Draft will: probate

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

Will & Memorandum

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.

Receipt: gold chain

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.

Stanhope, Alice

Inventory: wardrobe of the robes

Inventory of the wardrobe of robes of Lady Margaret.
"Certayn apparelle clothe of golde, silkes, and furres withe other stuff remaynyng in the said wardrobe prised by Olyver Scales."

The inventory begins: "first a gowne of blake velvet..."

  • p.7: stuf remaynyng in a grete standard in the galery under the custodie of mastre Fowler of silkes and napery
  • p.9: in an other coffer
  • p.10: In my Ladies bedechambre
    *p.13: a remembraunce of drapery napery lat[e] apertayng unto my ladies grace

Recital of Intentions

A copy of the directions of the Lady Margaret concerning the lands left to St John's College, that those in feoffment in Northamptonshire shall revert to the King [Henry VIII] when her will has been performed.

Probate Copy Will

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 Account

One membrane of a declaration of account by the executors of Lady Margaret; includes sums for goods delivered earlier to Wolsey and SJC; also includes an account of the money from Katherine, Countess of Devonshire.

SJC Accounts: donations & Countess of Devonshire

Accounts of donations received (pp. 1-3) and for money assigned by Henry VIII from Katherine, Countess of Devonshire to Lady Margaret Beaufort's executors (pp 9-15). The last item listed on p.3 is for 6s. paid for a Greek vocabulary bought for the use of the College's library.

Also includes the account of Nicholas Metcalfe for money due to the estate of Lady Margaret.

Valuation of Estates

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."

Quarles, George

Engrossed Accounts

Part of the accounts of the exectuors of Lady Margaret, containing entries of the sale of plate, arras [sic], bedding etc. to various important persons such as Lord Herbert, Lord Burgavenny, the Bishop of Durham [and others.]. The entries correspond with the full accounts.

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