Lady Margaret Beaufort

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Hangings: bought & paid for

List of tapestries from Lady Margaret's furnishings which were sold & paid for. Purchasers include: John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Henry Hornby; Morgan and Lord Mountjoy.

The items are listed as:

  • First the historye of paris and helyn sowlde to my lorde of Surrey £22
  • Item the storye of Nabingodenesar to my lorde Surray £18
  • Item the historye of Saule Episcope Roffensis [Bishop of Rochester]
  • Item the vij sages sowld to Mr Sir John Saynt John £11.11.8 etc.

Book of the Vestry

An inventory of chapel & other household plate, vestments and service books priced and marked with a note by John Fisher in the margin of their destination. Many of the items were intended for Christ’s and St John’s Colleges. Folio 60 lists the obligations due to Lady Margaret at her death.

The headings are:
Copes, vestments, aulter clothes, palles, and canapes, curtayns for the aulter, vailes and banerclothes, corporas, couchers and other books…. All the books to cristes collage…, masse books, graylles, processyonalles, alter clothes of lynyn, surplesses….

Book of deliverences

Book of receipts and deliverances [sic].
180 pages

  • p. 2: receyts at diverse tymes from 1 Jan 1498/9
  • p. 26: money receyved the 7 day of February 1501/2 of Miles Worsley of his debet of his last accounts at Candlemas last past.
  • p. 31: receyte made by Dr Hugh Assheton and Mr Hugh Olden, 1502/3
  • pp. 35-37: Delyverance at diverses tymes by my lady from 14 January 1499/1500 - mostly payments to William Bedell, treasurer of my ladys household
  • pp. 38-40: Delyveraunces at certain tymes from 4 January 1499/1500 - payments to Miles Worsley
  • pp.46-48: Delyveraunces at diverse tymes from 14 January 1500/1 to Miles Worsley
  • pp. 50-52: Money delyvered to the Tresorer for the expenses of her household from 7 February 1501/2 to 17 January 1502/3
  • p.53: ...delyvered by the hands of Mr Chauncelor to John Dautre of Southampton 21 August
  • pp.55-58: Money delyvered to Myles Worsley from 7 February 1501/2 to 19 January 1502/3
  • pp.59-60: Money delyvered to William Bedell from 14 January 1502/3 to 12 January 1503/4
  • pp. 61-62: Notes of arrears. Memorandum of mony delyvered unto the foresaid Tresorer [William Bedell] by the hands of Myles Worsley whereoff the said Miles hath alowance in hys account among pryor payments.
  • pp.65-67: Money delyvered to Miles Worlsey from 19 January 1502/3 to 10 January 1503/4
  • pp69-71: Memorandum of money delyvered to William Bedell from 14 Jan 1503/4 to 11 Dec 1504
  • pp.75-78: Memorandum of money delyvered to Miles Worsley from 14 Jan 1503/4 to 21 Dec 1504
  • pp. 83-84: Receyts of mony from 17 Jan 1503/4 to 15 Jan 1504/5.
  • pp. 85-86: Receyts of mony to may lady Cofferes from 15 Jan 1505/5 to [Jan 1505/6]
  • p.87: Somme totall of all mony receyved of Hugh Assheton clerke within the tyme aforesaid £4102.3.7½
  • pp.91-93: Memorandum of mony delyvered unto the Tresour of household from 13 Jan 1504/5 to [12 Jan 1505/6] [Item paid by the hands of Nicholas Sanders]
  • pp.101-104: Memorandum of mony delyvered unto Myles Worsley from 13 Jan 1504/3 to [December 1505] [ - with other money received by Worsley]
  • pp. 107-109: Money delyvered to James Morise for the works from 2 March 1504/5. Includes: item delyvered to the said James [Morice] ... by the hands of Miles Worsley for the bildyng Cristes Colledge in Cambryge. .... Item delyvered a nother tyme... by the hands of Mr Chanceller and Mr Controller .. the foresaid reparations of Christs Colledge... to the hands of Mr Sykelyng [John Sycling, first Master of Christ's College]
  • pp.111-114: Receytes of mony from 15 Jan 1503/6 to [January 1506/7][Mostly from Hugh Ashton some by the hands of Miles Worsely. Other payments by Sir Henry Willoughby (money lent), John Turney (for the ward of Jane Godston), William Bedell, Treasurer of the Household, James Mores [Morice], clerk of works
  • pp.117-120: Mony delivered unto the tresourer of household from 13 Jan 1505/6 to Jan 1506/7; payments made by the hands of Nicholas Saunder
  • pp.123-125: Mony delivered unto Myles Worsley from 13 Jan 1505/6 [to Jan 1506/7]
  • pp. 126-129: “The iij day of October the first yer of Kinge Henry the viij [1509]. Memorandum than the money received of M Fotehede as appareth in the thred lefe folowinge ther remaineth the day afore written as appereth in lower ende of the said iijd lefe the parcellis as ensuing” [list of items, numbered 1-15; some have ‘Mettcalf’ in margin. – receipts from John Mundy, goldsmith London, in part payment for plate sold; mony found in the coffers in the custody of Maister Garth Fowler as apperith in con bagge sealed with the seale of Sir John Saynt John… Mony received from Sir Thomas Mawdyslay as well for plate as for other stuff of my lady by him sold. (p.127).
  • pp.130-131: Recyeytt of mony from 13 Jan 1506/7 to [December 1507] mostly from Hugh Ashton
  • pp.132-133: Memorandum received 12 July [1509] of John Fotehed, Master of Michael House in Cambridge, by my lorde of Rochester, Sir John Saint John and Henry Hornsby, with particulars of payments to the Abbot of Peturborough and John Fotehead, for my ladys use

Inventory of Robes

Inventory of robes; also wine sold or given away, glassware, small precious items in Lady Margaret's chamber and closet.
Items listed under the following headings:

  • p.3: peticottes
  • p.4: mantills, clokes
  • p.5: cloth of glod [sic], silkks, furres
  • pp.6-7: stuf ina gret standard
  • p. 8: in a coffer
  • p.9: in my ladys chamber
  • pp. 11-14: dyaper and napery
  • p.15: glasses
  • pp. 16-17: cupbords, pewter, stuf in the closet
  • p. 18: stanard in the juell [jewel] house, gardyviaunts, standards
  • p.19: coffers in the closet, standards in the bed chamber, standards in the gallery
  • p.20: standards in the wardrobe of robes
  • pp. 22-23: spices
  • p.23: pewter
  • pp. 24-28: smalle tresses prysed by Jon Mondy with other.

Also listed:

  • p.21: wyne. Item of Gascon Wyne v tonne
  • sold to Thomas Lovell 1 tonne
  • to my Lord Rochester 1 pipe
  • to Sir John Saint John 1 pipe
  • to the Abbot of Saint Albans 1 tonne
  • to the same Abbot 1 pipe
  • to Mr Chamber[lain] 1 pipe
  • expended at Hatfeld 1 tonne

Also listed:

  • sweet wyne
  • item whit wyne of angey remanet 1 pipe
  • item in malmesay ij butte
  • of ruermerey i butte
  • to the Abbot of Saint Albans if whit wyne of anger 1 pipe
  • to the same abbot i but of malmesey
  • to my Lord of Rochester j but of malmesey
  • to the abbot of Saint Albans j but of ruermerey

Coldharbour, London

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

Boston, Lincolnshire

Accounts of Sir Roger Ormeston for expenses on behalf of the Lady Margaret; includes a reference to the making of the sluice at Boston, Lincolnshire; additionally includes a summary in fair hand of some material in the Ormeston's accounts for Coldharbour, London.

Pages 1, 7 and 8 are blank.

  • p.2: Sum totall. of alle the payments aforesaid £911.19.5. And so the said Sir Roger owith [sic] to my ladys grace £25.8.1.
  • pp.3-6: items bought, beginning - velvet of divers coloures and prises bought for my ladeys grace at divers tymes £141.7.6
  • p.9: Memorandum payd by Roger Ormeston knight for divers neccessaries and implements to the steward [?] att Boston of my lady the Kings moder money.

Chamber Accounts

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

Prior of the Carthusians

Admission of confraternity granted by Anthony, Prior of the Carthusian Order, to Thomas, Lord Stanley, and Margaret [Beaufort] his wife, to the Lady Elianor [Eleanor], deceased, formerly his wife, and to Sir Thomas Stanley and Johanna his wife and their children.
"Datum Carthusie sedente nostro capitulo generali 23 April 1478"

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

Will: Sir Henry Stafford

Will of Sir Henry Stafford, third husband of Lady Margaret. A later will, dated October 1471, was proved 4 May 1482. The proved version has gifts including a horse to John, Earl of Wiltshire which are not in the 1470 version.

Stafford, Henry

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.

Executors of Lady Margaret

Includes: accounts, letters, receipts, payments and correspondence related to Lady Margaret's will and estates and to the foundation of St John's College. Also includes letters of John Fisher.
Lady Margaret appointed as her executors Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester; John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Charles Somerset, Lord Herbert, the King's Chamberlain; Sir Thomas Lovell, Treasurer of the King's Household; Sir Henry Marney, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Sir John St John, her chamberlain; Henry Hornby, her chancellor, and Sir Hugh Ashton, comptroller of her household

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