Lady Margaret Beaufort was mother to King Henry VII of England and foundress of St. John’s College. Born on 31st May 1443 at Bletsoe Castle in Bedfordshire, she was the daughter of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe and John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, and a descendant of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster. Margaret’s first marriage to John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, took place c.1450, although this marriage was never recognised by Margaret herself and was dissolved in 1453. Her second marriage to Edmund Tudor, half-brother of King Henry VI of England, took place on 1st November 1455, when Margaret was twelve years of age. Soon after, Margaret fell pregnant with Edmund’s child. In November 1456, she was widowed when Edmund, fighting on the Lancastrian side of the Wars of the Roses, was captured by Yorkist forces and died in captivity at Carmarthen. A few months later, Margaret gave birth to her only son, the future Henry VII of England, at Pembroke Castle in Wales, where she was protected by her brother-in-law, Jasper Tudor.
In 1458, Margaret married Sir Henry Stafford, the son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham. While the couple bore no children, Margaret enjoyed a long and close relationship with her husband until his death in 1471. Margaret’s fourth and final marriage to Thomas Stanley, the Lord High Constable and King of Mann, took place in June 1472.
After the success of her son, Henry, in securing the crown at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, Margaret benefited significantly from her newfound authority as the King’s mother and wielded considerable power within the royal court. She was highly influential and a wealthy landowner and patron, generously donating money for the foundation of schools and colleges, including God’s House, Cambridge, which was refounded in 1505 as Christ’s College, and St. John’s College, founded in 1511 after her death with money from her estate. The Lady Margaret Professorship in Divinity, held respectively at Oxford and Cambridge universities, was established in her name in 1502.
Margaret died on 29th June 1509 and was buried in the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey, in a tomb created by the Florentine sculptor, Pietro Torrigiano. She remains a central figure in the history of the early Tudor dynasty and in the foundation of St. John’s College.
John Fisher was an English bishop, theologian and humanist academic, who was instrumental in the founding of St John's College. He is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Born in the town of Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1469, Fisher was a student at Cambridge in the 1480s, gaining his BA in 1488. He was subsequently elected Fellow of Michaelhouse, one of the two Colleges later refounded as Trinity College by Henry VIII. He became chaplain and confessor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and in 1504, was appointed as Bishop of Rochester. At Cambridge, Fisher was made Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1501 and served as President of Queens’ College from 1505 to 1508. He also encouraged the creation of the University’s oldest professorship, the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, in 1502, and was elected as its first occupant.
It was through Fisher’s influence that Lady Margaret was moved to support the foundation of Christ's College (1505) and St John's College, and it was Fisher who was to secure the establishment of St. John’s in 1511, after Lady Margaret’s death in 1509. Fisher fiercely opposed the dissolution of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a position which brought him into grave conflict with the King. Fisher’s refusal to take an oath supporting Henry's right to act as Supreme Head of the Church in England led ultimately to his imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1534. Since such a refusal was considered a treasonable offence, Fisher was tried and sentenced to death, despite his late appointment to the office of cardinal by Pope Paul III. He was executed on Tower Hill on 22 June 1535.
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Records and household accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the College’s foundress and mother of King Henry VII.
Also includes letters to John Fisher, catalogued here in Subfonds 7: Executors of Lady Margaret. Many of these do not relate to St John's College
As the foundress of St. John's College, many of Lady Margaret Beaufort's household accounts and personal papers were left to the College.
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Accounts related to Lady Margaret's various households, her estates and those of her executors.
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Accounts from Lady Margaret's various households.
* Jones, M.K. and Underwood, M., *The King's Mother - Lady Margaret Beaufort Countess of Richmond and Derby.* (Cambridge, 1992)
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Includes the accounts of William Bedell, treasurer of Lady Margaret's household.
A trusted official in the household of Lady Margaret Beaufort, treasurer to Thomas Wolsey, and bailiff of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire and possibly also of Kimbolton in Huntingdon. Bedell married Cecily Crathorne around 1506. He died in July 1518 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. In his will, Bedell attributed all of his wealth to Lady Margaret Beaufort.
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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.
large tightly rolled paper roll written on both sides
The cofferer of the household paid the wages and board wages of all servants below stairs and in the stables, and many in the chamber as well.
Cofferer to Lady Margaret Beaufort, 1494 and 1498-9.
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The accounts of James Clarell, cofferer to Lady Margaret.
Pages 6-18 are blank
Readings:
* p.1: Arrears of the last account; Receyts of money of John Heron.
* p.2: Receyts of money of Nicholas Compton, of Sir John Shawe, of the Busshop [sic] of Rochester, of the Lady Margaret
* pp.4-5: Somme of the hole Receipt [sic]
* pp.19-67: Westminster. Costs and exspences, rewardes with other diverse payments. A day by day account, signed weekly Margaret R. The first item is 'payde to Thomas Whetely a Skoller [sic] of my lady at Cambryge for his Commencement there xls." Attached to p.66 is a receipt: dated 13 January 1498/9, signed and sealed by Henry Horneby (Master of Peterhouse), for £148.14.9. Attached to p.67 is a receipt, dated 8 December 1498, signed by Nicholas Pynes [?] of London , for £240, from Master Hugh Oldam, clerk, to deliver to Humfrey Conyngesby, serjeant at the lawe, to the use of the Lady Margaret.
Cofferer to Lady Margaret Beaufort, 1494 and 1498-9.
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The account of James Clarell, cofferer to the Lady Margaret. (76 pages)
The item has been rebound.
Cofferer to Lady Margaret Beaufort, also named as treasurer of the chamber from 1506.
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Includes the accounts of Miles Worsley cofferer or treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret. The accounts are for the households of Hatfield, Colyweston [Collyweston] and Croydon
The volumes are arranged by chronologically.
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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
Bound in vellum, 218 pages
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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
Bound in vellum, 172 pages
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Account of Miles Worsley treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret. Signature 'Margaret R.' at the bottom of most pages.
* pp.49: blank
* pp. 65-67: similar accounts to 14 Jan 1507/8 to 14 Jan 1508/9 [no signature]
* pp. 69-125: costs and expenses, rewards, with other dyverse [sic] payments... payd by the hands of Miles Worsley: signtures at the bottom of pp. 69-112.
Bound in vellum, 128 pages
Roger Ormeston was High Steward of Cambridge University, 1504. He graduated bachelor of civil law from Cambridge in 1489/90 and was a servant to Lady Margaret Beaufort. In the mid-1490s, Ormeston married Elizabeth, the widow of Sir Robert Chamberlain (who was executed in 1491). Ormeston was elected as K.B. in 1501. He died in 1504.
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Includes: accounts of Sir Roger Ormeston for expenses on behalf of Lady Margaret Beaufort.
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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
36 pages
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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.
Treasurer to Lady Margaret Beaufort.
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Includes: accounts of Roger Fremyngham [Fremingham] treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret.
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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
34 pages
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Includes: Receipts and expenses (summaries) of the Lady Margaret's household.
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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
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Bond of Roger Bell, Throuthorpe, Yorkshire yeoman, to the Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond, for the payment of 32 s. 9 d. at the feast of Corpus Christi and the Exaltation of the Cross; with a note of receipt by Hugh Ashton.
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A slip of paper, headed "My worshyppfull lady the Kings moder", with a list of purchases beginning:
Item 4 bolts and 4 lynkhys [links] for the chayne [chain] 3 s. 2 d.
Clerk of works at Collyweston and member of Lady Margaret Beaufort’s household.
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Includes the accounts of James Morice, clerk of works for Lady Margaret Beaufort. Morice was clerk of works at many of Lady Margaret's estates and houses.
Clerk of works at Collyweston and member of Lady Margaret Beaufort’s household.
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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)
186 pages, many blank
Clerk of works at Collyweston and member of Lady Margaret Beaufort’s household.
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Accounts of James Morice clerk of works at Collyweston.
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Paper book bound in vellum (168 pages) - mould stains obscure writing at edges and some has been lost (last repaired in 1978-1979)
SJLM/1/2/2/1: see blue folder for D91/14 for list of entries in volume
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SJLM/1/2/2/2: paper book rebound (170 pages) - one corner badly affected by damp
SJLM/1/2/2/2: see blue folder for D91/13 for list of entries in volume
Clerk of works at Collyweston and member of Lady Margaret Beaufort’s household.
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Accounts of James Morice for works at Collyweston Croydon, Halyng (Haling), Fotheringhay, Coldharbour, Hatfield, Christ's College.
paper book bound in vellum (210 pages)
see blue folder for D91/22 for list of entries in volume
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Accounts related Lady Margaret's executors.
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Accounts of Lady Margaret's executors.
The accounts are found on pages 35-150.
The volume was bound together with the Inventory of Lady Margaret's wardrobe and furniture in 1869 (SJLM/2/3/1/5).
Transferred to the Library from the muniment room and bound in 1869. (Library reference was Bb.7.8) Removed from the Library and returned to the muniment room in 1976 and given the reference D91.24.
Born to Richard and Agnes Metcalfe of Askrigg, North Yorkshire, Nicholas Metcalfe studied at Cambridge (possibly at Michaelhouse) and graduated BA in 1495, MA in 1498, BTh in 1504, and DTh in 1507. He was released from lecturing duties in 1507 in order to conduct business on behalf of John Fisher, then Chancellor of England.
In 1512, Metcalfe became archdeacon of Rochester, one of many ecclesiastical positions he was to hold throughout his life. Other notable appointments include Rector of Henley, Oxfordshire (1510-1521); Rector of Woodham Ferrers, Essex (1517-1539); vicar of Southfleet, Kent (1531-1537); and canon and prebendary of Lincoln (1526-1539).
Metcalfe served as Master of St. John’s College, Cambridge from 1518 to 1537, following the resignation of his predecessor, Alan Percy. Working alongside John Fisher, Metcalfe greatly enhanced the College’s foundation during the course of his mastership, securing, for instance, properties such as Broomhall Priory in Berkshire and Higham Priory in Kent and acquiring a number of benefactions to support the fellows and scholars of the College. He was executor to Lady Margaret Beaufort.
Like Fisher, Metcalfe opposed the divorce of Henry VIII from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in 1533. However, his religious views and proximity to Fisher meant that, following Fisher’s execution in 1535, Metcalfe was subject to suspicion and was eventually summoned to London, where he testified to Thomas Cromwell. In 1537, he was compelled to resign his mastership. He died two years later in 1539 and was buried at Woodham Ferrers.
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Accounts of receipts & expenses by Nicholas Metcalfe.
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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.
The accounts make up 20 pages of the volume.
The accounts have been calendered in Cooper, Charles H., *Memoir of Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby.* (Cambridge, 1974) pp.192-199. Some items on pp 7-8 in the accounts have been omitted by Cooper.
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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.
Two sheets or membranes of parchment, apparently cut from a roll and much stained by damp.
See pp 62, 132 and 141 in SJLM/1/3/1
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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.
A single sheet or membrane, bearing sewing marks at head and tail; possibly from same roll as SJLM/1/3/4.
Henry Hornby was secretary, dean of chapel and chancellor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and a key figure in the foundation of St. John's College, Cambridge. After graduating D.D. in 1495, Hornby was appointed Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He became Master of Peterhouse in 1509. Other notable appointments include Rector of Burton Bradstock, Dorset (1495-1517); Prebendary of Southwell (1496-1518); Prebendary of Lincoln (1501-1518), Dean of Wimborne, Dorset; and Rector of Orwell (1508-1518).
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Account of Henry Hornby, executor of Lady Margaret.
16 leaves stitched together (1 and 16 are blank)
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Inventories of plate, fabrics, foodstuffs, glassware, furniture, vestments, service books and other goods belonging to Lady Margaret Beaufort.
Henry Hornby was secretary, dean of chapel and chancellor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and a key figure in the foundation of St. John's College, Cambridge. After graduating D.D. in 1495, Hornby was appointed Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He became Master of Peterhouse in 1509. Other notable appointments include Rector of Burton Bradstock, Dorset (1495-1517); Prebendary of Southwell (1496-1518); Prebendary of Lincoln (1501-1518), Dean of Wimborne, Dorset; and Rector of Orwell (1508-1518).
Yeoman of the wardrobe, 1498-1509.
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Inventories of items at Collyweston, Northamptonshire
Henry Hornby was secretary, dean of chapel and chancellor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and a key figure in the foundation of St. John's College, Cambridge. After graduating D.D. in 1495, Hornby was appointed Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He became Master of Peterhouse in 1509. Other notable appointments include Rector of Burton Bradstock, Dorset (1495-1517); Prebendary of Southwell (1496-1518); Prebendary of Lincoln (1501-1518), Dean of Wimborne, Dorset; and Rector of Orwell (1508-1518).
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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
Yeoman of the wardrobe, 1498-1509.
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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
* Ewerer: A servant responsible for linen, handwashing, and providing water for the bath. His equipment would have been stored in the ewery
Lady Margaret Beaufort was mother to King Henry VII of England and foundress of St. John’s College. Born on 31st May 1443 at Bletsoe Castle in Bedfordshire, she was the daughter of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe and John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, and a descendant of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster. Margaret’s first marriage to John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, took place c.1450, although this marriage was never recognised by Margaret herself and was dissolved in 1453. Her second marriage to Edmund Tudor, half-brother of King Henry VI of England, took place on 1st November 1455, when Margaret was twelve years of age. Soon after, Margaret fell pregnant with Edmund’s child. In November 1456, she was widowed when Edmund, fighting on the Lancastrian side of the Wars of the Roses, was captured by Yorkist forces and died in captivity at Carmarthen. A few months later, Margaret gave birth to her only son, the future Henry VII of England, at Pembroke Castle in Wales, where she was protected by her brother-in-law, Jasper Tudor.
In 1458, Margaret married Sir Henry Stafford, the son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham. While the couple bore no children, Margaret enjoyed a long and close relationship with her husband until his death in 1471. Margaret’s fourth and final marriage to Thomas Stanley, the Lord High Constable and King of Mann, took place in June 1472.
After the success of her son, Henry, in securing the crown at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, Margaret benefited significantly from her newfound authority as the King’s mother and wielded considerable power within the royal court. She was highly influential and a wealthy landowner and patron, generously donating money for the foundation of schools and colleges, including God’s House, Cambridge, which was refounded in 1505 as Christ’s College, and St. John’s College, founded in 1511 after her death with money from her estate. The Lady Margaret Professorship in Divinity, held respectively at Oxford and Cambridge universities, was established in her name in 1502.
Margaret died on 29th June 1509 and was buried in the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey, in a tomb created by the Florentine sculptor, Pietro Torrigiano. She remains a central figure in the history of the early Tudor dynasty and in the foundation of St. John’s College.
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Inventory of plate in the cellar, spicery, pantry, ewery [office of the ewerer] and scullery at Colyweston. It begins with:
"first ii greate pottes gilet graven full of porternalions and margarettes with the kings armes inaelde above the two lidis bother ponderying [weighing] ccccxxviij unc. at iij s viij d. le unce
The goods are listed under the headings:
* cellar (pp.2-13)
* spicery (p.14)
* pantry (pp.15-18)
* ewery (pp.19-24)
* scullery (pp. 25-30)
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Inventories and lists of items from Lady Margaret's house at Hatfield.
Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, 1545-1552.
Servant to Lady Margaret, working as a scribe and illuminator.
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Inventory made at Hatfield by Richard Gough, Richard Lyster & Peter Baldewyn; includes copy of the inventory of the beds for Hatfield.
*Tipett: a long, narrow strip of cloth forming part of or attached to a hood or sleeve.
*Chamlet: A name originally applied to some beautiful and costly eastern fabric, afterwards to imitations and substitutes the nature of which has changed many times over. ‘A kind of stuff originally made by a mixture of silk and camel's hair; it is now made with wool and silk’ (Johnson). ‘A light stuff, formerly much used for female apparel, made of long wool, hard spun, sometimes mixed in the loom with cotton or linen yarn’ (Ure). It is uncertain whether it was ever made of camel's hair; but in the 16th and 17th c. it was made of the hair of the Angora goat.
*mantle: A loose sleeveless cloak
Yeoman of the wardrobe, 1498-1509.
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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.
20 pages
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Items found in the chambers of Lady Margaret's houses following her death.
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Inventories for the wardrobe of beds of the Lady Margaret.
The items have been bound separately and are stored separately.
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"Stuff aperteynyng to my Ladies Wardrobe of beddys, 8 September 1509, which remayned unsowled. And Thomas Symson charged with the same."
12 pages (9 of which written on)
*Arras: a wall hanging made of a rich tapestry fabric, typically used to conceal an alcove.
*Sperver: a canopy for a bed
*Sarsenet: a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
*Fustian: a stout fabric of cotton and flax
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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
33 pages - undated
Published
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"
33 pages, with dimensions, notes in another ink in the margins
Published
"An inventary of my ladys goods founde within her closett by her bed chamber."
6 pages
Published
"A view of the stuff ... belonging to my ladys grace': an inventory of cloth materials incl. bed furnishing and coverings for her chair and litter."
pp. 1-34
Published
Inventories of goods found in Lady Margaret's chapel.
The volume could possibly pertain to the chapel & household at Colyweston.
Published
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….
A leather bound book with skin thongs in a criss-cross pattern on the binding; named `the book of the Revestrie'
A potted summary of the folios is available in the Blue Folder for D91. The item is listed under its previous reference number D91.15.
Published
Inventory of furniture & vestments of the Lady Margaret's chapel.
* The items are listed under the headings: copes, vestments, aulter clothes, palles and canapes, curtaynes, vayles and baner clothes, coproras, coyssnynes to ley books upon [cushions to lay books upon], cruetts and paxes, cowchers and other books, antyphoners, mass books, grayles, processionales, prikesong books, surplices, coffers ...
Published
Inventories and lists of items found in Lady Margaret's wardrobe following her death.
* Standard: large packing case or trunk
* Gardeviance: a chest for valuables
Published
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
28 pages with writing on
Published
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
23 pages
Published
A list of jewels belonging to the Lady Margaret in the keeping of Mistress Fowler
4 leaves
Published
A list of jewels belonging the Lady Margaret in the keeping of Mistress Fowler [lady of the Countess of Richmond].
8 pages, pages 6-8 blank
Some of the items listed: mele, whete, manchette, trencherbrede, roswyne [rosolio], ale, claretwyne, white wyne, malmesseyy, romney [rumney - a sweet Greek wine], muscadell [muscatel], beff [beef], veles [veal], muloon [mutton], lambes, kydde [kid - young goat], porke, lyngs [sea burbot], haberdeyne [haberdine - salt cod], stokfysh, grete reasons [great or large raisons], sugar hole, sugar powder, smale reasons [small raisons], sugar valans, [sugar valentia - sugar almonds ?], peper, graynes, cloves, mace, nutmeggs, saunders [sanders], synamon [cinnamon], gynger, dats [dates], comfetts plates [comfits plates], comfetts bysketts [comfits baskets], dyvers confections, grene gyner, lymons [lemons] and succads, saffron, prunes, almonds, ryse [rice], licoryse, agnes sede, streynors [strainers], white sope [soap].
Published
Goods lacking in the kitchen departments of Lady Margaret's household. This is a compilation of stock held by various officers and staff which is missing. There are separate entries throughout the only surviving roll of the Treasurer of the Household (1506-1507) which refer to such items, but there is no general list such as this one for that year.
The volume begins:
"Certain stuff of howsehold of the most Excellent Prynces Margarete Countesse of Richmond and Derby and moder unto oure soveraigne lorde the kynge tha now is Kynge Henry the Vii th. lakkynge in defaute of diverse officers as it appereth by the Boke of Brevement of the said household. that is to say as well for the last yere as this yere ended the viij th day of Janyuere the xxiiij th yere of our said sovereigne lord as hereafter foloweth."
Arranged under the following headings: bakehouse, pastry, pantre, buttery, sellars, wete larder, drye larder, chaundre [chandlery]
Published
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.
18 pages
Published
Items found in London following Lady Margaret's death.
Small trasshe.
A remembrance of certain coffers and stuffs remaynyng [remaining] in the Chaunters [Chanters] place at St Paules [Paul's] in London, in a hold litill [little] coffer covered with black lether [leather] having brode [broad] bands of Ieron [iron]
Published
Small trasshe [treasure] left in three coffers at the Chanter's place at St Paul's [London].
4 pages
Published
Includes copies of Lady Margaret's will and lists of her bequests.
Published
The draft may have been produced prior to King Henry VII’s death and his son was still only a Prince. It would have been updated and corrected following the death of Henry VIII and the coronation of Henry VIII. (see pp.39-56)
Published
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
Published
A contemporary (16th century) copy of the will of Lady Margaret.
The item is stored in a wooden box.
Three sheets of vellum, joined and rolled.
* Enfeoff: feoffment or enfeoffment was the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service.
Published
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 large vellum sheet with cuts for the seal-tab, but no tab is inserted.
Published
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 folio paper book of 52 pages, mostly in English
Published
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
A large vellum sheet, with a strip of parchment attached by running its tabe through the vellum sheet. Also includes the remains of the Archbishop's seal. The will is in English, the grant of probate is in Latin.
Printed in *Collegium Divi Johannis Evangelistae*, quatercentenary publication, 1911
Published
Published
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.
scanned and stored digitally Library Picture Store
The dates suggested are from the day of Lady Margaret's death to the closure of the first period of the executors' accounts.
For further information about Alice Stanhope, see https://therochfords.wordpress.com/biographies/rochford-of-fenne-and-stoke-rochford/joan-rochford-and-her-heirs/
Daughter of John Flygh, yeoman of the wardrobe to Henry VII. Alice was married to Edmund Stanhope, son of Henry Stanhope.
Published
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.
Published in Cooper, Charles Henry. *Memoir of Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby*. (Cambridge, 1874). p. 135.
On page 9, a bequest is made to my Lady Mary, Princess of Castile, the title by which she was known from 1507. However, a bequest is made on page 8 to 'the Queen', which if it was Elizabeth of York would date it to 1503 at the latest (but if it was to Katherine of Aragon would date it to 11 June 1509 at the earliest).
Published
Bequests of the Lady Margaret, valued. Begins: "To Crists Colege: first a crucifix with mary and John full gilt and enameld [weighing 11 ounces]
19 pages
Published in Cooper, Charles Henry. *Memoir of Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby*. (Cambridge, 1874). pp. 133-135, and also p.117 ff.
A prominent English churchman and statesman, Richard Foxe held many important ecclesiastical offices during the course of his life, including positions as the Bishop of Exeter, Durham, and from 1501, as Bishop of Winchester. He was a powerful political ally of King Henry VII of England and assumed a number of important diplomatic and ministerial responsibilities during Henry’s reign, both domestically and abroad. Foxe was appointed Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal in 1487, a position which he held until his resignation in 1516. A generous benefactor, Foxe built and endowed grammar schools at Grantham and Taunton, and in 1517, officially founded Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Foxe held a number of close connections to Cambridge. In 1500, he was elected Chancellor of the University and from 1507 to 1518, served as Master of Pembroke Hall. As one of Lady Margaret Beaufort’s executors, Foxe worked closely with John Fisher in establishing the foundation of St. John’s College. He died at Wolvesey in October 1528.
Published
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]".
A paper roll of one sheet, with corrections
Published
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.
[other pages blank]
Published
Includes documents related to lands and estates passed onto Lady Margaret through her family, husband(s) and assigns.
Published
Published
Includes: letters patent and a grant for land held in the Honour of Richmond.
Letters patent of Edward III, reciting that in the time of Richard I Margaret, Duchess of Brittany and Countess of Richmond [wife of Conan IV see the Complete English Peerage, p. 791], granted to William Passemer land in Barm [Lincolnshire], held afterwords by Wiwinus and Loefwinus, his sons and which has come into the hands of diverse tenants [named] by parcels. They [the tenants] have petitioned the King for relief from disturbanc by the escheatorts in Lincoln, as parcel of the county of Richmond. Edward III grants licence for the messuages to be retained.
Published
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.
Linen cover for great seal, empty
See: Cal. Patent rolls, 1334-1338, p.156
Letters patent of Edward III, confirming to Ranulph Pygot, William Pygot, Robert Pygot, Isabella Pygot, John, son of Robert Walter, Simon, son of Walter, Richard son of William Elrych, John Derman, all of Donyngton, John Palmer, of Swynesheyed [Swineshead, Lincolnshire], Sarra Bond, of Swynesheyd, Matilda, wife of Robert Palmer, and Henry Strange, of Swynesheyed, and Lambert Brown of Quadryng, land in Donington and Swineshead which had dessended [descended] to them from Godfrey, son of Picot, of Donyngton, to whom it had been granted by John, son of the Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, by the charter of the time of Henry III.
Hertford, 2 March 1335/6
Per ipsum Regem ad instanciam Magistri Johannis de Langetoft
Published
Letters Patent, Edward III to Ranulph Pygot et al for land held of the honour of Richmond in Donington and Swineshead, Lincolnshire.
Great seal
Cal. Patent Rolls 1334-1338, p. 236.
Grant by Ranulph Pygot, of Donyngton, to William, his son of "duas salinas cum areis et viridariis et septem placeas terre arabile et septem placeas prati" in Donyngton and Quadryng.
Donyngton, 25 December 1339
Published
Grant, Ranulph Pygot of Donington to William his son, parcels of land and salt pans in Donington and Quadring, Lincolnshire.
Seal
Published
Includes: 2 leases for land in Amell and Ware, Hertfordshire.
The items are sewn together.
Published
Lease for twenty years, Robert and Johanna Camil [Camell] to Bartholomew, son of John Warde lands in Heyfield and Brantingscroft, Amwell, Hertfordshire. [This equated to 3 acres plus the croft]
Sewn together with SJLM/4/1/2/2
Seal
Published
Lease, John Camell [Camil] to Richard Warde of a croft near the highway, Ware, Hertfordshire. [for 10 years]
Sewn to SJLM/4/1/2/1
Seal missing
Published
Includes documents related to trusts and settlements with the Beaufort and Stafford families.
Published
Letters patent of Edward IV, confirming at the request of Alianor [Eleanor], Duchess of Somerset, the inquisition held by John Knottesford, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, at Southwark 12 September 1455. The inquisition found that Edmund, Duke of Somerset, had no goods or chattels in Surrey at his death, but that John, Duke of Somerset, was seized of the manors of Wokkyng and Sutton and had granted them to Edmund and Alianor, his wife, and to Henry, Duke of Somerset, son and heir of Edmund, for life.
Westminster, 23 April 1466.
Seal
See the Complete English Peerage, p. 53
Henry Stafford was the second son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the third husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort, his second cousin. They were wedded in January 1458 and enjoyed a long and ostensibly amicable marriage until Stafford’s death in 1471. Like Lady Margaret, Stafford backed the House of Lancaster during the early years of the Wars of the Roses and fought alongside the Lancastrians at the battle of Towton in March 1461. However, following his pardon by Edward IV of England in June 1461, Stafford retained a cautious allegiance to the Yorkist King in subsequent challenges to his sovereignty. Stafford supported Edward at the Battle of Losecoat Field in 1470 and again at Barnet in 1471, where he was wounded during the conflict and later died from his injuries.
Published
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.
A fuller will was proved in 1482 and is available in the The National Archives at Kew. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D970211
A transcript of the original will and a copy with transcript of the probate version are available in Finding Aids 11.
For proved will, see: Nicholas, NH, " Testamenta Vetusa". p. 324.
Also includes parchment label from original wooden box in which the documents were orginally stored.
Published
Grant by Lady Margaret under licence of 22 May 1472 by the king [Edward IV] to Thomas [Bourchier], Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, William [Waynflete], Bishop of Winchester, John [Booth], Bishop of Exeter, John [Stafford], Earl of Wiltshire, the King's kinsman, Sir Walter Blound, Lord Mountjoy, Master Owin Lloyd, clerk, John Catesby, serjeant at law, Richard Page, William Hody and Reginald Bray, gentlemen, to hold at her will as to the profits of the lands following, viz Martok, Cory Revell, Kingsbury Regis, Camel Reginae with apputer[enances] in Somerset, hundreds of Bulston, Abdyke and Horethorn with appurt[enances] in [the] same, towns [burgi, burghs] of Langport Estover and Langport Westover with appurt[enances] in the same, manors of Sampford Peverell and Aller Peverell with appurt[enances] in Devon, town of Sampford Peverell and hundred of Alberton also in Devon, with knights' fees, advowsons liberties etc, as of the King in chief; grant to her attorneys John Gilbert, gentleman, Peter WilliamsonJohnson [sic], Thomas Larder, John Jenyn, John Burgeys to deliver seisin to the grantees; witnessed by Sir William Stourton, Lord Stourton, Sir John Dynham, Lord Dynham, Reginald Stourton, William Poulet, Sir John [N]enton, Philip Beaumont, William Carant, Thomas Malet, Robert Stowell, etc.
Endorsed: enrolled dorse of close roll. Jan 19 Henry VII
Sealed
Lady Elizabeth Talbot was a daughter of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lady Margaret Beauchamp. She was married to John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk.
Published
Copy of a deed of Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, concerning the disposal of her personal property after death; includes gifts to servants, and to Sir Robert Southwell, Sir Edmund Jenney, Doctor Thomas Cosyn, Doctor John Talbot, and Maister [Master] William Holme; £13.6s.8d. to 'my Lorde of Canterbury and his Officers under him of his jursidiction ordinary.'
6 November 1506
Lord Stanley was an English nobleman and the third husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort. He married Lady Margaret in 1472, following the death of his first wife, Eleanor Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury.
A powerful magnate and politician, Stanley inherited a number of significant estates and offices, including the suzerain title King of Mann, by which he assumed certain authoritative powers and control over the Isle of Man. He was made 1st Earl of Derby by his stepson, Henry VII of England, in 1485, and also served as Lord High Constable of England (1483-1504) and High Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Over the course of his life, Stanley advanced his influence both within the English royal court and in the north-west of England, where he held vast estates in Cheshire and Lancashire. He died at Lathom in Lancashire in 1504.
Published
Published
Letters and grants related to Stanley property in Moldesdale, Flintshire
Published
Grant by Sir John Mainwaring, Sir John Bromley and Sir Thomas Manley to Thomas Lord Stanley of the manor of Moldesdale [Flintshire] held by themselves and the collegiate church of St John Chester.
3 seals
Lord Stanley was an English nobleman and the third husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort. He married Lady Margaret in 1472, following the death of his first wife, Eleanor Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury.
A powerful magnate and politician, Stanley inherited a number of significant estates and offices, including the suzerain title King of Mann, by which he assumed certain authoritative powers and control over the Isle of Man. He was made 1st Earl of Derby by his stepson, Henry VII of England, in 1485, and also served as Lord High Constable of England (1483-1504) and High Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Over the course of his life, Stanley advanced his influence both within the English royal court and in the north-west of England, where he held vast estates in Cheshire and Lancashire. He died at Lathom in Lancashire in 1504.
Published
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.
Lord Stanley was an English nobleman and the third husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort. He married Lady Margaret in 1472, following the death of his first wife, Eleanor Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury.
A powerful magnate and politician, Stanley inherited a number of significant estates and offices, including the suzerain title King of Mann, by which he assumed certain authoritative powers and control over the Isle of Man. He was made 1st Earl of Derby by his stepson, Henry VII of England, in 1485, and also served as Lord High Constable of England (1483-1504) and High Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Over the course of his life, Stanley advanced his influence both within the English royal court and in the north-west of England, where he held vast estates in Cheshire and Lancashire. He died at Lathom in Lancashire in 1504.
Published
Grant, Thomas lord Stanley to Lady Margaret, of lands in Moldesdale, Flintshire, and Beaumaris, Anglesey.
Published
Letters of attorney, Lady Margaret to Gilbert Gylpyn [Gilpin] and Thomas Atkyns, to take seisin of lands outlined in SJLM/4/3/1/3.
Signed: M. Rychemond
Seal of Lady Margaret (broken)
Published
Includes: grants and a letter of attorney related to Stanley lands in Lancashire and Cheshire.
Lord Stanley was an English nobleman and the third husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort. He married Lady Margaret in 1472, following the death of his first wife, Eleanor Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury.
A powerful magnate and politician, Stanley inherited a number of significant estates and offices, including the suzerain title King of Mann, by which he assumed certain authoritative powers and control over the Isle of Man. He was made 1st Earl of Derby by his stepson, Henry VII of England, in 1485, and also served as Lord High Constable of England (1483-1504) and High Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Over the course of his life, Stanley advanced his influence both within the English royal court and in the north-west of England, where he held vast estates in Cheshire and Lancashire. He died at Lathom in Lancashire in 1504.
Published
Grant: Thomas, Lord Stanley, to Lady Margaret, of the Castle of Hawarden, Cheshire, and the manors of Bidston, Chesire, Alston, Lancashire, Flintham and Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire; and lands in the Wirral, Prescot and Anlesargh, Lancashire, for term of her life.
* Cooper, Charles H. "Memoir of Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby". (London, 1874). p. 20
Lands late of Stanley, Earl of Derby shows him holding Hawarden & Bydston [as Bedston]. (The old National Archive Reference is PRO Sc12/6/27)
Published
Letters of attorney, Lady Margaret to Gilbert Gilpyn [Gilpin] and Thomas Atkyns, to take seisin of lands conveyed to her by Lord Stanley for her life.
* Cooper, Charles H. "Memoir of Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby". (London, 1874). p. 20
Published
Grant by Sir William Stanley of Hoton, James Skaresbyhe [Scaresby], Thomas Pole, William Nedeham, Thomas Wolton, Hugh Gartesside, Ranulph Billyngton, Robert Shakerley, Richard Huxley, John Carlile, clerk, Henry Ban, and Henry Kirkham to Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, Henry Pole and Robert Southworth, of the castlem manors and lands which they held by feoffment of the aforesaid Lord Stanley or his father, Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, in Lancashire, Cheshire, Wales or the Isle of Man.
With appointment of John Crosse, Wiliam Core and Oliver Bykerstath as their attorneys.
12 seals attached
Lord Stanley was an English nobleman and the third husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort. He married Lady Margaret in 1472, following the death of his first wife, Eleanor Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury.
A powerful magnate and politician, Stanley inherited a number of significant estates and offices, including the suzerain title King of Mann, by which he assumed certain authoritative powers and control over the Isle of Man. He was made 1st Earl of Derby by his stepson, Henry VII of England, in 1485, and also served as Lord High Constable of England (1483-1504) and High Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Over the course of his life, Stanley advanced his influence both within the English royal court and in the north-west of England, where he held vast estates in Cheshire and Lancashire. He died at Lathom in Lancashire in 1504.
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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.
3 seals
* Cooper, Charles H. "Memoir of Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby". (London, 1874). p. 20
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Documents relating to land held by the Stafford family.
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, was the nephew of Henry Stafford and Lady Margaret Beaufort, the eldest son of Henry Stafford’s brother, Humphrey Stafford. Following the death of his father in 1458, he became a ward of King Edward IV of England and was appointed Duke of Buckingham in 1460, after the death of his grandfather, the 1st Duke of Buckingham. In 1466, Stafford was married to Catherine Woodville (c.1458-1497), the sister of Edward IV’s queen, Elizabeth Woodville. Together, they had four children.
In the months following Edward IV’s death in 1483, Stafford initially appeared to back the succession of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, to the throne as Richard III of England. But quickly disillusioned with Richard, Stafford switched allegiance to his cousin, Henry Tudor, and mounted a rebellion against Richard in Tudor’s name. The rebellion was unsuccessful and Stafford was executed for treason at Salisbury in November 1483.
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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
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Indenture dated 3 June 1482, of an agreement made "in the high presens of our saide soveraigne lorde" between Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, and Margarete, the Countess of Richmounde, his wife. The Lady Margaret, before the marriage, had enfeoffed certain persons of certain manors in Somerset, to perform her will; Lord Stanley confirms. Also, whereas Margarete, now Duchess of Somersette, mother of the Lady Margaret, is now seized for life of certain manors, it is agreed that if Henry, called the Erle of Richmonde, her son, hereafter come into England and be in the King's favour, he shall have an estate of inheritance of part of the reversion thereof, but, if not, the whole shall be divided in to two parts, one to Lord Stanley and the other to the Countess.
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Agreement, Lady Margaret and Thomas Lord Stanley, in the presence of Edward IV, whereby Stanley undertakes:
* not to oppose Margaret's settlement of her Somerset estates, [see SJLM/3/2/1]
* to grant her life interest in his estates as before agreed [see SJLM/4/3/2/1 and SJLM/4/3/2/4]
* that Henry, Earl of Richmond [Margaret's son] be allowed a share in the estates of Margaret, Duchess of Somerset if he come to England and be in the king's favour.
2 seals
Thomas Bourchier was an English cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury. He was the son of William Bourchier and Anne of Gloucester, and the half-brother of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (father of Lady Margaret Beaufort’s third husband, Sir Henry Stafford). Educated at Oxford University, Thomas was appointed Chancellor of the University in 1434. In the same year, he was made Bishop of Worcester and in 1443, consecrated as Bishop of Ely. In 1454, Thomas was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and also served briefly as Lord Chancellor of England from 1455. He was made a cardinal in 1467 and died in 1486 at Knole House, Kent. He was buried at Canterbury Cathedral.
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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
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Henry VII, born Henry Tudor, was King of England from August 1485 to April 1509. He was the only son of Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, born at Pembroke Castle in Wales in 1457.
Henry never met his father, who died several months prior to Henry’s birth. Henry and his newly-widowed mother, thirteen years old at the time, were therefore initially protected by Henry’s uncle, Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke. In 1561, guardianship of Lady Margaret and Henry passed to William Herbert, who assumed the Earldom of Pembroke after Jasper’s exile abroad. Henry lived in the Herbert household until Herbert’s death in 1469.
When Edward IV of England regained control of the crown in 1471, Henry was one of a number of Lancastrians who fled to Brittany. Henry’s main claim to the English crown and challenge to the Yorkist king was through Lady Margaret, who was the great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. During most of the next fourteen years, Henry was protected by Francis II, Duke of Brittany. By 1483, he held the strongest claim to sovereignty on the Lancastrian side.
In August 1485, Henry finally defeated the incumbent Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in order to become King of England. His coronation was held in Westminster Abbey on 30 October 1485. When Henry married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, in early 1486, he not only reinforced his existing claim to the English throne, but also brought an end to the long-standing conflict known as the Wars of the Roses, fought between the two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet.
Henry’s reign of almost twenty-four years was characterised by relative stability and fiscal prudence. He was father to four children by Elizabeth: Arthur, Margaret, Henry and Mary. In April 1509, Henry died of tuberculosis at Richmond Palace. He is buried alongside his wife, Elizabeth, in a specially-commissioned chapel at Westminster Abbey.
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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
broken great seal
Cal. Patent Rolls, 1485-1494, p. 154
Letters patent of Henry VII, "granting licence to Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Richard Page, to alienate the manors of Mertoxk, Cory, Ryvell, Kingesbury Regis and Cammell Regine, Somerset, the hundreds of Bylston, Abdyke, Horethorn, the boroughs of Langport Estover and Langport Westover, the manors of Sampford Peverell and Allerpeverell, Devon, the borough of Sampford Peverell and the hundred of Alberton, Devon, to Richard [Hill], Bishop of London, and Richard Skypton, clerk, so that they may grant them to Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, John [Morton], Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor, Richard [Fox], Bishop of Exeter, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Sir Giles Daubeney, of Daubeney, Sir William Huse, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Oliver Kyng, clerk, King's Secretary, David william, clerk, Keeper of the Rolls of Chancery, William Smyth, Dean of the free chapel of St Stephen within the palace Westminster, Sir Thomas Lovell, councillor, and Richard Emson, attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster."
Westminster, 10 November 1490. Signed R. Skipton
Henry VII, born Henry Tudor, was King of England from August 1485 to April 1509. He was the only son of Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, born at Pembroke Castle in Wales in 1457.
Henry never met his father, who died several months prior to Henry’s birth. Henry and his newly-widowed mother, thirteen years old at the time, were therefore initially protected by Henry’s uncle, Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke. In 1561, guardianship of Lady Margaret and Henry passed to William Herbert, who assumed the Earldom of Pembroke after Jasper’s exile abroad. Henry lived in the Herbert household until Herbert’s death in 1469.
When Edward IV of England regained control of the crown in 1471, Henry was one of a number of Lancastrians who fled to Brittany. Henry’s main claim to the English crown and challenge to the Yorkist king was through Lady Margaret, who was the great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. During most of the next fourteen years, Henry was protected by Francis II, Duke of Brittany. By 1483, he held the strongest claim to sovereignty on the Lancastrian side.
In August 1485, Henry finally defeated the incumbent Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in order to become King of England. His coronation was held in Westminster Abbey on 30 October 1485. When Henry married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, in early 1486, he not only reinforced his existing claim to the English throne, but also brought an end to the long-standing conflict known as the Wars of the Roses, fought between the two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet.
Henry’s reign of almost twenty-four years was characterised by relative stability and fiscal prudence. He was father to four children by Elizabeth: Arthur, Margaret, Henry and Mary. In April 1509, Henry died of tuberculosis at Richmond Palace. He is buried alongside his wife, Elizabeth, in a specially-commissioned chapel at Westminster Abbey.
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Letters patent by Henry VII granting trustees of Lady Margaret licence to convey lands in Devon and Somerset to new trustees.
See Cal. Patent Rolls, 1485-1494, p.338
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Grant by Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Richard Page, by licence of the King [Henry VII] given by letters patent of 10 November 1490, to Richard [Hill], Bishop of London, and Richard Skypton, clerk, of [lands in Devon and Somerset] with letters of attorney to Hugh Oldeham, clerk, John Jakson and Nicholas Compton.
4 seals
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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.
2 seals
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Grant by Richard [Hill], Bishop of London, and Richard Skipton, clerk, to Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, John [Morton], Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard [Fox], Bishop of Exeter, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Sir Giles Daubeney, of Daubeney, Sir William Huse, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Oliver King, clerk, the King's secretary, David William, clerk, Keeper of the Roles of Chancery, William Smyth, clerk, Dean of the free chapel of St Stephen within the palace of Westminster, Sir Thomas Lovell, counsellor, and Richard Emson, attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster of the [lands in Devon and Somerset] which by the Letters patent of 10 November 1490, Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Richard Page, were licenced to convey to them for this purpose. With appointment of Hugh Oldeham, clerk, John Jakson and Nicholas Compton as attorneys.
16 December 1490.
2 seals
Cal. Patent Rolls, 1485-94, p. 338.
This purports to be 4 Henry VII, but since J must be John Fisher it is most likely misdated for 24 Henry VIII, 21 Oct 1508.
John Fisher was an English bishop, theologian and humanist academic, who was instrumental in the founding of St John's College. He is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Born in the town of Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1469, Fisher was a student at Cambridge in the 1480s, gaining his BA in 1488. He was subsequently elected Fellow of Michaelhouse, one of the two Colleges later refounded as Trinity College by Henry VIII. He became chaplain and confessor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and in 1504, was appointed as Bishop of Rochester. At Cambridge, Fisher was made Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1501 and served as President of Queens’ College from 1505 to 1508. He also encouraged the creation of the University’s oldest professorship, the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, in 1502, and was elected as its first occupant.
It was through Fisher’s influence that Lady Margaret was moved to support the foundation of Christ's College (1505) and St John's College, and it was Fisher who was to secure the establishment of St. John’s in 1511, after Lady Margaret’s death in 1509. Fisher fiercely opposed the dissolution of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a position which brought him into grave conflict with the King. Fisher’s refusal to take an oath supporting Henry's right to act as Supreme Head of the Church in England led ultimately to his imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1534. Since such a refusal was considered a treasonable offence, Fisher was tried and sentenced to death, despite his late appointment to the office of cardinal by Pope Paul III. He was executed on Tower Hill on 22 June 1535.
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Exemplification at request of J[ohn Fisher],Bishop of Rochester and Henry Hornby, clerk, of a licence dated 22 May 1472 by which Lady Margaret granted lands in Devon and Somerset to trustees.
Great seal, broken
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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.
2 seals, one of the Lady Margaret
Cal. Patent Rolls, 1485-1494, pp. 154-155
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Documents relating to the manor of Canford and the town of Poole, Dorset.
Henry VII, born Henry Tudor, was King of England from August 1485 to April 1509. He was the only son of Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, born at Pembroke Castle in Wales in 1457.
Henry never met his father, who died several months prior to Henry’s birth. Henry and his newly-widowed mother, thirteen years old at the time, were therefore initially protected by Henry’s uncle, Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke. In 1561, guardianship of Lady Margaret and Henry passed to William Herbert, who assumed the Earldom of Pembroke after Jasper’s exile abroad. Henry lived in the Herbert household until Herbert’s death in 1469.
When Edward IV of England regained control of the crown in 1471, Henry was one of a number of Lancastrians who fled to Brittany. Henry’s main claim to the English crown and challenge to the Yorkist king was through Lady Margaret, who was the great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. During most of the next fourteen years, Henry was protected by Francis II, Duke of Brittany. By 1483, he held the strongest claim to sovereignty on the Lancastrian side.
In August 1485, Henry finally defeated the incumbent Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in order to become King of England. His coronation was held in Westminster Abbey on 30 October 1485. When Henry married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, in early 1486, he not only reinforced his existing claim to the English throne, but also brought an end to the long-standing conflict known as the Wars of the Roses, fought between the two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet.
Henry’s reign of almost twenty-four years was characterised by relative stability and fiscal prudence. He was father to four children by Elizabeth: Arthur, Margaret, Henry and Mary. In April 1509, Henry died of tuberculosis at Richmond Palace. He is buried alongside his wife, Elizabeth, in a specially-commissioned chapel at Westminster Abbey.
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Letters patent of Henry VII, granting to Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, the manor of Canford, with the town of Pole [Poole], Dorset for her life.
Westeminster, 21 January 1505/6
Great seal, broken
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Documents relating to property in Hertfordshire.
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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.
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Documents relating to Lady Margaret's lands in Woking, Surrey.
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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
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Goathill is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of Dorset in England, situated in the West Dorset district a couple of miles east of the town of Sherborne. It lies very close to the county boundary however, and for much of its history (until 1896) lay instead within the neighbouring county of Somerset.
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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.
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Thomas Grey was an English landowner, courtier and peer. He was the son of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and Cecily Bonville, and the grandson of Queen Elizabeth Woodville. The wife of Henry VII of England, Elizabeth of York, was the half-sister of the 1st Marquess, and the younger Thomas became a ward of the king in 1492. He was made a knight of the Bath in 1494 and a knight of the Garter in 1501. As a prominent courtier, Thomas took part in a number of diplomaticmissions overseas and fulfilled various duties at court. He was also an active soldier and was present at the siege of Tournai and the Battle of the Spurs in 1513. He was married to (1) Eleanor St John and (2) Margaret Wotton. On his death in 1530, Thomas Grey was one of the wealthiest men in England, the owner of multiple large estates. He was buried at Astley in Warwickshire.
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Petition from Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquis of Dorset, to the Pope, in consideration of his assistance against Louis XII of France, for licence for his men of the Fee of Winchester to eat eggs, butter etc during Lent.
badly damaged - repaired at some point
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Includes documents related to Lady Margaret's various households and her jurisdiction over properties and estates.
Sir Ralph Shirley was the husband of Lady Anne Shirley, daughter of Sir Henry Vernon of Haddon, Derbyshire. He served as Sheriff of Leicestershire and as bailiff to Lady Margaret Beaufort at Ware.
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Grant, Sir Ralph Shirley to Sir Thomas Bousher [Bourchier], Walter Colpeper Esq., Thomas Barton and Roberty Byngham, gentlemen, that the bond of Sir Sampson Norton to be void on the death of Anne, heiress of Thomas Warner.
Seal and signature of Ranuffe Shyrley
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Receipt by the King's clerk, John Walles from Lady Margaret's chamberlain, Sir Roger Ormeston, for the fine of £26.13.4 for the fine of knighthood from John Markham.
Signed: Per me Johnnes Walles.
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Elizabeth Scrope (née Neville) was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in 1464. She was the daughter of Sir John de Neville, Earl of Northumberland, and Isabel Neville Norreys. Elizabeth married her first husband, Thomas le Scrope, 6th Lord Scrope of Masham, in 1486. She married her second husband, Sir Henry Wentworth, in 1494, following the death of her first husband in 1493. Elizabeth was widowed again after the death of Sir Henry c.1500. She died in 1517 and was buried beside Thomas le Scrope at Ludgate, London.
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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
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Wentworth and others were seeking to claim rights in the manors of "Trappyfeld, Stanbryge the less, Essex, or the manors of Towshyll, Halton, Lymber, Aldebourgh, Staynton, Roxham, Poynton, Gedney and Basyngham, Lincolnshire, or the manors of Chetsham, Sibton and Myngiston, Kent, lately belonging to Sir Harry Wentworth, father of Richard."
Sir Richard Wentworth, 5th Lord le Despenser, was born circa 1480 at Nettlestead, Kent. He was the son of Sir Henry Wentworth by his first wife, Anne (Saye) Wentworth, and married Anne Tyrrell around 1499. He served as Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. On his death in October 1528, Sir Richard was buried at Ipswich in Suffolk.
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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.
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See Complete English Peerage, vol xi, p. 570
Fulk Woodhull, of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, was the eldest son of John Wodhull and Joan (Jean) Etwell. He was married first to Anne Newnham, with whom he had three children, and second, to Elizabeth Webb. He served as Sheriff of Northamptonshire from around 1500 and died in 1508.
Lady Margaret Beaufort was mother to King Henry VII of England and foundress of St. John’s College. Born on 31st May 1443 at Bletsoe Castle in Bedfordshire, she was the daughter of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe and John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, and a descendant of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster. Margaret’s first marriage to John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, took place c.1450, although this marriage was never recognised by Margaret herself and was dissolved in 1453. Her second marriage to Edmund Tudor, half-brother of King Henry VI of England, took place on 1st November 1455, when Margaret was twelve years of age. Soon after, Margaret fell pregnant with Edmund’s child. In November 1456, she was widowed when Edmund, fighting on the Lancastrian side of the Wars of the Roses, was captured by Yorkist forces and died in captivity at Carmarthen. A few months later, Margaret gave birth to her only son, the future Henry VII of England, at Pembroke Castle in Wales, where she was protected by her brother-in-law, Jasper Tudor.
In 1458, Margaret married Sir Henry Stafford, the son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham. While the couple bore no children, Margaret enjoyed a long and close relationship with her husband until his death in 1471. Margaret’s fourth and final marriage to Thomas Stanley, the Lord High Constable and King of Mann, took place in June 1472.
After the success of her son, Henry, in securing the crown at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, Margaret benefited significantly from her newfound authority as the King’s mother and wielded considerable power within the royal court. She was highly influential and a wealthy landowner and patron, generously donating money for the foundation of schools and colleges, including God’s House, Cambridge, which was refounded in 1505 as Christ’s College, and St. John’s College, founded in 1511 after her death with money from her estate. The Lady Margaret Professorship in Divinity, held respectively at Oxford and Cambridge universities, was established in her name in 1502.
Margaret died on 29th June 1509 and was buried in the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey, in a tomb created by the Florentine sculptor, Pietro Torrigiano. She remains a central figure in the history of the early Tudor dynasty and in the foundation of St. John’s College.
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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.
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Henry VII, born Henry Tudor, was King of England from August 1485 to April 1509. He was the only son of Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, born at Pembroke Castle in Wales in 1457.
Henry never met his father, who died several months prior to Henry’s birth. Henry and his newly-widowed mother, thirteen years old at the time, were therefore initially protected by Henry’s uncle, Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke. In 1561, guardianship of Lady Margaret and Henry passed to William Herbert, who assumed the Earldom of Pembroke after Jasper’s exile abroad. Henry lived in the Herbert household until Herbert’s death in 1469.
When Edward IV of England regained control of the crown in 1471, Henry was one of a number of Lancastrians who fled to Brittany. Henry’s main claim to the English crown and challenge to the Yorkist king was through Lady Margaret, who was the great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. During most of the next fourteen years, Henry was protected by Francis II, Duke of Brittany. By 1483, he held the strongest claim to sovereignty on the Lancastrian side.
In August 1485, Henry finally defeated the incumbent Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in order to become King of England. His coronation was held in Westminster Abbey on 30 October 1485. When Henry married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, in early 1486, he not only reinforced his existing claim to the English throne, but also brought an end to the long-standing conflict known as the Wars of the Roses, fought between the two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet.
Henry’s reign of almost twenty-four years was characterised by relative stability and fiscal prudence. He was father to four children by Elizabeth: Arthur, Margaret, Henry and Mary. In April 1509, Henry died of tuberculosis at Richmond Palace. He is buried alongside his wife, Elizabeth, in a specially-commissioned chapel at Westminster Abbey.
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A general release for the Lady Margaret to do what she will with her properties, without asking the leave of, or making a payment to King Henry VII or his successors.
Westminster, 21 July, 19 Hen: VII [1504]
Endorsed: for the first roll of the Michaelmas term, 20 Hen: VII
Bears the great seal in white wax
Henry and Edward were likely to have been cousins. The legal rights to the Houghton estate were disputed by members of the Stanhope family throughout the early 1500s. For more information, see: https://therochfords.wordpress.com/biographies/rochford-of-fenne-and-stoke-rochford/joan-rochford-and-her-heirs/
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Bond of Henry Stanhope, of Houghton, Nottinghamshire, to the Lady Margaret in £200, to keep the award made by Robert Urmeston, Robert Brudenell and William Cutlers, serjeants at law, concerning the title and possession of the Manor of Houghton, now in variance betwixt [between] Henry Stanehop [Stanhope] and Edward Stanehop [Stanhope], and to bring to Collyweston evidence, charters and muniments.
Maxey and Torpell were later put into Huntingdonshire when the boundaries were re-drawn, and then into Cambridgeshire.
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Grant of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, to John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, Hugh [Oldham], Bishop of Exeter, William Knyvett and David Phellipp, knights, Henry Horneby [Hornby], clerk, Humfrey Conyngesby, Robert Brudewell and William Cutlard, serjeants-at-law, James Whitsans, Gabries Sylvester, John Ffotehed, Robert Barnard and Hugh Assheton, clerks and John Saint John and William Bedill [Bedell], esquires, of the manors of Maxey and Torpell in Northamptonshire, in order to carry out the last wishes of the Countess and her executors; John Byrde and Nicholas Trygge, her attorneys there, are to deliver seisin of the two manors.
Attached to by the seal-tab is the delivery by the above two attorneys to John Saint John, acting in the name of the grantees of the two manors.
[Main document] 1 April, 20 Hen: VII [1505]
[Main document] signed "Margaret R" at the bottom
Endorsed: "A graunte from the Countesse of Richmond of lands in Northamptonshire"
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Maxey and Torpell were later put into Huntingdonshire when the boundaries were re-drawn, and then into Cambridgeshire.
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Confirmation by Margaret, Countess of Richmond of a lease to John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, Hugh [Oldham], Bishop of Exeter, William Knyvett and David Phellipp, knights, Henry Horneby [Hornby], clerk, Humfrey Conyngesby, Robert Brudewell and William Cutlard, serjeants-at-law, James Whitsans, Gabries Sylvester, John Ffotehed, Robert Barnard and Hugh Assheton, clerks and John Saint John and William Bedill [Bedell], esquire, of a field or 'clausure' of pasture called Newclose at Maxey, to William Radclyf [Radcliffe], David Syssell and Thomas Williams of Stamford, for the term of life of Margaret White, anchorite of Stamford, at a yearly rent of 17 s. payable at Easter and Michaelmas in equal parts. The lease to run from 9 October, 21 Hen: VII on which day the documents are sealed.
28 October, 21 Hen: VII
document bears the seal of Lady Margaret
John Hussey was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and was the son of Sir William Hussey (1443-1495), Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. He was first knighted in 1497 at the Battle of Blackheath and was subsequently promoted to Knight Banneret by Henry VIII at Tournai on 16 August 1513, following a string of other appointments, including Sheriff of Lincolnshire (1493); Comptroller of the Household (1509); and custos rotulorum (1513).
Hussey served as Chief Butler of England from 1521 until his death in 1536/7. He was also Chamberlain to King Henry VIII’s daughter, Mary I of England, and a member of the House of Lords. He was elected as a knight of the shire for Lincolnshire and as Member of Parliament on 6 July 1523. In 1529, he was created Lord Hussey of Sleaford by King Henry VIII.
Hussey was implicated in the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace and accused of conspiracy against the king. Tried on the charge of treason, he was found guilty by the House of Lords and executed at Lincoln in 1536.
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Surrender (or release) by Sir John Hussey of an annuity of £5 granted to him by the Lady Margaret, by letters patent, on the manors of Bourne and Deeping, Lincolnshire.
Signature and seal of John Hussey
Bears seal of John Hussey.
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John Sante was elected as abbot of Abingdon on 29 November 1468. It is not known when and where he was born, nor at what point he entered the Abingdon Abbey as a Benedictine monk. From 1468 onwards, however, Sante was active in a number of important diplomatic and administrative assignments, both on behalf of the English crown and, from the mid-1470s, the papal curia. He was made papal nuncio and commissary to England, Ireland and Wales, and in 1477, appointed to the highest rank of papal legate by Pope Sixtus IV. Sante served both Edward IV and Henry VII of England, but in 1489, was accused of conspiracy against the king in having sought to further the rebellion of John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln, two years earlier. As a result of this, Sante’s property as abbot was confiscated. He was pardoned in 1493.
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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
Printed in Eagle Vol. xx, pp17-18 (notes first series)
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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"
Seal
Printed in the [Eagle vol 20 (1897) pp. 19-20](https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1890s/1898/Eagle_1897_Michaelmas.pdf)
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A petition to Pope Innocent VIII for indulgences for King Henry VII, his Queen [Elizabeth of York] and his mother [Lady Margaret Beaufort].
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Printed in the Eagle Vol 20 (1899) pp. 17-19
Copied by John Yotton, DD, confessor and secretary to Elizabeth of York.
Giovanni Battista Cybo (or ‘Cibo’) was born in Genoa to an eminent Genoese family. His father, Arano Cybo (c.1375-c.1455) was viceroy of Naples and Giovanni Battista was consequently closely aligned with the Neapolitan court for a good part of his early life. He was consecrated as Bishop of Savona in 1467 by Pope Paul II and was made a cardinal by Pope Sixtus IV in 1473. When Pope Sixtus died in 1484, Giovanni Battista succeeded him as Pope Innocent VIII until his own death in 1492.
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Copy of indulgence from Pope Innocent VIII to Henry VII and his Queen Elizabeth [and his mother].
Rome, 13 August 1488.
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Indulgence and certificate of admission of John Fisher and his brother Ralph into the confraternity of the Hopsital of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas the Martyr of Canterbury 'in villa Roman fundata'. [The Hospital of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas the Martyr de Urbe, Rome; the English Hospice of St Thomas]
London, 1 May 1494
Seal (broken)
Born in the province of Valencia in 1431, Rodrigo Borgia (‘de Borja’) held papal office from 1492 until his death in 1503. After studying law at the university in Bologna as a young man, Rodrigo Borgia was appointed Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere at the age of twenty-five. He went on to hold a number of important administrative and episcopal positions, including Administrator of Valencia (1458-1492), Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (1476-1492), Administrator of Cartagena (1482-1492), Administrator of Mallorca (1489-1492), and Archbishop of Valencia (1492). The term of his papacy is generally viewed as having been blotted by nepotism, corruption and sexual scandal.
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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.
Printed: Eagle Vol 20 (1899) pp.20-21
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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
Torn at right hand top corner
Adriano Castellesi, also known as Adriano de Castello or Hadrian de Castello (c. 1460 – c. 1521) was an Italian cardinal and writer. He was a prebendary of St Paul's, London. Appointed Bishop of Hereford on 14 February 1502, consecrated before May 1502, and received possession of the temporalities on before 8 August 1502. Translated to Bath & Wells on 4 August 1504.
Born in the province of Valencia in 1431, Rodrigo Borgia (‘de Borja’) held papal office from 1492 until his death in 1503. After studying law at the university in Bologna as a young man, Rodrigo Borgia was appointed Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere at the age of twenty-five. He went on to hold a number of important administrative and episcopal positions, including Administrator of Valencia (1458-1492), Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (1476-1492), Administrator of Cartagena (1482-1492), Administrator of Mallorca (1489-1492), and Archbishop of Valencia (1492). The term of his papacy is generally viewed as having been blotted by nepotism, corruption and sexual scandal.
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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
Born Giuliano della Rovere in Albisola, in the Republic of Genoa, Pope Julius II occupied the position of pontiff from 1503 to his death in 1513. Educated at the University in Perugia, Giuliano was first appointed Bishop of Carpentras in the Comtat Venaissin in October 1471, following the election of his uncle, Pope Sixtus IV, to the papacy. He was subsequently raised to the cardinalate in December 1471 and went on to hold a number of other important offices concurrently, including the offices of Papal Legate, Archbishop of Avignon and Bishop of Bologna. The dispensation which allowed the future Henry VIII of England to marry Catherine of Aragon – and which Henry later sought to nullify – was issued by Pope Julius in December 1503, shortly after his election to the papacy. His pontificate was characterised by active military involvement in foreign affairs and patronage of the arts. Under his authority, the Pontifical Swiss Guard, which is responsible for the security of the Vatican, was established in 1506, and the anti-Venetian alliance, the League of Cambrai, was created in 1508, as part of ongoing conflicts between major Western European powers over control of the Italian states. A number of significant architectural and artistic projects were commissioned by Pope Julius, including the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo, frescoes by Raphael, and the reconstruction of St. Peter’s Basilica. He died in 1513 after a period of illness and was buried in the Vatican.
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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.
includes papal bull (lead seals)
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Printed: Eagle Vol 22 (1898) pp. 296-300
Born Giuliano della Rovere in Albisola, in the Republic of Genoa, Pope Julius II occupied the position of pontiff from 1503 to his death in 1513. Educated at the University in Perugia, Giuliano was first appointed Bishop of Carpentras in the Comtat Venaissin in October 1471, following the election of his uncle, Pope Sixtus IV, to the papacy. He was subsequently raised to the cardinalate in December 1471 and went on to hold a number of other important offices concurrently, including the offices of Papal Legate, Archbishop of Avignon and Bishop of Bologna. The dispensation which allowed the future Henry VIII of England to marry Catherine of Aragon – and which Henry later sought to nullify – was issued by Pope Julius in December 1503, shortly after his election to the papacy. His pontificate was characterised by active military involvement in foreign affairs and patronage of the arts. Under his authority, the Pontifical Swiss Guard, which is responsible for the security of the Vatican, was established in 1506, and the anti-Venetian alliance, the League of Cambrai, was created in 1508, as part of ongoing conflicts between major Western European powers over control of the Italian states. A number of significant architectural and artistic projects were commissioned by Pope Julius, including the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo, frescoes by Raphael, and the reconstruction of St. Peter’s Basilica. He died in 1513 after a period of illness and was buried in the Vatican.
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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.
Paper roll
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Giovanni Battista Cybo (or ‘Cibo’) was born in Genoa to an eminent Genoese family. His father, Arano Cybo (c.1375-c.1455) was viceroy of Naples and Giovanni Battista was consequently closely aligned with the Neapolitan court for a good part of his early life. He was consecrated as Bishop of Savona in 1467 by Pope Paul II and was made a cardinal by Pope Sixtus IV in 1473. When Pope Sixtus died in 1484, Giovanni Battista succeeded him as Pope Innocent VIII until his own death in 1492.
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Indulgence and admission of Thomas Kyme, generosus [gentleman], by the alderman and camerarii [chamberlains] of the gild or fraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the church of St Bothus [Botulph] of Boston, Lincolnshire, by authority of a bull of Innocent VIII, dated 1489.
Boston, 2 April 1499
The deed is engrossed and the name has been written in.
Vellum with rubrication, no seal
Printed: The Eagle vol 20, no.115 (1898) pp.24-25
Born in the province of Valencia in 1431, Rodrigo Borgia (‘de Borja’) held papal office from 1492 until his death in 1503. After studying law at the university in Bologna as a young man, Rodrigo Borgia was appointed Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere at the age of twenty-five. He went on to hold a number of important administrative and episcopal positions, including Administrator of Valencia (1458-1492), Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (1476-1492), Administrator of Cartagena (1482-1492), Administrator of Mallorca (1489-1492), and Archbishop of Valencia (1492). The term of his papacy is generally viewed as having been blotted by nepotism, corruption and sexual scandal.
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Indulgence granted by Pope Alexander VI to Thomas Kyme via the Pope's comissary Robertus Castellensis.
Signed: de Ro. Castellen'
* Convent of Observant Friars of Greenwich see British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/kent/vol2/pp194-198
Of Scottish origin, Gilbert was a friar and doctor active in London during the late 1490s. He was warden of the Franciscan Observants at Greenwich and an associate of Richard Foxe.
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Grant of confraternity by brother Donald Gylbert [Gilbert], Commissary in England of brother Francis Sagarra, Vicar-General of the Observants the Lady Margaret.
Dated: at the Convent at Grenewych [Greenwich], 10 May 1497
Signed: Frater Donaldus Reverendi patris vicarii generali commissarius manu propria
Endorsed: a letter of fraternyte [fraternity] of all the Relygyous [religious] of Freres Mynors [friar minor]
Born in the province of Valencia in 1431, Rodrigo Borgia (‘de Borja’) held papal office from 1492 until his death in 1503. After studying law at the university in Bologna as a young man, Rodrigo Borgia was appointed Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere at the age of twenty-five. He went on to hold a number of important administrative and episcopal positions, including Administrator of Valencia (1458-1492), Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (1476-1492), Administrator of Cartagena (1482-1492), Administrator of Mallorca (1489-1492), and Archbishop of Valencia (1492). The term of his papacy is generally viewed as having been blotted by nepotism, corruption and sexual scandal.
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Letter to the Lady Margaret informing her that the Pope [Alexander VI] has acceded to a request that she and others [unnamed] shall receive the spiritual benefits of the Jubilee by the visit of a suitable confessor to Rome as their representative at the places of pilgrimage.
Rome, 8 January 1501
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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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Receipts and bills of deposit for/from Lady Margaret's executors.
Ashton was a member of Lady Margaret Beaufort’s household and served as her receiver-general from around 1502, before rising to the position of comptroller from late 1508. He began an MA at Oxford in 1507, but was quickly granted permission to transfer to Cambridge in order to study canon law. Among his various subsequent appointments, Ashton served as canon and prebendary of St. Stephen’s, Westminster from 1509; Archdeacon of Winchester, 1511-1519; Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1515; Rector of Grasmere to 1511; and Archdeacon of York from 1516.
Ashton was an early fellow of and benefactor to St. John’s College. His tomb and effigy were transferred from their chantry in the old College chapel to the new chapel in 1868 and are still visible in the north transept today.
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Bill of Hugh Ashton, executor of ' my ladys Grace [the King's] late Graundame', recording that he has deposited certain sums with Doctor Lyshefeld [William Lichfield, d.1517], 'son of the Chanons of Seynt Stephen att Westmynster' and with John Mundy, goldsmith of London.
Signed: Hugh Assheton
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Receipt by John Wood, solicitor to the executors of 'my lady the Kyngs grandame', by commandment of my Lord of Rochester and Master Henry Hornby, two of the said executors, from Master Robert Shorton, of £20 in part payment of greater sum as well as for diverse 'writyng in the Chauncery and Escheker and other weyse' as payment for learned men and other for their services and rewards for Michaelmas term last.
Signed: per me John Woode
Countersigned: per me Henricum Hornby
Receipt by Philip Morgan from Sir Thomas Maudisley, by the commandement of my Lorde of Rochester and other executors of my Lady, of 5s. 2d. for certeyn money laid out by my lords commandments over and beside the money received for certeyn stuffe by theym sold as appears by a boke of writen by me and reynyng with my said lord of Rochester.
Signed: Jo. Roffs. Hugh Assheton
Item for the expence of me Philip Morgan and for makyn of my boke of certeyn stuffe sold by my ladey executors 40s.
Signed Jo. Roffs Hugh Assheton
Summa totalis xiv s. ij d.
Philip Morgan was Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and physician to Lady Margaret Beaufort. He was first admitted to King’s as an Eton scholar in 1471 and obtained his M.A. 1478-1479, M.D. 1507. He was appointed Esquire Bedell c.1490 and served as Prebendary of Lincoln, 1515-1521.
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Receipt by Philip Morgan, physician to Lady Margaret, of 5s 2d, in addition to money paid him for sale of certain 'stuff' by her executors and of 40s for his expense (which include the creation of an inventory for the items sold).
Signed: Hugh Ashton and John Fisher.
See Cooper's Lady Margaret p. 183-185
Thomas Thomson was Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1510-1517, and Vice-Chancellor, 1510-1512. Other notable appointments include Vicar of Gateley, Norfolk, 1520- 1530, and Vicar of Enfield, Middlesex, from 1505 to his death c.1540. An early benefactor to St. John’s College, Thomson helped to support the income of two fellowships and contributed, through a donation of rents in Cambridge, to the construction of a chantry on the south side of the College Chapel in 1524.
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Receipt by Thomas Thomson, Master of Christ's College, from Robert Shorton SJC Master, by the order of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and Dr Hornby of £20.
Signed: per me Thomas Thomson
Indenture, dated 24 June 1519, that John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, Hewe Ayscheton [Hugh Ashton], clerk, two of the executors of the Lady Margaret, have received from Princess Katyrin [Katherine or Catherine], Countess of Devon at the fountaine yard of the Cathedral Churche of Sent Poule [Saint Paul] in London, between the owrys [hours] of ix and xij be for myde day, 250 marks for the viij th. part of payment of £2800, accordyng to the tenure of certyn endentures [indentures], dated 20 July 1515.
Princess Katherine, is Katherine or Catherine of York, the ninth child of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_York
John Fisher was an English bishop, theologian and humanist academic, who was instrumental in the founding of St John's College. He is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Born in the town of Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1469, Fisher was a student at Cambridge in the 1480s, gaining his BA in 1488. He was subsequently elected Fellow of Michaelhouse, one of the two Colleges later refounded as Trinity College by Henry VIII. He became chaplain and confessor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and in 1504, was appointed as Bishop of Rochester. At Cambridge, Fisher was made Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1501 and served as President of Queens’ College from 1505 to 1508. He also encouraged the creation of the University’s oldest professorship, the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, in 1502, and was elected as its first occupant.
It was through Fisher’s influence that Lady Margaret was moved to support the foundation of Christ's College (1505) and St John's College, and it was Fisher who was to secure the establishment of St. John’s in 1511, after Lady Margaret’s death in 1509. Fisher fiercely opposed the dissolution of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a position which brought him into grave conflict with the King. Fisher’s refusal to take an oath supporting Henry's right to act as Supreme Head of the Church in England led ultimately to his imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1534. Since such a refusal was considered a treasonable offence, Fisher was tried and sentenced to death, despite his late appointment to the office of cardinal by Pope Paul III. He was executed on Tower Hill on 22 June 1535.
Ashton was a member of Lady Margaret Beaufort’s household and served as her receiver-general from around 1502, before rising to the position of comptroller from late 1508. He began an MA at Oxford in 1507, but was quickly granted permission to transfer to Cambridge in order to study canon law. Among his various subsequent appointments, Ashton served as canon and prebendary of St. Stephen’s, Westminster from 1509; Archdeacon of Winchester, 1511-1519; Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1515; Rector of Grasmere to 1511; and Archdeacon of York from 1516.
Ashton was an early fellow of and benefactor to St. John’s College. His tomb and effigy were transferred from their chantry in the old College chapel to the new chapel in 1868 and are still visible in the north transept today.
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Indenture of receipt for 250 marks by John Fisher and Hugh Ashton, Lady Margaret's executors; the eighth installment of £2800 from Katherine, Countess of Devonshire, due by indenture 20 July 1313.
See Cooper's Lady Margaret p. 212
Memorandum that I Roger Noott [Notte] hathe recevid [received] of my lorde of Rochester frome the xxviij day of October [1509] xxxiiij li.
In primis frome the lij days of November [1509] to Michelmas folowing for boordwages [board wages] xxiiij li.
Item paide to my lorde Bayly for the rent of there howse [house] for a yere xx s.
Item for woode xx s.
Item for carrying of there rayment againste Cristmas from London to Hattfelde [Hatfield] xij d.
Item for lynyng [linen or lining ?] for iiij menys [mens] hose xij d.
Item for iiij paire of menys [mens] showes iij s.
Item for making of iiij menys gownys [gowns] ij s. viij d.
Item for makyng iiij paire of hose to the men xvj d.
Item for makyng of vj womens gowns iiij s.
Itiem for makyng of vj paire of women hose vj d.
Item for maylys and clapps [clasps] to the wymens [womens] gowns lij d.
Tenant in the bishopric of Ely at Bishop's Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
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Account of Roger Noott [Notte] for £34 received from John Fisher for board, clothes and rent of almshouse of nine poor persons at Hatfield.
a single sheet of paper folded
See Cooper's Lady Margaret p. 188 for Nott and the almsmen at Hatfield.
Money delyveryd [delivered] to Roger Nott for the poore folkys [folks] att Hatfelde [Hatfield] over and beside liiij s. delyvered by N. Sawnders.
Tenant in the bishopric of Ely at Bishop's Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
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Account of Roger Noott [Notte] for £33.18.5d, £4, besides 54s delivered by Nicholas Sanders for clothes and his labour for the almsfolk at Hatfield.
single sheet of paper, folded
a single sheet of paper folded
John Fisher was an English bishop, theologian and humanist academic, who was instrumental in the founding of St John's College. He is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Born in the town of Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1469, Fisher was a student at Cambridge in the 1480s, gaining his BA in 1488. He was subsequently elected Fellow of Michaelhouse, one of the two Colleges later refounded as Trinity College by Henry VIII. He became chaplain and confessor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and in 1504, was appointed as Bishop of Rochester. At Cambridge, Fisher was made Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1501 and served as President of Queens’ College from 1505 to 1508. He also encouraged the creation of the University’s oldest professorship, the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, in 1502, and was elected as its first occupant.
It was through Fisher’s influence that Lady Margaret was moved to support the foundation of Christ's College (1505) and St John's College, and it was Fisher who was to secure the establishment of St. John’s in 1511, after Lady Margaret’s death in 1509. Fisher fiercely opposed the dissolution of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a position which brought him into grave conflict with the King. Fisher’s refusal to take an oath supporting Henry's right to act as Supreme Head of the Church in England led ultimately to his imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1534. Since such a refusal was considered a treasonable offence, Fisher was tried and sentenced to death, despite his late appointment to the office of cardinal by Pope Paul III. He was executed on Tower Hill on 22 June 1535.
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Account of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, of money received by him from Katherine, Countess of Devonshire. Three payments of 250 marks, at Christmas 1516, Midsummer 1517 and Christmas 1517; total £500; with expenditure amounting to £377.1.41/2.
* Calendared in Cooper's Lady Margaret p. 212.
* Printed by R.F. Scott: Notes from the College Records , IV, pp. 255-256.
Memorandum that I Roger Noott have recyved [received] of My Lord of Rochester frome [frome] the therd [third] day of November the second yere [year] of the raing [reign] of Kyng [King] Henry the viij th for borde [board] of power folk [poor folk] at Hatfeld [Hatfield] for x personys [persons] a hole [whole] yere [year] at dyverse [diverse] tymes [times] xxvj li.
Item payed to my Lords [Lord's] bayle for the rent fo ther [their] howse [house] for an [one] yere [year] xx s.
Item for wode [wood] xx s.
Item to Roger Nott for his labours xx s.
Item for certayne [certain] clothyng [clothing] as gownis [gowns], hose, scherts [shirts], smokks [smocks], cappis [capes], as apareth [appeareth] by a byll [bill] iiij li. v s. x d. ob.
Item for caryage [carriage] of the same fro[m] London to Hatfeld ix d.
Item for the makyng [making] of the menes [men's] gownys [gowns] ij s.
Item for the makyng [making] of vij womenys [women's] gownys [gowns] iiij s. viij d.
Item for the makyng [making] of xx thre [three] payers [pairs] of menys [men's] hose xij d.
Item for the makyng [making] of vij payer [pair] of womenys [women's] hose vij d.
Item for thre [three] payer [pair] of menys [men's] schoys [shoes] ij s.
Item for vij payer [pair] of womenys schoys [women's shoes] iij s. vj d.
Tenant in the bishopric of Ely at Bishop's Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
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Account of Roger Noott [Notte] for £26 received from John Fisher for board, clothes and rent of almshouse, of 10 poor persons at Hatfield for 1 year.
single sheet of paper, folded
a single sheet of paper folded
See Cooper's Lady Margaret pp 183, 198, 201 and 209
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Receipt by John Watton of Chesterton, labourer, for 3 pounds 10 shillings paid him by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executor of the will of the Lady Margaret, foundress of the College, in full satisfaction of 7 pounds owed him by William Tomlyn, late Master of the said College [sic: Master of St John's Hospital]. With a relaxation of all actions against the Bishop of Rochester or against Alan Percy, Master, and the Fellows and Scholars of the College. 7 May, 10 Henry VIII. Signed Thirleby
With seal
Published
Includes: receipts, contracts, bonds, memos and agreements relating to the design and construction of Lady Margaret's tomb in Westminster Abbey.
Pietro Torrigiano was a fifteenth-century Florentine sculptor who played an important role in introducing Renaissance art to England. In the account of his life given by Giorgio Vasari, Torrigiano was born in Florence in 1472 and studied art in Florence as a young man under the patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici. He came to England c.1509 and in 1511, was commissioned to create the monument for the tomb of Lady Margaret Beaufort. He went on to receive appointments for a number of other royal works, including a commission to create a terracotta bust of King Henry VII and the monument and effigies of Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth of York. The monument and effigies may still be seen in the Henry VII Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey and were completed c.1517. Torrigiano spent the later years of his life in Spain, especially at Seville. He died in 1528.
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Indenture between Richard, Bishop of Winchester, John, Bishop of Rochester, Sir Charles Somerset, Lord Herberd, Chamberlain to the King [Henry VIII], Sir Thomas Lovell, Sir Henry Marney, Sir John Saint John, Henry Hornby and Hugh Ashton, clerks, executors of the testament of the Lady Margaret and Petur Thoryson [Pietro Torrigiano] of Florence, graver (sic) concerning the tomb of the Lady Margaret.
Signed: per me piero torrigiani schultore fiorentino
* Printed in [The Eagle vol 18 (Michaelmas 1894) pp.342-344](https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1890s/1895/Eagle_1894_Michaelmas.pdf)
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Indenture between Nicholas Metcalf[e], clerk, Master of the College; William Longford [Longforth] SJC Fellow; and Cornelyus [Cornelius] Symondson, for the railings of Lady Margaret's tomb.
Seal
* Printed in [The Eagle vol 18 (Michaelmas 1894), pp.345-346](https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1890s/1895/Eagle_1894_Michaelmas.pdf)
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Bond of Peter Thoryson [Pietro Torrigiano] graver, Leonard Friscobald, and John Cavalcant acknowledging their obligation to pay the executors of the Lady Margaret fifty pounds before 1 February next following.
23 November, 3 Hen: VIII
Signed: "Pietro Torrigiani. schultore fiorentino" "per me leonardus frescobald". "per me giovanni caualle per me"
3 seals
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Receipt by John Wolf "setezen [citizen] and peynter [painter] of London from the executors of the Lady Margaret of £3 6 s. 8 d. by the hands of Sir Thomas Mawdysley [Mawdisley], for making 33 skochans [escutcheons] in metallis [metals] per paly with a cronnall and in colors"
2 October 1509 per me Johnnem Wolfe
Countersigned: Jo. Roffe. Henry Hornby
Printed: Cambridge Antiquarian Society 5 (1884) http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1895-1/dissemination/pdf/PCAS/1884_XXV-V-III/PCAS_XXV-V-III_1884_265-277_Clark.pdf
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Receipt by Cornellys (Cornelius) Symonson from Nycholas [Nicholas] Metcalfe, Master [of St John's College] of £5 in part payment of a more sum for makyng [making] my lady the Kynges [King's] grandmother the viiij [Henry VIII] grate at Westminster.
23 May 1527
seal
Printed: Cambridge Antiquarian Society (1884) p. 269 http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1895-1/dissemination/pdf/PCAS/1884_XXV-V-III/PCAS_XXV-V-III_1884_265-277_Clark.pdf
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Receipt by Cornelys Symonson [Cornelius Symonson], smyth [smith], from Doctor Metcalfe, of £15 in part payment of £25 for the makyng [making] of a certen [certain] grate.
Sealed in the presence of Ranulph Hall and William Lamkin by me Gabriell [Gabriel] Metcalf[e].
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Memorandum payd [paid] by Morgan Mores on Mounday [Monday] the iij th daye [day] of November [1511] for his boot hyre [boat hire] frome [from] London to Mourtlake [Mortlake] and from thens [thence] to London whyen [when] he and the franchine was with my lord chaumerlane [Chamberlain] with a pateron [pattern] of my ladeys toume [Lady's tomb] ij s. iiij d.
Item payd by hym [him] on Tysda [Tuesday] the fourte [fourth] daye [day] of the same mounth [month] for hys bothyr [his boat hire] frome [frome] Stangate [Stonegate] to London and from London to Stangate [Stonegate] j d.
Summa ij s. v d.
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Receipt by Cornelys Symondeson [Cornelius Symonson] from Doctor Metcalf[e], of 33 s. 4 d. in part payment of £21. 13. 4. for makyng [making] a tumbe [tomb] for my lady the Kyngs [King's] grandemother [grandmother]
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Architect, English courtier, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under Henry VII, from 1486-1503. Bray was born c. 1440 in the parish of St. John Bedwardine, near Worcester, and was educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester. From 1467 onwards, he assumed an important role in Lady Margaret Beaufort’s household as receiver-general, primarily to Lady Margaret Beaufort and Sir Henry Stafford until 1471, and then subsequently to Lady Margaret and Thomas Stanley. He remained in the service of Lady Margaret until c.1499 and held principal responsibility for managing lands granted to her in 1487.
Other notable appointments include Knight of the Bath, and subsequently, Knight of the Garter; and Steward of the University of Oxford (1496).
In his work as an architect, Bray designed both St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle and Henry VII’s Chapel at Westminster. Together with John Alcock, he also played a key part in the construction of Jesus College, Cambridge, founded in 1496.
Bray married Katherine Hussey (d.1506) around 1475 and died without issue. He was buried at Windsor in St. George’s Chapel.
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Receipt by Reynold [Reginald] Bray, citizen and fremason [freemason OR mason] of London, from Doctor Metcalfe, of 20 s. in part payment.
Printed: Cambridge Anitquarian Society Proceedings 5, (1884) pp270-271.
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An account or receipt, " for my lady the Kings [King's] grandame whoe soulle [soul] God pardonne [pardon], account for 'patron' [patterns] for her tomb, amounting to £4.13.4." The document mentions Master Peter [Torregiano] and the Prior of St Bartholomeu
Signed: Jo. Roffs
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Meynnart Wewcyck was a Flemish painter. He was responsible for drawing the design for Lady Margaret's tomb, a copy of which was then given to the sculptor in charge of producing the gilt-bronze tomb effigy, Pietro Torrigiano.
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Receipt by Mayarde Vewyck [Meynnart Wewyck], of London, paynter [painter], dated 7 February 1511/[2], from John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, of £3 in part payment fro a certen [certain] table and ij patrones [patterns] drawen [drawn] for my ladie [lady] the Kyngs [King's] graundames [grandmother's] tomb.
Signed: meynnart Weyck
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Items relating to payments from Lady Margaret's estate and her bequests.
The annuity was to be charged on the lands in feoffment (see Cooper p.135 l.1) which were not freed for the executors' use until 1512-1513. However, the executors made grants out of the lands soon after Lady Margaret's death to Thomas & Edith Fowler (Cooper, *The Lady Margaret*, p.223 l 21) and to Perrot[t] herself.
Chamberer and companion to Lady Margaret Beaufort.
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Letter from Perrott Doryn to John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester concerning a patent for her annuity due from Lady Margaret's estate.
This is Perrot the Frenchwoman noted in Cooper's Lady Margaret.
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Grant by the Lady Margaret's executors of certain tenements and lands at Maxey to 'Perot Daron' for the term of her life. (indented)
Endorsed with the contents in brief.
Dated: 23 October, 1 Hen: VIII
Signed by all but one of the executors.
Sealed with 13 seals
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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.
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A sheet of notes advising courses of action concerning the Lady Margaret's affairs including "the matter concernynge Sancte Johnannes house in Cambridge "; this was most likely drawn up by her executors.
Henry VIII was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. He was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and grandson of Lady Margaret Beaufort. Born Henry Tudor in June 1491, he was raised with his sisters and received a first-class education under the supervision of his grandmother, who helped to ensure that Henry was tutored by some of the finest scholars of the day. After the death of his older brother, Arthur, in 1502, he became the new heir to the throne and was crowned King of England following the death of his father on 23rd June 1509, shortly before Henry’s eighteenth birthday. By this time, he had married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, his brother’s widow. The couple had only daughter who survived infancy, Mary, born in 1516.
Henry is often noted for having had six successive wives during the course of his life. His second marriage to Anne Boleyn in 1533 followed the annulment of his marriage to Catherine and, in the face of papal opposition, a break with the Church of Rome that led in turn to the English Reformation and the appointment of Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England. His marriage to Anne, and subsequent marriages to Jane Seymour (m.1536), Anne of Cleves (m.1540), Catherine Howard (m.1540), and Catherine Parr (m.1543), resulted in two further children: a daughter, Elizabeth, born to Anne Boleyn in 1533, and a son, Edward, born to Jane Seymour in 1537.
Henry’s reign saw important changes not only to the formation of the church, but to the legal union of England and Wales, with the Laws in Wales Acts of 1535 and 1542, and to England’s relationship with Ireland, following the Crown of Ireland Act of 1542. Henry also introduced significant measures to expand and develop the Royal Navy and engaged in an active, albeit expensive and often unsuccessful, foreign policy of wars against King Francis I of France and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. While as a young man he was highly-respected for his learning, athleticism and handsome appearance, the latter years of Henry’s life were characterised by periods of ill health and increased paranoia. He died in 1547 and was interred in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.
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Documents from Henry VIII to Lady Margaret's executors concerning payments, estates, foundations and lands.
According to the entry in "Letters and Papers" the licence is as follows:
Licence to Ric. bishop of Winchester, John bishop of Rochester, and Chas. earl of Worcester, executors of Margaret late countess of Richmond and Derby, to give lands and revenues to St. John's College, Cambridge, to the yearly value of 200l., on surrender of patent 10 July 7 Hen. VIII., which was invalid. No fees to be paid in the Hanaper beyond 20s. 4d. Del. Westm., 9 April 17 Hen. VIII. [see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol4/pp930-943]
A licence of mortmain, or licence in mortmain (the French word means ‘dead hand’), issued by the Crown was necessary after 1279 for any lands to be alienated, or conveyed.
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Copy of the first part of Letters Patent of Henry VIII cancelling the licence dated 10 July 1515, to the executors of the Lady Margaret to acquire land from the College, replacing it with a new licence.
* See: Brewer, J.S. (ed.), *Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4, 1524-1530*. [9 April 1526, No.2082]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol4/pp930-943
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Letter under the signet desiring John Fisher and the other executors of the Lady Margaret to reserve to Thomas Farthing, a gentleman of the Royal Chapel an annuity of 10 marks out of the Lordships of Maxey and Torpell, Northamptonshire.
see Letters and Papers of Henry VII, li. 442
Keeper of the Hanaper or Clerk of the Hanaper: was an office in the department of the chancery, now abolished. The clerk, also known as warden of the hanaper, was paid fees and other moneys for the sealing of charters, patents, writs, etc., and from which issued certain writs under the great seal. The British office was abolished in 1852.
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Contemporary copies of the mandate of King Henry VIII to Roger Lupton "Keeper of our Haniper [Hanaper] in our Chauncery [Chancery]", to deliver letters patent in favour of the executors of the Lady Margaret, for the foundation of a chantry at Wimborne, for the licence to buy land for Christ's College, [Cambridge] and for the foundation of St John's College.
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A general pardons for the executors of the Lady Margaret from Henry VIII.
Lancaster, 20 May, 4 Hen: VIII [1512]
A large sheet of vellum, with the seal of the county palatine of Lancaster and that of the Duchy of the same, (the first white, the second red), both damaged.
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A general pardon for the executors of the Lady Margaret from Henry VIII.
Westminster, 11 February, 3 Hen: VIII [1512]
Two large sheets of vellum, with the Great Seal, in white wax, slightly damaged.
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A general pardon for the executors of the Lady Margaret from Henry VIII.
10 July, 7 Hen: VIII [1515], Westminster
Parchment with the Great Seal, in white wax, badly damaged.
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Includes lists of payments, expenses and receipts regarding Lady Margaret's will and her estates.
First of Monday the xij day of Auguste whyn I wentt to Master Hardekyn with lettres at Dartforth for my dreynke j d.
Item my horsemett iiij d.
Item of Tewyssday [Tuesday] the xiij day of Auguste at London for my dener [dinner] ij d.
Item the same neytt [night] for my sopper [supper] ij d.
Item for my barghayre and my mantell iij d.
Item for Grayssysheynd [Gravesend] for my bede and my dreynke jd. ob.
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List of payments headed 'for my lady' [probably meaning the business of Lady Margaret's estate] in horsemeat, food, drink and lodging at Gravesend and going to Mr Hardekeyn at Darford with letters.
Signed: John Fisher
Endorsed: William Carlton
See Cooper's *Lady Margaret* p. 208
Item of Weddygngsdy [Wednesday] the xxv day of September when I wentt to Mr Harsdkyn for my sopper [supper] at Grayffyshend [Gravesend] ij d.
Item for my bede and dreynke jd. ob.
Item for the sam neytt for my barghyre [barge hire] and my mantell iij d.
Item of Thorsday [Thursday] the xxvj day of Septembre at London for my dener [dinner] ij d.
Item for the sam day for my sopper ij d.
Item my barghayre and my mantell iij d.
Item of Fryday the xxvij day of Septembre for my dreynke at Grayffyshend ob.
Summa xiiij d. ob.
On back: Summa omnium expens. xxix s. vj d.
Summa mutual en oiste vij li.
Harsdkyn may mean Archdeacon
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Expenses for board and lodging with Mr Harsdkyn at Gravesend and for barge hire. "for my lady" written at foot
Signed: John Fisher
Memorandum paed [paid] the iij day of October when that my lorde sent me to Windsor to Kyings Sacoatery [Secretary?], paid the same day at Dartforth for my drenke jd., for my horsemeyt j d., paid at Lambeth for my dener ij d., for my horse meyt j d. Paid at Wendsor the same neght [night] for my soper ij d. for my horse meyt iiij d. Paid for my soper at Lambeth for my horse and my selff j d.
xij d.
Paid the iiij day of Octobre at Wendsor for my horse meyt j d.
Paid at Hunsley fo rmy dener ij d. for my horse meyt j d.
Paid at London the same neght for my horse meyt iij d.
Paid the v day of Octobre at London for my horse meyt j d.
Paid at Dartforth for my dener ij d, for my horse meyt j d.
Summa totalis xxiij d.
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Expenses for board and horsemeat beginning 'when my lord sent me to Windsor to the King's Secretary'.
'for my lady' at the foot in Fisher's hand
Furst of Fryday the iiij day of October whynn I wentt to Mr Charsdekyn at Grayffshend for my dreynke jd.
Item the same neytt for my bargehayre and my mantell iij d
Item of Satterday the v day of October at London for my drerynke j d.
Item the sam neytt for my barghayre and my mantel iiij d.
Item the sam neytt at Grayffshend for my sopper and my bedde iij d.
Summa xj d.
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Expenses visiting Mr Harsdekyn at Gravesend for barge hire, board and lodging. 'For my lady' at foot.
Signed: John Fisher
Expenses for the executors of the Lady Margaret, Michaelmas term.[document torn]
Payede to John Woode by [document torn]
Fryst payd to Pakynton for a copy of the Kyngs lycence [licence] to leve the same fine xij d
Item for rydyng to Bradeley to se the land bowght [bought] of Master Lucas x s.
Item for makyng the indenture betwene my lord of Rochester, Mr Hornby and Mr Lucas. vj s. viij d.
Item payd to Mr Newdegate for hys [his] counsell in thag bargayne [bargain] xi d.
Item for bote hyre [boat hire] all thys term xij d.
Item for myn [mine] owne fee for the yere xl s.
Item for wrytyng [writing] of the indentures and dede for the sayd land at Bradley
Item for my costs at London and for the costes of my hors [horse] _ _ attend uppon my lord of Wynchester [Winchester] for the matter of Seynt Johns College x s.
Summa iij li. iiij d.
per me Joh. Woode
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Expenses of John Wood on behalf of the executors of Lady Margaret, in travelling and for the fine for land at Cottenham and the purchase of Thomas Lucas's land at Great Bradley, Suffolk.
Signed: John Woode
The executors bought land from Thomas Lucas to the use of the College for £130. See Cooper's *Lady Margaret* p. 187 and 196.
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Rough memoranda of payments, includng some recorded for the period in the accounts of Lady Margaret's executors. Payments are recorded 10 April "scriptori pro fundatione collegii sancti Johannis 10s'' and for graving the College seal and its silver, 40s 10d. The memo also contains notes of withdrawals of money from a chest at Westminster.
A quire of for sheets of paper, paginated 1-8
See Cooper's *Lady Margaret* p. 178.
Expenses for my Ladis Executores in Hilary term 1514 payd by John Woode
First payd to Master Brooke, Maser Pigott and Master Fitzherbert for their counsell for the discharge of Exchetours of Somersett shire x s.
Item anohter tyme to Master Pygott and Master Fitzherbert for the same vj s. viij d.
Item to Master Fitzherbert at ij other times for the same vj s. viij d.
Item to Master Blag servaunt for his master fee and his fee ij s. iiij d.
Item for myn owne labour and besynes [business] at this terme aboute my ladies besynes xx s.
Item for my besynes for Crist [Christ's] College and also for dyverse besines [business] in the Country to my lorde of Ely and other places xx s.
Item for the engrosyng [engrossing] the bargayn [bargain] betwene the Master of Saint Johns and Edwarde Barnes iij s. iiij d.
Item for the writyng of dyverse books concernyng my ladies besines this terme vj s. viij d.
[in another hand] To Master Wodd for this byll [bill] which amounts fouer [four] pownds thre [three] shelling [shilling] and iiij d.
Summa totalis lii li. lii s. iiij d.
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Expenses of John Wood on behalf of Lady Margaret's executors; payment ratified in Fisher's hand at foot.
The executors bouth land from Thomas Lucas to the use of the College for £130. See Cooper's Lady Margeret p. 187 and 196.
Endorsed `Bills & etc. executors of the Foundress'. Many of the names are those of known officers and servants of Lady Margaret, so in part at least this is a list of her household. It begins:
In primis to Anne Mounteney xl s.
Item to Marget Bygott xl s.
Item to Elen Massyngham xl s.
Item to Marget Stukley xx s.
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List of payments, probably by the executors of the Lady Margaret, headed 'Rewardes'. It is a formed of a sheet folded in four containing 91 names followed by payments totalling £200 16s 8d.
5 pages
For my lady.
First of Wyddeynysday [Wednesday] whyn my lorde sent me to John Jamyes [James] for my dreynke j d.
Item of Thursday the x day of July whyn [when] I went to Master Harsdekyn with the boke [book] for my dener at Grayes ij d.
Item for my barghayre [barge hire] ij d.
Item for the same neyth at London for my soppeer [supper] and my bede [bed] iij d.
Item for the same day for my dener iij d.
Summa xiij d.
Endorsed: William Carlton
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Expenses of William Carlton, probably submitted to the excuctors of Lady Margaret.
5 pages
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Receipted bill of expenses of Thomas Symson for transport and security of the wardrobe stuff [sic] of Lady Margaret from Hatfield to London; signed by Symson, John Fisher and Hugh Ashton.
Transcription available on Archivist's transcription folder on archivist's drive.
Bill expens' pro espicopo Winton' et aliis executoribus Margarete Comitisse de Richemond.
Per me Henricum Hornby
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Brief legal expenses in proceedings by Lady Margaret's executors v. various persons, probably for debt, signed Henry Hornby.
Bill expens' pro espicopo Winton' et aliis executoribus Margarete Comitisse de Richemond.
Per me Henricum Hornby
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Riding expenses of a servant of John Fisher for journeys to Haldnam [Aldenham?], St Albans, Stevenage, Cambridge, Barkway, Ware and Waltham, 18-23 January; and to Barkway, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Foderynga [Fotheringhay] and back, 31 January - 7 February.
Signed: Jo. Roffs. [John Rochester]
a single sheet of paper - folded
Expenses don[e] in the terms of Trinyte [Trinity], Michelmas and Hillary [1513-1514] by John Woode solycytor [solicitor] for the Executours of my Ladys grace.
Fyst [First] payed to Master Crok and Master Fitzerherbert for drwayng [drawing] of dyscharge [discharge] for the eschetours [escheators] for landys [lands] Wynbourne and otherwhere xiij s. iiij d.
Item to Master Crok and to Master Fitzherbert in the Escheker [exchequer] for the same mater [matter] at dyvers tymes xiij s. iiij d.
Item payed to Master Crok and Master Fitzherbert for Councell in the Escheker [exchequer] chamber byfore my lord of Rocchester and Sir Roberd [Robert] Sothwell and other for the said dyscharge xiij s. iiik d.
Item to Master Roper for the same tyme iik s. iiik d.
Item to Master Crok for his bysynes [business] wyth [with] Sir Roberd [Robert] Sothwell at my lord of rochesters place for lyke [like] besynesse [business] vi s. viiij d.
Item to Master Rober for the same tyme vj s. viij d.
Item payed to Saster Shorton in ij tyems to paye the Kyngs attorney x s.
Item to Master Crok for councell in a byll [bill] of sub pena [subpoena] agenst [against] Master Robinson vj s. viij d.
Item for ij sub pena agenst Master Robynson and William Chaundler v s.
Item for a nother [another] sub pena agenst Master Robynson ij s. vj d.
Item payed to Master Ranson for his fee xx d.
Item for my solycytyng [soliciting] labour and bysynesse [business] by all that terme as well fo Seint [Saint] Johns College as Crists [Christ's] College lij li. vj s. viij d.
Item for wrightyng [writing] by my clerk that terme vj s. viij d.
Item for bote hyer [boat hire] Mychemes [Michaelmas] terme lij s. iij d.
Item payed for myn [mine] expences in that term xx s.
Hyllary [Hilary] term
Item payed for wrightyng [writing] of a confirmation of my lord of Ely in parchement for seing John College ... xxvij s.
Item for dyvers [diverse] expences that terme as well for seint John College as Crists College besyd [beside] the Councell and also in the Escheker that terme and other places xl s.
Item for my fee dew [due] at Cristmas last past xl s.
Summa [£14.7.6]
Signed: Jo. Roffs, Henry Hornby
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Expenses at law by John Wood, solicitor, on behalf of Lady Margaret's executors; signed by Fisher & Hornby.
The expences of this dener [dinner]
In bred ij dos. di [half ?] and ij peneworth [pennyworth] ij s. viij d.
In ale ij kyldekyns viij s.
In wyne [wine] ij pts di. xx d.
In beffe [beef] xvij d.
In moton [mutton] xix d.
In marybones [bone marrow] liij d.
In chynes [shins] of pork iiij xvj d.
In swannes j vij s. iiij d.
In capons iij ix d.
In partyrchs [partridges] xij vij s. iiij d.
In snypes [snipes] xvij ij s. x d.
In larkes [larks] iij dox. di xxj d.
In quynces [quinces] x v d.
In flower [flour] iij peckes [pecks] ix d.
In butter j d.
In muster [mustard] j d.
In veniger [vinegar[ j d.
In verges [verjuice] j d.
In sowger [sugar] iiij lib. xiij d.
In gynger and synamom [ginger and cinnamon] 1 quart viij d.
In saynders [saunders or red sandalwood] j unc [ounce] j d. [see note 1]
In saferyn [saffron] ij d.
In dates j lib. di. vij d.
In prewings [prunes] ij d.
In raysons [raisons] ij d.
In mase and clovys [mace and cloves] vij d.
In fagattes [faggots] xiiij xiiij d.
In coles [coal] iij quarters xv d.
In whyte asshen cuppys [white ash cups] ij d. [see note 2]
In whyte [white] salt j pecke [peck] ij d.
Item for the hyer [hire] of iij tabyll [table] clothes napkyns [napkins] with pewter and pannys with the hyer [hire] of the howse [house] xij d.
Item to vj laborers vj d.
Item in rewarde to the coke [cook] [hole - writing missing]
Item paid for bote hyer [boat hire] vj d.
Summa totalis lv s. j d
In left margin: Sir Thomas [Mawdesley] I pray yow [you] delyver [deliver] to Nicholas Sanders for provision of this dyner [dinner] to my Ladyes [Lady's] executors.
[note 1] saunders or red sandalwood was used as a red food colorant
[note 2] porcelain cups
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Expenses of a dinner for the executors of Lady Margaret, with details of fare and prices; note in hand of John Fisher to `Sir Thomas' [Mawdsley] authorising him to deliver the cost, 55s 1d, to Nicholas Saunder.
Money payd by Robert Shorton at London for my lades [lady's] causes [Hilary term 1512/3]
First payd [paid] the last day of January to Mr John Wode [Wood] to pay for an exemplification outt [out] of the Chauncery [Chancery] concernyng my lards [lord's] infeoffment [enfeoffment] and the foundacion [foundation] of Sainete [Saint] John['s] College in Cambryge [Cambridge] vj li. iiij d.
Item paid the vj th day of February the sayd [said] yere [year] of Henry the viij th to George Kirkham for wryting [writing] the first yere [year] of the sayd [said] Kyngs [King's] reigne [reign] the Kyngs [King's] licence to founde [found] Saincte [Saint] John['s] College in Cambryge [Cambridge] and for enrolling of the same in the Chauncery.
Item for the wrytyng [writing] of the Kyngs [King's] licence to mortise x li. land to Crists [Christ's] College and enrolling of the same. Also for wrytyng [writing] of the Kyngs [King's] licence to mortise vj li. land to my ladys [lady's] chauntry [chantry] in Wymborn [Wimborne] and enrollyng [enrolling] therof iiij li.
Item payd the xiij th day of February the say iiij th yere [year] to Master John Wood for money due unto him in Michaelmas terme for charges at the lawe the sayd terme. vj li. xiij s. v d.
Item for money by hym [him] payd [paid] to Mr Broke for his counsalle [counsel] in the terme of Sancte Hillary [Hilary] vj s. viij d.
Item to Mr Denney of thexcheker [the exchequer] lij s. iiij d.
Item for the labor and besines [business] of the sayd Maister Wod [Master Wood] the said terme. xl s.
Item for wryting [witing] of bok [book] the said terme in the thexcheker [the exchequer] vj s. viij d.
Item yeven the xv th day of the sayd [said] February in rewar to Sir William Tomlyn late Master of Saincte [Saint] Johns House in Cambrygge [Cambridge] by desir[e] and mynde [minde] of my lorde of Rochester xl s.
Item paid the xvj th day of February to Mr Shorton diverse payments in the excheker [exchequer] and other places to thuse [those] of Saynt [Saint] Johns College as aperith [appeareth] by ij bills herunto [here unto] annexid [annexed] vj li. xiij s. iiij d.
Item delivered the xvj th day of February to Roger Not of Hatfeld [Hatfield] by Tomas Amyas alias Hystoler of the same to content for the commons and other charges of the bede [bed] folke at Hatfeld [Hatfield] xxvj s. vij d.
Item delivered the same day as Doctor Burgon [William Burgoyne, BD, Master of Peterhouse 1518-1522] to be by hym [him] delyvered [delivered] to the Prior of Saincte [Saint] Bartholomews for charges of the said bedfolke [bed folk] liij s. iiij d.
Item paid the viij th day of February to William Mynors attorney for the costs of suyts [suits] this Hillary terme of diverse persons upon forfetur [forfeiture] of their obligacons [obligations] for money owing unto my lady as appereth [appeareth] by his bill xx s. j d.
Summa xxxiij li. xvj s. x d.
per me Henricum Hornby.
Published
Expenses paid by Robert Shorton to John Wood including those for enrolments concerning the foundations of Christ's College, Cambridge and SJC (from 1509); a reward of 40 s. to William Tomlyn [Tomlin] SJH master `by desire and mind' of John Fisher, and payment to Roger Nott by Thomas Amyas hosteler at Hatfield, for the almsfolk; signed Henry Hornby.
Printed in Eagle 31 ( Lent 1910), p. 152
https://documents.joh.cam.ac.uk/public/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1910s/1910/Eagle_1910_Lent.pdf
Published
Expenses of John Haryson from Hatfield to Greenwich by command of Lady Margaret to be with the Queen [Katherine of Aragon]; and his boat hire to Westminster the night before the coronation to `open the back gates'; and boat hire to London again to fetch black cloth for the frater [brotherhood ?]; signed by Thomas Mawdesley.
Printed: Eagle 31 (Lent 1910) p. 287
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Note of sums paid by Henry Hornby at for Lady Margaret's causes and matters.
Printed: [Eagle (Easter 1910), pp.282-286](https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1910s/1910/Eagle_1910_Easter.pdf) and in Scott's Notes from the College Records Third Series p. 324
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Receipt for 5 marks from John Wode [Wood] signed by Richard Regnay, for the costs of the examination of the will of Lady Margaret.
23 November 1511
In primis on Fryday [Friday] the xv day of Octobe at Waltam [Waltham] croos [cross] for my bateyng j d.
Item the same day at Wayre for my dener ij d.
Item for my horse meyt [meat] j d.
Item the same neyt [night] at Barkwa[y] for Dreynkyng [drinking] j d.
Item for my horsemeyt [horse meat] iij d. ob.
Item on Satterday [Saturday] the xvj day of October at Barkwa[y] for my dener [dinner] ij d.
Item for my horse j d.
Item the same neyt [night] at Wayre [Ware] for my sopper [supper] ij d.
Item my horsemeyt [horse meat] iiij d.
On Sonday [Sunday] the xvij day of October at Waltam croos [Cross] for my dener ij d.
Item for my horsemeyt [horse meat] j d.
Item the day for my horsehayre [horse hire]
Summa iij s. iiij d. ob.
Ryding for John Wodd [Wood] to Cambrige [Cambridge]
Published
A sheet of expenses of John Wood at Waltham Cross, Ware and Barkway.; at foot in John Fisher's hand: "Rydyng [riding] for John Wodd to Cambridge."
Chaunter's House: a mansion house on the south side of St. Paul's Churchyard
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For the expenses of ix dayes [days] of my lord of Rochester [John Fisher], Mr Hornby with other of my ladies [lady's] freinds [friends] in the chanters houes of Pawles [Chaunter's House, St Paul's] iij li. xix s. vij d.
Signed: Jo. Roffs. Henry Hornby
For more on Nicholas Ashton or Nichalos Aughton see Cooper's Lady Margaret p. 217
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Paid for the expenses of Nycholas Aughton [Nicholas Ashton], squire, ij horses at gresse from Ester [Easter] unto a sevenight [seven night] after midsomer [midsummer] the tyme [time] that my lady was at the corte [court] by the space of xj wekes [weeks] after the rate of viij d. by the weke [week] for bothe [both] vij s. iiij d.
Item for taking up of my lades [lady's] swannes [swans] out of the Tamyse [Thames] by vij days with many botes [boats] at li s. by the day xiiij s.
Summa xxj s. iiij d.
Signed: Jos Roffs. Henry Hornby
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Memorandum pd [paid] the xxvj day of October when that my lorde [lord] sent me to Wendsor [Windsor] to Mister Secortort. Pd [paid] the smae day at Dartforth [Dartford] for my drenke [drink] j ob. ....
Signed: Jos Roffs. for my lady
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Thys [this] bill witnessyth [witnessed] made the xiiij day of October for alowens [allowence] of my bord [board] waages for ij wekes [weeks] and j day after xviij d. a wek [week] and for bote hyr [boat hire] for iij days iiij d.
per me Thomas Mawdislay.
Countersigned: Jo Roffs.
Item a lowens [allowence] for Morgan Mores first for Weynsday [Wednesday] at nyght [night] when my lord departed for hys soper [his supper] ij d.
Item thrusday [Thursday] iiij d. fryday [Fridya] iij d. setreday [Saturday] iij d. Sunday iij d. and thys weke [this week] last in commons xviij d. and for bote hyre [boat hire] vj d at diverse tymys [times] to my lord Tresurer [Treasurer].
Summa iij s. xij d.
SignedL Morgan Mores
Countersigned: Jo. Roffs.
For bequests to Elizabeth Massey, Mrs Stanhope, and for Lawrence Canwyke, see Cooper's *Lady Margaret*, pp 134-135 and p. 227.
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To Master Parker in party [part] of payment of a more sum du[e] unto hym [him] by the reason of money gevyn [given] at the Crystenyng [Christening] of his childre[n] and delyveryd [delivered] unto my ladies [lady's] handes [hands] x li.
To Maystres [Mistress] Massy for her bequeste [bequest] vj li. xiij s. iiij d.
To Maystres [Mistress] Stanopp [Stanhope] for here [her] beequeste [bequest] likewies over and above v marc [marks] delyveryd [delivered] unto hire [her] by Master Hugh Asheton [Ashton] iij li. vj s. viij d.
To the Anker [Anchoress] in the Wall at London x s.
to the ij Ankers [Anchoresses] at Saynt Albons [Saint Albans] xx s
Item for the recedue [residue] of the payment concerning the aquitaunce [aquittance] of Laurence Convicy over and avove the sum of xxxiij li. paide [paid] by the hendys [hands] of Master Philip Morgan iij li. xiij s. iiij d.
Summa totalis xxv li. iij s. iiij d.
Signed: Jo Roffs.
Clerk of works at Collyweston and member of Lady Margaret Beaufort’s household.
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Account of James Morice:
First for the bordyng [boarding] of Maistres [Mistress] Jan by the space of iij wek [weeks] and v dayes [days] at xvj d. the wek [week iiij s. xj d.
Item for th ebordyng [boarding] of M Elyner Massingham by the space of v wek [weeks] iiij daies [days] at vvj d. the wek [week] summa vij s. v d.
Item for the cost of ij men with ij horses by the space of ij daies [days] comyng [coming] and goyng [going] from Roydon to London for the breyng [bringing] the said M Elyner to my lord of Surret at xid the day ech [each] man and horse iiij s.
Item paid to Mayne the paynter [painter] in party [part] payment of vj li. xiij s. iiij d. for the making of ij tables of the pictur[e] of my ladies [lady's] grace lij s. iiij d.
Item in reward to the said James [Morice] towards his bothier [boat hire] ad [and] his cost for his attendyng [attending] abowt [about] such besnes [business] as my ladies [lady's] executors comaunded [commanded] hym [him] to do in London, for Cristes College.
To James Mores [Morrice] xxiij s. viij d.
Signed. Jo. roffs.
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An account for Lady Margaret's executors:
In primis [first] to Tybyll bor meny [many] writyngs [writings] perteynyng [pertaining] to my lady xx s.
Item to John Bear to wrytyng [writing] for hur [her] testament ij s.
Item to Myddleton [Middleton] for a gown whych [which] he shuld [should] have had at my ladies [lady's] interment not alowed [allowed] in the funeralls [funerals] xxvj s. viij d.
Signed. Jo Roffs.
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Mony layd howt [money laid out] for my ladys [lady's] causis [causes] by me Rowland Baxster [Baxter], clark [clerk].
Item for j copy off a wrytt [of a writ] in the exchequer againys [against] the executors to Webe xij d.
Item for my boytt hyre dyvars tymes [for my boat hire diverse times] goyng for ytt [going for it] ij d.
Item to Mayster Broke [Master Brooke] on the sonday [Sunday] afoyr sant andre daye [before Saint Andrew's day] and ij off [of] the Kyngs [King's] sergents [serjeants] xiij s. iiij d.
Item for my bott hyre goyng and comyng [boat hire going and coming] iij tymes [times] to the Kyngs [King#s] atornay [attorney] and the solicitor and to mayster Brok [Master Brook] and the Kyngs [King's] sergents [serjeants] and to mayster [Master] Mod xij d.
Item for goyng [going] to gyt a byll [get a bill] off Mr Smyth to the exchecer [exchequer] off [of] sommersydshyre [Somersetshire] to Westminster and to London ij tymys [times] to Mr Dene vj d.
Item for goyng [going] to My Wyndhowr on owr [our] Ladys [Lady's] ay for a proviso for my ladys [lady's] lands and to Mr Conysby for consell [counsel] for the same to London and after to dyvors [diverse] other[s] viij d.
Item for goyng [going] iij tymys [times] from Westmynster [Westminster] to Lambeth for my ladys [lady's] wyll [will] to be selyt [sealed] iiij d.
Item for goyng [going] to my lord Chamerlan [Lord Chamberlain] and ij tymys [times] to Mayster [Master] Cartar [Carter] for to mak[e] schotshouys [escutcheons] for my ladys tome [lady's tomb] iiij d.
Item payt [paid] to the wrytarys [writers] at ..... at the syne [sign] off [of] the whyt [white] hart in paternoster towe[r] in party [part] payment for wrytyng [writing] the grat [great] rowyll [roya] consornyng [concerning] sant Johannis [Saint John] xx d.
Summa huius xix s.
Signed: Jo Roffs. pro domina
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Account of expenditure 'for my lady'
Furst [First] of Monday the xxij day of Julii [July] when I ewent to Master Harsdeynke for my dener [dinner[ at Grayffyshend [Gravesend] ij d.
Item for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iij d.
Item the same neytt [night] at London for my sopper [supper] and my bede [bed] iij d.
Item of Tewysday the xxiij day of Julii [July] for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iij d.
Item my dreynke [drink] at j d.
Summa xij d.
Signed: Jo Roffs.
On reverse: Item to the mesynger [messenger] that broght the Kyngs [King's] letters by the hands of Mr Officiall xiij s. iiij d.
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Furst [First] of Thursday the xxix day of November whyn wentt [when went] to London to Master Arsdekyn [Archdeacon] with letteres [letters] furst [first] at grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my drenyke j d.
Item for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iiij d.
Item the smae day at London for my dener and sopper [dinner and supper] iiij d.
Item the same neytt [night] for my bott hayre [boat hire] to Lambeth and fro j d.
Item for my bede [bed] and my dreynke [drink] j d. ob.
Item of fryday [Friday] the xxx day of November for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iij d.
Item the same day at Grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my dreynke [drink] ob.
Summa xv d.
Signed: Jo Roffs.
Published
Published
Valuations of Lady Margaret's estates and property
Born in Ufford, Northamptonshire around 1475, George Quarles served as Royal Auditor to both King Henry VII and King Henry VIII of England.
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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."
Bound: 32 pages
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Letters and notes between Lady Margaret's executors and between individual executors and others concerning business arising from the terms of her will. Also includes letters to John Fisher which are not related to Lady Margaret's will or to St John's College
Published
Also with the Bishop of Ely's Commissary
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Mentioning the priory of St John, Cambridge.
Undated
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Endorsed is a list of garments and prices (also Fisher's hand?)
This letter should be placed in date before August 1509 when the king granted his licence. It mentions three letters patent which the King [Henry VIII] promised.
The letter appears to be in Fisher's own hand.
John Fisher was an English bishop, theologian and humanist academic, who was instrumental in the founding of St John's College. He is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Born in the town of Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1469, Fisher was a student at Cambridge in the 1480s, gaining his BA in 1488. He was subsequently elected Fellow of Michaelhouse, one of the two Colleges later refounded as Trinity College by Henry VIII. He became chaplain and confessor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and in 1504, was appointed as Bishop of Rochester. At Cambridge, Fisher was made Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1501 and served as President of Queens’ College from 1505 to 1508. He also encouraged the creation of the University’s oldest professorship, the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, in 1502, and was elected as its first occupant.
It was through Fisher’s influence that Lady Margaret was moved to support the foundation of Christ's College (1505) and St John's College, and it was Fisher who was to secure the establishment of St. John’s in 1511, after Lady Margaret’s death in 1509. Fisher fiercely opposed the dissolution of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a position which brought him into grave conflict with the King. Fisher’s refusal to take an oath supporting Henry's right to act as Supreme Head of the Church in England led ultimately to his imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1534. Since such a refusal was considered a treasonable offence, Fisher was tried and sentenced to death, despite his late appointment to the office of cardinal by Pope Paul III. He was executed on Tower Hill on 22 June 1535.
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An undated letter from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester to another bishop [possibly Richard Fox of Winchester] about the problems in securing the King's signature [Henry VIII] in connection with causes affecting the Lady Margaret's estate.
torn in places but repaired
Printed in Eagle Vol 16, p. 357
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Sending a draft drawn by Humphrey Coningsby for the translation of St John's Hospital into St John's College
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Henry Hornby, Cambridge, to John Fisher, about St John's College and the Bishop of Ely's intent to remove the brethren of St John's Hospital to Ely
The letter's account of preparation for the Lady Margaret's anniversary suggests that it was the first after her death [29 June 1509] that was discussed thus in 1510 .
Henry Hornby was secretary, dean of chapel and chancellor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and a key figure in the foundation of St. John's College, Cambridge. After graduating D.D. in 1495, Hornby was appointed Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He became Master of Peterhouse in 1509. Other notable appointments include Rector of Burton Bradstock, Dorset (1495-1517); Prebendary of Southwell (1496-1518); Prebendary of Lincoln (1501-1518), Dean of Wimborne, Dorset; and Rector of Orwell (1508-1518).
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Letter [no year] from Henry Hornby in Cambridge to John Fisher, about keeping Lady Margaret's anniversary [of her death] and the evidence of her intention to found St John's College.
Printed: [Eagle vol 16 p.346-347](https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1890s/1891/Eagle_1890_Michaelmas.pdf).
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Richard Henrison Commissary of the Bishop of Ely, to John Fisher, describing the removal [expulsion] of the brethren of St John's Hospital by water to Ely, and surrender of the goods of the house.
No year on letter, but must be 1511
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Henry Hornby at Cambridge to John Fisher, about his wish to take Hornby's servant Henry Day to Rome, and the progress of building at St John's College supervised by the Master and Oliver Scales
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Letter, no year, James Stanley Bishop of Ely at Somersham to John Fisher, asking him to send obligations by which Stanley was bound to the Lady Margaret, and saying that he has made Fisher, Bishop Fox of Winchester and Bishop Nykke of Norwich his proctors in the next convocation
Published
Including drafts
The contract for Lady Margaret's tomb was dated 23 November 1511.
John Fisher was an English bishop, theologian and humanist academic, who was instrumental in the founding of St John's College. He is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Born in the town of Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1469, Fisher was a student at Cambridge in the 1480s, gaining his BA in 1488. He was subsequently elected Fellow of Michaelhouse, one of the two Colleges later refounded as Trinity College by Henry VIII. He became chaplain and confessor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and in 1504, was appointed as Bishop of Rochester. At Cambridge, Fisher was made Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1501 and served as President of Queens’ College from 1505 to 1508. He also encouraged the creation of the University’s oldest professorship, the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, in 1502, and was elected as its first occupant.
It was through Fisher’s influence that Lady Margaret was moved to support the foundation of Christ's College (1505) and St John's College, and it was Fisher who was to secure the establishment of St. John’s in 1511, after Lady Margaret’s death in 1509. Fisher fiercely opposed the dissolution of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a position which brought him into grave conflict with the King. Fisher’s refusal to take an oath supporting Henry's right to act as Supreme Head of the Church in England led ultimately to his imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1534. Since such a refusal was considered a treasonable offence, Fisher was tried and sentenced to death, despite his late appointment to the office of cardinal by Pope Paul III. He was executed on Tower Hill on 22 June 1535.
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Letter, no year, John Fisher to William Bolton Prior of St Bartholomew's, Smithfield, asking him to pay to Roger Notte on Fisher's behalf £4 for the almsfolk maintained by Lady Margaret's executors at Hatfield; and [in Fisher's own hand] to inspect the work of Pietro Torrigiano on her tomb at Westminster.
Lambeth 14 June [no year]
Printed: Eagle 31 (1910) p. 145.; Notes from the College Records Third Series pp. 289-290
Most likely in John Fisher's hand.
John Fisher was an English bishop, theologian and humanist academic, who was instrumental in the founding of St John's College. He is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Born in the town of Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1469, Fisher was a student at Cambridge in the 1480s, gaining his BA in 1488. He was subsequently elected Fellow of Michaelhouse, one of the two Colleges later refounded as Trinity College by Henry VIII. He became chaplain and confessor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and in 1504, was appointed as Bishop of Rochester. At Cambridge, Fisher was made Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1501 and served as President of Queens’ College from 1505 to 1508. He also encouraged the creation of the University’s oldest professorship, the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, in 1502, and was elected as its first occupant.
It was through Fisher’s influence that Lady Margaret was moved to support the foundation of Christ's College (1505) and St John's College, and it was Fisher who was to secure the establishment of St. John’s in 1511, after Lady Margaret’s death in 1509. Fisher fiercely opposed the dissolution of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a position which brought him into grave conflict with the King. Fisher’s refusal to take an oath supporting Henry's right to act as Supreme Head of the Church in England led ultimately to his imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1534. Since such a refusal was considered a treasonable offence, Fisher was tried and sentenced to death, despite his late appointment to the office of cardinal by Pope Paul III. He was executed on Tower Hill on 22 June 1535.
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Letter from John Fisher to Sir Thoms Mawdsley, asking him to deliver to Mr Parker £9 the rest of the £19 received by Lady Margaret and due to Parker at the christening of his children.
* Calendared in Cooper's Lady Margaret, p.185 and p.226
In Fisher's and another's hand.
John Fisher was an English bishop, theologian and humanist academic, who was instrumental in the founding of St John's College. He is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Born in the town of Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1469, Fisher was a student at Cambridge in the 1480s, gaining his BA in 1488. He was subsequently elected Fellow of Michaelhouse, one of the two Colleges later refounded as Trinity College by Henry VIII. He became chaplain and confessor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and in 1504, was appointed as Bishop of Rochester. At Cambridge, Fisher was made Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1501 and served as President of Queens’ College from 1505 to 1508. He also encouraged the creation of the University’s oldest professorship, the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, in 1502, and was elected as its first occupant.
It was through Fisher’s influence that Lady Margaret was moved to support the foundation of Christ's College (1505) and St John's College, and it was Fisher who was to secure the establishment of St. John’s in 1511, after Lady Margaret’s death in 1509. Fisher fiercely opposed the dissolution of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a position which brought him into grave conflict with the King. Fisher’s refusal to take an oath supporting Henry's right to act as Supreme Head of the Church in England led ultimately to his imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1534. Since such a refusal was considered a treasonable offence, Fisher was tried and sentenced to death, despite his late appointment to the office of cardinal by Pope Paul III. He was executed on Tower Hill on 22 June 1535.
Published
Letter from John Fisher to William Bolton, Prior of St Bartholomew, Smithfields, asking him to deliver £4 to Roger Noot [Notte] to maintain Lady Margaret's almsfolk at Hatfield.
Published
Draft letter, no year, John Fisher to Mr (Robert) Barray about bond he holds delaying entry of first fellows to St John's College
Published
Some do not concern St John's College or Lady Margaret. Also includes note of those appointed to convey ambassadors to London
Published
Letter from John Fotehede, Michaelhouse, Cambridge, to John Fisher, about Robert Cutlers' wish to retain the provostship of Rotherham College with his fellowship.
Undated
Published
Possibly includes Fisher, but name lost by damage
Published
Regrets Fisher's illness, says that the queen (Catherine of Aragon) will soon give birth; alludes to secret matters which cannot be written.
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W (William) Compton, Richmond, to John Fisher requesting his continued favour to James Morice "one of the king's receivers" to obtain for Morice the wardship of Thomas Champneys
This is most probably the executors' account for 25 June 1509 - 24 January 1511.
The bequest to the Church of Marybone [Marylebone?] is mentioned in the executors' accounts. See Cooper's "The Lady Margaret" p. 181 (although the volume does not details these bequests).
A payment of 20s. to Hobson for the 'my lady's book' is on p. 79 of the executors' accounts.
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Letter (undated) from Thomas Hobson to John Fisher, sending a book of accounts for approval.
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Letter from Edmund Jackson, Fellow of King's Hall to John Fisher, about conceding ground to build part of St John's College. No year
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John Fotehede (Fotehed), Master of Michaelhouse, to John Fisher, about surrender of goods of St John's Hospital by the Bishop of Ely's commissary, stone from Barrington, Cambridgeshire, intended for St John's College, boundary problems with King's Hall due to opposition of junior fellows
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John Fothed (Fotehed) to John Fisher, about an agreement with King's Hall and progress in building St John's College, and need to put in the Master and to hold divine service there especially since Easter approaches; also Mr Melton and Queen's College
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Letter, undated, Thomas Hobson to John Fisher about expedition of suits for land; has consulted Fitzjames, attorney of the duchy of Lancaster
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John Renatus, Rome to John Fisher, reporting his efforts to locate a work by John Anianus required by Fisher; has found only the 'Antiquitates' of John Annius of Viterbo. Annius was a noted forger of classical inscriptions and other writings devoted to 'proving' the distinction of his native Viterbo. See R. Weiss 'An Unknown Epigraphic Tract...' in Italian Studies presented to E.R. Vincent, ed. C.P.Brand, K. Foster, U. Limentani (Cambridge, 1962)
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The Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Dorset, the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Durham, (the King's councillors), to John Fisher about arrangements to receive the Pope's ambassador
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Richard Chetham, Prior of Ledes [Leeds], Kent, to John Fisher, about rates of exchange between ducats and stirling, prior to Fisher's journey (not made) to the Lateran council
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George, Lord Bergavenny [Abergavenny], Erige, (Eridge?), to John Fisher, about hunting and arrangements for the royal subsidy in Kent
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About Fisher's need of horses to travel to the Lateran council
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Letter, Adrian de Castello, Bishop of Bath and Wells, in Rome, to John Fisher, re-introducing Francis the Bishop of Castoria who is visiting England
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Letter, no year, Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flamborough to John Fisher, discussing a royal composition concerning the town of Scarborough and the conduct of Ralph Fisher; asks a fellowship for (?John) Shaw son of the bailiff of Hayton, Yorkshire
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Letter, no year, Ralph Fisher, Scarborough, to John Fisher, complaining of the financial exactions of Sir Walter Griffith; mentions Ralph's brother Robert
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A note of the names of those appointed to meet the Pope's ambassadors at Dover and convey them to Dartford. Sent to John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
Printed in the Eagle 16 p353-354
Published
No year
Published
William Burbank, secretary to Cardinal Wolsey, to John Fisher, requesting lease of a church belonging to St John's College for his kinsman, surveyor of the King's Stables; bids Fisher farewell 'in our great business'.
Undated, but Whit Monday
Published
Concerning the priest of Southfleet, Sir Peter Owenden, and the archdeacon's and bishop's jurisdictions
Published
Recommending Robert Harry (?Harris) to a St John's College fellowship. Only dated with day and month
Published
Includes: petitions, legal notices and court documents related to the Lady Margaret's estates.
Sir Robert Southwell was a lawyer and a royal administrator during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. A descendant of a wealthy Norfolk family, Southwell was a member of Lincoln’s Inn and rose to prominence during the 1490s, when he worked in the crown lands administration on various appointments, receiverships and special commissions. By 1503, he occupied the role of general surveyor of all the royal lands. From 1504, he served as chief butler of England and in 1510, he was appointed chief auditor of the exchequer. He died in 1514.
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Petition (undated), Sir Robert Southwell to the executors of Lady Margaret Beaufort, asking compensation for losing a wardship wrongly adjudged to be of a fee held of the Duchy of Lancaster; Southwell had lost it through letters being addressed by the King [Henry VII] to Lady Margaret.
sealed
The petition has been transcribed. The transcription is in the Blue Finding Aid Folder under its previous reference number D94.397.
Published
Includes documents related to the foundations in Oxford and Cambridge; does not include St John's College
Published
Includes document related to Lady Margaret's foundations in Oxford.
For more information see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Margaret_Professor_of_Divinity_(Oxford)
Published
Documents related to the foundation of Lady Margaret's Professorship in Oxford
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Letters patent of King Henry VII, giving permission to the Lady Margaret or her executors to found a readership [professorship] in the University of Oxford, to the glory and honour of the Holy Trinity.
Westminster, 1 March 12 Hen: VII [1497]
bears the Great Seal in green wax - slightly damaged
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Indented charter of the Lady Margaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Oxford, with the appointment of John Roper as first reader, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]
The document is badly damaged in the middle, part of it is missing. The seal is in a box.
Published
Counterpart of the indented charter of the Lady Margaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Oxford, with the appointment of John Roper as first reader, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]
Slightly damaged at the top and the bottom. The seal is in a box.
Published
Includes documents related to Lady Margaret's foundations within the University of Cambridge, does not include St John's College.
Published
Includes documents related to the foundation of Lady Margaret's Professorship in Cambridge.
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Letters patent of King Henry VII giving permission to the Lady Margaret or her executors to found a chantry for a preacher in the University of Cambridge, to the glory and honour of the name of Jesus and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Westminster, 7 February 19 Hen:VII [1504]
bears the Great Seal in green wax
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Letters patent of King Henry VII giving permission to the Lady Margaret or her executors to found a readership [professorship] in the University of Cambridge, to the glory and honour of the Holy Trinity
Westminster, 1 March 12 Hen: VII [1497]
bears the Great Seal in brown wax
During 1498, Lady Margaret's household paid Dr John Smyth of Cambridge and Dr Edmund Wilsford at Oxford for lectures, possibly an anticipatory arrangement.
Published
Indented charter of the Lady Magaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Cambridge with the appointment of John Fisher as the first occupant of the post, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]
the seal is in a box
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One of the counterpart indented charters of the Lady Magaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Cambridge. [The indenture was tripartite]
the seal is in a box
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Grant, Westminster Abbey to John Fisher and his successors as readers in theology at Cambridge, stipend. Sealed with what might possibly be the seal of William Warham (c. 1450 - 22 August 1532) who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1503 to his death in 1532)
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Deeds and charters by which Lady Margaret founds her Cambridge preachership.
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Indented charter of the Lady Margaret for the foundation of a preachership in the University of Cambridge, with the appointment of John Ffawn [Fawn] as the first preacher, and the statutes governing the foundation.
30 October 20 Hen. VII [1504]
the seal is in a box
see https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/lady-margarets-500-year-legacy for background to Lady Margaret's preachership.
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One of the counterparts of Lady Margaret's indenture for the creation of her preachership in Cambridge.
* slightly damaged in the center by rubbing
* seal in a box
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Charters, accounts, deeds and other documents related to the creation and re-foundation of Christ's College. Christ's College was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as God's House. In 1505, the College was granted a new royal charter, was given a substantial endowment by Lady Margaret Beaufort, and changed its name to Christ's College.
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Inventory of plate, books and vestments bequeathed to Christ's College by the Lady Margaret.
42 pages, last 5 blank
Summary in Cooper's Lady Margaret p. 122
Printed in Cambridge Antiquarian Society Proceedings (1898) http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1895-1/dissemination/pdf/PCAS/1898_XXXIX-IX-III/PCAS_XXXIX-IX-III_1898_349-367_Scott.pdf
Geoffrey Blythe was educated at Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge, the latter of which he is recorded as having entered in 1483. He was ordained as a priest on 4th April 1496. From 1503 until his death, Blythe served as the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. He was appointed president of the Council of Wales and the Marshes from 1512 to 1524.
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Letter, Geoffrey Blyth[e] Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield, to Henry Hornby, enclosing will of Margaret Warton of Coventry, who bought jointly with her first husband Richard Clerk lands which she has left to the use of Christ's College, Cambridge. The messenger who brought this was probably the Prior of Coventry Charterhouse, who was rewarded in Lady Margaret's household accounts of the year 1507-1508.
Printed [Eagle No. 26 (Easter 1905) p. 298](https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1900s/1905/Eagle_1905_Easter.pdf).
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Letter, undated, from Henry Hornby to John Fisher, concerning repairs needed at Christ's College's estates at Malton, Cambridgeshire & near Lincoln; work on the College itself & payment for an inventory of Lady Margaret's goods made by Humphrey Wallcote (Walcot).
Printed: Eagle No. 16 (Michaelmas 1890) p. 348-349 https://documents.joh.cam.ac.uk/public/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1890s/1891/Eagle_1890_Michaelmas.pdf
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Injunctions given by Bishop John Fisher as Visitor to Christ's College 21 July 1510, witnessed by John Bere Apostolic notary. The statutes of Christ's required Visitation to take place in the second half of November, so the actual visitation may have occurred in November 1509.
*pp. 1-36: numbered at the bottom. Papers made 5 January 1509/10 to 1 February 1510/11, "abowt [about] the perfitement and fynisshygne [finishing] fo the chapell [chapel] within the said college."
* opposite p.1 is "Suoerplusage [surplus] of the last accompte [account]..."
*pp. 1-17: Payments made at the Manor of Malton, Cambridgeshire, belonging to Christ's College, for repairs, tec. From 3 May to 21 December [1510]. On the last page, " Beit knowen [ be it known] that on the xvth daie [day] of the monyth [month] of februarie [February] [1510/11] John Scott cerc hath delyvered [delivered] to the hands of my Lord of Rochester this present booke [book] made of the payments for the buyldynges [buildings] at Christ's College and reparacions [repairs] and buildynges [buildings] at the Manor of Malton and have receyved [received] of my lorde [lord] the dae daye [day] aforesaid the full some [sum] contenynid [contained] and accepted by the said booke [book] that it sto say £369.10.8 as it appirith [appeareth] in the said booke [book]. In witnesse [witness] heroff [hereof] I have written thes [this] with my hand the daie [day] and yere [year] reheresed [rehearsed] per me Joanne [John] Scott.
*attached at the end are three slips of paper: receipts by Symond Clayson and his wife Elen from Nicholas Metcalf, Master of St John's College, dated 3 May 1510, 12 October 1510 and 26 February 1509/10.
Fellow of God's House, Cambridge, (re-established as Christ's College in 1505) and Junior Proctor from 1510 to 1511.
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Account of John Scott, Fellow: includes expenses for completing Christ's College Chapel and repairs to the manor of Malton, Cambridgeshire.
14 leaves blank, bound in vellum with paper pages
A microfilm of the volume is held at Christ's College under the former reference number D106/1.
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Remise and quitclaim by Richard [Fox], Bishop of Winchester, Thomas [Ruthall], Bishop of Durham, John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, and John Cutte, knight to Thomas Thomson, clerk and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, of all their rights in the lands, holdings, rents, reversions and services which they had in the parish of St Egidius [St Giles], Cambridge, and which were formerly John Smyth's of London, gent[leman].
13 July 8 Hen: VIII
Seals and signatures of Ri. Wynton; Jo Roff and John Cutte; a plain lump of wax for the Bishop of Durham
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Grant, Richard [Foxe], Bishop Winchester, Thomas [Ruthall], Bishop Durham, John [Fisher]. Bishop of Rochester, Sir John Cutte to Thomas Thomson Master of Christ's College, Cambridge for lands listed in SJLM/8/2/3/6 to hold of the lords by service. Also includes a power of attorney for Oliver Scales and John Kyllyngworth [Killingworth], y[e]oman, to deliver seisin.
11 July, 8 Hen: VIII
Endorsed to the effect that seisin was delivered by John Kyllyngworth in the presence of 'magister' Nicholas Metcalfe, Archdeacon of Rochester, John Wyatt, William Smythe, clerks, Gerald Croft[es], Francis Berebruar, and other laymen.
Seals and signatures as SJLM/8/2/3/6
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Remise and quitclaim [undated] by the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge, to Thomas Thomson, clerk, and rector of Wellwyn, Hertfordshire, of all their rights in lands etc in the parishes St Giles, Cambridge and of Coton which were formerly Richard [Foxe], Bishop of Winchester's, Thomas [Ruthall] Bishop of Durham's, John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester's and John Cutte's ,knight, and which Thomas had of their gift. And the Master and Fellows will guarantee the lands against John [Islip], Abbot of Westminter and his successors.
Fragment of Christ's College seal
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Formerly stored in drawer (number 105) alongside correspondence of John Fisher, Henry Hornby, and the Bishop of Ely: likely that they formed part of John Fisher's papers
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Draft petition, University of Cambridge to Sir Thomas Lovell, Treasurer of the King's household, telling him of his election as high steward of the University and asking help should anything prejudicial to it be moved in parliament; note of copies to Sir Harry Marney and Sir Thomas Engelfield, omitting the first item
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Draft petition, University of Cambridge to 'my lord treasurer' asking help should anything prejudicial to the University be moved in parliament; note of copies to 'my lord of Oxford' and 'my lord steward'
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Includes documents related to the Stafford family.
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Letters Patent of Henry VII, granting to the Countess of Richmond [Lady Margaret Beaufort], his mother, on the authority of Parliament, all the profits of the estates of the late Henry, Duke of Buckingham, which had been granted to the King for the period of the minority of Edward, Henry's heir. The Countess is to be the guardian of Edward, and is to pay the King as much yearly as shall be agreed between them before next Easter.
Westminster, 3 August, 1 Hen:VII [1486]
By writ of the Privy Seal and on the authority of Parliament. Written by Heed.
Endorsed: Enrolled in the Treasury in 2 Hen: VII, on the 10th roll of the Michaelmas term.
bears a tiny fragment of a seal
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Includes documents related to the royal family, their heirs and assigns.
Katherine of Aragon was married to Arthur, Prince of Wales, the first son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York on 20 September 1501, and she arrived in England on 2 October 1501. Following Arthur's death in 1502 she was eventually married to his younger brother Henry who became Henry VIII.
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List of officers & servants of the Queen's [Elizabeth of York household, chamber & stable, & servants of princess of Wales [Katherine of Aragon]; end.'a remembrance for the queen's servants, for my lady's grace'. Includes chamberlain, vice-chamberlain, confessor, kervers [carvers], cuppebearer [cupbearer], master of the horses and secretary.
Lady Margaret's household accounts refer to these events:
* after 16 March 1506 6 s 8 d paid to the vice chamberlain in reward to `one that brought a book to my lady grace of the coming of the king of Castile [SJLM/1/1/3/2 p. 103]
* 15 April 1506 paid to John Holte for riding to Richmond and other places on my lady's message 2d.
* 18 April to the vice-chamberlain in reward to one Smerte that brought a book to my lady grace of the coming of the king of Castile and Edmund de la Pole [SJLM/1/1/3/2 p. 108]. John Fisher was cross-bearer to the Archbishop of Canterbury at a mass for the two kings.
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Three page account of the meeting of Henry VII and Philip, King of Castile near Windsor on 31 January 1505. The description may have been written by or for John Fisher for Lady Margaret. The account includes a description of archers shooting for the two Kings. It ends with narrator telling Lady Margaret (`Madame... your grace') that Holt will tell her fuller detail about the decoration of royal rooms and persons .
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* Eagle Vol 15. (Lent 1889) pp. 336-339
<https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1880s/1889/Eagle_1889_Lent.pdf>
* Gairdner, J. *Memorials of Henry VII*. (London: Longman, 1858). pp. 282-303.
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Contemporary copy of the will of Margaret Warton, leaving property to the Carthusians of Coventry, and lands in Warwickshire for a chantry in Christ's College, and naming Lady Margaret as her executor.