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SJLM/3/1/1
Unique identifier
GB 1859 SJLM/3/1/1
Title
Annotated draft will
Date(s)
- 1508-1509 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 item, paper and parchment
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(1469-1535)
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Scope and content
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
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Note
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)
Alternative identifier(s)
Former Ref.
D6.27
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Name access points
- Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (Subject)
- Henry VIII, King of England (Subject)