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The Records of Lady Margaret Beaufort
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Yeoman of the Wardrobe: R Hilton

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

Hilton, Robert

Will: Sir Henry Stafford

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

Stafford, Henry

Will: Margaret Warton

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.

Will and Memorandum

A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret, with certain corrections concerning the gifts to those who should attend her funeral, the dispositions of Maxey [Cambridgeshire] and Torpell [Northamptonshire], and those of the Somerset manors which she has enfeoffed with licence of Edward IV.

Wardrobe of the Beds: Hatfield

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"

Valuation of Estates

Values of estates formerly belonging to the Lady Margaret, 1519-1520, by George Quarles, King's Auditor [Henry VIII].

  • in the hand of Thomas Baker: "E libro [ut videtur] Scarcarii. Donum ornstissimi viri Jacobi West, Armigeri [Jacob West, Knight]. Bought at Mr Le Neve's auction, who having been employ'd in the exchequer, I've very much doubt, had borrow'd it from thence, with some other manuscripts, in the catalogue for they wer most properly lodge. Mr Le Neve has left such a character behind him, as mver much confirms this suspicion."

Quarles, George

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