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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

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.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.