Includes copies of Lady Margaret's will and lists of her bequests.
Probate copy will of Wacelin de Briddesal [Wasselyn of Birdsall], Yorkshire.
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
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.
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.
Includes documents related to trusts and settlements with the Beaufort and Stafford families.
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.
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.
Stanhope, Alice
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
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
Talbot, Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk
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.
Part of The Records of St John's College
Deeds of Gloversbridge farm (16 acres) & buildings, Headcorn & Boughton Malherbe Kent; includes the probate copy wills of Thomas Clark, and Jonathan Clark. Also includes a conveyance from Sarah Clark to the College for Gloversbridge Farm.
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.
Copy of will of Humphrey Gower, 1708
Part of The Records of St John's College
With memorandum, 1708
A contemporary (16th century) copy of the will of Lady Margaret.
Birdsall, Yorkshire: will and deeds
Includes records related to property held by the Hospital in Birdsall, Yorkshire.
Bequests of the Lady Margaret, valued. Begins: "To Crists Colege: first a crucifix with mary and John full gilt and enameld [weighing 11 ounces]
Bequest of Books: Humphrey Gower
Part of The Records of St John's College
Includes: a catalogue of books left by Dr Gower to Mr Brome with the remainder to go the College Library; and a list of books sold to Mr Brome.
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