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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

Documents relating to Lady Margaret's lands in Woking, Surrey.

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 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 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"

Includes documents related to trusts and settlements with the Beaufort and Stafford families.

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 ...

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

Accounts of donations received (pp. 1-3) and for money assigned by Henry VIII from Katherine, Countess of Devonshire to Lady Margaret Beaufort's executors (pp 9-15). The last item listed on p.3 is for 6s. paid for a Greek vocabulary bought for the use of the College's library.

Also includes the account of Nicholas Metcalfe for money due to the estate of Lady Margaret.

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.

Includes: accounts of Sir Roger Ormeston for expenses on behalf of Lady Margaret Beaufort.

Includes: accounts of Roger Fremyngham [Fremingham] treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret.

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.

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

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"

A petition to Pope Innocent VIII for indulgences for King Henry VII, his Queen [Elizabeth of York] and his mother [Lady Margaret Beaufort].

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

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.