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Receipt by John Wood, solicitor to the executors of 'my lady the Kyngs grandame', by commandment of my Lord of Rochester and Master Henry Hornby, two of the said executors, from Master Robert Shorton, of £20 in part payment of greater sum as well as for diverse 'writyng in the Chauncery and Escheker and other weyse' as payment for learned men and other for their services and rewards for Michaelmas term last.
Signed: per me John Woode
Countersigned: per me Henricum Hornby

Receipt by John Wode [Wood], of Fulbourne (Fulborn], gentleman, for £7 13s 4d from Robert Shorton, clerk Master of the College, "in partie of payment of a mor sume of and for dyverse costs and besynes [business] about the saide College".
Signed: per me Johnanes Wode. per me Henricus Hornby

Note of sums paid by Henry Hornby at for Lady Margaret's causes and matters.

Letter, undated, from Henry Hornby to John Fisher, concerning repairs needed at Christ's College's estates at Malton, Cambridgeshire & near Lincoln; work on the College itself & payment for an inventory of Lady Margaret's goods made by Humphrey Wallcote (Walcot).

Letter, Geoffrey Blyth[e] Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield, to Henry Hornby, enclosing will of Margaret Warton of Coventry, who bought jointly with her first husband Richard Clerk lands which she has left to the use of Christ's College, Cambridge. The messenger who brought this was probably the Prior of Coventry Charterhouse, who was rewarded in Lady Margaret's household accounts of the year 1507-1508.

List of tapestries from Lady Margaret's furnishings which were sold & paid for. Purchasers include: John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Henry Hornby; Morgan and Lord Mountjoy.

The items are listed as:

• First the historye of paris and helyn sowlde to my lorde of Surrey £22
• Item the storye of Nabingodenesar to my lorde Surray £18
• Item the historye of Saule Episcope Roffensis [Bishop of Rochester]
• Item the vij sages sowld to Mr Sir John Saynt John £11.11.8 etc.

For the expenses of ix dayes [days] of my lord of Rochester [John Fisher], Mr Hornby with other of my ladies [lady's] freinds [friends] in the chanters houes of Pawles [Chaunter's House, St Paul's] iij li. xix s. vij d.
Signed: Jo. Roffs. Henry Hornby

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.

Accounts related Lady Margaret's executors.

Account of the treasurer of the Lady Margaret's chamber, Robert Fremyngham, signed by John Fisher, Henry Hornby and Hugh Ashton. The accounts end on the day of Lady Margaret's death.
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