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Accounts of James Morice for works at Collyweston Croydon, Halyng (Haling), Fotheringhay, Coldharbour, Hatfield, Christ's College.

Letters patent of Henry VII, granting manors in Devon, Somerset, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Northamptonshire, Dorset, South Wales and property in London to his mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond.
Westminster, 22 March 1486/7

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.

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.

Letter, no year, William Smyth, Ralph Baxter & Robert Doneham (or Domnam), priests to John Taylor, Dean of Lincoln, concerning their excommunication in a judicial dispute with the Bishop of Peterborough and his power over the dean's [Taylor] peculiar of Nassington. The diocese of Peterborough was created in 1541, with John Chambers (also known as John Borowe or Burgh), abbot of Peterborough, as its first bishop.