Accounts of James Morice clerk of works at Collyweston.

The account of Miles Worsley, cofferer to Lady Margaret.

• pp13-61: From 2 Feb 1501/2 to 14 Jan 1502/3 have signature 'Margaret R.' at bottom
• pp 69-70: are blank
• pp71-129: Similar account from 14 Jan 1502/3 to 14 Jan 1503/4 with signatures
• pp134-140: Summary of accounts [?]
• pp141-191: Similar account from 14 Jan 1503/4 to 14 Jan 1504/5
• pp 191-192: Paid by Sir Roger Urmeston [Ormeston] since 20 Jan 1503/4
• pp194-200: Summary of accounts [?]
• pp201-218: blank

Account of James Morice clerk of works to the Lady Margaret, for the manor at Collyweston, Northamptonshire; also includes accounts for building a new house at Collyweston using timber from Bourne Park, Lincolnshire and freestone. (pp.117-145)

Computus (account) of William Bedell, Treasurer of the Household of the Lady Margaret [Beaufort]. The accounts refer to Lady Margaret's houses in Croydon and Hatfield.

Letters patent of Edward IV, confirming at the request of Alianor [Eleanor], Duchess of Somerset, the inquisition held by John Knottesford, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, at Southwark 12 September 1455. The inquisition found that Edmund, Duke of Somerset, had no goods or chattels in Surrey at his death, but that John, Duke of Somerset, was seized of the manors of Wokkyng and Sutton and had granted them to Edmund and Alianor, his wife, and to Henry, Duke of Somerset, son and heir of Edmund, for life.
Westminster, 23 April 1466.

A contemporary (16th century) copy of the will of Lady Margaret.

Copy of a bull of Pope Julius II, dated Rome, 20 May 1504, addressed to Henry VII, giving licence to choose a confessor, and approving of John Burnell, of the order of Friars Minor 'de observantia'; also similar licence to the Lady Margaret.

Accounts of Miles Worsley cofferer to Lady Margaret, for the household at Croydon & Hatfield.

• pp. 1-80: Croydon. Account from 14 Jan 1504/5 to 14 Jan 1505/6
• pp. 81-82: blank
• pp. 83-163: Hatfield. Account from 14 Jan 1505/6 to 14 Jan 1506/7
• pp. 166-172: blank

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

One membrane of a declaration of account by the executors of Lady Margaret; includes sums for goods delivered earlier to Wolsey and SJC; also includes an account of the money from Katherine, Countess of Devonshire.

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.

Inventory of plate in the cellar, spicery, pantry, ewery [office of the ewerer] and scullery at Colyweston. It begins with:
"first ii greate pottes gilet graven full of porternalions and margarettes with the kings armes inaelde above the two lidis bother ponderying [weighing] ccccxxviij unc. at iij s viij d. le unce

The goods are listed under the headings:

• cellar (pp.2-13)
• spicery (p.14)
• pantry (pp.15-18)
• ewery (pp.19-24)
• scullery (pp. 25-30)

Drafts of accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond's executors. Items of expenditure from 3 July 1513 to 16 March 1512/3 are listed on pages 16-20.

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.

• pp. 3-29: copy of will
• pp. 30-38: an estimate of her funeral expenses, amounting to £1033.2s.8d.
• pp. 39-48: a list of her legacies

Part of the accounts of the exectuors of Lady Margaret, containing entries of the sale of plate, arras [sic], bedding etc. to various important persons such as Lord Herbert, Lord Burgavenny, the Bishop of Durham [and others.]. The entries correspond with the full accounts.

Includes: accounts, letters, receipts, payments and correspondence related to Lady Margaret's will and estates and to the foundation of St John's College. Also includes letters of John Fisher.
Lady Margaret appointed as her executors Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester; John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Charles Somerset, Lord Herbert, the King's Chamberlain; Sir Thomas Lovell, Treasurer of the King's Household; Sir Henry Marney, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Sir John St John, her chamberlain; Henry Hornby, her chancellor, and Sir Hugh Ashton, comptroller of her household

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.

Indenture of grant by Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, Henry Pole and Robert Southworth to John [Russell], Bishop of Lincoln, John [Morton], Bishop of Ely, Sir John Denham, Lord Denham, Sir William Huse, Sir Thomas Borough, John Cheyny [Chesne], Richard Pygot, serjeant at law, William Catesby, John Brown, Reginald Bray, Thomas Roggers, and John Denton, of the Castle of Hawarden, Cheshire, the manors of Mahuntesdale in the Marches of Wales, and the manors of Bydston, Neston, Donham, Maxey, Kynghey, Bosley and Dorfold, Cheshire, and of Hoveryngham and Flyntham, Nottinghamshire, for the life of Margaret [Beaufort], Countess of Richmond.
With appointment of Hugh Gartesside, Robert Shakerley and Gilbert Gilpyn as attorneys to give seisin.

Grant by Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham [and] Earl of Hertford, Stafford and Northampton, by royal licence to Thomas [Bourchier], Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas [Rotherham], Archbishop of York, John [Morton], Bishop of Ely, William [Dudley], Bishop of Durham, John [Hales], Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, John [Russell], Bishop of Lincoln, Henry [Bourchier], Earl of Essex, William, Lord Hastyngs, John, Lord Howard, Walter, Lord Ferres, Sir William Knyvet, Sir Richard Chok, Sir Guy Fayrfax, Richard Pygot and John Catesby, serjeant at law, John Jeffery,clerk, William Catesby, William Paston, John Denton, William Harpour, Richard Harpour, John Broun, Richard Isham and Andrew Dymmok, of the manors of Hatfeld Regis, Writtel and Boyton, in the hundreds of Ongre and Harlow in the county of Essex, and the manors of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Rothwell, Northamptonshire, held in chief of the King [Edward IV].
26 February 1480/1

Indenture dated 26 May 1507, of a grant by the Princess Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derbie [sic], mother of the King, to Humphry Conyngsby, sejeant [sic] at law, of closes called Great Medbourne, Oxlea, Asshmore and Coletts, and of 7 acres of meadow, in the parish of Aldenham, Hertfordshire, for a yearly rent of 51s.
Per me Humfridum Conyngesby.