Inventories for the wardrobe of beds of the Lady Margaret.

Indulgence from John (Sante), Abbot of Abingdon, nuntio of Pope Sixtus IV in England, Wales and Ireland, to Margaret, Countess of Richmond, in regard to her contributions to the wars against the Turks.
London, 5 March 1476/7

Indulgence, granted 20 May 1504, by Pope Julius II to the Lady Margaret and Henry VII. The bull grants licence to choose confessors, with privileges relating to absolution, permission to relax the Lenten fast and to visit enclosed religious houses.

Copy of indulgence from Pope Innocent VIII to Henry VII and his Queen Elizabeth [and his mother].
Rome, 13 August 1488.

Grant by Gratian de Villanova, warden of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit, Rome, to the Lady Margaret, who has been admitted to the confraternity, by her proxy, John Harington, LL.D, of the right to choose her confessor.
Rome, 22 September 1495

Documents relating to property in Hertfordshire.

Inventory of goods & clothes belonging to Henry Hornby, Dean of the Lady Margaret's chapel. The volumes lists the following items:

• pp.1-2: gownes lyned
• p.3: riding gownes and cloke, doublette, jaquets lyned.
• p.4: jaquets furred, petticotts, hose
• p.5 beces of wollen
• pp.7-8: beding and other necessary things
• p.9: superpellice [surplice]
• p.11: in tharmory chamber [in the armory chamber?]
• p.12: basons, candlesticks and other thyngs
• p.13: sadells and harnesses

Account of Miles Worsley treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret. Signature 'Margaret R.' at the bottom of most pages.

• pp.49: blank
• pp. 65-67: similar accounts to 14 Jan 1507/8 to 14 Jan 1508/9 [no signature]
• pp. 69-125: costs and expenses, rewards, with other dyverse [sic] payments... payd by the hands of Miles Worsley: signtures at the bottom of pp. 69-112.

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.

Grant, Thomas lord Stanley to Lady Margaret, of lands in Moldesdale, Flintshire, and Beaumaris, Anglesey.

Grant by Lady Margaret under licence of 22 May 1472 by the king [Edward IV] to Thomas [Bourchier], Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, William [Waynflete], Bishop of Winchester, John [Booth], Bishop of Exeter, John [Stafford], Earl of Wiltshire, the King's kinsman, Sir Walter Blound, Lord Mountjoy, Master Owin Lloyd, clerk, John Catesby, serjeant at law, Richard Page, William Hody and Reginald Bray, gentlemen, to hold at her will as to the profits of the lands following, viz Martok, Cory Revell, Kingsbury Regis, Camel Reginae with apputer[enances] in Somerset, hundreds of Bulston, Abdyke and Horethorn with appurt[enances] in [the] same, towns [burgi, burghs] of Langport Estover and Langport Westover with appurt[enances] in the same, manors of Sampford Peverell and Aller Peverell with appurt[enances] in Devon, town of Sampford Peverell and hundred of Alberton also in Devon, with knights' fees, advowsons liberties etc, as of the King in chief; grant to her attorneys John Gilbert, gentleman, Peter WilliamsonJohnson [sic], Thomas Larder, John Jenyn, John Burgeys to deliver seisin to the grantees; witnessed by Sir William Stourton, Lord Stourton, Sir John Dynham, Lord Dynham, Reginald Stourton, William Poulet, Sir John [N]enton, Philip Beaumont, William Carant, Thomas Malet, Robert Stowell, etc.

Endorsed: enrolled dorse of close roll. Jan 19 Henry VII

Grant by Sir William Stanley of Hoton, James Skaresbyhe [Scaresby], Thomas Pole, William Nedeham, Thomas Wolton, Hugh Gartesside, Ranulph Billyngton, Robert Shakerley, Richard Huxley, John Carlile, clerk, Henry Ban, and Henry Kirkham to Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, Henry Pole and Robert Southworth, of the castlem manors and lands which they held by feoffment of the aforesaid Lord Stanley or his father, Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, in Lancashire, Cheshire, Wales or the Isle of Man.
With appointment of John Crosse, Wiliam Core and Oliver Bykerstath as their attorneys.

Grant, Sir Ralph Shirley to Sir Thomas Bousher [Bourchier], Walter Colpeper Esq., Thomas Barton and Roberty Byngham, gentlemen, that the bond of Sir Sampson Norton to be void on the death of Anne, heiress of Thomas Warner.
Seal and signature of Ranuffe Shyrley

Grant by Sir John Mainwaring, Sir John Bromley and Sir Thomas Manley to Thomas Lord Stanley of the manor of Moldesdale [Flintshire] held by themselves and the collegiate church of St John Chester.

Grant by Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Richard Page, by licence of the King [Henry VII] given by letters patent of 10 November 1490, to Richard [Hill], Bishop of London, and Richard Skypton, clerk, of [lands in Devon and Somerset] with letters of attorney to Hugh Oldeham, clerk, John Jakson and Nicholas Compton.

Grant, Ranulph Pygot of Donington to William his son, parcels of land and salt pans in Donington and Quadring, Lincolnshire.

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.

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 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.

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.