Includes: letters patent and a grant for land held in the Honour of Richmond.

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.

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

Letters Patent, Edward III to Ranulph Pygot et al for land held of the honour of Richmond in Donington and Swineshead, Lincolnshire.

Letters patent by Henry VII granting trustees of Lady Margaret licence to convey lands in Devon and Somerset to new trustees.

Contemporary copies of the mandate of King Henry VIII to Roger Lupton "Keeper of our Haniper [Hanaper] in our Chauncery [Chancery]", to deliver letters patent in favour of the executors of the Lady Margaret, for the foundation of a chantry at Wimborne, for the licence to buy land for Christ's College, [Cambridge] and for the foundation of St John's College.

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