E 331504-c1840Exchequer: Treasury of the Receipt: Indentures Connected with the Foundation of Henry VII's Chantry and Almshouses at Westminster
These indentures relate to the foundation of Henry VII's Chantry and Almshouses at Westminster and were originally housed in the Exchequer Treasury of Receipt.
They were part of the process of founding both the services intended as a perpetual chantry for the well-being and soul of Henry VII (1485-1509), his wife, Elizabeth of York (died 1503), his parents and his children, and an almshouse within the precincts of Westminster, together with scholarships at Oxford.
The commemorative services were to be held at Westminster with services to be held at the two universities, eighteen other religious houses, and at Carmarthen. The series records one part of the king's process of establishing a permanent memorial, together with the building and endowment of a new chapel at Westminster and his gift of copes and other vestments to the abbey.