Catalogue description 'Lady Margaret Beaufort's travelling chest': oak standard covered with cuir-bouilli and...

'Lady Margaret Beaufort's travelling chest': oak standard covered with cuir-bouilli and bound with iron; with two locks and cover of semi-hexagonal section. Red painted leather on body of chest. Indications that it was internally divided into twenty compartments. One of a pair, traditionally thought to be travelling chests belonging to the mother of Henry VII: the other being in the Muniment Room of Westminster Abbey. They were used for storing respectively the first and second counterparts of the indentures quadripartite founding the 'foreign obits' which comprise a discrete part of the Foundation Indentures for Henry VII's chapel at Westminster. [Missing]