What follows is a guide to the most prominent of the wider de Vere affinity, and the most important administrators and lawyers in the comital household and administration. A full list of those paid annuities in the will of 1509 can be found below, 00–00; a list of those in the household paid a one off bequest in the will, below, 000.

Each entry in the directory below is concerned primarily with the subject's interaction with the earl, and his landholding, not necessarily with the wider career of the individual.

References to enfeoffments, annuities and executors

In the following appendix, reference will be made to de Vere's feoffees, executors and annuitants. The enfeoffments will be referred to by date:

1486 (RH, Box 39 – eight manors in Essex, Suffolk and Cambs.)

1492 (1) (RH, Boxes 38–9; Harvard Law School Library, English Deeds, BHG0634 – some fifty manors in various counties, for performance of his will)

1492 (2) (CCR, 1485–1500, 226 – de Vere's grant to Earls Colne priory, with witnesses and attorneys)

1492 (3) (ERO, D/DMh/T34 – exchange of lands in Belchamp Otten and Gestingthorpe with William Fyndern)

1501 (RH, Box 51 – demise to joint tenure of Aston Sandford, Bucks., to the earl and Countess Margaret)

1502–4 (CP40/959, rot. 415; Essex Feet of Fines, iv, 105–6; CCR, 1500–9, 126 – purchases of manors of Beaumont Berners and Gibbecrake in Purleigh)