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Tripartite indenture between: 1) Roger Lupton, Provost of Eton; the vicar of Sedbergh; Sir Henry Blomer, the chantry priest of Roger Lupton at Sedbergh; James Cowper; Roland Bland, all other feoffees of the chantry at Sedbergh, and all Lupton Scholars now at St John's; 2) Edward Foxe, D.D., Provost of King's College, Cambridge and the Fellows thereof; 3) St John's College. For the foundation of two Fellowships and two Scholarships, the College having received £400 from Lupton for the purchase of lands. Signed by Roger Lupton. With 7 small seals

Quadripartite indenture between:
1) St John's College (William Whitaker, Master)
2) James Hebblethwaite of Malton, Yorkshire
3) The executors of Henry Hebblethwaite: Robert Atkinson, Citizen and Tallow Chandler of London; James Hayber, Citizen of London; Thomas Malyn, Citizen of London; John Cooper and John Harrison, of Sedbergh; Jeffrey Sedgwick of Kirby Lonsdale, Westmorland
4) King's College (Roger Goad, Provost)
By will dated 27 June 1587, Henry Hebblethwaite left £500 to the College for the purchase of lands to maintain poor and friendless scholars of the College, especially from the Grammar Schools of Sedbergh. The College convenants to employ the money to found two Scholarships and one Fellowship. It elects Robert Hebblethwaite, graduate, into the Fellowship and James Harrison, now Lupton Scholar, and Richard Ridding, now poor Scholar, into the Scholarships

Agreement between Henry Eyre of Bramley, Yorkshire, heir of Robert Allott and St John's College, to grant St John's the Spread Eagle, Thetford, to fund two exhibitions

Agreement between Anthony Fitzherbert, Justice of Common Pleas; John Keyton, prebendary of Sarum [Salisbury]; Southwell Chapter, and St John’s College, for founding two Keyton fellowships and two scholarships at St John’s College

Agreement between Sir Robert Jermyn, two other executors of Frances Jermyn, and St John's College

Anthony Pennyng of Earl Soham, Suffolk

Limited to: 1) those of founder's name and kin; 2) natives of parishes of Chesterfield, Worksworth or Ashbourne, Derbyshire, or Alconsfield, Staffordshire; 3) birth in Staffordshire or Derbyshire; 4) in default, those qualified in Cambridge University. With chantry obligations.

For conveying property in Adlingstreet to the college to endow a lecture in medicine. Indenture between: Nicholas Metcalfe, Master of St John's; Thomas Linacre, Doctor of Physik, Physician to the King; Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of London; Sir Thomas More, Under Treasurer of England; Master John Stokesley, D. D. (Dean of the Chapel Royal), and William Shelley, Sergeant at Law and Recorder of London. By his will, Linacre wills that all the land and property which he bought from the Prior of Elsing Spital (St Mary within Cripplegate), lately called the Belle and the Lanthorne in Adlingstreet, in the parish of St Benet beside Baynard's Castle, now leased by Thomas Cony of London, fletcher, shall be put in mortmain to the College. He also bequeaths money to be used to buy land. After his death, the College is to pay £12 for a lecture in physick [medicine] to be founded within the University. The reader to take a half-year sabbatical every four years, the stipend for that period to be applied and converted to the only use of the College. The College to give a bond in £400.
Four seals. Signatures of Thomas Linacre, Cuthbert, Bishop of London, John Stokesley

Agreement for granting a scholarship to John Spalding with the nomination of his successor. William Spalding of Great Barton Suffolk, yeoman. With mark and seal of William Spalding and signature and seal of John Spalding

Includes: Brief bill of expenses on behalf of Doctor [Nicholas] Metcalfe relating to [the College's] plea v. Alan Percy ex-master of SJC.

Letter, n.d., Alexander Hartley to Richard Howland SJC Master, seeking a place in SJC buttery.

Letter, n.d., Alice Strickland a poor widow to Richard Howland Bishop of Peterborough, asking for a promised assignment from the lease of Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire.
Endorsed: Widow Strickland [request] for her relative.

Disc of Allegri Miserere and music by Lassus, Palestrina sung by St John's College Choir and conducted by George Guest.

By the University of Cambridge Department of Estates Management