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The Records of St John's Hospital
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The Records of St John's Hospital

  • SJHO
  • Fonds
  • 1150-c 1800

Medieval archive of documents relating to the accounts, property, leadership, organisation and eventual dissolution of the Hospital of St John the Evangelist which preceded the College on the same site.

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The Hospital of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge

Dissolution of St John's Hospital

Documents agreeing on and then arranging the dissolution of St John's Hospital to enable the foundation of St John's College, to 1511. Parties to the agreements and charters are the Bishop of Ely and Lady Margaret Beaufort's executors; also including royal letters patent, a copy of a Papal Bull, and a small number of letters to the brethren of the Hospital.

Post-16th century documents are copies of earlier documents

St John's Hospital and Peterhouse

1280-1340, with one c 17th century copy of the 1339 submission of the Master and Scholars of Peterhouse to the arbitration of the Bishop of Ely in their dispute with the Master and brethren of St John's Hospital.

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Copy of settlement concerning parochial rights of St John's Hospital and St Radegund's Priory

16th century copy of settlement made by bishop Eustace of Ely (1198-1215) and confirmed by bishop Hugh Northwold (1229-1254), re parochial rights of St John's Hospital and St Radegund's priory following a hearing before papal judges delegate.
Celebration of divine service is allowed to the hospital with the reservation that the sacrament shall be taken four times a year by its staff in the church of All Saints, that baptisms shall only take place in the hospital chapel when absolutely necessary, and that the offerings shall continue to be paid in the parish and tithes (other than those claimed on hospital buildings and benefactions) continue to be received. The hospital is allowed free right of burial. Witnesses include Master Alan de Welles.
This copy is taken from an unknown original (not former ref. D98.41)

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