The Records of St John's Hospital
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
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Accounts of Sir or Dominus William Chandler, confrater [Brother] of the Hospital from 1505-1509/10; of Dr Robynson [Robinson] 1507 and of Robert Shorton for St John's College 1510-1511.
Royal protection and pardons; papal indulgences and absolution; episcopal inspeximi concerning more than one church or right. Cataloguing of this section is ongoing: please ask the archivist for more information
Mastership of St John's Hospital
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Includes the Cartulary of the Hospital of St John and its original boards
Cartulary of St John's Hospital
The cartulary is a volume of 90 parchment folios. It was produced in the middle of the period of the the Hospital's greatest territorial expansion: a majority of the deeds included record transactions between c.1220 and c.1280; also includes a folio of kitchen accounts from 1344.
Original wooden boards which were replaced in 1933
Photographs of the cover of the Cartulary of St John's Hospital before restoration
Includes: grants, sale documents, confirmaton and quitclaim for land in Bourn. These documents relate to transactions between various individuals and the Hospital of St John.
St John's College, Cambridge
Not of land or revenues from land. Including gifts of rights (not royal or papal) and serfs.
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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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St Radegund's Priory: parochial rights
Settlements and agreements between St John's Hospital and St Radegund's Priory concerning parochial rights, particularly burial and chapel rights
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)
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
Agreements between the executors of the Lady Margaret Beaufort and James Stanley, Bishop of Ely
Agreements for the dissolution of St John's Hospital and the foundation of a College, including drafts, contemporary copies, and one later copy. All but one of the documents dated 1509 to either Dec 1510 or 1 Jan. 1511