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Bourn, Cambridgeshire

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

College Statutes

Includes: statutes and copies of statutes of St John's College; manuscript and printed; some volumes include letters, decrees and statutes of Cambridge University. Also includes, notices, correspondence and draft statutes.

Miles Worsley

Includes the accounts of Miles Worsley cofferer or treasurer of the chamber to Lady Margaret. The accounts are for the households of Hatfield, Colyweston [Collyweston] and Croydon

Worsley, Miles

Executors' Correspondence

Letters and notes between Lady Margaret's executors and between individual executors and others concerning business arising from the terms of her will. Also includes letters to John Fisher which are not related to Lady Margaret's will or to St John's College

Christ's College, Cambridge

Charters, accounts, deeds and other documents related to the creation and re-foundation of Christ's College. Christ's College was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as God's House. In 1505, the College was granted a new royal charter, was given a substantial endowment by Lady Margaret Beaufort, and changed its name to Christ's College.

Nicholas Metcalfe (1518)

Includes: records relating to College business and activities whilst Metcalfe was Master. Additionally includes records related to Metcalfe's role as Archdeacon of Rochester and as John Fisher's clerk.

Metcalfe, Nicholas

Goods Missing: Kitchen

Goods lacking in the kitchen departments of Lady Margaret's household. This is a compilation of stock held by various officers and staff which is missing. There are separate entries throughout the only surviving roll of the Treasurer of the Household (1506-1507) which refer to such items, but there is no general list such as this one for that year.

The volume begins:
"Certain stuff of howsehold of the most Excellent Prynces Margarete Countesse of Richmond and Derby and moder unto oure soveraigne lorde the kynge tha now is Kynge Henry the Vii th. lakkynge in defaute of diverse officers as it appereth by the Boke of Brevement of the said household. that is to say as well for the last yere as this yere ended the viij th day of Janyuere the xxiiij th yere of our said sovereigne lord as hereafter foloweth."

Arranged under the following headings: bakehouse, pastry, pantre, buttery, sellars, wete larder, drye larder, chaundre [chandlery]

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