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Letter, William Bullock, former fellow, Norton Derbyshire, to SJC, about the gift of the living of Norton to SJC, and the controversy over the appointment of a minister.

Letter, no year, William Boteler [Butler], Rochester, to Richard Clayton SJC Master, asking licence to assign his lease of the parsonage at Higham, Kent.

Typescript bibliography, and MS notes by Ken North, relating to the career of William Bailey, Chapel Clerk c.1920-35 and also High Table Waiter and Head Waiter. Includes typescript correspondence from Jennifer Hinton, Bailey's great-niece.

Letter, no year, William Attwood, to John Taylor SJC Master and Dean of Lincoln, about the tithes of Higham, Kent and land at Dartford in Essex.

Copy letter, no year, John Taylor, SJC .Master to William Butts, physician to Henry VIII, concerning the incompatibility of a residence at Lincoln, the College and a willingness to resign the latter.

Probate copy will of Wacelin de Briddesal [Wasselyn of Birdsall], Yorkshire.

Will of Sir Henry Stafford, third husband of Lady Margaret. A later will, dated October 1471, was proved 4 May 1482. The proved version has gifts including a horse to John, Earl of Wiltshire which are not in the 1470 version.

Contemporary copy of the will of Margaret Warton, leaving property to the Carthusians of Coventry, and lands in Warwickshire for a chantry in Christ's College, and naming Lady Margaret as her executor.

A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret, with certain corrections concerning the gifts to those who should attend her funeral, the dispositions of Maxey [Cambridgeshire] and Torpell [Northamptonshire], and those of the Somerset manors which she has enfeoffed with licence of Edward IV.

Includes: presentations, leases, deeds and letters.

Drawing of the West elevation of the proposed building. Signed Arthur Browne September 1825.

Drawing showing the West elevation of the New Court building. The drawing is labelled 5174 in the top left corner. Signed Rickman and Hutchinson Architects 1826.

Note by two members of college staff, G. Blackburn and R. Piggott, mentioning undergraduates on the river 'in white flannels' two weeks after skating on it; while 'we poor devils are busy floor bumping'.

MS notes by Richard C. Petersen. With accompanying correspondence.

A view of the wardrobe of beds at Hatfield. The items are listed under the headings:

• pp. 1-2: arrase
• p. 3: sarcenet
• pp.5-7: verdours
• p. 8: square bedds of fyne arras and coutersetts
• pp.11-12: square bedds of counterpoynts of cloth of gold and silk
• p.13: counterpoynt palid of aras cloth gold and silk
• p. 14: counteropoynts of tapestre
• p.15: counterpoynts of vardors
• p.16: curtens of sarcenet; canapes of sarcenet
• p.17: bedds of downe; bolsters of downe
• p.18: pyllows of downe
• p.19: bedds of fethers
• p.20: fustyans, quylts of silke, etc
• p.21: mattress, volster, blanketts, etc
• p.22: coverletts
• p.23: letter maters [leather materials]
• p.24: travesses of sarcenet, clothes of astate
• p.25: cosshens of cloth gold and silk
• p.26: carpetts of dyvers sortes - written at bottom of the page: "Md that all theis carpetts before written be fownd in sauff over the wardop which is supposed to be in John Birds chamber"
• p.27: cheyers of cloth of gold and silk; cheyers of covered lether; coveryng of the chare and litter
• p. 28: stayned sayez; rede sayes, grene sayes; black sayez;
• pp. 29-31: white sayez
  "Store of canvens called ... by Mr Assheton bought"