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

10 strips of parchment, tied together at top left corner. Each contains a copy of an entry from a Court Roll, in a near-contemporary hand. On the dorse of one is written: 'Coopyes of henry the sext dayes; and on another 'Copyes of Edwarde the iiiith dayes'

Alice Grant of Wakefield, Yorkshire, widow. Bond for £160 to maintain one Fellow, for which the College has received £150. College seal

Volume of statutes including John Fisher's statutes (probably a working copy) for the College following the accession of the nunneries of Higham and Broomhall to the estates of the College principally borrowed from the statutes of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; copy of letter of attorney from the executors of Lady Margaret to John Fisher; a memoranda upon the statutes of SJC [?] with notes exeats; a corrected copy of the statutes of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; additions and revisions by William, Bishop of Winchester to the statutes of Magdalen College, Oxford.

• ff. 2-59: St John's College
• ff. 60-117: Corpus Christi College, Oxford
• ff. 118-119: Magdalen College, Oxford
• ff. 119-120: St John's College

3 strips of parchment, tied together at top left corner. Each contains a copy of an entry from a Court Roll, in a near-contemporary hand. On the dorse of one is written: 'Copyes of henry the viith dayes'. From Courts held on 13 May and 20 July 11 Henry VII (1496). The first extract has a seal

Letter, no year, Thomas Thomson Master of Christ's and vicar of Enfield, to Nicholas Metcalfe about enforcing a debt; mentions Archbishop's visitation of Enfield.

Volume of copies of various leases granted by SJC and a copy of a conveyance for Bassingbourne in Fordham Manor by Sir Adrian Fortescue to Lady Margaret Beaufort in 1509.

Includes: accounts for Robert Shorton and the College. Also includes some loose (severely damaged) illuminated paper fragments.

Contemporary copy, with additions, corrections and erasures

Includes: the annual accounts of Robert Shorton Master, for SJC 1510-1514; payments for 1516 and receipts for 1519 by Alan Percy (Master 1616-1518) and Nicholas Metcalfe (Master 1518-1537).

Pages 97-109: 'copy' of John Fisher's sermon for Lady Margaret's month mind (see Underwood and Jones, 'The King's Mother', p.5, note 13).
Pages 110-111: letter from King to Lady Margaret Beaufort about Christ's College (this is mentioned in Cooper's book on Lady Margaret, pp 91-92)

Receipt by William Pykerell [Pickerell], of Cambridge, from Magistro [Master] Shurton [Shorton], Magistro sive custode collegiii beate marie et sancti Johannis Evangelisti, of £4, 13s 4d, in part payment of a larger sum due to him from William Thomlyn [Tomlin],[former master of St John's Hospital]

Includes: The computus (account roll) for building the College and a later copy from 1638. The copy lists an inaccurate start date for the original roll. A copy of the computus in the Register of Inventories [SJAR/6/2/1] giving 31 January as the start date is almost contemporary with the original roll.

Letter, Robert Shorton, Cambridge to John Fisher, thanking Fisher for his appointment as Master of SJC & discussing the choice of the first Fellows. There is also mention of receipt of £1000.

Letter, no year, Robert Shorton, Cambridge, to John Fisher, about appointment of Oliver Scales as Clerk of Works at SJC and the progress of building there.

Receipt by Robert Shorton from John Fisher, of £1000 by the hand of Robert Barnard, Master of Fotheringhay College and £450 by the hand of Nicholas Metcalfe `for the building and other necessaries' of St John's College.

Receipt by Robert Shorton from John Fisher, of £500 by the hand of Nicholas Metcalfe (signed by Shorton: noted charged to his account).
Endorsed: 2 a billa doctoris Shorton