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Account of payments for costs and charges of SJC, received by Alan Percy, Master from John Fisher; includes work on buildings.

Accounts of Nicholas Metcalfe on behalf of John Fisher, before & after Metcalfe's arrival in Cambridge.

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.

Statutes of the College given by John Fisher in the name of the executors of Lady Margaret; at back statutes for Gregson and Duckett foundations.

Two volumes of statutes dating from 1530-1549. The first volume contains statutes signed by John Fisher and attested by John Bere (folios 1-48) and statutes given by King Henry VIII, with corrections made in 1549 (folios 43-93). The second volume is a fair copy of Henry VIII's statutes.

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

Includes: letters relating to College business during Robert Shorton's mastership

Acknowledgement by Nicholas Metcalfe that he borrowed £4 from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, through Richard Sharpe, to be repaid when required. Also listed in the receipt are £3 for a trip from Calais, the hire of a horse and payment for two nurses for [Elizabeth] Penny.

Receipt by Robert Shorton from John Fisher £50 by the hand of Nicholas Metcalfe (signed Fisher and Shorton: noted charged to Shorton's account).
Endorsed: 3ci billa doctoris shorton

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

Receipt by Robert Shorton, Master of the College, from John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, of £300 to pay for lands in Norfolk purchased of Lewis [Louis] Orvell, over and above the £200 received from the building of the said Saint John's College.
Sealed but not signed.

Reciepts for various College works, estates and other College business.

Letter, no year, asking Metcalfe to attend Fisher urgently and to not lease land in Romney Marsh over which Fisher has agreed with Sir John Norton; Fisher will devise his statutes at Christ's college.