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Account of expenditure

Furst [First] of Thursday the xxix day of November whyn wentt [when went] to London to Master Arsdekyn [Archdeacon] with letteres [letters] furst [first] at grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my drenyke j d.
Item for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iiij d.
Item the smae day at London for my dener and sopper [dinner and supper] iiij d.
Item the same neytt [night] for my bott hayre [boat hire] to Lambeth and fro j d.
Item for my bede [bed] and my dreynke [drink] j d. ob.
Item of fryday [Friday] the xxx day of November for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iij d.
Item the same day at Grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my dreynke [drink] ob.
Summa xv d.
Signed: Jo Roffs.

Appointment as Master: Shorton

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.

Book of the Vestry

An inventory of chapel & other household plate, vestments and service books priced and marked with a note by John Fisher in the margin of their destination. Many of the items were intended for Christ’s and St John’s Colleges. Folio 60 lists the obligations due to Lady Margaret at her death.

The headings are:
Copes, vestments, aulter clothes, palles, and canapes, curtayns for the aulter, vailes and banerclothes, corporas, couchers and other books…. All the books to cristes collage…, masse books, graylles, processyonalles, alter clothes of lynyn, surplesses….

Chamber Accounts

Account of the treasurer of the Lady Margaret's chamber, Robert Fremyngham, signed by John Fisher, Henry Hornby and Hugh Ashton. The accounts end on the day of Lady Margaret's death.
Page 4 is blank

Executors' Statutes

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.

Grant: Thomas Thomson

Grant, Richard [Foxe], Bishop Winchester, Thomas [Ruthall], Bishop Durham, John [Fisher]. Bishop of Rochester, Sir John Cutte to Thomas Thomson Master of Christ's College, Cambridge for lands listed in SJLM/8/2/3/6 to hold of the lords by service. Also includes a power of attorney for Oliver Scales and John Kyllyngworth [Killingworth], y[e]oman, to deliver seisin.
11 July, 8 Hen: VIII
Endorsed to the effect that seisin was delivered by John Kyllyngworth in the presence of 'magister' Nicholas Metcalfe, Archdeacon of Rochester, John Wyatt, William Smythe, clerks, Gerald Croft[es], Francis Berebruar, and other laymen.

Henry Hornby to John Fisher

Letter [no year] from Henry Hornby in Cambridge to John Fisher, about keeping Lady Margaret's anniversary [of her death] and the evidence of her intention to found St John's College.

Hornby [Horneby], Henry

Hospice of St Thomas

Indulgence and certificate of admission of John Fisher and his brother Ralph into the confraternity of the Hopsital of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas the Martyr of Canterbury 'in villa Roman fundata'. [The Hospital of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas the Martyr de Urbe, Rome; the English Hospice of St Thomas]
London, 1 May 1494

Indenture: Petur Thoryson [Pietro Torrigiano]

Indenture between Richard, Bishop of Winchester, John, Bishop of Rochester, Sir Charles Somerset, Lord Herberd, Chamberlain to the King [Henry VIII], Sir Thomas Lovell, Sir Henry Marney, Sir John Saint John, Henry Hornby and Hugh Ashton, clerks, executors of the testament of the Lady Margaret and Petur Thoryson [Pietro Torrigiano] of Florence, graver (sic) concerning the tomb of the Lady Margaret.
Signed: per me piero torrigiani schultore fiorentino

Torrigiano, Pietro

Injunctions: John Fisher as Visitor

Injunctions given by Bishop John Fisher as Visitor to Christ's College 21 July 1510, witnessed by John Bere Apostolic notary. The statutes of Christ's required Visitation to take place in the second half of November, so the actual visitation may have occurred in November 1509.

John Fisher'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

Loan of £4: Nicholas Metcalfe

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.

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