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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

Three page account of the meeting of Henry VII and Philip, King of Castile near Windsor on 31 January 1505. The description may have been written by or for John Fisher for Lady Margaret. The account includes a description of archers shooting for the two Kings. It ends with narrator telling Lady Margaret (`Madame... your grace') that Holt will tell her fuller detail about the decoration of royal rooms and persons .

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

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….

List of tapestries from Lady Margaret's furnishings which were sold & paid for. Purchasers include: John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Henry Hornby; Morgan and Lord Mountjoy.

The items are listed as:

• First the historye of paris and helyn sowlde to my lorde of Surrey £22
• Item the storye of Nabingodenesar to my lorde Surray £18
• Item the historye of Saule Episcope Roffensis [Bishop of Rochester]
• Item the vij sages sowld to Mr Sir John Saynt John £11.11.8 etc.

Letter from Perrott Doryn to John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester concerning a patent for her annuity due from Lady Margaret's estate.

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.

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.

Letter, undated, from Henry Hornby to John Fisher, concerning repairs needed at Christ's College's estates at Malton, Cambridgeshire & near Lincoln; work on the College itself & payment for an inventory of Lady Margaret's goods made by Humphrey Wallcote (Walcot).

Receipt, by Alice Stanhope from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, for a chain of gold weighing 4oz & £4.6s.8d, in excess of £3.6s.8d. delivered to her by Hugh Ashton, bequeathed by Lady Margaret; in Fisher's hand.
Signed by Alice Stanhope and countersigned, Jo. Roffs.

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

Account of Roger Noott [Notte] for £26 received from John Fisher for board, clothes and rent of almshouse, of 10 poor persons at Hatfield for 1 year.

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

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

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.

Letter (undated) from Thomas Hobson to John Fisher, sending a book of accounts for approval.

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.

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.

For the expenses of ix dayes [days] of my lord of Rochester [John Fisher], Mr Hornby with other of my ladies [lady's] freinds [friends] in the chanters houes of Pawles [Chaunter's House, St Paul's] iij li. xix s. vij d.
Signed: Jo. Roffs. Henry Hornby