Appointment as Master: Shorton
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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.
Appointment of Oliver Scales: Shorton
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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.
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Bond of Richard Wright in £6 for completion of glazing at SJC.
Building & other 'necessaries' of SJC: Shorton
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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.
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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.
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Indenture of contract of Richard Wright, glazier, of Bury St Edmunds, for glazing the Hall, Chapel and Master's Lodge.
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Contract and bonds of agreement between Richard Wright, glazier and Robert Shorton for windows in College.
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Includes: letters relating to College business during Robert Shorton's mastership
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Receipt by John Wode [Wood], of Fulbourne (Fulborn], gentleman, for £7 13s 4d from Robert Shorton, clerk Master of the College, "in partie of payment of a mor sume of and for dyverse costs and besynes [business] about the saide College".
Signed: per me Johnanes Wode. per me Henricus Hornby
Receipt by N. Metcalfe: Shorton
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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 Nicholas Metcalfe: Shorton
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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 William Pickerell: Shorton
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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]
Receipt for Norfolk land: Shorton
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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.
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Reciepts for various College works, estates and other College business.
Richard Wright's bond: Shorton
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Bond, Richard Wright, [glazier], of Bury St Edmunds in £50 to Robert Shorton, Master.
Robert Shorton's obit: Nicholas Metcalfe
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Agreement, SJC & Pembroke Hall, for an obit established by Dr Robert Shorton former master of SJC, for himself there.