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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.

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.

Bond of Richard Wright in £6 for completion of glazing at SJC.

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.

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.

Indenture of contract of Richard Wright, glazier, of Bury St Edmunds, for glazing the Hall, Chapel and Master's Lodge.

Expenses paid by Robert Shorton to John Wood including those for enrolments concerning the foundations of Christ's College, Cambridge and SJC (from 1509); a reward of 40 s. to William Tomlyn [Tomlin] SJH master `by desire and mind' of John Fisher, and payment to Roger Nott by Thomas Amyas hosteler at Hatfield, for the almsfolk; signed Henry Hornby.

Contract and bonds of agreement between Richard Wright, glazier and Robert Shorton for windows in College.

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

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 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 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 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.

Receipt by John Wood, solicitor to the executors of 'my lady the Kyngs grandame', by commandment of my Lord of Rochester and Master Henry Hornby, two of the said executors, from Master Robert Shorton, of £20 in part payment of greater sum as well as for diverse 'writyng in the Chauncery and Escheker and other weyse' as payment for learned men and other for their services and rewards for Michaelmas term last.
Signed: per me John Woode
Countersigned: per me Henricum Hornby

Receipt by Thomas Thomson, Master of Christ's College, from Robert Shorton SJC Master, by the order of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and Dr Hornby of £20.
Signed: per me Thomas Thomson

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

Bond, Richard Wright, [glazier], of Bury St Edmunds in £50 to Robert Shorton, Master.

Agreement, SJC & Pembroke Hall, for an obit established by Dr Robert Shorton former master of SJC, for himself there.

Accounts of Sir or Dominus William Chandler, confrater [Brother] of the Hospital from 1505-1509/10; of Dr Robynson [Robinson] 1507 and of Robert Shorton for St John's College 1510-1511.