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

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

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

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.

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, 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.

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.

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

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.

Records and household accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the College’s foundress and mother of King Henry VII.
Also includes letters to John Fisher, catalogued here in Subfonds 7: Executors of Lady Margaret. Many of these do not relate to St John's College

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 [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.

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

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

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