St John’s College Institutional Archives

Weekly accounts (November 1984 - January 1987)

SJCR/SJAR/3/1/5/9
Item
1984-1987

Part of The Records of St John's College

Weekly Accounts: Scholars' Butler

SJCR/SJAR/5/2/2/1/1
Set
1766-1786

Part of The Records of St John's College

Weekly accounts for commons sizings etc of SJC undergraduates, and B.A.s

Weekly Menus: Junior & Senior

SJCR/SJAR/5/1/12
Sub-sub-series
1979- 2011

Part of The Records of St John's College

Includes: copies of weekly Hall menus, Fellows' lunch and dinner menus, some menus list wines served at meals. Also included are some copies of Fellows' dinner menus and wine circle menus.

Weekly pension accounts (December 1987 - March 1989)

SJCR/SJAR/3/1/5/11
Item
1987-1989

Part of The Records of St John's College

West Elevation

SJCR/SJES/5/3/1/2/4
Item
1825

Part of The Records of St John's College

Drawing of the West elevation of the proposed building. Signed Arthur Browne September 1825.

West Elevation

SJCR/SJES/5/3/1/3/2
Item
1826

Part of The Records of St John's College

Drawing showing the West elevation of the New Court building. The drawing is labelled 5174 in the top left corner. Signed Rickman and Hutchinson Architects 1826.

White: intended scholarship

SJCR/SJGR/5/2/80
Sub-sub-series
Undated [c. 1639]

Part of The Records of St John's College

Rentcharge bequeathed in 1583 to fund a scholarship, to commence 6 years after his death, but his heir made over the lands to another party without reference to the obligation to St John's. The College did not take legal advice until 1639 and it was decided the benefaction could not be recovered.

White Vellum Book

SJCR/SJES/7/8
Item
1593-1609

Part of The Records of St John's College

Includes: presentations, leases, deeds and letters.

Whytehead scholarships

SJCR/SJGR/5/2/81
Sub-sub-series
1918

Part of The Records of St John's College

Will & Memorandum

SJLM/3/1/3
Item
1509-1512

Part of The Records of Lady Margaret Beaufort

A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret, with certain corrections concerning the gifts to those who should attend her funeral, the dispositions of Maxey [Cambridgeshire] and Torpell [Northamptonshire], and those of the Somerset manors which she has enfeoffed with licence of Edward IV.

Will: Margaret Warton

SJLM/9/3
Item
1507

Part of The Records of Lady Margaret Beaufort

Contemporary copy of the will of Margaret Warton, leaving property to the Carthusians of Coventry, and lands in Warwickshire for a chantry in Christ's College, and naming Lady Margaret as her executor.

Will of Sir John Sandys (copy); Dame Mary Sandys' deed of assignment of life interest

SJCR/SJGR/5/2/67/1
File
1922

Part of The Records of St John's College

Containing: copy of will of Sir John Sandys, 1922 (near-contemporary copy); copy of extract from will as published in University Reporter; deed of assignment by Dame Mary Grainger Sandys of life interest in the stock bequeathed to her by her husband, 1928

Will: Sir Henry Stafford

SJLM/4/2/2
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1470

Part of The Records of Lady Margaret Beaufort

Will of Sir Henry Stafford, third husband of Lady Margaret. A later will, dated October 1471, was proved 4 May 1482. The proved version has gifts including a horse to John, Earl of Wiltshire which are not in the 1470 version.

Stafford, Henry

Will: Wacelin [Wasselyn]

SJCR/SJES/2/14/BTY/4/1
Item
1289-1290

Part of The Records of St John's College

Probate copy will of Wacelin de Briddesal [Wasselyn of Birdsall], Yorkshire.

Willam Butts (letter): John Taylor

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Taylor/1/16
Item
1545

Part of The Records of St John's College

Copy letter, no year, John Taylor, SJC .Master to William Butts, physician to Henry VIII, concerning the incompatibility of a residence at Lincoln, the College and a willingness to resign the latter.

William Attwood (letter): John Taylor

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Taylor/1/5
Item
1539-1546

Part of The Records of St John's College

Letter, no year, William Attwood, to John Taylor SJC Master and Dean of Lincoln, about the tithes of Higham, Kent and land at Dartford in Essex.

William Bailey, Chapel Clerk

SJCR/SJCL/2/15
Item
1923-1979

Part of The Records of St John's College

Typescript bibliography, and MS notes by Ken North, relating to the career of William Bailey, Chapel Clerk c.1920-35 and also High Table Waiter and Head Waiter. Includes typescript correspondence from Jennifer Hinton, Bailey's great-niece.

William Beale (1634-1644)