Archbishop's visitation: Enfield
Part of The Records of St John's College
Letter, no year, Thomas Thomson Master of Christ's and vicar of Enfield, to Nicholas Metcalfe about enforcing a debt; mentions Archbishop's visitation of Enfield.
Cartularies and Registers of College lands
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Cartularies and registers of College lands and goods, including other material such as details of benefactions and copies of College letters.
Leases & Bassingbourne Conveyance
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Volume of copies of various leases granted by SJC and a copy of a conveyance for Bassingbourne in Fordham Manor by Sir Adrian Fortescue to Lady Margaret Beaufort in 1509.
Accounts of Robert Shorton, Master
Part of The Records of St John's College
Includes: accounts for Robert Shorton and the College. Also includes some loose (severely damaged) illuminated paper fragments.
Part of The Records of St John's College
Charters, letters patent, and related documents concerning the foundation of St John's College
Part of The Records of St John's College
Includes: the accounts of Robert Shorton (Master 1511-1516) and the College.
Part of The Records of St John's College
Contemporary copy, with additions, corrections and erasures
Part of The Records of St John's College
Includes: the annual accounts of Robert Shorton Master, for SJC 1510-1514; payments for 1516 and receipts for 1519 by Alan Percy (Master 1616-1518) and Nicholas Metcalfe (Master 1518-1537).
St John's College, Cambridge
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Includes: letters, agreements, contracts and bonds related to College business whilst Robert Shorton was Master.
Shorton, Robert
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Reciepts for various College works, estates and other College business.
Part of The Records of St John's College
Includes various items and collectables from College departments, fellows and students.
St John's College, Cambridge
Part of The Records of St John's College
Pages 97-109: 'copy' of John Fisher's sermon for Lady Margaret's month mind (see Underwood and Jones, 'The King's Mother', p.5, note 13).
Pages 110-111: letter from King to Lady Margaret Beaufort about Christ's College (this is mentioned in Cooper's book on Lady Margaret, pp 91-92)
Part of The Records of St John's College
Includes: letters relating to College business during Robert Shorton's mastership
Part of The Records of St John's College
St John's College, Cambridge
Receipt by William Pickerell: Shorton
Part of The Records of St John's College
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]
Part of The Records 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.
Appointment as Master: Shorton
Part of The Records of St John's College
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.
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.