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The Register includes details of all those admitted to the College, including information drawn from the Students' Registration Form completed by Freshers. The following information is included: Admissions Register Number, name in full, place and date of birth, parents' names and occupations, parents' address, schools and periods at schools, first tutor (but not subsequent changes of tutor), status at admission, date of admission (the date the entry is made in the Register).

The first Registers were created by Professor JA Crook with the help of the Tutorial Office for Junior Members, the Bursary for Fellows and the Master's Lodge for certain other members. The Register of Admission is the official College record of membership. This was sanctioned by Council Minute 3107/9(a)I, 15 May 1997. This provision was carried into a new Standing Order, A37(a) by CM3115/8(a)iii, 13 Nov 1997.

Legal agreements relating to the construction of New Court. The series includes an agreement for right of way and construction contracts.

Includes: a contract for the College clock, an indenture for Robert Shorton's obit and an indenture for arbitration between Nicholas Metcalfe and Margaret Myddelton .

Five notebooks listing graduates of the College from 1836-1884. The notebooks list 3755 graduates including 240 fellows. Some entries list the graduate's living or residence.

Includes: notices, correspondence, copies, reports related to amendments and alterations of College statutes.

Annual account reports including reviews of various college departments including the senior bursar, junior bursar, tutorial bursar, education fund, kitchen accounts and miscellaneous accounts. From 1981, the Audit Committee reports were filed regularly as parts of the ‘Accounts Pack'..

Architectural designs for New Court, the Bridge of Sighs and the surrounding grounds. Includes drawings and plans by the architects John Clement Mead, Arthur Browne, and Rickman and Hutchinson, along with explanations of the designs and cost estimates. The series also includes recommendations for the landscaping of the grounds by Edward Lapidge.

Includes: Sheets pricked by the chapel marker to check attendance of readers; names of readers of lessons endorsed.

Includes: deeds, correspondence, receipts for a messauge and land at Atwick village conveyed to the College by Edith Barnfather in 1927.

George Baker bequeathed £1,300 for charitable purposes. With the agreement of the executors, through the influence of Thomas Baker, agreement was drawn up for two exhibitions for St John's in 1701 (SJGR/5/2/6/1-2), amended to six in 1710, preference to 1) founder's kin 2) pupil of Durham School (SJGR/5/2/6/3). With the money, farms at Thorley and Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, were bought, and sold for £1,900 in 1899. In 1861 the preference for kindred was removed, and the 6 exhibitions were replaced with an unspecified number worth £30 each (Statutes, 1860, 59).

Includes: 3 volumes of ball accounts listing the number of balls used. The volumes also list accounts for racquets and 'fives'. Additionally Volume 1 lists subscribers from 1 Jan 1859 - 31 Dec 1860.

2 bank books for C.F. and G.E. Foster [bank] of Cambridge.

Bank pass books of the SJC bread bursar

Includes six bank pass books, belonging to the Junior Bursar.

Volume 1: 18th April 1832 - 30th September 1843

Volume 2: 30th September 1843 - 16th March 1850

Volume 3: 16th March 1850 - 31st December 1855

Volume 4: 1st January 1856 - 30th September 1861

Volume 5: 1st October 1861 - 30th June 1868

Volume 6: 30th June 1868 - 20th March 1872