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Letter from John Fotehede, Michaelhouse, Cambridge, to John Fisher, about Robert Cutlers' wish to retain the provostship of Rotherham College with his fellowship.
Undated

Some do not concern St John's College or Lady Margaret. Also includes note of those appointed to convey ambassadors to London

Draft letter, no year, John Fisher to Mr (Robert) Barray about bond he holds delaying entry of first fellows to St John's College

Letter from John Fisher to William Bolton, Prior of St Bartholomew, Smithfields, asking him to deliver £4 to Roger Noot [Notte] to maintain Lady Margaret's almsfolk at Hatfield.

Letter from John Fisher to Sir Thoms Mawdsley, asking him to deliver to Mr Parker £9 the rest of the £19 received by Lady Margaret and due to Parker at the christening of his children.

Letter, no year, John Fisher to William Bolton Prior of St Bartholomew's, Smithfield, asking him to pay to Roger Notte on Fisher's behalf £4 for the almsfolk maintained by Lady Margaret's executors at Hatfield; and [in Fisher's own hand] to inspect the work of Pietro Torrigiano on her tomb at Westminster.
Lambeth 14 June [no year]

Including drafts

Letter, no year, James Stanley Bishop of Ely at Somersham to John Fisher, asking him to send obligations by which Stanley was bound to the Lady Margaret, and saying that he has made Fisher, Bishop Fox of Winchester and Bishop Nykke of Norwich his proctors in the next convocation

Henry Hornby at Cambridge to John Fisher, about his wish to take Hornby's servant Henry Day to Rome, and the progress of building at St John's College supervised by the Master and Oliver Scales

Richard Henrison Commissary of the Bishop of Ely, to John Fisher, describing the removal [expulsion] of the brethren of St John's Hospital by water to Ely, and surrender of the goods of the house.
No year on letter, but must be 1511

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.

Henry Hornby, Cambridge, to John Fisher, about St John's College and the Bishop of Ely's intent to remove the brethren of St John's Hospital to Ely

Sending a draft drawn by Humphrey Coningsby for the translation of St John's Hospital into St John's College

An undated letter from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester to another bishop [possibly Richard Fox of Winchester] about the problems in securing the King's signature [Henry VIII] in connection with causes affecting the Lady Margaret's estate.

Endorsed is a list of garments and prices (also Fisher's hand?)

Mentioning the priory of St John, Cambridge.
Undated

Also with the Bishop of Ely's Commissary

Letters and notes between Lady Margaret's executors and between individual executors and others concerning business arising from the terms of her will. Also includes letters to John Fisher which are not related to Lady Margaret's will or to St John's College

Values of estates formerly belonging to the Lady Margaret, 1519-1520, by George Quarles, King's Auditor [Henry VIII].

• in the hand of Thomas Baker: "E libro [ut videtur] Scarcarii. Donum ornstissimi viri Jacobi West, Armigeri [Jacob West, Knight]. Bought at Mr Le Neve's auction, who having been employ'd in the exchequer, I've very much doubt, had borrow'd it from thence, with some other manuscripts, in the catalogue for they wer most properly lodge. Mr Le Neve has left such a character behind him, as mver much confirms this suspicion."

Valuations of Lady Margaret's estates and property