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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

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

Letter, n.d., John Hall, Stevenage, to Nicholas Metcalfe Archdeacon of Rochester, returning his horse.

Letter, n.d., Thomas Thompson Master of Christ's College, to Nicholas Metcalfe, advising him that land but not money is available, and of the perjury of fellows of Christ's who have named and elected a fellow against their statutes.

Includes letters from various correspondents to Nicholas Metcalfe; individuals include Henry VIII, College fellows and others.

Contract and bonds of agreement between Richard Wright, glazier and Robert Shorton for windows in College.

Includes: financial records of the College and its investments which are not directly related to one department or College officer.

Early College accounts, annual statements and balance books.

Account of Oliver Scales, the first Clerk of Works, giving details of the building works at SJC, workmen employed, and sources of materials. The roll provides details concerning payment of the men and the tasks they were employed to do.

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.

Bond, Richard Wright, [glazier], of Bury St Edmunds in £50 to Robert Shorton, Master.

Receipt by John Wode [Wood], of Fulbourne (Fulborn], gentleman, for £7 13s 4d from Robert Shorton, clerk Master of the College, "in partie of payment of a mor sume of and for dyverse costs and besynes [business] about the saide College".
Signed: per me Johnanes Wode. per me Henricus Hornby

Bond of Richard Wright in £6 for completion of glazing at SJC.

Letter, n.d., Henry Blackemore (Blakamore) formerly Abbot of Lesnes Kent, Christchurch London, to Nicholas Metcalfe, about the pension due to him from his abbey in the trust of John Fisher and others.

Letters patent of Henry VIII exemplifying Chancery proceedings, enjoining delivery of revenues left as the endowment of St John's College by Lady Margaret Beaufort. In answer to a petition from Robert Shorton, Master, the fellows and scholars, and as a result of inspecting all the relevant documents, which are described. Part in Latin, part in English. At Westminster, 24 January 4 Henry VIII

Indenture of contract of Richard Wright, glazier, of Bury St Edmunds, for glazing the Hall, Chapel and Master's Lodge.

The Bishop of Ely confirms the foundation of St John's College, reciting all the previous agreements made with the executors of the Lady Margaret, and again converting the Hospital into the College of St John; with the Prior and Convent's confirmation

A register of letters, inventories, leases, presentations and memoranda. Paste downs at each end (lifted during repair in 1981) contain a passage from Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3, lines 511ff, interlinated with a Latin gloss, and introduced by a more extensive commentary, in a cursive mid-late fifteenth-century hand. Also included is a 17th century index to the Thin Red Book.

Papers related to the Mastership of Alan Percy, the College's second master.