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The Rev. James Barrow in 1880 bequeathed £1,300 in railway stock to a trust to support one exhibitioner, who is (1) a member of the Church of England; (2) by preference a native of Southwell or child of parents residing or having resided there; (3) in default a child of incumbents of the parishes of South Muskham, Bleasby, Morton (near Southwell), Halloughton, Halam, Edingley, Farnsfield, Rampton, Upton (near Southwell), Nottinghamshire, Barnoldby le Beck, Lincolnshire; (4) to be held for 3 and not more than 5 years, during satisfactory behaviour.

Philip Baylis bequeathed in 1907, subject to other legacies and life interests, the whole of his personal and real estate upon trust to found one named mathematical scholarship, value £100, to be awarded for 3 years to the best mathematical scholar, the balance to be applied to found other named scholarships. The condition of holding the £100 scholarship was to reside in the benefactor's old rooms in Third Court.

Three notebooks for Mrs Lancum and Mrs Williams, bedmakers, and Bell & Pointer gyps, showing wages and deferred pay and listing staircases in their charge.

Papers related to the establishment of the Ernest Alfred Benians Prize including a letter from the College to Benians’ widow informing her of the prize, her response, the regulations of the prize and a list of subscribers to the prize fund.

Bills supporting the quarterly and half-yearly accounts of the Junior Bursar, including payments for repairs, supplies & to staff.
SJAR/3/1/4/1 also contains a sketch plan and report about the College observatory on the Shrewsbury Tower, watermarked 1840.

SJAR/3/1/4/1: 1827-1841 [13 bundles of misc accounts 1827-1861]

SJAR/3/1/4/2: Nov 1841 – 1845 [15 bundles of misc accounts1858-1861]

SJAR/3/1/4/3: Oct 1845- 1849 [13 bundles bundles of misc accounts 1837-1860]

SJAR/3/1/4/4: 1850-1853 (estimates 1851 Bradwell for work on 2nd court tunnels; 1853 letter from hall laundresses to the master about
wages’ fall and 16 bundles of misc accounts 1838-1861]

SJAR/3/1/4/5: 1854-1857 [estimates 1854 for varnishing chapel woodwork and Bin Brook brick tunnel 1856, servants’ offices & 4 bundles bundles of misc accounts 1860-1864]

SJAR/3/1/4/6: 1858 – 1861 [1858-1859 estimates included those for kitchen offices (1859); general repairs to Old Courts; removing observatory from Shrewsbury Tower (1859) & 14 bundles of misc accounts 1840-1864]

SJAR/3/1/4/7: 1862-1866 [estimates in 1863, 1864, 1865 & 17 bundles of misc accounts 1837-1855]

SJAR/3/1/4/8: 1867 – March 1869 [Steward’s accounts 1878-1880 & 14 bundles of misc accounts 1868-1881]

SJAR/3/1/4/9: May 1869-1870 [8 bundles of misc accounts 1870-1871]

SJAR/3/1/4/10: 1871-1873 [9 bundles of misc accounts 1868-1881]

SJAR/3/1/4/11: 1873-1875 [includes repairs to SJC fire engine 1875 & 5 bundles of misc accounts 1872-1897]

SJAR/3/1/4/12: Nov 1875- May 1877 [6 bundles of misc accounts 1886-1892]

SJAR/3/1/4/13: June 1877 – 1879 [11 bundles of misc accounts 1873-1881]

SJAR/3/1/4/14: 1879-Aug 1881

SJAR/3/1/4/15: Sep 1881-Dec 1882 [3 bundles]

Includes records related to property held by the Hospital in Birdsall, Yorkshire.

Registers of books borrowed from the Library

The annual accounts recording the cost of ingredients and staff wages; also includes a list of detriments (decrements) allowed to St John's College butlers and cooks.

Includes: deeds and other property documents related to Brook Farm.

Includes: indentures of mortgage, sale, lease and release; a recovery; a certified copy of the will of Elizabeth, Lady St John, widow of John, Lord St John, Baron of Bletsoe (19 Feb 1767); an abstract of title; a bond and a survey for land in Broughton (Browton).

Concerning scholarship founded by Janet Margaret Beith in memory of William Elgar Buck

Includes minutes for the meetings of the Building Committee of the St John's College Mission; architectural plans and other papers concerning the development of a church at Walworth; and miscellaneous papers, certificates and agreements pertaining to the development of buildings on the Hoxton site.

Including Fellows', scholars' and College officers' stipends; expenses of the Hall, kitchen, chapel, library and 'necessary expenses'; payments made to local tradesmen; rents from landholdings; payments made to Bursar for holding manorial courts and travelling to attend to the legal affairs of the College

A volume containing by-foundations and elections kept by James Wood and Ralph Tatham. Entries include exhibiters, dividends, names withdrawn from the boards, the Somerset Foundation, Sir Ralph Hare’s exhibition, Sedburgh School, Scholars Elections and the Platt Foundation.

Includes correspondence, pamphlets, and minutes for the meetings of the Sub-committee for the management of the Walworth (Working Men's) Club.

1: 1807-1829

2: 1830-1847, belonging to Junior Bursar Richard Duffield; contains loose-leaf notes, (stored separately) including two MSS receipts dated 24th and 31st August 1867 respectively, signed by Thomas Stotter and marked with one penny stamps.

3. 1854-1871.

4. 1872-1880; includes the cash accounts of C.Stanwell, E.W. Bowling, A. Freeman, W.R.R. Webb and W.H. Russell.
   15-25: cash books 1952-1984.

5. 1880-1888; includes the cash accounts of Mr Russell, Mr Tottenham and Mr Heitland.

6. 1873-1886; petty cash book, pages of the latter half of the book left blank. The spine of the volume is very fragile.

7. 1888-1910

8. 1908-1926

9. 1909-1929

10. 1929-1936; includes assorted paste-down typescript letters and individual minutes from College Committee meetings regarding the payment of domestic staff.

11. 1936-1941

12. 1941-1947; also includes gyps' and bed-makers' pension lists, 1946-1951

13. 1947-1950

14. 1950-1952; also includes gyps' and bed-makers' pension lists recorded from the back of the volume, 1953-1979. Loose-leaf documents found inside the front of the volume have been stored separately as SJAR/3/1/3/14a.

15. 1952-1955

16. 1955-1957

17. 1957-1959

18. 1959-1961