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Receipt by Alan Percy of £5, a half-year's pension from the College.
Signed: per me Alanum Percy

Letter Richard Sharpe to Nicholas Metcalfe, about removing nuns from Higham.

Letter, no date, John Watson, SJC, to Nicholas Metcalfe commending a scholar from Northumberland especially skilled in chapel music and in the organ; lack of ministers of the choir, and harm done to the College by the deficiency in musicians; alludes to Metcalfe's efforts in some business.

Letter, John Wylbor to Nicholas Metcalfe about removing nuns from Higham, stating convents they wish to go to.

Letter, no year, Cuthbert Tunstall, Harrow, to Nicholas Metcalfe recommending John Percy for admission to SJC.

Limited to: 1) those of founder's name and kin; 2) natives of parishes of Chesterfield, Worksworth or Ashbourne, Derbyshire, or Alconsfield, Staffordshire; 3) birth in Staffordshire or Derbyshire; 4) in default, those qualified in Cambridge University. With chantry obligations.

Letter, no year, asking Nicholas Metcalfe to further master Bland's affairs; John Smith is worried about business with Bartholomew Brokesby.

Letter, no year, reporting an exhibition from the Bishop of Ely for his scholar James Urmston (fellow 1523); and receipt of letters and a copy indenture from John Constable Dean of Lincoln.

Letter, no year,about debt of Bartholomew Brokesby's (?) tenants at Great Bradley (?); Wakefield will bring news of SJC.

Letter, no year, Anna Metcalfe, Askrigg,Yorkshire, to Luke Metcalfe, her grandson asking him to come home this summer and discussing family affairs.

Letter, n.d., sending a copy of an indenture sealed and signed by Hugh Ashton (d. 1522) and commenting on Fisher's writings against Luther; he also requests Annotationes Erasmii, and Fisher's sermon held by Richard Pace, the King's secretary.

Letter, no year, asking Metcalfe for replies about lands at Thorrington and Ridgewell.

Letter, n.d., enclosing Fisher's letter to Richard Pace, the King's secretary, in which he reports the Pope's thanks for Pace's Latin version of Fisher's sermon against Luther; Fisher will have it printed in English by Wynkyng de Worde; commends Thomas Bocher to his care.

Letter, no year,about a dispute with Sir Henry Gray over holding court at Blunham Manor, Bedfordshire, and the complicity of Master (?Walter) Luke; difficulties about the deeds for Ramerick.

Letter, no year, various College estate matters, incl. Dr.Watson's pluralism.

Letter, alleged incontinence and fatherhood of a child by Nicholas Darington, buying land in Northamptonshire; election of Riplingham's scholars.

Letter, no year, about the surviving son of several feoffees (probably William Dansey); the bishop of Ely's scholar; ordering the college in the country in time of plague; death of John St John's scholar.

Includes two letters from Agnes Metcalfe, Nicholas Metcalfe's mother:

• 1: Letter from Agnes Metcalfe, Askrigg, Yorkshire, to her son, requesting his presence & that of Luke Metcalfe to order their estates before her death; endorsed `Rychardus Boyswell'.
• 2: Letter from Agnes Metcalfe, Askrigg, Yorkshire, to Nicholas thanking him for land at York, discussing family matters, listing tenants [possibly at Askrigg] and requesting him to visit before her death

Letter, Ralph Malleverer [most likely], about removing nuns from Higham, and news of the meeting of Cardinal Wolsey and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1521).

Letter from Elizabeth, aunt of Nicholas Metcalfe, of Berepark (?) Yorks, to her nephew, acknowledging his gift and asking him to be a good master and a friend to her brother Richard Boswell, a scholar in Clement Hostel Cambridge.