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Tripartite indenture between 1) St John's, 2) Thomas Stakhouse, Master of Michaelhouse, and 3) Robert Doket, clerk, parson of Chevening, Kent and John Milles of Chevening, for the foundation of two scholarships in St John's. The recipient to be decided by Doket during his lifetime and thereafter by St John's. One scholar to be born in a parish in Holderness, Yorkshire, the other in parishes in Kent including Chevening and to be called the Doket scholar. Various contingencies for if a suitable candidate can't be found from those very specific locations (widening out to broader geographical area). Doket has paid the College £50 and has given lands and tenements within the precincts of Cambridge and Horningsey to the value of 55 shillings a year. Forfeiture to Michaelhouse for default by St John's. Two seals, broken. One seal depicts St Michael (head missing) standing on serpent

Agreement for tenancy of Broughton Wood Farm, Hunts. between the College and Alfred Brown.

Beginning with the necessity of obtaining an apostolic dispensation and the Bishop transferring the right of foundation to the Countess

Beginning with the necessity of obtaining an apostolic dispensation and the Bishop transferring the right of foundation to the Countess

Beginning with the necessity of obtaining an apostolic dispensation and the Bishop transferring the right of foundation to the Countess

Tripartite indenture between:
1) St John's College (Master: Nicholas Metcalfe)
2) Gonville Hall (Master or Keeper: William Buckingham) guarantor
3) Edward Gregson, parson of Fladbury, Wiltshire; Sir William Stag; Laurence Aynesworth, yeoman; John Aynesworth
Signed and sealed

Agreement between Thomas Nutter, Merchant, and Charles Blick, Senior Bursar of St John's College. The agreement grants right of way through Nutter's land for workmen and materials for the construction of New Court. The right of way is granted for a term of seven years for a payment of an annual rent of twenty pounds.

Agreement between: St John's College; Robert Holitreeholm, clerk of Beverley; Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St John of Beverley [Beverley Minster], and Michaelhouse

Agreement between St John's College, Joan Rokeby, Robert Creyk, York chapter and Michaelhouse, for founding one fellowship at St John's College

Between St John's College, Robert Simpson, Christ's College and St Catharine's Hall (College)

Tripartite indenture between: 1) Roger Lupton, Provost of Eton; the vicar of Sedbergh; Sir Henry Blomer, the chantry priest of Roger Lupton at Sedbergh; James Cowper; Roland Bland, all other feoffees of the chantry at Sedbergh, and all Lupton Scholars now at St John's; 2) Edward Foxe, D.D., Provost of King's College, Cambridge and the Fellows thereof; 3) St John's College. For the foundation of two Fellowships and two Scholarships, the College having received £400 from Lupton for the purchase of lands. Signed by Roger Lupton. With 7 small seals

Quadripartite indenture between:
1) St John's College (William Whitaker, Master)
2) James Hebblethwaite of Malton, Yorkshire
3) The executors of Henry Hebblethwaite: Robert Atkinson, Citizen and Tallow Chandler of London; James Hayber, Citizen of London; Thomas Malyn, Citizen of London; John Cooper and John Harrison, of Sedbergh; Jeffrey Sedgwick of Kirby Lonsdale, Westmorland
4) King's College (Roger Goad, Provost)
By will dated 27 June 1587, Henry Hebblethwaite left £500 to the College for the purchase of lands to maintain poor and friendless scholars of the College, especially from the Grammar Schools of Sedbergh. The College convenants to employ the money to found two Scholarships and one Fellowship. It elects Robert Hebblethwaite, graduate, into the Fellowship and James Harrison, now Lupton Scholar, and Richard Ridding, now poor Scholar, into the Scholarships