St John’s College Institutional Archives

William Boteler (Higham, Kent): Richard Clayton

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Clayton/3/4
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4 February (no year)

Part of The Records of St John's College

Letter, no year, William Boteler [Butler], Rochester, to Richard Clayton SJC Master, asking licence to assign his lease of the parsonage at Higham, Kent.

Richard Potman (SJC Steward in Kent): Richard Clayton

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Clayton/3/7
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1609-1611

Part of The Records of St John's College

Letters from Richard Potman [Pitman] the College's steward in Kent to Richard Clayton.

Richard Potman (Clifford's Inn, London): Richard Clayton

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Clayton/3/7/1
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24 April 1611

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Letter, Richard Potman [Pitman], Clifford's Inn,London, to Richard Clayton SJC Master, claiming fees for keeping courts in Kent and providing Clayton with an outline of the Steward's duties.

Richard Potman (court rolls for Headcorn): Richard Clayton

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Clayton/3/7/2
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28 June 1609

Part of The Records of St John's College

Richard Potman [Pitman}, steward of SJC's courts in Kent, enclosing court rolls of Headcorn and requesting arrears of his fees.
The original letter is addressed to Owen Gwyn, Bursar, and in the body of the letter refers to its bearer, Clayton. However, Gwyn's name has been crossed off the c 20th-century typescript list and it has been catalogued under Clayton (the reasons for this are not known)

Richard Neale (leases at Sunninghill & Westminster College): Richard Clayton

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Clayton/3/8
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31 January 1611/2

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Letter, Richard Neale (Neile), Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Westminster, to Richard Clayton SJC Master, money due from Dr Cary at Shrewsbury, a lease of Sunninghill, and a lease of house at Westminster College.

James Dixon (Headcorn Rectory): Humphrey Gower

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Gower/1/3
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24 July 1694

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Letter, James Dixon, Newnham, Kent, to Humphrey Gower SJC Master, informing of him of the waste and demolition of Headcorn rectory by SJC tenant William Peche [Peachie].

Thomas Crask (John Symonds' exhibition): Humphrey Gower

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Gower/1/4
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18 November 1704

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Letter, Thomas Crask, to Humphrey Gower SJC Master, copying terms of exhibition left to SJC by John Symonds (d.1703) for poor clergy's sons, or founder's kin.

Christopher Nevinson (letter): John Taylor

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Taylor/1/4
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1539-1547

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Letter, no year, Christopher Nevinson of Adisham Kent, to John Taylor SJC Master, warning of a distraint for debt, thought to be at Henry VIII's suit, on the manor of Headcorn, Kent.

William Attwood (letter): John Taylor

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Taylor/1/5
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1539-1546

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Letter, no year, William Attwood, to John Taylor SJC Master and Dean of Lincoln, about the tithes of Higham, Kent and land at Dartford in Essex.

Adam Sowgate (letter): John Taylor

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Taylor/1/6
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1539-1546

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Letter, no year, Adam Sowgate, Ospringe, Kent, to John Taylor SJC Master, asking to be assigned the parsonage of Ospringe.

List of requests for leases: John Taylor

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Taylor/2/2
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1538-1546

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List requests for leases held by Dr Taylor, and for the court at Higham, Kent.

Peter Peke (tenant at Higham): Anthony Tuckney

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Tuckney/8/2
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3 December 1657

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Letter, Peter Peke tenant at Higham Kent concerning the estate.

Peter Peke (new lease): Anthony Tuckney

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Tuckney/8/3
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22 March 1658

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Letter, Peter Peke tenant at Higham, to SJC, about indemnity against the words parliament and army taxes appearing in his new lease.

Lease Dispute - Downcourt Manor, Kent: Thomas Watson

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Watson/1
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1565-1592

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Proceedings and other papers related to a disputed lease for Downcourt Manor, Kent; incls. Includes an affidavit by Thomas Watson, Master,1565, concerning alledged mis-application of the private seal by Nicholas Metcalfe, and an account of the latter's forced resignation of the mastership by Thomas Cromwell in 1537.

Affidavit: Thomas Watson

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Watson/1/2
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15 October 1565

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Affidavit by Thomas Watson, concerning the leases at Staple and Down Court Manor, Kent.

Counsel's statement: Thomas Watson

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Watson/1/3
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1565-1592

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Further statment of the case, by counsel, with the final recommendation: "the best way forward is for the Colledge (sic) to exhibit their bill to he Queen Majestie and then my Lord Keeper per speciale mandatum domini Regine to heare and determyne it".

Answer of Thomas Stansham: John Watson

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Watson/1/4
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March 1565

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The conveyance from Wodward [Woodward] to John Stone and from Stone and executors of J. Stone to Collins and from Collins to Quilter and from him to the present executors. Also includes the answer of Thomas Stansham [Stransham] to the bill of John and Elizabeth Browne.

Draft Bill of Complaint: Thomas Watson

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Watson/1/5
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1565-1592

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Draft bill of complaint about Downe Court [Down Court], addressed to the Lord Keeper.

Bill of Complaint & Answer: Thomas Watson

SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Watson/1/6
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1565-1592

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Bill of complaint by Simon Lynch [Lynche] and John Browne and Elizabeth his wife, in right of the said Elizabeth, executrix of the testament of Mildred Quilter, widow.

Boughton-Under-Blean, Kent

SJCR/SJES/2/12/BBK
Subseries
1860-1913

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