Minutes of the Cambridge Sub-Committee for the Walworth Club: College Mission
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Includes minutes for meetings of the Cambridge sub-committee for the management of the Walworth (Working Men's) Club, from April 1885. The notebook also includes paste-down correspondence addressed to committee members, pamphlets and a poster.
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Probate copy will of Wacelin de Briddesal [Wasselyn of Birdsall], Yorkshire.
Bond: St John's College to Alicia Graunt [Alice Grant]
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Alice Grant of Wakefield, Yorkshire, widow. Bond for £160 to maintain one Fellow, for which the College has received £150. College seal
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Archbishop's visitation: Enfield
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Letter, no year, Thomas Thomson Master of Christ's and vicar of Enfield, to Nicholas Metcalfe about enforcing a debt; mentions Archbishop's visitation of Enfield.
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Contemporary copy, with additions, corrections and erasures
Building & other 'necessaries' of SJC: Shorton
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Receipt by Robert Shorton from John Fisher, of £1000 by the hand of Robert Barnard, Master of Fotheringhay College and £450 by the hand of Nicholas Metcalfe `for the building and other necessaries' of St John's College.
Receipt by Nicholas Metcalfe: Shorton
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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
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Fox [Foxe], Richard, Bishop of Winchester
Receipt by N. Metcalfe: Shorton
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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
Appointment of Oliver Scales: Shorton
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Letter, no year, Robert Shorton, Cambridge, to John Fisher, about appointment of Oliver Scales as Clerk of Works at SJC and the progress of building there.
Appointment as Master: Shorton
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Letter, Robert Shorton, Cambridge to John Fisher, thanking Fisher for his appointment as Master of SJC & discussing the choice of the first Fellows. There is also mention of receipt of £1000.
Accounts of Robert Shorton, Master
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Includes: accounts for Robert Shorton and the College. Also includes some loose (severely damaged) illuminated paper fragments.
Receipt by William Pickerell: Shorton
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Receipt by William Pykerell [Pickerell], of Cambridge, from Magistro [Master] Shurton [Shorton], Magistro sive custode collegiii beate marie et sancti Johannis Evangelisti, of £4, 13s 4d, in part payment of a larger sum due to him from William Thomlyn [Tomlin],[former master of St John's Hospital]
Receipt for Norfolk land: Shorton
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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.
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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
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Bond of Richard Wright in £6 for completion of glazing at SJC.
Letters patent confirming revenues for endowment of St John's College
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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
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Indenture of contract of Richard Wright, glazier, of Bury St Edmunds, for glazing the Hall, Chapel and Master's Lodge.
Richard Wright's bond: Shorton
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Bond, Richard Wright, [glazier], of Bury St Edmunds in £50 to Robert Shorton, Master.