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Letter, n.d.,about estate matters including a new house at Castle End, Cambridge; a lordship in Nottinghamshire; the lease of a house in the butchery in Cambridge; also work on SJC hall; and admission of a man on the advice of the Vice-Chancellor & Sir Stafford of Pembroke Hall: the man in questions sings & plays the organ.

Letter, no year, about a presentation of the rector at Thorrington Essex, annotated by Metcalfe.

Letter about the election of a Prioress for Higham.

Letter, no year, Henry Ediall, Wingham Kent, to Nicholas Metcalfe, asking for a scholar's place for William Morton kin to the late Cardinal, at the instance of Mr (John?) Roper.

Receipt by Sir John Aman tenant of Holmes College, London from Master Metcalfe of 3s. 4d. for a quarter's rent for his chamber due at Christmas last.

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.

Robert Booth, to Richard Clayton SJC Master, urging SJC to oppose Trinity's enclosure unless they grant a pipe for the conduit and to petition Robert Cecil.

Letter, Robert Booth, Broad Street, London, to Richard Clayton SJC Master, about the new [second] court and the possibility of a College conduit branched from Trinity College.

Letter, William Crichlow, London, to Richard Clayton SJC Master, about payment of first fruits from Wicken Bonhunt Essex.

John Holles [Hollis], Houghton (Haughton) Notts, to Richard Clayton SJC Master, asking for the reversion of a lease now held by Rutland Molyneux a recusant, whom he accuses of evil to state, the College and his neighbours.

Memorandum by John Barwick, once a fellow of SJC (ejected 1644) to the effect that the portraits of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria in the Master's Lodge were the personal property of William Beale and that Barwick gave Beale the portrait of Lady Margaret also in the Lodge.

Letter, Robert Platt, Holborn, to SJC, offering to put the college in possession of his brother William's estate, in case the agreement with his nephew John Platt should not proceed.

Letter, Robert Ram minister at Spalding, to Anthony Tuckney SJC Master, about necessity of a pious man to be College choice as schoolmaster.

Letter, John Rothwell, bookseller of London, to SJC Master, encl a list of books (given), which are those bought with the benefaction of Robert Metcalf, 1653.

Contains estate particulars and accounts kept by Dr Lambert in his capacity as SJC Bursar and Master, including land holdings, rents, charitable work and a copy legal opinion on the mandamus sent to the College with regards the issue of fellows who were non-jurors in 1693 and 1694.

Letter from Thomas Browne to Robert Lambert, regarding the statutes for the foundation of John Williams (1582-1650). Browne thanks Lambert for having sent him details of the fall in the rent paid on the Ravely estate, which he hopes that the Bishop of Rochester will agree is insufficient to support the fellowships specified under the terms of the foundation. He asks that Lambert clarify how long the College maintained the two fellowships and at what point the decision was taken to sink them, as well as the circumstances surrounding that decision. Also discusses the terms for the election of scholars outlined in the statutes of Williams' foundation.

Letter from Thomas Browne to John Newcome (in his capacity as Fellow), regarding the liability of the Salters' Company for the exhibitions of William Robson. For a complete transcript, see blue finding aid folder, D59-60, number 37.

In hand of WIlliam Bateson (hand identified by Dr Malcolm Underwood, archivist to 2012), officially made by William Fox of Doctor's Commons

Printed programme for the consecration service.