- SJCR/SJGR/3/4/1/1
- Item
- 1516-1519
Part of The Records of St John's College
Statutes of the College given by John Fisher in the name of the executors of Lady Margaret; at back statutes for Gregson and Duckett foundations.
Part of The Records of St John's College
Statutes of the College given by John Fisher in the name of the executors of Lady Margaret; at back statutes for Gregson and Duckett foundations.
Includes: receipts, contracts, bonds, memos and agreements relating to the design and construction of Lady Margaret's tomb in Westminster Abbey.
Account of Roger Noott [Notte] for £26 received from John Fisher for board, clothes and rent of almshouse, of 10 poor persons at Hatfield for 1 year.
Notte, Roger
Letter: repairs at Christ's College estates
Letter, undated, from Henry Hornby to John Fisher, concerning repairs needed at Christ's College's estates at Malton, Cambridgeshire & near Lincoln; work on the College itself & payment for an inventory of Lady Margaret's goods made by Humphrey Wallcote (Walcot).
Grant, Richard [Foxe], Bishop Winchester, Thomas [Ruthall], Bishop Durham, John [Fisher]. Bishop of Rochester, Sir John Cutte to Thomas Thomson Master of Christ's College, Cambridge for lands listed in SJLM/8/2/3/6 to hold of the lords by service. Also includes a power of attorney for Oliver Scales and John Kyllyngworth [Killingworth], y[e]oman, to deliver seisin.
11 July, 8 Hen: VIII
Endorsed to the effect that seisin was delivered by John Kyllyngworth in the presence of 'magister' Nicholas Metcalfe, Archdeacon of Rochester, John Wyatt, William Smythe, clerks, Gerald Croft[es], Francis Berebruar, and other laymen.
Indulgence and certificate of admission of John Fisher and his brother Ralph into the confraternity of the Hopsital of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas the Martyr of Canterbury 'in villa Roman fundata'. [The Hospital of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas the Martyr de Urbe, Rome; the English Hospice of St Thomas]
London, 1 May 1494
Receipt, by Alice Stanhope from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, for a chain of gold weighing 4oz & £4.6s.8d, in excess of £3.6s.8d. delivered to her by Hugh Ashton, bequeathed by Lady Margaret; in Fisher's hand.
Signed by Alice Stanhope and countersigned, Jo. Roffs.
Stanhope, Alice
Accounts related Lady Margaret's executors.
Letter from Perrott Doryn to John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester concerning a patent for her annuity due from Lady Margaret's estate.
Doryn, Perrot[t]
Furst [First] of Thursday the xxix day of November whyn wentt [when went] to London to Master Arsdekyn [Archdeacon] with letteres [letters] furst [first] at grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my drenyke j d.
Item for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iiij d.
Item the smae day at London for my dener and sopper [dinner and supper] iiij d.
Item the same neytt [night] for my bott hayre [boat hire] to Lambeth and fro j d.
Item for my bede [bed] and my dreynke [drink] j d. ob.
Item of fryday [Friday] the xxx day of November for my barghayre [barge hire] and my mantell [mantle] iij d.
Item the same day at Grayffyshend [Gravesend] for my dreynke [drink] ob.
Summa xv d.
Signed: Jo Roffs.
Expenses: John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
For the expenses of ix dayes [days] of my lord of Rochester [John Fisher], Mr Hornby with other of my ladies [lady's] freinds [friends] in the chanters houes of Pawles [Chaunter's House, St Paul's] iij li. xix s. vij d.
Signed: Jo. Roffs. Henry Hornby
Part of The Records of St John's College
Acknowledgement by Nicholas Metcalfe that he borrowed £4 from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, through Richard Sharpe, to be repaid when required. Also listed in the receipt are £3 for a trip from Calais, the hire of a horse and payment for two nurses for [Elizabeth] Penny.
Remise and Quitclaim: parish of St Giles, Cambridge
Remise and quitclaim by Richard [Fox], Bishop of Winchester, Thomas [Ruthall], Bishop of Durham, John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, and John Cutte, knight to Thomas Thomson, clerk and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, of all their rights in the lands, holdings, rents, reversions and services which they had in the parish of St Egidius [St Giles], Cambridge, and which were formerly John Smyth's of London, gent[leman].
13 July 8 Hen: VIII
Remise and Quitclaim: parish of St Giles, Cambridge
Remise and quitclaim [undated] by the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge, to Thomas Thomson, clerk, and rector of Wellwyn, Hertfordshire, of all their rights in lands etc in the parishes St Giles, Cambridge and of Coton which were formerly Richard [Foxe], Bishop of Winchester's, Thomas [Ruthall] Bishop of Durham's, John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester's and John Cutte's ,knight, and which Thomas had of their gift. And the Master and Fellows will guarantee the lands against John [Islip], Abbot of Westminter and his successors.
Reception of Philip, King of Castile
Three page account of the meeting of Henry VII and Philip, King of Castile near Windsor on 31 January 1505. The description may have been written by or for John Fisher for Lady Margaret. The account includes a description of archers shooting for the two Kings. It ends with narrator telling Lady Margaret (`Madame... your grace') that Holt will tell her fuller detail about the decoration of royal rooms and persons .
Account of Costs and Charges: Alan Percy
Part of The Records of St John's College
Account of payments for costs and charges of SJC, received by Alan Percy, Master from John Fisher; includes work on buildings.
Percy, Alan
List of tapestries from Lady Margaret's furnishings which were sold & paid for. Purchasers include: John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Henry Hornby; Morgan and Lord Mountjoy.
The items are listed as:
An inventory of chapel & other household plate, vestments and service books priced and marked with a note by John Fisher in the margin of their destination. Many of the items were intended for Christ’s and St John’s Colleges. Folio 60 lists the obligations due to Lady Margaret at her death.
The headings are:
Copes, vestments, aulter clothes, palles, and canapes, curtayns for the aulter, vailes and banerclothes, corporas, couchers and other books…. All the books to cristes collage…, masse books, graylles, processyonalles, alter clothes of lynyn, surplesses….
Accounts related to Lady Margaret's various households, her estates and those of her executors.
Account of the treasurer of the Lady Margaret's chamber, Robert Fremyngham, signed by John Fisher, Henry Hornby and Hugh Ashton. The accounts end on the day of Lady Margaret's death.
Page 4 is blank