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The Records of St John's Hospital
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Dissolution of St John's Hospital

Documents agreeing on and then arranging the dissolution of St John's Hospital to enable the foundation of St John's College, to 1511. Parties to the agreements and charters are the Bishop of Ely and Lady Margaret Beaufort's executors; also including royal letters patent, a copy of a Papal Bull, and a small number of letters to the brethren of the Hospital.

Post-16th century documents are copies of earlier documents

Draft letters patent for dissolution of St John's Hospital and foundation of St John's College

Headed 'To the kyng our soueraigne lord' and below, 'Please it yor highnes of yor most noble and habundaunt grace to graunte unto yor humble grauntdame yor gracious litteres patentes under yor grete Seall in dewe fourme to be made accordynge to the tenour and effect ensuyng' etc. With a superscription in King Henry VIII's hand, to signify his granting of the request.
At the manor of Greenwich, 20 July 1 Henry VIII [1509]

Deeds not of land

Not of land or revenues from land. Including gifts of rights (not royal or papal) and serfs.

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St John's Hospital and Peterhouse

1280-1340, with one c 17th century copy of the 1339 submission of the Master and Scholars of Peterhouse to the arbitration of the Bishop of Ely in their dispute with the Master and brethren of St John's Hospital.

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