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The Records of St John's College
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The Records of St John's College

  • SJCR
  • Fonds
  • c 1200-2023

The institutional archives of St John’s including statutes, registers of membership, orders and minutes of its organs of government, accounts, records of its buildings, benefactions and the administration of property. Including estate records which pre-date the College's foundation in 1511.

St John's College, Cambridge

Estates and manors

Deeds, manorial records, maps.
This section is in the process of being catalogued.
Accounts are held with the Senior Bursar's records (SJAR) and correspondence concerning estates with the recipient of the letters, usually the Master or Senior Bursar (SJAR). Cross-references to this material are provided in the catalogue descriptions.

St John's College, Cambridge

Deeds (1300-1765)

Includes: deeds of Kirby's manor and other property at Ashwell, Hertfordshire and Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire; collection contains a copy court roll, quit claim, marriage settlement, notes of legal fees, a grant and 8 terriers.

Deeds: Birdsall

Deeds for Birdsall including some for Kennythorpe and Burythorpe, Yorkshire. The deeds are stored in their original wrapper, which is a lease between the College and Robert Baker of Cranwell Manor, Lincolnshire

Court Roll extracts: Ashwell

10 strips of parchment, tied together at top left corner. Each contains a copy of an entry from a Court Roll, in a near-contemporary hand. On the dorse of one is written: 'Coopyes of henry the sext dayes; and on another 'Copyes of Edwarde the iiiith dayes'

Rentals and Terriers (1429-1800)

Includes: rentals of marked land for Westbury Manor,and Kirby Manor, lands pertaining to the Cambridge fee, quit rents and heriots in Ashwell; also includes a list of tenants. Names mentioned in the documents are Elizabeth Clerk, Stephen de Cambridge, John Kirby, Elizabeth Swetcoke and John Swetcoke.

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