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John Fothed (Fotehed) to John Fisher, about an agreement with King's Hall and progress in building St John's College, and need to put in the Master and to hold divine service there especially since Easter approaches; also Mr Melton and Queen's College

John Fotehede (Fotehed), Master of Michaelhouse, to John Fisher, about surrender of goods of St John's Hospital by the Bishop of Ely's commissary, stone from Barrington, Cambridgeshire, intended for St John's College, boundary problems with King's Hall due to opposition of junior fellows

Letter from Edmund Jackson, Fellow of King's Hall to John Fisher, about conceding ground to build part of St John's College. No year

Letter (undated) from Thomas Hobson to John Fisher, sending a book of accounts for approval.

W (William) Compton, Richmond, to John Fisher requesting his continued favour to James Morice "one of the king's receivers" to obtain for Morice the wardship of Thomas Champneys

Regrets Fisher's illness, says that the queen (Catherine of Aragon) will soon give birth; alludes to secret matters which cannot be written.

Recommending Robert Harry (?Harris) to a St John's College fellowship. Only dated with day and month

Concerning the priest of Southfleet, Sir Peter Owenden, and the archdeacon's and bishop's jurisdictions

William Burbank, secretary to Cardinal Wolsey, to John Fisher, requesting lease of a church belonging to St John's College for his kinsman, surveyor of the King's Stables; bids Fisher farewell 'in our great business'.
Undated, but Whit Monday

Possibly includes Fisher, but name lost by damage

No year

A note of the names of those appointed to meet the Pope's ambassadors at Dover and convey them to Dartford. Sent to John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester

Letter, no year, Ralph Fisher, Scarborough, to John Fisher, complaining of the financial exactions of Sir Walter Griffith; mentions Ralph's brother Robert

Letter, no year, Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flamborough to John Fisher, discussing a royal composition concerning the town of Scarborough and the conduct of Ralph Fisher; asks a fellowship for (?John) Shaw son of the bailiff of Hayton, Yorkshire

Letter, Adrian de Castello, Bishop of Bath and Wells, in Rome, to John Fisher, re-introducing Francis the Bishop of Castoria who is visiting England

About Fisher's need of horses to travel to the Lateran council

George, Lord Bergavenny [Abergavenny], Erige, (Eridge?), to John Fisher, about hunting and arrangements for the royal subsidy in Kent

Richard Chetham, Prior of Ledes [Leeds], Kent, to John Fisher, about rates of exchange between ducats and stirling, prior to Fisher's journey (not made) to the Lateran council

The Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Dorset, the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Durham, (the King's councillors), to John Fisher about arrangements to receive the Pope's ambassador

John Renatus, Rome to John Fisher, reporting his efforts to locate a work by John Anianus required by Fisher; has found only the 'Antiquitates' of John Annius of Viterbo. Annius was a noted forger of classical inscriptions and other writings devoted to 'proving' the distinction of his native Viterbo. See R. Weiss 'An Unknown Epigraphic Tract...' in Italian Studies presented to E.R. Vincent, ed. C.P.Brand, K. Foster, U. Limentani (Cambridge, 1962)