St John‘s College Personal Collections

Miscellaneous Papers

Miscellaneous
Collection
1550–2023

Papers, mainly correspondence, of Johnians on a wide range of subjects.

Various (002205)

Letters A

Miscellaneous/Box 1
Series
1550–1955

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

A.L., s. from Roger Ascham, in Latin, to William Cecil, afterwards Lord Burghley

Miscellaneous/Box 1/A6
Item
10 February 1550

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Compliments WC on his character and reputation. Laments that he should have suffered wrong at the hand of WC and says he will explain things more fully at a fitter time.

Ascham, Roger (? 1514-1568) author and royal tutor

Letters Bec-Bo

Miscellaneous/Box 3
Series
1576–1969

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

A.L., s. from John Becon when Chancellor of Norwich, to the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury

Miscellaneous/Box 3/BE3
Item
20 November 1576

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Gives thanks for recommending John May (Master of St Catharine's) to the Bishopric of Carlisle.

Becon, John (d 1587) ecclesiastical lawyer and reformer

Letters of Eleazar Knox

Miscellaneous/Box 11/KN1
File
1590

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Includes paperwork detailing the sale of the letters to St John's and a newspaper article from 1949 describing the finding of a new collection of letters.

Knox, Eleazar (1558-1591)

Letters I-Lu