St John‘s College Personal Collections

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

Miscellaneous/Box 1/A6
Item
10 February 1550

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

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

L., s. from William Cecil, 'from the Courte at Greenwich', to Mr Edward Gates

Miscellaneous/Box 5/CE2
Item
4 March 1590

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Has been asked to christen a son of one of his servants, but will not be able to attend and asks EG to take his place.

Cecil, William (1520-1598) 1st Baron Burghley, statesman

Photocopy of A.L.s. from Bartholomew Doddington in Latin, to Lord Burghley

Miscellaneous/Box 7/DO1
Item
20 April 1590

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Concerns a lease of a house.

Dodington, Bartholomew (1535/6-1595) classicist

Contemporary copy of letter from Eleazor Knox to Archbishop Whitgift?

Miscellaneous/Box 11/KN1/1
Item
20 October 1590

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Concerns the rumours of a presbytery within St John's College and the attempts to root out the perpetrators.

Holograph letter from William Whitaker (Master of St John's College) to University Chancellor, Lord Burghley

Miscellaneous/Box 11/KN1/2
Item
26 October 1590

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Concerns a Presbytery reported to be in St John's College and Whitaker's refutation of his suppport for such a meeting.

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)

Petition of Francis Cleyton