Item 2 - Agreement: St John's College, Thomas Linacre and others, for conveying property

For conveying property in Adlingstreet to the college to endow a lecture in medicine. Indenture between: Nicholas Metcalfe, Master of St John's; Thomas Linacre, Doctor of Physik, Physician to the King; Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of London; Sir Thomas More, Under Treasurer of England; Master John Stokesley, D. D. (Dean of the Chapel Royal), and William Shelley, Sergeant at Law and Recorder of London. By his will, Linacre wills that all the land and property which he bought from the Prior of Elsing Spital (St Mary within Cripplegate), lately called the Belle and the Lanthorne in Adlingstreet, in the parish of St Benet beside Baynard's Castle, now leased by Thomas Cony of London, fletcher, shall be put in mortmain to the College. He also bequeaths money to be used to buy land. After his death, the College is to pay £12 for a lecture in physick [medicine] to be founded within the University. The reader to take a half-year sabbatical every four years, the stipend for that period to be applied and converted to the only use of the College. The College to give a bond in £400.
Four seals. Signatures of Thomas Linacre, Cuthbert, Bishop of London, John Stokesley