Identity area
Reference code
SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Shorton/3/2
Unique identifier
GB 1859 SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Shorton/3/2
Title
Appointment of Oliver Scales: Shorton
Date(s)
- 1511 (Creation)
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1 item; paper
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(d.1535)
Name of creator
(1511-)
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Scope and content
Letter, no year, Robert Shorton, Cambridge, to John Fisher, about appointment of Oliver Scales as Clerk of Works at SJC and the progress of building there.
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Publication note
Printed: Eagle vol. 16 Michaelmas 1890, pp. 349-350
Notes area
Note
The date could be 1512, but the first extant record (SJAR/4/2/1) of building operations at St John's implies that Scales was accountant in the previous year, and in this letter he has just been chosen for the job.
Alternative identifier(s)
Former ref.
D105.88
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- Shorton, Robert (Subject)
- Fisher, John (1469-1535), Bishop of Rochester (Subject)