Cecil [Burghley] benefactions Inventory list

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5 Letter: William Cecil, Lord Burghley, to St John's, cancelling the Cheshunt and Stamford sermons due to plague Item 28 Sept 1581
9 Agreement: between William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and St John's College, to move sermon from Cheshunt to Hatfield Item 16 May 1629
11 Letter: Richard Atlay, Lord Exeter's agent, to St John's College, requesting one annual sermon at St Martin's, Stamford instead of two Item 12 November 1791
10 Letter: William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury to St John's College, fixing times of Burghley sermons at Hatfield and Quieswood [?Quixwold] Item 20 April 1632
13 Order of Service for Choral Evensong in commemoration of the quincentenary of the birth of William Cecil, the Lord Burghley Item 12 September 2021
12 Letters: from the Marquis of Exeter; William Sinclair, Archdeacon of London, and A. Jessop to St John's College Master regarding the Burghley sermons File 1893-1894
1 Sale of messuage in Bransdale, Yorkshire, to support two scholars Item 20 February 1579
3 Grant: William Cecil, Lord Burghley to St John's College, rents of twenty pounds from land at Burghley Barnack and Piltsgate, Northamptonshire (later Huntingdonshire) and ten pounds from Arnolds and Theobalds, Cheshunt and Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire Item 30 June 1581
4 Indenture: William Cecil, Lord Burghley; Sir Thomas Cecil; Robert Cecil, and St John's College, regarding Lady Margaret scholars and Burghley Sermons Item 30 June 1581
6 Agreement between the Deans of St Paul's and Westminster and St John's College assigning a rent of ten pounds to sermons and poor relief at Cheshunt and Theobalds, Hertfordshire. Item 25 July 1584
2 Agreement between Lady Burghley and St John's College for her gift of 'King Philip's bible' to be chained in St John's library Item 6 June 1581
7 Licence by royal visitors to St John's College to accept a rent charge for charitable uses from Alexander Nowell, Dean of St Paul's and Gabriel Goodman, Dean of Westminster Item 20 November 1584
8 Agreement between St John's College, the Haberdashers' Guild, Lady Burghley, the Deans of St Paul's and Westminster and others, whereby Lady Burghley gives to the Haberdashers money for loans to poor traders and ten pounds more Item 19 January 1586