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SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Metcalfe/1/11
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Date(s)
- 1523-1526 (Creation)
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1 item, parchment and paper
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
The volume appears to be a kind of current cash account kept by or for Nicholas Metcalfe. "Born of the reciepts and expenditures on behalf of the College, others private receipts & expenditures of Nicholast Metcalfe himself." Also includes some inventories of Metcalfe's "stuff".
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Language of material
- English
- Latin
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
The book is bound in vellum much damaged by damp. It is written from both ends.
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Note
Entries found in the volume:
p. 1: This ys the byll of parcelys of howsold stufe that my master [presumably Nicholas Metcalfe] has in his Chamber in London the xiij day of August the xv yere of Kyng Haryy viij [1524]
pp. 2-3: Thys is the book of parcelles in my masters Chamber at Cambryge the xxiij day of Decembre [1524]
pp. 5-9: Hillary term 1523. A boke contynyng all such sommes of money as Nicholas Mecalf clerke and Master of Saynt Johns College in Cambrige hath paid for and to the use of the same College and first in the term above written.
p. 23: A remembrance of all suche sommes of money as hath ben reseyved by my master to the College use and ferst Termino Hillaro [1522/23]
pp. 33-34: Expenses ... necessarii pro Collegio solutae per magistrum anno xv H. viij (1523-24)
pp. 45-46: Expenses for my Masters owen use or for any others mans payed by his owen hands or by my hands out of Term tyme for maister Doket. eg. In primis for his derege ut per libro president. Item for his scoler Leonardo 53s. 4d. Item for Syr Day 40s.
pp. 51-59: A Remembraunce of all such sommes of Money as I have paid and lad owte for my maister [1523-24]... This is the stuf that is in my [perished] the xxvj day of July [1525].
Note
Hilary term is the second academic term of the Universities of Oxford and Dublin; it is now called Lent Term at Cambridge. It runs from January to March and is so named because the feast day of St Hilary of Poitiers, 14 January, falls during this term.