- FondsSJCR - The Records of St John's College
- SubfondsSJGR - Governing records
- Series5 - Benefactors and Benefactions
- Subseries3 - Cecil [Burghley] benefactions
- Item1 - Sale of messuage in Bransdale, Yorkshire, to support two scholars
- Item2 - 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
- Item3 - 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
- Item4 - Indenture: William Cecil, Lord Burghley; Sir Thomas Cecil; Robert Cecil, and St John's College, regarding Lady Margaret scholars and Burghley Sermons
- Item5 - Letter: William Cecil, Lord Burghley, to St John's, cancelling the Cheshunt and Stamford sermons due to plague
- Item6 - 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.
- Item7 - 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
- Item8 - 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
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