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Account of John Scott, Fellow: includes expenses for completing Christ's College Chapel and repairs to the manor of Malton, Cambridgeshire.
Scott, John
Account of John Scott, Fellow: includes expenses for completing Christ's College Chapel and repairs to the manor of Malton, Cambridgeshire.
Scott, John
A signed draft copy of Lady Margaret’s will, annotated with additions and corrections in various hands. It includes a list of her particular benefactions to ‘Cristes College’ and ‘to my lord Prince’ which has been altered to read ‘the kinges grace’. Also includes a paper about the purchase of Bassingbourne in Fordham, Cambridgeshire inserted at front.
A folio paper book of 72 pages.
Pages 1-38: annotated draft will
Pages 39-56: list of legacies
Pages 57-72: blank
Part of The Records of St John's College
A report sent to the President of the College on the College's farm at Barway, with recommendations as to the repairs and a statement that the last tenant had neglected to plant the 30 willow trees yearly which he ought to have by his lease. The document is signed with the marks of 4 men: William Longe, Tho[m]as Lambert, Roger Burridg and Thomas Paggett.
Conventicle Act (certificate of proceedings): Francis Turner
Part of The Records of St John's College
Certificate of proceedings under the Conventicles Act, including an attempt to arrest dissenters in Toft Cambridgeshire: a vivid description of how the Act was enforced, by Stephen Perry & others.
Part of The Records of St John's College
Conveyance, James D Dimock to SJC of 2 acres 1 rood and 12 perches next to Soham Lode, Barway Cambridgeshire.
Copy of will of Humphrey Gower, 1708
Part of The Records of St John's College
With memorandum, 1708
Part of The Records of St John's College
Map of SJC lands and fisheries at Barway in Soham Cambridgeshire, traced from second-class tithe map. The original scale is 6 chains to 1 inch.
John Hammond (Thriplow, Cambridgeshire): Richard Clayton
Part of The Records of St John's College
John Hammond, Greenwich to Richard Clayton SJC Master or the Senior Bursar, about rents, repairs and sub-tenancy at Thriplow, Cambridgeshire.
Part of The Records of St John's College
Map of SJC lands and fisheries at Barway in Soham Cambridgeshire, coloured, with an inset showing the junction of the Cam and West rivers. The map is similar to BWC/6/2 but shows more detail of Soham Lode and Mere drain. The original scale is 5 chains to 1 inch. There is a pen and ink floral cartouche.
Lease - William Lister: Barway
Part of The Records of St John's College
Lease, SJC to William Lister, land at Barway & Soham Cambridgeshire.
Letters patent of Henry VII, granting manors in Devon, Somerset, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Northamptonshire, Dorset, South Wales and property in London to his mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond.
Westminster, 22 March 1486/7
Henry VII, King of England
Remise and Quitclaim: parish of St Giles, Cambridge
Remise and quitclaim [undated] by the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge, to Thomas Thomson, clerk, and rector of Wellwyn, Hertfordshire, of all their rights in lands etc in the parishes St Giles, Cambridge and of Coton which were formerly Richard [Foxe], Bishop of Winchester's, Thomas [Ruthall] Bishop of Durham's, John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester's and John Cutte's ,knight, and which Thomas had of their gift. And the Master and Fellows will guarantee the lands against John [Islip], Abbot of Westminter and his successors.
Part of The Records of St John's College
Report and valuation of the College estate stituated at Barway.
Robert Cecil (North Stoke and Thriplow): Richard Clayton
Part of The Records of St John's College
Robert Cecil [later earl of Salisbury and Richmond] to SJC, about tenancies in which the Queen [Elizabeth I] has deferred to the College's wishes. (The letter is referring to North Stoke, Oxfordshire and Thriplow, Cambridgeshire)
Part of The Records of St John's College
Undated plans of SJC lands & fisheries at Barway in Soham Cambridgeshire, with an inset showing the junction of the Cam and West rivers. The plans were most likely cut from lease.
Terrier - Robert Taylor: Barway
Part of The Records of St John's College
Terrier of College land in Barway in the tenure of Robert Taylor.
A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret, with certain corrections concerning the gifts to those who should attend her funeral, the dispositions of Maxey [Cambridgeshire] and Torpell [Northamptonshire], and those of the Somerset manors which she has enfeoffed with licence of Edward IV.