Views of Plate by Auditors: Steward
- SJCR/SJAR/5/1/15/1/1
- Item
- 1649-1783
Part of The Records of St John's College
Includes: list or inventory of College plate viewed and weighed by College auditors; accounts of plate brought in and delivered to the College, plate belonging to the Fellows' buttery, the Master's plate and the President's plate. Also includes the admission of noblemen and fellow-commoners (folios 271v -272r).
Additionally bound in at the reverse of the volume is a letter, Henry Eyre, SJC fellow [?] as bursar, to Thomas Fothergill, enclosing the 'new' library [summary] building account. The building accounts include £160 for the "roof within and £245 for the "greater and lesser seales" not given in the original accounts of 1623-1624.
Also at the reverse of the volume are a series of orders from Master and Seniors (1650-1654) relating to using and studying in the 'new' library, borrowing books from the library, Sir Martin's [fellow] small pox, those holding Masters of Arts and being resident in College having to officiate in Chapel, Fellows' leave and days of absence and the responsibility of tutors over delinquent student.