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Letter, no year, Robert Shorton, Cambridge, to John Fisher, about appointment of Oliver Scales as Clerk of Works at SJC and the progress of building there.

Mandate, Charles I to SJC, appointing William Beale, as Master of Jesus College and Master of SJC.

Letter, Robert Shorton, Cambridge to John Fisher, thanking Fisher for his appointment as Master of SJC & discussing the choice of the first Fellows. There is also mention of receipt of £1000.

Letters and correspondence to and from Anthony Tuckney as Master.

Letter, no year, Anthony Irby, Kirton,Lincolnshire, to Nicholas Metcalfe, about the value and tenure of land bought from Sir Henry Willoughby at Wigtoft, Lincolnshire

Copy letters from Anthony Ashley Cooper, T. Clifford, H. Duncombe, treasury, to [? Peter Gunning as Bishop of Chichester], enclosing copies of printed Act for impositions on proceedings at law, and asking for a return from the bishop as to personnel in ecclesiastical courts.

Copy letter, Anthony Ashley Cooper and H. Duncombe, Treasury, [to Peter Gunning as Bishop of Chichester] requesting answer to a letter relatint to the Act for impositions on proceedings at law.

Answers of the Master, Fellows and Scholars of St John's, and of Dr Francis Turner, Dr Thomas Briggs, James Chamberlain, David Moreton, Henry Paman and Thomas Fothergill. Francis Turner was Master at the time, the phrasing denotes the College as a body and these individually-named Fellows. Undated, but c. 1674, Sir John Platt having made his complaint in May of that year

Answers to the Information and Bill of Complaint of the Attorney General on behalf of St John's College

Letter, John Whitgift archbishop of Canterbury to SJC, repeating request for consent to enclosure by Trinity College & answering the articles of SJC's objections.

The conveyance from Wodward [Woodward] to John Stone and from Stone and executors of J. Stone to Collins and from Collins to Quilter and from him to the present executors. Also includes the answer of Thomas Stansham [Stransham] to the bill of John and Elizabeth Browne.

Answer in Chancery of Richard [Foxe] Bishop of Winchester explaining that he was not present when Lady Margaret made her will but that he has it on good authority that she left the College lands in the "countees [counties] of Devynshyre [Devonshire] and Somersettshyre [Somerset]".

Includes: 2 volumes of lodgings bills account and account of sizars' praeter (sizars' payments) received by tutors; 1 volume listing unpaid detriments; tuition received; exchequer bills; also includes lists of students and some tutors: 1 volume listing tuition dividends for Michaelmas 1843 and lists of college/bills/payments due for services rendered to students whilst in College.

Annual account reports including reviews of various college departments including the senior bursar, junior bursar, tutorial bursar, education fund, kitchen accounts and miscellaneous accounts. From 1981, the Audit Committee reports were filed regularly as parts of the ‘Accounts Pack'..

The Annual Report of the library including the Biographical Office, Special Collections and the Archive

Includes annual report of the Larmor Society.

MS listing 15-16th century ordinations, with typed addenda, by Hugh Percival Wharton Gatty. Includes 'Rotherham's Ordinations', Bishop Russell's Ordinations', 'Bishop Smith's Ordinations', 'Longland's Memoranda'.

Includes

incomplete collection of menu cards for the Johnian Society's annual dinner (1924-1991). Includes 1924 Inaugural Dinner card and typescript seating plan for the 1963 Annual Dinner.

Menu card for the Merseyside Johnian Dinner, held at the University Club, Liverpool, 15th December 1951.

attendee lists (1978-1990)

an accommodation list, meeting agendas, invitations, rules of the society, and notes for the chairman (1975-1990)

a circular dated 7th Jan. 1944 advertising the dinner menu for a luncheon in honour of Sir James Grigg, Honorary Fellow of St. John's College and Secretary of State for War

a loose-leaf OS typescript Seating Plan booklet for the Johnian Society Annual Dinner (21st Dec. 1963).

Includes

1. menu cards, including a signed 1927 cena (dinner) and symposium card, belonging to Robert Somerville; a 1935 convivium card; and two post-1935 dinner programme cards

2. a photograph of the party present at the first dinner of the Classical Society, 4th June 1927, together with accompanying letter from the donor, Robert Somerville, containing information about some of the members featured

3. two MSS copies of the menu written in Latin verse, composed by John Crook, for 1973 and 1975

4. a typescript address by the President (1977).