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Deed by which William, son of WIlliam Jurdan of Bray, undertakes to pay Richard ate Loke of Bray a yearly rent of 36 shillings for the land which he holds of Richard at la Loke and la Hull, both in Bray. It shall be paid as long as Richard shall live.
At Bray, 3 September 16 Edward III

Agreement for granting a scholarship to John Spalding with the nomination of his successor. William Spalding of Great Barton Suffolk, yeoman. With mark and seal of William Spalding and signature and seal of John Spalding

For conveying property in Adlingstreet to the college to endow a lecture in medicine. Indenture between: Nicholas Metcalfe, Master of St John's; Thomas Linacre, Doctor of Physik, Physician to the King; Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of London; Sir Thomas More, Under Treasurer of England; Master John Stokesley, D. D. (Dean of the Chapel Royal), and William Shelley, Sergeant at Law and Recorder of London. By his will, Linacre wills that all the land and property which he bought from the Prior of Elsing Spital (St Mary within Cripplegate), lately called the Belle and the Lanthorne in Adlingstreet, in the parish of St Benet beside Baynard's Castle, now leased by Thomas Cony of London, fletcher, shall be put in mortmain to the College. He also bequeaths money to be used to buy land. After his death, the College is to pay £12 for a lecture in physick [medicine] to be founded within the University. The reader to take a half-year sabbatical every four years, the stipend for that period to be applied and converted to the only use of the College. The College to give a bond in £400.
Four seals. Signatures of Thomas Linacre, Cuthbert, Bishop of London, John Stokesley

Limited to: 1) those of founder's name and kin; 2) natives of parishes of Chesterfield, Worksworth or Ashbourne, Derbyshire, or Alconsfield, Staffordshire; 3) birth in Staffordshire or Derbyshire; 4) in default, those qualified in Cambridge University. With chantry obligations.

Anthony Pennyng of Earl Soham, Suffolk

Agreement between Sir Robert Jermyn, two other executors of Frances Jermyn, and St John's College

Indenture, whereby John Tornay, "Sqwier pf lyncoln schir", agrees to take money from Robert Barnoldeby "of ye cownte of Kente" for land and meadow in Barnoldby field in the manor of north Cateby in Lincolnshire. Agrees to take six shillings eight pence instead of eighteen shillings and eight pence, being sixteen years' arrears in rent. To be paid in two installments, the rent thereafter being sixteen pence. In the parish church of Weldenewton. Seal lost

Agreement between Anthony Fitzherbert, Justice of Common Pleas; John Keyton, prebendary of Sarum [Salisbury]; Southwell Chapter, and St John’s College, for founding two Keyton fellowships and two scholarships at St John’s College

Agreement, Lady Margaret and Thomas Lord Stanley, in the presence of Edward IV, whereby Stanley undertakes:

• not to oppose Margaret's settlement of her Somerset estates, [see SJLM/3/2/1]
• to grant her life interest in his estates as before agreed [see SJLM/4/3/2/1 and SJLM/4/3/2/4]
• that Henry, Earl of Richmond [Margaret's son] be allowed a share in the estates of Margaret, Duchess of Somerset if he come to England and be in the king's favour.

Agreement between Henry Eyre of Bramley, Yorkshire, heir of Robert Allott and St John's College, to grant St John's the Spread Eagle, Thetford, to fund two exhibitions

Agreement between Lady Margaret and Foulk Woodhall [Fulk Woodhull] of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, for his marriage settlement with Elizabeth Webb, one of Lady Margaret's gentlewomen.

Quadripartite indenture between:
1) St John's College (William Whitaker, Master)
2) James Hebblethwaite of Malton, Yorkshire
3) The executors of Henry Hebblethwaite: Robert Atkinson, Citizen and Tallow Chandler of London; James Hayber, Citizen of London; Thomas Malyn, Citizen of London; John Cooper and John Harrison, of Sedbergh; Jeffrey Sedgwick of Kirby Lonsdale, Westmorland
4) King's College (Roger Goad, Provost)
By will dated 27 June 1587, Henry Hebblethwaite left £500 to the College for the purchase of lands to maintain poor and friendless scholars of the College, especially from the Grammar Schools of Sedbergh. The College convenants to employ the money to found two Scholarships and one Fellowship. It elects Robert Hebblethwaite, graduate, into the Fellowship and James Harrison, now Lupton Scholar, and Richard Ridding, now poor Scholar, into the Scholarships