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Tripartite indenture between:
1) St John's College (Master: Nicholas Metcalfe)
2) Gonville Hall (Master or Keeper: William Buckingham) guarantor
3) Edward Gregson, parson of Fladbury, Wiltshire; Sir William Stag; Laurence Aynesworth, yeoman; John Aynesworth
Signed and sealed

Agreement between Thomas Nutter, Merchant, and Charles Blick, Senior Bursar of St John's College. The agreement grants right of way through Nutter's land for workmen and materials for the construction of New Court. The right of way is granted for a term of seven years for a payment of an annual rent of twenty pounds.

Agreement between: St John's College; Robert Holitreeholm, clerk of Beverley; Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St John of Beverley [Beverley Minster], and Michaelhouse

Agreement between St John's College, Joan Rokeby, Robert Creyk, York chapter and Michaelhouse, for founding one fellowship at St John's College

Between St John's College, Robert Simpson, Christ's College and St Catharine's Hall (College)

Tripartite indenture between: 1) Roger Lupton, Provost of Eton; the vicar of Sedbergh; Sir Henry Blomer, the chantry priest of Roger Lupton at Sedbergh; James Cowper; Roland Bland, all other feoffees of the chantry at Sedbergh, and all Lupton Scholars now at St John's; 2) Edward Foxe, D.D., Provost of King's College, Cambridge and the Fellows thereof; 3) St John's College. For the foundation of two Fellowships and two Scholarships, the College having received £400 from Lupton for the purchase of lands. Signed by Roger Lupton. With 7 small seals

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

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.

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, 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 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

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

Anthony Pennyng of Earl Soham, Suffolk

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.