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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

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

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

Containing 5 items:
1) Letter from Alice Grant to Richard Howland, Master of St John's, 24 March 1585.
2) Letter of attorney: Alice Grant to Paul Grant, Fellow of St John's, 23 February 1588. Paul Grant to receive from the College £150 due under a bond (item 1) and is granted the power to compound with the College for obtaining for that amount one fellowship for his children and kinsfolk to be placed in successively and forever, in such manner and form as Grant thinks meet; otherwise to give an acquittance to the College. With seal. Witnessed by William Savile and Isaac Foxcroft.
3) Letter of attorney: John Thurleston of Hymsworth [Hemsworth], Yorkshire, Master of the Hospital and Free School of Hemsworth, to Brian Browne, 22 August 1572. Brian Browne to receive from St John's College one part of an indenture for the forming of a scholarship in the College and a bond from the College in 200 marks for the performance of the covenants, and to hand the other part of the indenture to the College. With seal. Witnessed by Thomas Heryson, parson of Hemsworth, Edward Smyth, Henry Goderd and George Thurleston
4) Letter from Alice Grant to Richard Howland, Master of St John's, 4 January 1587
5) Draft agreement between St John's and Alice Grant, c. 1583-1584 (10 folios)

Agreements for the dissolution of St John's Hospital and the foundation of a College, including drafts, contemporary copies, and one later copy. All but one of the documents dated 1509 to either Dec 1510 or 1 Jan. 1511

Legal agreements relating to the construction of New Court. The series includes an agreement for right of way and construction contracts.

Includes: a contract for the College clock, an indenture for Robert Shorton's obit and an indenture for arbitration between Nicholas Metcalfe and Margaret Myddelton .

Papers related to the Mastership of Alan Percy, the College's second master.

Includes: Brief bill of expenses on behalf of Doctor [Nicholas] Metcalfe relating to [the College's] plea v. Alan Percy ex-master of SJC.

Grant of the benefice to Broomhall Priory, royal confirmation of the grant, and deeds concerning the Priory's administration of the living

Letter, n.d., Alexander Hartley to Richard Howland SJC Master, seeking a place in SJC buttery.

Letter, n.d., Alice Strickland a poor widow to Richard Howland Bishop of Peterborough, asking for a promised assignment from the lease of Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire.
Endorsed: Widow Strickland [request] for her relative.