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SJLM/7/1/4
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GB 1859 SJLM/7/1/4
Title
Receipt: Thomas Thomson, Christ's College
Date(s)
- 1512 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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(c.1470-c.1540)
Biographical history
Thomas Thomson was Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1510-1517, and Vice-Chancellor, 1510-1512. Other notable appointments include Vicar of Gateley, Norfolk, 1520- 1530, and Vicar of Enfield, Middlesex, from 1505 to his death c.1540. An early benefactor to St. John’s College, Thomson helped to support the income of two fellowships and contributed, through a donation of rents in Cambridge, to the construction of a chantry on the south side of the College Chapel in 1524.
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Receipt by Thomas Thomson, Master of Christ's College, from Robert Shorton SJC Master, by the order of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and Dr Hornby of £20.
Signed: per me Thomas Thomson
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Former Ref.
D56.143
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- Shorton, Robert (Subject)