Item 2 - Robert Shorton's obit: Nicholas Metcalfe

Indenture, dated 1 October 1535, between the College (Nicholas Metcalf, Master) and the Colledge ore Hall called Mary Valaunce comonlie [commonly] callid Pembroke Hall (Robert Swinborne, Maister or Kepar [Keeper]).
Robert Shorton, D.D., Dean of Stoke by Clare, Suffok, has given St John's 100 marks for the purchase of land, to maintain an Obijt [obit] or yeares mynd, with Placebo and dirigie over myght solemlie bi not, and mase [mass] off [of] Requiem on the morow, the Master, if present, to have ij s. , and each of the Fellows, if present, ixij d; the residue to be divided amon the Scholars.

• Obit: An office or service, usually a mass, held to pray for the soul of or otherwise commemorate a deceased person (at the request and usually the expense of that person or his or her family) on the anniversary of his or her death, or at some other appointed time; a yearly or other regular memorial service.
• Placebo: Vespers in the Office for the Dead.