St John's College 'James 550'
Ferdinand II, Grant of an annuity. Latin, 1635
Grant by Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to Giovanni Cosimo Geraldini, exchanging a commenda of the Order of St Stephen for an annuity on the Monte di Pietà. Signed by court officials and dated at Florence, 1 Feb. 1635.
St John's College 'James 549'
Conveyance of land in Hadlow, Kent. Latin, 1555
Conveyance by Henry Fisher, Merchant of the Staple at Calais, to Francis Coleyn, citizen of Rochester, of Cobbam Meadow and 'an Island' at Hadlowe, Kent, 26 July 1555. The consideration is given as £100. Docketed with livery of seizin signed by Thomas Burges, John Smalham (?), John Pratt, Andree Fisher, Robert Fysher, William Smythe and James Bere. Signed and sealed by Fisher.
St John’s College U.20.67
Prayers. Latin and English, seventeenth century
Prayers and devotions, gathered from printed works. Includes: ‘E Thoma’ Kempensi p. 117’, ‘Pro Humilitate’, ‘Pro Mansuetudine’, ‘Pro Benignitate’, ‘Oratio D. Thomae Aq.’, ‘A Prayer ag[ainst] failings’, ‘Oratio pro mortuis’, ‘A Prayer for Christian knowledge’, ‘E Dr Cosins Collection’ [John Cosin], several prayers by Bishop [Thomas] Ken, ‘On Christmas Day’.
St John's College T.9.30
Sixty-four sonnets by William Alabaster, transcribed 1627-8.