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The records consist of modern administrative records of the Library, including

• catalogues of holdings

• metadata regarding the management of the collections, including records of acquisitions by donation and purchase, of books removed from the collections, of the arrangement of materials, and of their use

• library accounts

• minutes of the Library committee

• records of enquiries about the collections and College history.

Inscribed by G.B. Wright, Sub-Librarian.

Registers of quarterly borrowing from the Library, recording title, class, date of borrowing and return.

Correspondence, reports and applications concerning library posts; general correspondence.

Account of the sums due to members of the foundation, ie the Master, Fellows and Scholars; recording the name of the recipient, the name of the foundation from which the stipend was derived, the sum due, and in the case of fellows the deductions due for absence.

(See 'College Records', Biographical History, Volume III, pp.264-5, for further description)

Indenture: CIROGRAPHUM reversed. The three messuages and garden lie between the tenement of the brothers of St John on the south and the messuage of John of Lenn' on the north, abutting on the tenements of Daniel de Feldstede and the vicar fo St Botolph on the west, and on the royal street on the east.. Service of 6d per annum. Small seal with inscription. Given at Cambridge. Witnesses: Master Robert fo Brygham, mayor of Cambridge, and 6 others1 named. Endorsed: quarta; pro tenemento in Lorteburnelane; quarta a (14th cent.); Licentia Thome Moris Ed'o Gonevill' ut aula su... scholaribus (15th cent.).

In the same hand as 1.4, and identical in indented form, though not in diplomatic (e.g. dated by Roman calendar; 1.4 by St Nicholas). The tenements are described as in 1.4. It claims that both parties set their seals, but only the prior's has ever been attached - black wax, top missing, vesica shaped, showing figure in mass vestments (chasuble and maniple clearly visible). Inscription lost except for EGIDII DE (Barnwell priory was dedicated to St Giles). Endorsed: wuarta; qyarta b (14th cent.); factum prioris de Bernewelle pro licencia apropriandi (14th cent.).

Enrolment: Irrot' coram Willm Fuller aud.r. [April 1574]

From the University and Hospital of St. John's