BIB_ID
292830
Accession number
MA 665.3
Display Date
1594 July [24].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.1 cm
Notes
Endorsed "This confession was made by John Tymnes the XXXth day of March 1595. Witnesseth Henr[y] Faux."
Part of a collection of 14 penances enjoined upon members of Protestant congregations in the diocese of Ely (MA 665-1-14); 5 maps of Cambridgeshire (MA 665.15-19); and 1 leaf on Ely from Philemon Holland's English translation of William Camden's Britain (MA 665.20). Items are cataloged individually in 20 records.
Probably written, signed and addressed "To my lovinge frend the Vycare or Curate of Sutton thes" in Cambridge, and endorsed in Sutton.
This document appears to be a citation announcing the sentence of the Consistory Court.--Cf. Hall, p. 264.
With trace of a seal.
Part of a collection of 14 penances enjoined upon members of Protestant congregations in the diocese of Ely (MA 665-1-14); 5 maps of Cambridgeshire (MA 665.15-19); and 1 leaf on Ely from Philemon Holland's English translation of William Camden's Britain (MA 665.20). Items are cataloged individually in 20 records.
Probably written, signed and addressed "To my lovinge frend the Vycare or Curate of Sutton thes" in Cambridge, and endorsed in Sutton.
This document appears to be a citation announcing the sentence of the Consistory Court.--Cf. Hall, p. 264.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased by J.W. Ford of Enfield Old Park at a public auction; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
Summary
Requiring John Tims to stand before the congregation of Sutton on "the xxxth daie of March next cominge" (30 March 1595) and confess "I suffered my horse and carte to work upon Easter Mundaie in the morninge praire time, and also ... I have bene a comon swearer."
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