BIB_ID
292855
Accession number
MA 665.9
Display Date
1595 May [16].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
Endorsed "Thomas Fyelde, The marke + of John Thurgar the churchwarden, John London [his mark], Robart Reynot [his mark]."
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 Curate of Badburham give thes" elsewhere, and endorsed in Babraham.
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 Curate of Badburham give thes" elsewhere, and endorsed in Babraham.
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 Elizabeth Boltwell to stand before the congregation of Badburham [i.e., Babraham] on "xxvth daie of Maie now instant" (25 May 1595) and confess "I did make discords betwene neighbor and neighbor, and allso I have been a pratlinge gossip goinge from one howse to another to tell tailes and lies." Signed "Concordat cum Actis Curie Ita testor Tho[mas] Amy Notarius publicus."
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