BIB_ID
292896
Accession number
MA 665.14
Display Date
1596 Nov.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Borrowgreene is possibly Borough Green, in Kent.
Endorsed "My neighbur South hath performed all according to the direction wythin writen in the presence of us appointed to heare the same. By me Ffrancis Garthsyd rector, Wawrence Disborow and Thomas Brydg, churchwardens, Robert Gawlet and Rychard Cutle, questmen."
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 Mr. Garthside at his parsonage of Boroughegrene give these," and endorsed in Boroughegrene, a village in the Diocese of Ely.
This document appears to be a citation announcing the sentence of the Consistory Court.--Cf. Hall, p. 264.
With trace of a seal.
Endorsed "My neighbur South hath performed all according to the direction wythin writen in the presence of us appointed to heare the same. By me Ffrancis Garthsyd rector, Wawrence Disborow and Thomas Brydg, churchwardens, Robert Gawlet and Rychard Cutle, questmen."
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 Mr. Garthside at his parsonage of Boroughegrene give these," and endorsed in Boroughegrene, a village in the Diocese of Ely.
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 Thomas Sowthe to stand before the congregation of Borowgrene on "the xiiijth day of November next comminge" (14 November 1597) and confess "I did mowe on Sunday after evening prayer, in harvest time." Signed "Concordat cum decreto domini Judicis Ita testor Tho[mas] Amy, Notarius publicus."
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