Endorsed "[cut away] in the paryshe Churche of Watterbeach the XXIXth day of January above wrytten per me Tho[mas] Payne vicarium ibidem, John Hasell, John Ffroment, his marke."
Addressed "To the Vicar of Waterbreache [Thomas Payne] deliver this."
With trace of a seal.
This document appears to be a citation announcing the sentence of the Consistory Court.--Cf. Hall, p. 264.
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.
Requiring William Serient to stand before the congregation of Waterbeach on "the xxixth of Januarie next cominge" (29 January 1586/1587) and confess "I have not come to the churche in due tyme upon the Sabothe days." Signed by the chancellor of the diocese of Ely, "Ric[hard] Bridgewater."