Endorsed "Jhon [sic] Aspland hat done the penaunce prescribed in Wicham Church ye day and yere above written. By me John Allen Churchwarden, Will[ia]m Gill, George Wright."
Probably written, signed and addressed "To my lovinge frend the Vycar of Witcham or to his Curate there give these" elsewhere and endorsed in Witcham.
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 John Aspland to stand before the congregation of Witcham on "the iiijth day of July next comminge forth" (4 July 1595) and confess "I have used to sleepe in the church." Signed "Concordat cum actis Curie Ita testor Tho[mas] Amy Notarius publicus."