A confession to be made by Elizabeth Bowltell of Badburham : manuscript penance, 1595 May [16].

Record ID: 
292855
Accession number: 
MA 665.9
Credit: 
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]."
Probably written, signed and addressed "To my lovinge frend the Curate of Badburham give thes" elsewhere, and endorsed in Babraham.
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.

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."

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.