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.
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."