BIB_ID
292834
Accession number
MA 665.4
Display Date
1594 July 19 or 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 29.4 cm
Notes
Endorsed "Penitentiam suam egit haec mulier secundum modum et formam suprascriptos die et loco supradictis, teste Richard Ffison Curato ibidem."
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 the Curate of Trinitye parishe in Elye thes" in Cambridge, and endorsed in Ely.
This document appears to be a citation announcing the sentence of the Consistory Court.--Cf. Hall, p. 264.
With trace of a seal.
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 the Curate of Trinitye parishe in Elye thes" in Cambridge, and endorsed in 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 that on "the xxxth day of Marche next comminge" (30 March 1595), Johane Andrewe, clothed in a white sheet and holding a white wand, stand before Trinity Church in Ely from before morning prayer until the reading of the second lesson and ask the passing parishioners to forgive and pray for her. Stating that after the minister retrieves her from the porch (while the congregation sings the psalm Misere in English), she must kneel during the reading of the ten commandments and then confess "I have broken his Divine lawes and commaundementes in committinge yt most shamefull and abhominable sin of adultrie or fornication." Stating that she must then stand before the congregation while the minister reads a homily against adultery and fornication. She is required to do this three Sundays or holy days in a row, and on the third day the minister will read a homily on repentance. Signed "Thomas Legge."
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