BIB_ID
292887
Accession number
MA 665.12
Display Date
1595 Oct. 17
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 38 cm
Notes
Endorsed "Elizabeth Farnam hath done these partes of pennaunce in such maner and at such tymes as ys here set downe & appointed. Will[ia]m Lee Minister, Edward Gillibrond, Thomas Barnes (his mark), Churchwardens."
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 (on verso) "To my lovinge frend Mr. Lee viccar of Stapleford give these" elsewhere, and endorsed in Stapleford.
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 (on verso) "To my lovinge frend Mr. Lee viccar of Stapleford give these" elsewhere, and endorsed in Stapleford.
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 xvjth day of October now instant" (26 October 1595), Elizabeth Farnam, clothed in a white sheet with "papers pinned, the one upon her breste and the other upon her backe, declaringe her abhominable offence," and holding a white wand, stand in the bull ring in Cambridge from 10 in the morning until 1 in the afternoon and ask the passing parishioners to forgive and pray for her. Stating that the next Sunday she must, again clothed in a white sheet with papers pinned to her breast and back, and holding a white wand, stand on the porch of the church in Stapelford 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 gospel and then confess "I have broken his divine lawes & commaundementes in committinge the most shamefull and abhominable sin of 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 an additional following Sunday, when the minister will read a homily on repentance. Signed "Concordat cum actis Curie. Ita testor. Tho[mas] Amy Notarius Publicus."
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