Archdeaconry Act Book (ERO D/ACA8)

2.9.1579 (Wednesday 2 September 1579)

document 1002497

office of the judge against Geo Garrard of the same a mandate was shown by Grene that he had executed the summons Garrard appeared against whom it was objected on the basis of the churchwardens presentment that there was a public fame of incontinency between him and a certain Joan Clarke etc Garrard denied this and therefore was assigned to purge himself at the hands of seven neighbours in the parish church