Archdeaconry Act Book (ERO D/ACA22)

17.10.1597 (Monday 17 October 1597)

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Stockbridge appears and fails to bring any compurgators and therefore his compurgation fails and he is ordered to acknowledge his fault openly in the church of Earls Colne in the time of divine service as in the schedule and to certify of this the judge ordered Stockbridge to prove the allegations by which he denied the accusation or to confess his fault in church