This volume is the continuation of Utinam (catalogued as Collect.Admin.13) so called on account of the buckle to the leather strap. It contains fair copies of cases in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, acta and depositions, and memoranda of various kinds relating to the Vice-Chancellor's jurisdiction, including assembled records of individual probate processes. These include the probate account for John Denys, bookbinder, 1578, which does not survive in the original, and doubtless several others.

Entries in hand chiefly of Matthew Stokys, Registrary.

Contents:

pp.1-478: 1577-87 ACTA pp.479-605: 1579-89 DEPOSITIONS pp.633-80, 479*-655* 1578, 1582, 1587-9 ACTA

p.1: 15 Nov. 1577 Arthur Leach vs Edmund Sheres – assignation; Edmund Sheres vs Agnes Vipenye – assignation; 17 Nov. Alexander Starchye BA (Queens’ College) – imitation of Proctor – decree for appearance; John Halywell, tailor vs Abery Leman – debt; Aberye Leman vs John Halywell – breach of contract.

p.2: 18 Nov. 1577 William Thurloe bound to appear and answer: sureties William Hodson, brewer, and Christopher Raye, chandler, both burgesses of Cambridge.

p.3: 22 Nov. 1577 John Halywell vs Aberye Leman – assignation; Edmund Sheres vs Agnes Vipenye – defamation; Agnes Vipenye vs Edmund Sheres – Sheres bound to appear; Arthur Leache vs Edmund Sheres – defamation.

p.4: 27 Nov. 1577 John Cragge MA (Fellow of St Catharine’s College) vs [John] Furmerye MA (Fellow of St Catharine’s College) – John Bettes constituted Cragg’s proctor; John Halywell vs Alberye Leman – Martin Bery proctor for Halywell; John Meye, Bishop of Carlisle vs Richard Aunger, gent., of Coton – initiation of cause; 28 Nov. Aberye Leman vs John Halywell – J. Bettes proctor for Leman; Proctors vs John Clarke and John Woodhouse, innholders, Roger Harison and Thomas Hareson, cooks, for cooking and selling meat on fast days; 29 Nov. Halywell vs Leman – introduces bond of Leman to Isebrand Garet and letter of attorney, Garet to Stephen Williams.

p.5: 29 Nov. 1577 Vipenye vs Sheres – confession; Leache vs Sheres – confession; Leman vs Halywell – assignation; Sheres vs Vipenye – assignation; John Edmundes vs Robert Dawson, miller – initiation of debt cause.

p.6: 3 Dec. 1577 John Goldisborow, butcher vs Thomas Temple MA, Anthony Watson MA and Peter Bulward, scholar – Martin Bery proctor for Goldisborow; 4 Dec. Vipenye vs Sheres – Bettes proctor for Vipenye; 6 Dec. Taxors vs John Stalland, John Isacson, Vincent Nicolson and Martin Darbye for buying 150 acres of standing corn; John Goldisborow vs Thomas Temple etc. – debt.

p.7: 13 Dec. 1577 Goldisborow vs Temptle – Bettes proctor for Temple; Trinity College vs Owynn Wylson, cordwainer – debt; Owynn Wylson vs Nicholas Whalles – admon of Isabella Whalles, mother of Nicholas, and administrator of Stephen Whalles, her husband – debt; 14 Jan. 1577/8 Taxors vs Robert Webbe of Cowledge, collier – selling underweight coal; 18 Jan. Taxors vs Henry Flemson, baker – underweight bread.

p.8: 21 Jan. 1577/8 Henry Aldriche MA vs William Johnson, draper – debt; 23 Jan. Sheres vs Vipenye – defendant to be banished; Proctors vs John Whaley, John Newman, Edward Williams, William Blande and George Cole who ‘went a mommyng with visures upon Sunday 19 Jan.’; Henry Blythe vs Nicholas Rust – Rust fined for non-appearance; Dns Roberts vs Waren – Waren fined for non-appearance; 24 Jan. Agnes Brickmans (by her servant Reinold the merchant) vs John Denys, bookseller – debt of £16 14s for books sold to him.

p.9: 31 Jan. 1577/8 Decree and interpretation of statute of admissions to degrees as to the meaning of ‘noble’; 21 Feb. John Moss vs Henry Goose – assignation.

p.10: 21 Feb. 1577/8 Samuel Stevens vs Ingram – Ingram fined for non-appearance; Mr Paget vs Robert Farbecke, smith – debt for horse sold; 25 Feb. Jugge vs Edward Whardell – forged bond for payment for a horse; 4 Mar. John Hone vs Edmund Mondford – assignation; 14 Mar. [William] Brice vs Isabella Culton, sister and administrator of Robert Culton – denies that Robert Culton was a privileged person (continued on p.11).

p.12: 14 Mar. 1577/8 Owynn Wylson vs Arthur Leache – debt; Proctors vs Treader – to find sureties for appearance; Proctors vs Henry Sharpe serving-man of Barnwell – to find sureties for appearance.

p.13: 19 [Mar.] 1577/8 William Brice vs Isabella Culton – allegations by W. Berry, proctor for Brice; renewed denial by IC that her brother William was privileged. Witnesses for Brice – Edward Whardall, John Holywell, Ezechiel warren, John Buckle and Joan Ratclyffe.

p.14: 21 Mar. 1577/8 Proctors vs Killingbacke, Cauthorne and Couper – bond to appear; Owen Wilson vs Arthur Leach – Leach’s contumacy proved; Richard Mecalfe vs Robert Laurence – Laurence bound to appear, Richard Brachier his surety; Henry Brachier bound in £20 to answer the parishioners of St Bene’t’s; 26 Mar. Proctors vs Henry Sharpe of Barnwell, serving-man – Sharpe bound in £20 to appear; 11 Apr. [Richard] Medcalfe vs [Robert] Laurence – Medcalfe assesses injury at £6 13s 4d, court at 53s 4d, to be paid in two instalments under penalty of £4, Richard Brachier surety; John Mosse vs Dns Holte – Holte acknowledges debt of 60s; 18 Apr. John Goldisborowe jnr. vs Messrs Temple, Watson and Bulward – assignation; 7 Mar. in camera Anthony Rudd BD vs Roger Acrod MA (Fellow of Christ’s College), proctor for Edward Whitacres MA, executor of Edmund Rudd MA, for debt of 60s - John Amys MA and Gilbert MA witnesses for Rudd, Acred bound in 60s to appear.

p.15: 7 Mar. 1577/8 Anthony Watson MA (Fellow of Corpus Christi College) vs Roger Acrod, as above, for 50s – same witnesses; 2 May W. Hawkyns, baker vs Michael Woulfe, apothecary – assignation; Dr Lorkyn vs Fanne – no entry; 10 May William Collyn of Swaffham Prior, husbandman vs Geoffrey Gaye of Wilton, husbandman – John Bowdyn of Swaffham Prior, husbandman, proctor for Collyn – Thomas Collyn of Swaffham Prior, father of WC, leaves a cow to his son, TC jnr., his widow and executrix Cessilia Collyn dies before completing administration, as also does TC jnr. Paul Prat of Ockold, agent, and G. Gaye, executors of Cessilia. WC claims cow or 30s as next of kin to Thomas jnr.; 12 May Leonard Chambers MA (Fellow of Trinity College) bound in £20 to appear to answer Dns Radcliff for a caution in the Billingford and Bowser chest; 14 May Leonard Chambers as above bound in £20 to appear to answer for certain words in a sermon in Great St Mary’s church; 16 May Leonard Chambers again bound in £20 to appear; 30 May Leonard Chambers again bound in £20 to appear.

p.16: 16 May 1578 Christopher Waters, alias Stafford, shoemaker, John Mosse, draper, John Pooley, apothecary, Mark Ryse, tailor, John Warde, tailor, Thomas Beadon, apothecary, [Thomas or William] Hawes MA and Cutbert, cook, creditors of Edmund Rudd vs Roger Acrod – all other creditors proved contumacious; Dr [Isaac[ Barrow vs Thomas Beaumont – Beaumont pronounced contumacious for not prosecuting his appeal which therefore fails; John Goldisborowe jnr. vs Watson, Temple and Bulwarde – Drs Harvye, Ithell and Legge to arbitrate; Drs Perne, Fulke, Goade, Ithell, Legge and Messrs Nicols, Hounde and Norgate fix price of Gaascon wine at 6d a quart; Dr [Thomas] Lorkyn vs Fan – case removed to a crown court at request of Fan with Lorkin’s assent; 30 May Mosse vs Bradley – Bradley fined 2s for non-appearance; 6 June Leonard Chambers as above bound in £40 to appear.

p.17: 1 July 1578 [Francis] Dorington DD bound in £20 for the payment by Robert Pickering MA to the appropriate officers of all fees for composition of his degrees of BA and MA if RP or his agents hold the parsonage of Titchmarsh, Northants.; 4 July Churchwardens (James Robson, John Clarke) of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – plaintiffs exhibit many documents, make allegations, contestacio litis.

p.18: 4 July 1578 [W.] Hawkins vs [Michael] Woulfe – both bound in £20 to abide by arbitration of Messrs Furmerye and Hewes (Jesus College) (? and Dns Lenne) 19 July John Goldisborowe vs Messrs Watson, Temple and Bulward – assignation.

p.19: 18 July 1578 Robson and Clarke, Churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s, vs Thomas Evers – assignation; Proctors vs Clarke – Clarke fined 2s for non-appearance; Mr Higgens vs Arthur Leache and John Littlechild – defendants fined (?2s 6d) for non-appearance.

p.20: 24 July 1578 Mr Patenson vs John Goldisborowe, snr. – Patenson lays allegation; 12 Sept. Martin Parker, citizen and merchant tailor of London, vs James Wilson of Bulwell, Norfolk, wainman – William Greeke MA, proctor for Parker, successfully claims debt of 60 £.

p.21: 24 July 1578 [John] Goldisborowe vs Watson and Bulward – G denies that W is a Fellow of Christ’s College, as claimed – assignation; W. Grasham vs John Sawyer – S fined 2s for non-appearance; Ralph Taylbois vs Richard Richardson – entry erased.

p.22: 26 July 1578 Office vs Agnes Vipenye – bound in £20 at instance of Mr Lenne to report to VC each time she comes to Cambridge, to stay where he says if do not approve of her lodging and to keep no lewd company; 24 Sept. [Edward] Francklyn MA (Fellow of St Catharine’s College) vs Ralph Dounthorne, cook – D to be imprisoned until bound in £20, with surety of £10, not to harm Mr Francklyn. Memo that on 11 Oct. F. released D in presence of John Baxter, Bedell, Button and Stokys; 27 Sept. Assize of bread – quarter of wheat 13s 4d and 2s allowed, halfpenny loaf 11 ozs; Assize of ale – quarter of malt 14s, kilderkin of double beer 3s, single beer 18d, barrel of best beer 2 10d, second beer 16d. Prices only until 25 October next; 7 Oct. John Mosse vs John Ventreis – V’s bond in £4 forfeit – bound in £10 to pay before Saturday night next.

p.23: 21 Oct. 1578 Andrew Stevenson of Doncaster, Yorks. vs John Cutbard – for recovery of a horse which escaped from Chesterton at last Sturbridge Fair and was captured by the Mayor and bailiffs and sold to Cutbard. S. bound in 6 £ 13s 4d to restore the horse if it be proved that it was ‘furto ablatum sive derelictum, … anglice weevyd’. Robert Rodys BD, John Faucit, Laurence Stanton and Francis Snell MAs sureties for Stevenson; 17 Nov. Assize of ale – malt 10s a quarter, double beer 2s 6d a kilderkin, single 15d, good ale 2s 4d a barrel, carded ale 14d, ½d a quart of double beer or good ale, 1d a gallon of single beer or carded ale; 21 Nov. Taxors (Alexander Bounde and Henry Hawkins) vs Stenet, Horne and Aylewood for selling sea coal in unsealed measures – fined 6s 8d; 25 Nov. ‘Johnsons wieffe cooke of Clarehall for scolding and slaundering her neighbours is adiudged to the cokkyng-stoole, and for defaulte of one execution is respected for one forthnight’; Simon Watson of Coonyngton promises to report ‘the loest price of St Nicholas ostle’ to the VC in 10 days.

p.24: 26 Nov. 1578 Decree of Dr Bynge VC, Drs Hawford, Fulke, Howland, Harvye, Legge, Hatcher, Lorkin and Warde and Messrs Norgate and Nichols, in presence of Drs Chaderton and Barrow – that each scholar in his order (iuxta senioritatem) is bound to respond or to oppose in theology, law and medicine and to practise and is not freed from the duty by any office such as Proctor, Taxor or Scrutator, according to c.26 of the statutes; 27 Nov. Wine prices – all French and Gascon 5d a quart, sack and Rhenish 6d, muscatelle 9d, malmsey and bastard 8d; 21 Nov. Robson and Clarke, Churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – assignation; 28 Nov. Proclamation by Richard Modye, public cryer of the University, for all creditors of John Denys, bookseller, to come forward, at the request of Helen Sewell, widow and administratrix of John D.

p.25: 28 Nov. 1578 Robson and Clarke, Churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – assignation; Taxors vs Stephen Rookes and Jackson, bakers, for underweight penny wheaten bread – fined 3s 4d each and 12d-worth of bread distributed to gaol, Tolbooth and Spittle House; Taxors vs John Baker, baker – fined 2s 6d for non-appearance; Taxors vs Gibbons – fined 20d pro consili delicto; John Edmondes vs Robert Bradley and John Hurst, tailors – for recovery of a penal sum of £20 to ensure performance of a contract by Bradley – distraint on goods of Bradley, and Hurst to appear.

p.26: 5 Dec. 1578 Robson and Clarke, Churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – assignation.

p.27: 5 Dec. 1578 [John] Edmondes vs [Robert] Bradley – £4 from goods of Bradley and £2 each from John Hurst and W. Skyner in full payment of £8 for 20 quarters of oats; Sanders and John Lynche for contumacious non-appearance; 6 Dec. Taxors vs John Dyland, servant to Mr Torrell – bound in £6 13s 4d to appear and answer; John Hurst vs Robert Bradley – Henry ?Reston of Haslingfield, husbandman, bound in £20 for appearance of Bradley; 9 Dec. Queens’ College vs Mary Cooke – Gregory ?Lion and Gervaise Brigan bound in £10 each for her appearance; 10 Dec. Proctors vs Thomas Dormer, Threader, Rookes, Hawkins, Button, Tydswell and Morgan – for bowling; Interpretation of statute – 1) the VC, Thomas Byng, having previously been chosen one of the Caput as a lawyer, it was agreed to make no new election but to allow the senior of the faculty present in the schools to supply his place, 2) if a substitute was appointed in the absence of a member of the Caput, he was to continue to serve even if the original member reappeared.

p.28: 10 Dec. 1578 John Whaley bound in £20 to be of good behaviour and to appear when called; Edward Wylliam and Leonard Whaley bound in £6 13s 4d to appear; 12 Dec. Dns Tylney vs Robert Edwards – no entry; Lylles Hume, alias Wylson, Scottish woman, to stand at the bullring with a paper on her back for her ‘whooredom scholdyng and fighting’; Elizabeth Jeffraye condemned to the ‘cockingstole’ as a common scold; Richard Harneis bound in £6 13s 4d for the good behaviour and life of Margaret Lynsey, suspected of adultery; Richard Wylson, janitor of Christ’s College, fined 3s 4d for the shedding of blood by himself or his wife of a guest in his house – paid to [Richard] Willoughby (Fellow of Corpus Christi College), Proctor; Robson and Clarke, Churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – Edward Ball, gent., John Searle, John Hamond, Martin Wharton, W. Barcrofte, Thomas Knevet and John Harrison witnesses for parish, Bettes proctor for Evers – assignation.

p.29: 12 Dec. 1578 Proctors vs Nicholas Wisbech of Little Thurlow, butcher, for selling bad meat – fined 13s 4d and costs – John Reve, servant to NW, testifies that NW paid 2s to Peter Whalley, one of the Treasurers, perhaps to take a stall; John Dyland, servant to Mr Torrell, bound in £6 13s 4d to appear and answer the Taxors; 17 Dec. Proctors vs Thomas Manning, Roger Smyth and John Howell, chandlers – witnesses W. Nase, Robert Taxton, John Kyllingworth, Ralph Wright, John Peerson, James Farrar (bis), Stephen Urinal and Abel Aston in the presence of Origen Cartnoll, servant to the chandlers – fined 10s, 6s and 3s respectively according to number of scholars to whom candles sold; 19 Dec. Proctors vs John Woodhowse, Gervaise Brigan, John Clarke and Roger Harrison for selling meat on forbidden days – each fined 40s and costs; John Hawkyns and John Barker, chandlers, chosen and sworn as searchers of tallow, candles etc.

p.30: 16 Jan. 1578/9 Nil; 23 Jan. Robson and Clarke, Churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – churchwardens maintain that will of Edward Slegge was sealed with official seal of the Official of the Archdeacon of Ely; Dr [Thomas] Lorkyn vs Master and Fellows of St Catharine’s College concerning a lease by them (recited in full and continued on pp.31, 33 and 34) of 19½ acres of land in Chesterton – for breach of contract in allowing wood on part of the land to be felled and sold. John Bettes LLB proctor for Lorkin.

p.32: 22 Jan. 1578/9 Bond of John Darington, tailor, and his sureties, Alexander Clarke of Cambridge, capper, and Morgan Power of Cambridge, tailor – to appear and answer at the Quarter Sessions and meanwhile to keep the peace with Richard Richardson, tailor; 24 Jan. Bond of Charles Fotherby BA, scholars of Trinity College, in £10 to keep peace with Henry Punter BA, scholar of St John’s College; Similar bond of Henry Punter to keep peace with Charles Fotherby; [?John] Maier MA vs Edmund Garnet, Kendalman, for defamation, George Dixon proctor for Maier – Garnet claims to have heard the words from one Blande, and is bound in £10 to produce him or appear, John Paske, draper, his surety in £10.

p.34: 30 Jan. 1578/9 John Whaller vs Christopher Hartley – Hartley bound in 6 £ 13s 4d to stand to the arbitration of Dr Howland or to appear in court if the arbitration be not completed by the 2nd Sunday in Lent; John Whaller vs James Scawcrofte – JS bound in £10 to produce an unnamed witness or to appear himself; Robson and Clarke, churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – Roger Slegge to be examined.

pp.35-6: 5 Feb. 1578/9 Dr Thomas Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College, Berry proctor for St Catharine’s vice Cansfield – TL exhibits indenture between St Catharine’s and Richard Cobbe of Chesterton, indenture between Richard Cobbe, William Spicer and James Bolton, indenture between Spicer and Bolton (?and Lorkin), letter of attorney St Catharine’s to Spicer, release Bolton to Spicer, release Spicer to Lorkin; 7 Feb. Dismissal of a cause brought in the Exchequer on information (for card playing) against John Pooley, apothecary, a privileged person. Informers – Mr Bowes and Mr Beddingfield.

p.37: 7 Feb. 1578/9 Robson and Clarke, churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – assignation; 13 Feb. Robson and Clarke, churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – assignation.

p.38: 13 Feb. 1578/9 Robert Tidswell vs Gilbert Corbet for debt of 40s – Richard and William Sacker witnesses for Tidswell, Corbet to pay 40s and costs; Robson and Clarke, churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – Peter Harrison and Andrew Pilkyngton witnesses for wardens (dispute re travelling expenses for them).

pp.39-41: 20 Feb. 1578/9 Thomas Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – William Spicer and John Edmondes to be examined; Robson and Clarke, churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers, Berry proctor for wardens – assignation.

p.42: 27 Feb. 1578/9 St Catharine’s College vs Dr Thomas Lorkin – Betts proctor for TL appears to state case; Robson and Clarke, churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – R testifies he has cited Edward Ball, gent., John Searle, Martin Wharton, John Hammond, William Barcrofte, Thomas Knevet and John Harrison – they appear and testify against P. Harrison and A. Pilington.

p.43: 6 Mar. 1578/9 William Digby fined 3s 4d for shedding the blood of Thomas Gillam - paid to Farrand, Proctor, penance remitted; Thomas Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – James Bolton witness for TK, further documents exhibited ex parte TL, witnessed or executed by Edward Francklyne 1577, John Cragge 1575, Robert Cansfield 1575, John Cragge 1574 (bis) and Henry Jernegan 1573; Note to enquire into the shedding of blood by Edward Browne and Armstrong – 3s 4d paid to Willoughby, Proctor.

p.44: 13 Mar. 1578/9 Thomas Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Cansfield examined – assignation.

p.45: 13 Mar. 1578/9 Robson and Clarke, churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – witnesses examined (as above) - TE fails to secure their re-examination.

p.46: 21 Mar. 1578/9 Thomas Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College - William Goldwyn, Thomas Smyth, Philip Pecocke, Richard Covyngton, Edward Jackson, George Sherwood and Edward Lyvelye witnesses for TL. Cansfield for St Catharine’s College offers TL 10s and costs – accepted – assignation (see also pp.479-80).

p.47: 21 Mar. 1578/9 Thomas Tussar vs John Lynche – Lynche proved contumacious in non-appearance; St Sepulchre’s (as above) vs Thomas Evers – assignation, notice of intended appeals.

p.48: 3 Apr. 1579 Thomas Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College - Cansfield admits validity of deeds exhibited by TL; Robson and Clarke, churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – Knevet, Hammond and John Harrison to be re-examined; Taxors vs Thomas Dormer and Gibbons – defendants fined 20d each for non-appearance; Wine prices fixed – muscatel 8d a quart, malmsey 7d, sack 6d, red claret and white 4d; Taxors vs Thomas Addams, Griffyn Rise and W. Hatley – penalised for victualling without licence; 8 May T. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – cause adjourned in hope of settlement.

p.49: 8 May 1579 Robson and Clarke, churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – adjourned in hope of settlement; Sophonias Smyth MA (Fellow of Corpus Christi College) vs Philo/e/we - P’s wife bought from Smyth’s pupil, Christopher Gosse, three pairs of knit hose for 15s – to pay 20s for them and costs and 20s to the University for the breach of statute; 15 May Gilbert Corbet vs John Litlechilde – for a penal sum of 8 £ on a debt of £4 – JL warned to appear; Proctors vs William Gibbons, Williamson, Alexander the scrivener, John Dowsey, Micheas Wallas, John Green, John Hurst and Thomas Dormer for non-appearance [?at the Leet].

p.50: 15 May 1579 Robson and Clarke, churchwardens of St Sepulchre’s vs Thomas Evers – assignation; James Robson vs Thomas Evers for injury - ‘that the said Evers did by force pull the said Robson out of a place where he did syt in the Round Church at sermon tyme before the parisshoners and others that were at the sermon’, estimated by Robson at £6 13s 4d – assignment; John Broke and John Paskefeld of St Botolph’s parish vs Samuel Symson, Richard Powell and Arthur Price – Powell and Price (apprenticed but not married or of sufficient financial standing) fined 40s each, Simson fined 3s 4d for non-appearance.

p.51: 22 May 1579 St Catharine’s College vs T. Lorkin – assignation; Proctors vs Alexander Woodward – fined 3s 4d for non-appearance; John Brooke and [John] Paskfeld vs Richard Powell – mandate for execution of sentence, with costs; St Sepulchre’s parish vs T. Evers – assignation; James Robson vs T. Evers – both bound in 13 £ 6s 8d to stand to the arbitration of Roger Slegg and Hughes of Jesus College; 2 June Office vs Elizabeth Jeffraye – sentenced to the cocking stool having been respited ‘upon her amendment’ now to be ‘drawen throwe the ryver’ as a scold and ‘bolsterer of ill women’ - bound in £6 13s 4d to appear and abide the sentence; Joan Murtlow, the pinner’s wife, surety in the same sum for her appearance.

p.52: 2 June 1579 Office vs Margaret Webbe, widow, for incontinence with John Smyth – to the Tolbooth until Saturday next then two hours in the bull-ring and then ‘to be carried to the bryge and there to be drawen over the water at a botes tayle’ then to the Tolbooth again pending the VC’s pleasure; Parishioners of St Andrew’s against Richard Taylor of the same parish for having one wife in Cambridge and another in Bedford - claims a divorce and is to bring proof to court; Alice Harryson to be whipped the length of the market and then banished; George Holder to stand two hours in the bull-ring for receiving and keeping company with ill women; John Smyth, shoemaker, to have same punishment as Margaret Webbe, for the same fault; Thomas Tomlynson alias Readnose banished to Newark on Trent on pain of whipping and further punishment; Andrew Wilson committed to ward for drunkenness, fighting and receiving ill women – to stand in the bull-ring for two hours and be banished if he offend again; Margaret Duxberye to be committed until Saturday, to stand two hours in the bull-ring, to be carted through the streets and then banished for whoredom; 6 June John Smyth, shoemaker, and Margaret Webbe bound in 100 marks each that neither they nor their two children shall come to dwell in Cambridge without leave of the VC and Mayor.

p.53: 5 June 1579 Assize of ale – quarter of malt 9s, wheat 13s 4d, double beer 2s 4d a kilderkin, single beer 14d, ale 2s 2d a barrel; Assize of bread – ½d loaf 12 oz.; St Sepulchre’s vs T. Evers – assignation; T. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – assignation (evidence also of Spicer and Bolton re Richard Cobbe of Chesterton).

p.54: 5 June 1579 Appointment by Chancellor (Cecil) and admission after oath of obedience of Thomas Legge as Commissary.

p.55: 12 June 1579 At Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – adjourned; St Sepulchre’s vs T. Evers – assignation; 19 June Nil; 26 June W. Foxall vs John Robson, blacksmith – no entry; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – James Bolton and William Spicer to be re-examined.

p.56: 26 June 1579 Alexander Woodward vs Bartholomew Glascocke MA – Glascocke bound in £40 to appear; St Sepulchre’s vs T. Evers – assignation; 10 July St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – assignation.

p.57: 20 July 1579 Alexander Woodward vs Bartholomew Glascoke – Berry proctor for Glasscock claims obstruction by plaintiff; 17 July Dr [?Isaac] Barrow vs John Goodwyn – Goodwyn to pay 40s as bound on 20 Apr. 1570; St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – Spicer to be examined further; Dr Barrow vs William Hawkyns – debt of £6 13s 4d of bond dated 11 July 1578 – to be paid in two instalments.

p.58: 17 July 1579 Assize of ale – malt 8s a quarter, double beer 2s 4d a kilderkin, single beer 14d, for a fortnight; Hodilow (10s), Blande (10s) and Bradley (5s) fined for selling unwholesome and thin drink; 27 July Thomas Thaxter of Cambridge, bricklayer, to stand in the bull-ring for three hours with a paper ‘for cownterfeting a precepte in mr vicech: name’, the writer, Paske, not apprehended; 31 July No cases; 1 Aug. Remigius Booth MA (Fellow of Gonville and Caius College) asks for his appeal to the VC from the judgement of his College not to be heard least he incur perjury for going elsewhere than to the visitor. (The case was sent to the VC by Sir Christopher Hatton, v. pp.484-95); 17 Aug. Booth appeals to the VC (and also Drs Hawford, Harvey and Hacher) to cause the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College to put him back in commons - they reply that appeal is only to the visitor.

p.59: 2 Oct. 1579 Chandlers warned to appear on 23 October – interim price 3¼d per lb; 23 Oct. Mr Howell and Thomas Cooper to gather tallow weekly from foreign butchers; 25 Sept. Proctors Farrand and Willoby vs Henry Flemson, baker, for breach of statute of artificers – HF claims to have been apprenticed to Giles Farmouth and John Baker, burgess, and calls witnesses Ralph Cooper and John Tomson – acquitted.

p.60: 9 Oct. 1579 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – assignation; St Sepulchre’s vs T. Evers – Robson and Clarke sworn, assignation.

p.61: 9 Oct. 1579 Memorandum of imprisonment of Thomas Knevet, sergeant at mace to the Mayor, at the suit of John Mosse, scholar’s servant, for re-arresting a Haddenham innkeeper consigned to the Tolbooth for a debt due to Mosse and transferring him to another part of the Tolbooth at the suit of another creditor – Knevet confesses and is released (K also keeper of the Tolbooth); Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Lorkin further examined.

p.62: 16 Oct. 1579 John Waller vs John Hasbye – Richard Robinson certifies that he has warned Hasbye; 7 Oct. Decree in favour of John Williamson, tailor, now married for four years to the widow of John Hodgson, formerly butler of Christ’s College, that he should be allowed to continue Hodgson’s and his wife’s occupation as a chandler which occupation Hodgson had practised since 1560 (before the statute of 1562); William Farrand (for himself and his late colleague as Proctor, Richard Willoughby) vs Martin Wharton – for forestalling 16 barrels of white herring and 12 cades [barrels] of red herring – MW confesses to having resold herring to John Howell, Richard Robynson and W. Sacker; Farrand vs Wharton – John Bacster MA and John Amy MA witnesses for Farrand.

p.63: 27 Oct. 1579 John Standishe, tailor, admitted as under Bedell on the resignation of Richard Robinson, on the Chancellor’s letters.

p.64: 27 Oct. 1579 St Sepulchre’s vs T. Evers – John Matthew and Nicholas Hewes witnesses for Evers, also William Leistryche alias Butcher, Edward Bonde, carpenter, John Boynes and John Whaller, tilers; 23 Oct. St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – assignation; Farrand vs Wharton (case 1) – Bettes proctor for Farrand accuses W of contumacy in not appearing; Farrand vs Wharton (case 2, as above) – as above; 27 Oct. Office vs Simon Watson of Cambridge, gent. - bound in 50 marks to appear.

p.65: 30 Oct. 1579 Exhibition by William Trussell, gent., of Bilsdon, Leics., of a letter of proxy under the seal of John Chippingdale, commissary and official of the Archdeacon of Leicester, for Geoffrey Ithell of Tuckbie [?Tugby], Leics., and request for copying of it – this done by Stokys in the Will Register; Michael Woulfe vs John Tredar/Thredar - Threader bound in £20 to appear, surety in same sum John Goodwyn, draper; St Sepulchre’s vs T. Evers – Alexander Edwards and Edward Mydleton witnesses for Evers.

p.66: 30 Oct. 1579 Farrand vs Wharton for injury (case 2) – W fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing; Farrand and Willoughby vs Wharton (case 1) – W fined for contumacy in not appearing; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – assignation; John Whaller vs John Hasbye – JH bound in £100 to the use of JW to stand to arbitration; Order for the price of tallow (2s a stone) and candles (3½d a lb) - 6s 8d to be forfeit for every stone of tallow sold into the country and 12d for every lb of candles denied for sale to scholars.

p.67: 30 Oct. 1579 St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – assignation.

p.68: 6 Nov. 1579 St Sepulchre’s vs T. Evers – continued in the hope of settlement; Jemmes vs Whalles – continued in the hope of settlement; Farrand vs Wharton (2) – continued in the hope of settlement; Farrand vs Wharton (1) – continued in the hope of settlement; Michael Woulfe vs John Threader – Bettes proctor for W – assignation; 8 Nov. Edward Whalles and John Jemes bound in £10 each to stand to the arbitration of Drs Harvey and Byng; 9 Nov. William Gressam, cook vs William Halidaye, clerk, for debt of 10s – to be paid with 2s costs in two instalments, surety Robert Williamson, shoemaker.

p.69: 13 Nov. 1579 St Sepulchre’s vs Evers – assignation; Farrand vs Wharton (injury) - assignation; Farrand vs Wharton (case 1) – continued in the hope of settlement; Michael Woulfe vs John Threader – Threader examined, Henry Alcocke and George Broke witnesses for MW.

p.70: 20 Nov. 1579 St Catharine’s vs Lorkin – case referred to arbitration of Dr Byng; Farrand vs Wharton - ?assigned to Byng, no settlement having been reached; Farrand vs Wharton – continued in the hope of settlement; Woulfe vs Threader – William Burwell and Richard Jones witnesses for Woulfe, Berry proctor for Threader; Robert Powell, citizen and haberdasher of London vs Christopher Raye – Powell's son as his proctor, cites Raye for debt of £30. Raye already in custody at the instance of another creditor to be released to appear.

p.71: 20 Nov. 1579 Alexander Clarke vs Dorington for a debt of 34s – 7s paid in court with costs of 5s 2d to be held in custody pending payment of remainder; Clarke vs Dorrington for debt – assignation; 23 Nov. Wheat 20s a quarter, ½d loaf 10 oz; 27 Nov. Farrand vs Wharton (case 2) - assignation for sentence; Farrand vs Wharton (case 1) - cause continued; Woulfe vs Threader – Philo witness for Woulfe.

p.72: 27 Nov. 1579 St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin (Byng presiding) - Cansfield to be re-examined.

p.73: 2 Dec. 1579 Assize of drink – malt 10s a quarter, double beer 2s 6d a kilderkin, single beer 15d, good ale 2s 4d a barrel, carded ale 14d; Assize of bread – wheat 20s a quarter besides 2s allowed, ½d loaf 9oz to be increased when wheat falls below 20s a quarter; Taxors vs Richard Whalles – W bound in 100 marks to answer in a cause of carrying corn out of the liberty; Andrew Smythe and Thomas Medcalfe alone licensed to sell torches and links within the town, this privilege conditional upon their not abusing it; Tybbe alone licensed to brew ale in the town (marginal notes re this and the last decree by Whinn).

pp.73-5: 3 Dec. 1579 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – St Catharine’s documents exhibited (with marginal note of their receipt by Cansfield) showing 28s paid for 19 acres of ‘bessams close’ and ‘taske meadow’ - their validity disputed by Lorkin, Lorkin to be re-examined, John Cragge witness for St Catharine’s (his status as Fellow of St Catharine’s College objected to successfully).

p.76: 4 Dec. 1579 Woulfe vs Threader – Gelye Mericke, gent., witness for W – T immediately offers to hand over the sued-for horse to W on condition that W swears to its ownership (Alexander Burwell apparently claiming possession of it). T to hand over horse and pay costs and to be in custody until horse received. John Norket his surety in £5.

p.77: 4 Dec. 1579 Taxors vs Edward Whalles – W being absent, John Sledde, Taxors, secures his citation to show why his bond should not be forfeit; Thomas Plummer vs John Lynche – Lynche fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not appearing; Farrand vs Wharton (1) - W fined 2s 6d to the use of F for contumacy in not appearing; Farrand vs Wharton (2) - as in (1); [Christopher] Webb for St John’s College vs Ventreis; 8 Dec. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – adjourned; 11 Dec. Woulfe vs Threader – costs assessed at 15s 9½d paid by Threader in court; Farrand vs Wharton (2) - W to ask forgiveness in open court and pay 50s costs; 10 Dec. [John] Still, Master of Trinity College, and John Waterhouse MA, Fellow of Trinity College and Bursar of the College butchery, vs William Cheston MA, lately Fellow and Bursar, and John Mann of Bury St Edmunds, grocer, his attorney – allege that Cheston owes sums to the College, that John Kyd, glover, was bound to Cheston in £26 for wool and meat, property of the College. The bond handed to the College officers.

p.78: 14 Dec. 1579 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College- Cansfield deposes that neither Fann’s wife nor any other have any title by virtue of the lease made by the Prior of Barnwell to Thomas Reynes of the woods in question – Richard and Margery Fann witnesses for St Catharine’s College.

p.79: 15 Dec. 1579 [John] Bell DD, Master of Jesus College, and Fellows of Jesus College vs Geoffrey Ithell of Tugby, Leics., gent., executor of Thomas Ithell LLD, late Master of Jesus College, for recovery of £90 4s 11d remaining in TI’s hands at his death. John Johnson, Fellow of Jesus College, also appears for the College. Sum owed itemised – includes £8 paid by Nicholas Jones for the post of College Butler (which should have been paid for beer). GI brother of TI. Sum to be paid, with costs.

pp.80-1: 18 Dec. 1579 William Bosam vs Edmund Burges – debt of 15s 5d – to be paid in two instalments – B to find a surety; 19 Dec. (Before VC, with Drs Perne and Still, senior doctors. In John Hatcher’s house in St Edward’s parish; Visitors) - Edward Hawford DD, Master of Christ’s College vs Thomas Todd MA, Fellow of Christ’s College - interpretation of Christ’s College statute – Master exhibits statute prohibiting Fellows from holding cures above 10 marks per annum, Todd admits to having inherited from his father a prebend of Lincoln cathedral with the parish church of St Margaret’s, Leicester, annexed – he was instituted within a month of his predecessor’s death but not inducted until later and still has some of the year’s possession allowed by statute to run.

p.82 19 Dec. 1579 John Still for Trinity College vs Thomas Todd for a debt of £7 13s - Todd bound in £10 to appear; John Still for Trinity College vs Thomas Dormer for debt – Dormer warned to appear; 23 Dec. Thomas Dormer appears with John Odyll for whom he was bound surety to Trinity College – both bound in 100 marks to appear; 15 Jan. 1579/80 St John’s College vs Thomas Ventreis – V fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not appearing; 19 Jan. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – memorandum that John Cragge MA and Robert Cansfield MA, Fellows of St Catharine’s College, are to be bound in 100 marks each to Lorkin to stand by arbitration to be delivered in the porch of Great St Mary’s church on the Monday before the assizes by Thomas Preston and John Tracye MAs, Lorkin similarly bound, D. Browne arbiter honorarium.

p.83: 19 Jan. 1579/80 Robert Tacker BD and Francis Newsam of Trumpington sureties for John Newsam of Chesterton and John Bacster, notary public, in £40 each to the use of Thomas Ventreis, alderman, that Newsam will appear to answer Ventreis in a cause of debt.

p.84: 21 Jan. 1579/80 St John’s College vs Thomas Ventreis, alderman – Christopher Webbe and John Faucet BD, Fellow of St John’s College, proctors for the College lay allegations; Elwood vs Mase – decree that ‘the walls to be made out of hand by Mase and 20d to be paid to Elwood for his losses and the charge of the court’; Trinity College vs Thomas Toode – no entry; 29 Jan. St John’s College vs Ventreis – Syndics allege contumacy in V in appearing only by his proctor, Bery – assignation.

p.85: 29 Jan. 1579/80 Farrand vs Wharton – court assesses F’s costs at 20s to be paid at once, of W to be in custody until …; Farrand vs Richard Bradley – B fined 20d to the use of F for contumacy in not appearing to answer F in a cause arising from the Leet; Farrand vs W. Hawkyn, baker – fined as above; Trinity College vs Thomas Todde – cause continues; 3 Feb. Trinity College vs Todde – T warned to appear and hear further process.

p.86: 29 Jan. 1579/80 Decree by VC and nine heads that Hugh Browghton, Christ’s College, elected Taxor but not able to assume the post because ill at Durham, having relinquished the title, a substitute should be nominated by Trinity Hall (rather than Christ’s College); 5 Feb. St John’ College vs Ventreis – VC rules that V must appear in person; Farrand vs Richard Bradley – B fined 2s 6d to the use of F for contumacy in not appearing; Richard Aylward vs Henry Mase for defamation - ‘a bankrupt knave and dare not shoe his face at Lynn’ - A assesses his injury at £40. (Standish, Bedell, has been unable to find and cite Mase); 12 Feb. Robert Tacker BD and Francis Newsam bound again for appearance of John Newsam and for their own appearance to show cause why their bond for his appearance before should not be forfeit.

p.87: 12 Feb. 1579/80 St John’s College vs Ventreis – V to be examined at the VC’s house; St Sepulchre’s vs Evers – assignation; Farrand vs W. Harrison – H fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not appearing to answer; Aylward vs Mase – Mase to be examined; 6, 13 Feb. James Taylor BD vs Andrew Foster bound in 20 £ to appear on 13 Feb. - appears at 4 pm and is bound to appear next Saturday at 1 pm.

p.88: 19 Feb. 1579/80 St John’s College vs Ventreis – V alleged to have been contumacious in not undergoing examination; Aylewod vs Nase – Gerard Barleyman witness for A; St Sepulchre’s vs Evers – assignation; Farrand vs W. Harrison – H to be arrested and placed in custody if he do not find sureties in 100s for his appearance; Farrand vs Samuel Symson – S to submit to the verdict of the Leet or go to gaol; Farrand vs H. Alcock and Stephen Rokes – fined 3s 4d and 20s respectively as above; William Gibbon vs Murton – no entry; 20 Feb. Taylor vs Foster – deposition of F confessing that on hearing that one Isabell had been examined by Mr Upchurch and Mr Taylor as to the father of her child he said to his neighbour ‘I marvayll what they meane to examyn this woman any more … onless they would have her saye that my sonne were the father …' - assignation.

p.89: 23 Feb. 1579/80 Thomas Hodilow, beer brewer vs Roger Harrison, innholder, for debt of £60, penal sum – sentenced to pay it but the sum to be reduced if the condition of the bond be fulfilled by a term to be set by the VC; 26 Feb. St Sepulchre’s vs Evers – no entry; W. Watson vs Henry Smyth – S fined 20d for contumacy in not appearing although warned by Standish; Aylward vs Mace – Bettes, proctor for Aylward, produces Christopher Marten, witness for A, to be examined.

p.90: 11 Mar. 1579/80 Elwood vs Mase – depositions for E published, M’s witnesses to be examined; Trinity College vs Todde – Todde to pay £7 13s in instalments and to find sureties; Farrand vs John Holmes – H fined 2s 6d to the use of F for non-appearance; 15 Apr. William Lyne vs Thomas Jackson – debt of 33s 4d – decree for plaintiff; Andrew Harrison vs John Carter – Carter to hand over the grey horse in dispute and pay costs; Elwood vs Mase for defamation – M to pay 20s and 20s costs or be remanded in custody until payment.

p.91: 15 Apr. 1580 W. Watson vs Henry Smyth – both parties bound in 60s to stand to the arbitration of Dr Hawford and Messrs Patenson and Barwell, S warned to appear; 19 Apr. St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – assignation; 22 Apr. Thomas Gyll vs Thomas Hedley MA for debt of 19s 10d – assignation, Hedley warned to appear; William Gibbons vs John Baker, burgess, for debt – B fined 2s 6d to the use of G for contumacy in not appearing.

p.92: 22 Apr. 1580 St John’s College vs Ventreis – assignation; Roger Johnson vs Henry Alcocke, saddler, for debt – A fined 20d to the use of J for contumacy in not appearing; 26 Apr. John Porter, bookseller vs John Almont, his servant, for debt – A alleged to have sold books and paper up to the value of 35s and retained the money, ?decree for the plaintiff.

p.93: 29 Apr. 1580 All causes continued to the next court day; 3 May St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – assignation to Byng’s house si aer fuerit minus serenus otherwise to consistory, the absence of the Master of St Catharine’s College, having prevented the College from replying; 13 May St John’s College vs Ventreis – V fined 5s to the use of the College for contumacy in not appearing; Richard Philo vs Mr Jemes – Bedell not able to find and cite Jemes, Philo’s case stated.

p.94: 13 May 1580 Thomas Gill vs [Thomas] Hedley – H fined 20d to the use of G for contumacy in not appearing, Laurence Stanton BD, witness for G, deposes that Wharter had acknowledged himself to owe G 19s 10d and promised to pay it if Stockdale had not already done so; 17 May St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – Bery alleges that Thomas Parys snr. of Chesterton (necessary witness as testified by Fann) has refused to come. Cited for next. Documents exhibited for L bearing names of John Hobson, Richard Cobbe, Richard Stanton, Edmund Messanger and John Cragge – assignation.

p.95: 17 May 1580 Thomas Gill vs Hedley – H to pay 19s 10d and 5s 8d costs; St John’s College vs Ventreis – V fined 6s 8d for contumacy in not appearing; 31 May St Catharine’s College vs Ventreis - dispute as to whether further examination of John Cragge and Richard and Mrs Fanne be admissable, Parys to be examined.

p.96: 31 May 1580 Arbitration of Drs Hawford and Byng in cause of John Cutberd, vintner vs Ralph Beningworth, his servant – B to continue his service with Bacster until Easter paying C two sums of 20s or else to complete his service with C; 3 June St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – T. Parys sworn and to be examined – assignation.

p.97: 3 June 1580 Richard Philo vs Jeames – assignation; Martin Wharton vs Roger Harrison for debt – H fined 20d to the use of W for contumacy in not appearing; 6 June Dr Byng vs Thomas Harryson for defamation including the statement that Threader had injury being imprisoned when he had a supersedeas from the Mayor – H to put in a caution for his appearance etc. (living outside the liberties and not have forfeitable goods within them), Baldwin Esdall also to be examined as witness for B.

p.98: 31 May 1580 Dr Hawford vs Browghton – VC's inhibition revoked on the grounds that B has not pursued the cause elsewhere according to the grounds of the inhibition; 10 June St John’s College vs Ventreis – V fined 10s to the use of the College for contumacy in not appearing – assignation for sentence.

p.99: 6 June 1580 Thomas Harrison of Impington, gent., bound in £20 to the use of Byng to appear – Peter Harrison of Barnwell, tailor, and William Gressam, cook, his sureties in 10 £ each; Copy of the dismissal of Dr Busby from the court of the Queen’s Bench – Monday in octave of Trinity 1580: Higham Kt vs Bysby LLD - defendant not to be impleaded outside Cambridge; 30 May Thomas Whitnell BA (Trinity College) vs John Threder, scribe – deposition of W concerning affray when he went to the Castle with Sir Hull and Sir Sabb to claim a gown from the gaoler and was pursued by T with drawn dagger, witnesses Hugh Elford and Walter Calverley. T’s supersedeas from the Mayor disallowed as not bearing the names of the scholars.

p.100: 13 June 1580 Dr Byng vs T. Harrison - Bettes, proctor for B, alleges H contumacious in not having been examined, Simon Watson surety in £20 for H’s appearance; John Matthew vs Peter Jones, tailor – J fined 20d for contumacy in not appearing; 14 June John Porter, bookseller vs John Almond, his servant – P alleges that A sold books worth 20 marks and retains the money, A admits to debt of 36 over and besides certain books which remain in the hands of Mr Yemes of Corpus Christi College and others, P to repossess books.

p.101: 14 June 1580 St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – assignation; 17 June St John’s College vs Ventreis – Mr Hill, Bursar of St John’s College, alleges V contumacious, Berry for V alleges Hill not mandated and Webb and Faucit contumacious.

p.102: 17 June 1580 W. Johnson vs Mr Gryffit – Lynsey promises to pay 40s in court, 31s 7d in next week and 12d costs; John Matthew and Peter Jones – J fined 2s for contumacy in not appearing; 20 June Dr Byng vs Thomas Harrison – Bettes, proctor for B. (Harrison has been convicted in an action of defamation brought by Dr Leedys). Robert Crade and John Standish witnesses for Byng; 7 July John Threaders, scrivener, bound in 10 £ to appear at the next sessions and to keep the peace towards Thomas Whitnell BA (Trinity College), sureties Richard Bradley, brewer and burgess, and Thomas Medcalfe, chandler and burgess, in 100s each; 14 July Laurence Barker, tailor, bound in £10 to appear at the next sessions and to keep the peace towards John Threader, sureties John Holywell, tailor, and Robert Farbecke, burgess and smith, in 100s each; 13 July Dr Bing vs T. Harrison – Simon Watson alleges that H is absent through ill health.

p.104: 22 July 1580 St John’s College vs Ventreis – assignation; William Gruffet [Griffin MA (St John’s College)], Taxor vs D. Ventreis – fined 20s to the use of the Taxors for contumacy in not appearing; Roger Harrison vs William Marten – Marten fined as above, 20d to the use of H; Gibbons vs Rust – R contumacious, penalty to be fixed at next.

p.105: 19 July 1580 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Furmerye and Francklyn, Fellows of St Catharine’s College, witnesses for L, not forthcoming for him, L seeks sub poena, allowed by VC in spite of objections of proctor of St Catharine’s College that they are parties; 26 July Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Stokes testifies that Furmerye was not found but Francklyn was cited, Francklyn absent, to be warned to appear at next; Thomas Whitnell BA, Fellow of Trinity College, bound in £10 to appear at next sessions and to keep peace towards John Threader, sureties William Furde BA and William Penyngton BA, both of Trinity College, in 100s each. Marginal note that bonds of this type are not certified at next sessions because the University’s privileges do not require it; 27 July Dr Byng vs T. Harrison (at VC’s house) - Berry proctor for Harrison, assignation.

p.106: 27 July 1580 John Matthew and Osborne vs Peter Jones – J to produce his accounts as guardian of Osborne; 29 July St John’s College vs Ventreis (before Legge) - V to be warned to appear and show cause why he should not receive sentence and pay fine for contumacy; Taxors vs Flemson, Harrison and Crofoote, bakers – fined 3s 4d each for underweight bread.

p.107: 29 July 1580 Roger Harrison vs William Marten – Bettes proctor for H, M warned to appear; Gibbons vs Rust – R warned to appear; 1 Aug. Christopher Usher, scholar of Trinity College vs Ralph Killingbacke in a cause of injury – K cited refuses to appear, fined 20d to the use of U, to be arrested and imprisoned in Tolbooth until he is bound with sureties. Witnesses in the absence of Stokys – William Musred and William Evering.

p.108: 2 Aug. 1580 Memorandum of affray in which blood was shed and heads broken near Pembroke Hall between Robert Sydon, John Gednaye, William Evering, Richard Malton, William Mussered, Simon Welles and John Morys, scholars of Queens’ College, and Thomas Wilkynson, William Johnson, William Hurst jnr., George Huggyn, Thomas Woodward, John Grifit and Nicholas Dison, butchers’ servants (TW broke RM’s head and RM broke WJ’s). TW fined 3s 4d for bloodshed and to pay RM’s surgeon’s fees and bound in £10 to keep the peace. RM fined 3s 4d for bloodshed (6s 8d received by Mr Brunwell deputy for Mr Bradley, Proctor) but no surgeon’s fees, WJ not having any. Other scholars to be disciplined by Masters and Deans and butchers’ boys by their masters. William Hurst snr. to appear and answer for scandalous words in court; Assize of ale – malt 12s a quarter, double beer 2s 9d a kilderkin, single beer 15d, good ale 2s 7d the barrel, carded ale 15d.

p.109: 4 Aug. 1580 Usher vs Killyngback – assignation; St John’s College vs Ventreis – recital of lease for 40 years in 1526/7 by St John’s College to Peter Bright, stationer, of a garden, in consideration of their occupation of a garden belonging to Corpus Christi College on the north side of the first. TV has had the remainder of this term as under-farmer to one Smithe to whom the original lease was granted by St John’s College. V to appear to hear sentence.

p.110: 4 Aug. 1580 Taxors vs Thomas Scot and Ventreis - defendants to appear to answer charge of exporting malt; Harrison vs Marten – Bettes proctor for Harrison, M to be examined.

p.111: 10 Aug. 1580 Osborne vs Jones – J fined 2s for contumacy in not appearing to the use of O., witnesses in the absence of Stokys – Philip Stringer and Andrew Bordman; 12 Aug. Usher vs Killyngbacke for defamation - ‘a very verlet and a villayne and that [he] had an Irishmans harte’, that he had set up a libel against U written by one K’s prisoners, also confesses to having struck U with a ‘waster, cogell or bastinado’, William Haymand, Henry Sleide and Thomas Ashewood, witnesses for U, to be examined.

p.112: 12 Aug. 1580 St John’s College vs Ventreis – viis et modis issued for V; 19 Aug. (at VC’s house) St John’s College vs Ventreis – Standish testifies that V has expressly stated that he will not come. Webbe (for St John’s College) exhibits indenture between Corpus Christi College and TV for lease of garden next to St John’s Collee. Sentence given against Ventreis.

p.113: 19 Aug. 1580 Dr Byng vs T. Harrison – H pleads that he cannot produce his witnesses by the date set because of harvest and other business, extension of time allowed; George Brooke vs Peter Lyon, cook, debt on a bond – B. exhibits letters of attorney to himself from John Threader/Treder dated 28 June 1579 and bond in 40s dated 17 May 1579, Richard Sellars bound in 60s for Lyon’s appearance.

p.114: 2 Sept. 1580 Thomas Chamber of Whitness, Norfolk, dornick-weaver [fabric weaver] vs John Wilson, cordwainer for debt on a bond – Thomas Reade of King’s Lynn, cordwainer, proctor for C, claims debt of £4 10s, penal sum on a debt of 45s. Edmund Wilson, cook of Christ’s College, appears for his uncle, JW agrees to pay the sum in two instalments with costs; 3 Sept. Magdalene College vs William Buckley MA, lately Fellow of Magdalene College, for debt – John Bradley, President, for the College, claims debt of £15 13s 1d (£7 17s 4d on a bond, 16s 4d for commons, 17s 4d for Mr Williams, 35s 4d for Catymore, 23s 1d for Price and 62s 8d for a scholarship), Buckley having gone overseas, Bradley asks leave to distrain on books etc. in Bs room. Richard Jones BD, Fellow of Magdalene College, friend of Buckley. Bradley given leave to distrain on books and hold them until All Saints’ Day and then sell them.

p.115: 14 Sept. 1580 Usher vs Kyllyngback – assignation for sentence; Finnemore vs Kyllingback for defamation – that F had taken certain stuff of his prisoners which was due to K, K asked to produce the tailor from whom he claims to have heard this and the tailor’s boy; 7 Oct. John Green vs Marmaduke Scadlock – assignation; John Kymer vs Peter Harrison – both bound in 100s to stand to the arbitration of Philip Stringer and Fawcet within a fortnight.

p.116: 7 Oct. 1580 Dr Byng vs T. Harrison – William Perkins and John Threder witnesses for H not allowed (?); St John’s College vs Ventreis – V absent, proved contumacious; 14 Oct. All cases adjourned to next; 21 Oct. Dr Byng vs T. Harrison – witnesses examined.

p.117: 21 Oct. 1580 St John’s College vs Ventreis – costs payable by V assessed at 40s, fine of 24s 2d imposed and original sum of £8 13s 4d to be paid also; [Farrand and Willoughby] old Proctors vs Raye, William Harrison, Peter Jones, Robert Gilbart and Richard Bowcroft, all fined 12d for contumacy in not appearing; 26 Oct. John Matthew vs Peter Jones – both bound in £100 to stand to arbitration by John Sheres, bookseller, William Chapman, tailor, John Howell, chandler and John Paske, draper, by Tuesday next; Dr Byng vs T. Harrison – assignation for sentence.

p.118: 27 Oct. 1580 St John’s College vs Ventreis – Daniel, son of Thomas Ventreis, presents a royal writ, and maintains that TV is true heir to the garden; 31 Oct. Dr Byng vs T. Harrison – sentence given for Byng (witnesses Henry Hickman and Henry Farr MAs), H to be in custody until debt paid but reprieved with Simon Watson as surety, costs assessed at 40s.

p.119: 2 Nov. 1580 Decree by VC and Drs Byng and Legge in settlement of dispute between St Sepulchre’s and Thomas Evers, tailor – E to claim no arrears of rent, to pay churchwardens 10 £ they then also claiming no arrears of rent, henceforth E to continue to occupy his house and to pay 34s yearly until the term of the lease and to be responsible for repairs, the parish to have possession of the other houses mentioned, both parties to pay own costs, VC to be arbiter re repairs.

p.120: 2 Nov. 1580 Usher vs Killynbancke – K to pay 2s 6d costs and to be punished by his master Roger North.

p.121: 7 Nov. 1580 St John’s College vs Ventreis – Standish testifies that he could not find V to summon; Dr Warde vs Simon Watson – Watson bound in £20 to appear and show cause why he should not return a bond to Dr Warde; 10 Nov. St John’s College vs Ventreis – V absent proved contumacious, sentence for St John’s College, V’s goods liable to distraint to the value of £11 17s 6d to the use of St John’s College, Thomas Nevell and John Dupert, Proctors to witness Bedell’s notification of V, V to build wall as in earlier sentence by Lady Day under penalty of £20 and to appear to hear costs assessed.

p.122: 10 Nov. 1580 Bland fined 2s and warned to appear; 18 Nov. St John’s College vs Ventreis – V not found, viis et modis decreed.

p.123: 18 Nov. 1580 Taxors vs Mr Blande and Thomas Hodiloe – fined for selling beer overprice; John Edmundes vs W. Wren for debt – viis et modis decreed; Mr Inceptor Bradley vs W. Pue/Pewe - P to pay fine of 40s imposed on Leet or be in custody; Peter Lion, James Hall and William Harrison fined 2s 6d each for non-appearance.

p.124: 17 Nov. 1580 Proctors vs Henry Alcocke, saddler, for failure to pay fine for sabbath-breaking (He shook his fist and said ‘By goddys harte I wyll be his deathe that taketh any distresse [chattels] in this shoppe’) - assignation; 21 Nov. Proctors vs Alcocke (in camera) - A sent to the Tolbooth; St John’s College vs Ventreis - (mandate exhibited by Bedell under seal of Dr Bridgewater, principal official to the Bishop of Ely, the VC’s not being to hand), expenses assessed by St John’s College at 70s.

p.125: 22 Nov. 1580 John Edmundes vs William Wren – W accused of contumacy, E claims that he fears the fraudulent removal of W’s goods; 22 Nov. John Jenkynson jnr., glover vs Edward Smith MA for debt of £15 penal sum – S promises to pay 73s 4d in full payment of sum due by Michaelmas next.

p.126 22 Nov. 1580 Taxors vs William Stenet – fined 6s 8d for selling sea-coal from a bushell less wide than the standard, to produce a proper bushell by Friday week under penalty of a further 6s 8d; Taxors vs Jervase Brigan – fined 6s 8d for having a bushell too big and not brought to be sealed, the bushell to be broken ‘because it had a hoope, and withowt the hoope it was to litle and rotton’; Agnes Hutton vs Lillias Wilson – LW committed overnight to the Tolbooth as a common scold and brawler, then to find sureties that she will present herself to the Bedell at the Tolbooth on Saturday next and then stand for two hours in the bull-ring; Nicholas Rust vs Edward Smyth MA – R has been detained in custody for £10 12s 7d in which he was surety for Pepis at the instance of Smyth. S promises to pay the sum with sureties Webbe and Faucet; 2 Dec. Dr Byng vs T. Harrison – H to be confined to the Tolbooth until he pays B £20 and 40s costs.

p.127: 2 Dec. 1580 St John’s College vs Ventreis – V absent accused of contumacy; 8 Dec. Furmery vs Mr Hounde, Master of St Catharine’s College – further hearing deferred until next term at request of both parties; 9 Dec. Proctors vs Mannynd, Cutbard, Threder and Wade for dicing at Cutbard’s house – assignation; St John’s College vs Ventreis – continued in statu quo; Hugh Redyng, Thomas Evers and other tailors vs William Waters for breach of the statute of labourers, not having served seven years’ apprenticeship – fined 40s for each of the three months he had served as a tailor, to be in custody until fine paid; Redying, Evers etc. vs William Newmarshe for the same offence for one month – fined 40s and to be in custody until fine paid.

p.128: 9 Dec. 1580 Proctors vs William Waters – fined 20s for dicing; Decree of VC and Caput against playing football – no scholar to do it except within their Colleges and allowing no strangers to join in. Penalty – the rod in the common schools for those underage, others 5s. The little green between Trinity College and the river is allowed; 16 Dec. W. Button vs Nevell Hayes – Hayes and Peter Lion, witness for Button, to be examined; Assize of bread – flour 24s a quarter with allowance of 2s, ½d loaf 7oz.

p.129: 16 Dec. 1580 Proctors vs Henry Alcocke for injury – Alcocke to be cited; John Murton/Morton vs John Welche, son of William Welche deceased – Welche to be assigned to Merton as tamquam apprentice for 10 years on the advice of Owen Wilson and Roger Harrison; Tailors vs Samuel Symson and Richard Rocroft – defendants absent, both fined 2s for contumacy; Edward Parker and wife vs Elizabeth Oram, fatherless and abandoned by her mother – assigned to them as an apprentice seamstress for 16 years on the advice of her grandmother, Margaret; 16 Jan. 1580/1 Robert Norgate, Master, for Corpus Christi College vs Thomas Warren, clothworker, for recovery of a tenement.

p.130: 16 Jan. 1580/1 R. Norgate, Master of Corpus Christi College vs Philip Nichols, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, for defamation in London and in the presence of [Gabriel] Goodman, Dean of Westminster, and Mr Skinner of the Lord Chancellor’s office – that he had falsified the account of Corpus Christi College. PN to find sureties or show cause why he should not; 20 Jan. Robert Chever and W. Norgat, Syndics for Corpus Christi College vs Thomas Warren – assignation.

p.131: 20 Jan. 1580/1 John Mosse vs Thomas Permington for debt of 5s – TP claims that he has paid it by his attorney in the Bishop’s court at Ditton but having no proof is sentenced to pay it now with costs; Furmery vs Hounde – assignation; 27 Jan. John Cragge MA, Fellow of St Catharine’s College, bound in 10 £ to keep the peace and especially towards John Furmery BD, sureties Thomas Nevell, Proctor and Henry Hickman, Taxor, in 100s each; 1 Feb. Richard Bradley, beer brewer vs Robert Norgate for debt of £8 in which N was bound for Thomas Hayes – N willing to pay on surrender of bond which B claims to have lost (B is reported to have attempted distraint on the goods of one John Bankes of Wendon, Essex, which make N anxious), Bradley with John Haselope, surety, bound in £13 6s 8d to produce Banckes in court, whereupon N pays the 38.

p.132: 10 Feb. 1580/1 Corpus Christi College vs Warren – continued in statu quo; Dr Ward vs Christopher Adison – Richard Whardall surety for Adison to pay 66s 8d as sentenced; Robert Norgate vs Thomas Bradley and John Bankes, (of Wendon) – Banckes quitclaims Norgate of £8 and all suits; 15 Mar. Thomas Hodiloe vs John Barnard of Chesterton, husbandman – B fined 2s 6d to use of H for contumacy in not appearing; John Carowe vs William Goodwyn of Chesterton, yeoman – C for his son John, a minor, proves G contumacious, fined 2s 6d.

p.133: 17 Mar. 1580/1 Proctors vs James Saiban – fined 6s 8d for selling fish without a licence; 18 Mar. Thomas Hodiloe vs John Barnard – Standish testifies that B when summoned ran away and said he would not come, fined 10s for contumacy and if found to be in custody or to find sureties until next court day; Carowe vs Goodwyne – similter.

p.134: 31 Mar. 1580/1 Bland vs [Hugh] Burges and [?John] Waters of Queens’ College for a debt of 36s 8d for two barrels of double beer – to be paid, with costs; 7 Apr. St John’s College vs Ventreis – V fined 6s 8d for contumacy in not appearing to show cause why he has not built the wall as sentenced; Hodiloe vs Barnard, Carowe vs Goodwyn and all other cause – in statu quo; 8 Apr. Joan Sharpe vs Margaret Webbe and Alice Currier- slander ‘that the said Sharpe was burnt by William Dant’. Margaret Birde, Elizabeth Seculer, Margaret Hawkyns, Helen Campion, Alice Scotcroft and Mary Cotton testify that on inspection of S’s body they are convinced of the slander. Webbe and Currier to be set in the bull-ring, carted and banished.

p.135: 8 Apr. 1581 Fox vs D... - D to pay 35s for which F was surety and F to be absolved from all suits brought by D; 11 Apr. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – L exhibits documents, deposition of John Cragge published, Richard Fan has refused to be examined (Cansfield proctor for St Catharine’s College).

p.136: 14 Apr. 1581 Taxors vs Henry Clarke – fined 20s for selling hay (spectacularly) underweight; Thomas Gylle vs Mr Booth for debt of 25s 5d – B to pay this and 2s more for contumacy, and costs; Hugh Charnley vs same Booth – C through his wife claims debt of 10s, B to pay this, plus 2s and costs as above; Office vs John Howell at the promotion of Humphrey Carvill – H to pay £11 12s 7d as the portions of Margaret, wife of Hugh Carvill and Barbara, wife of Bartholomew Kempe, sisters of Nicholas Sharpe, according to the decree of 8 Apr. 1576, H denies court’s authority; 21 Apr. Taxors vs Slye, collier, for underweight coal (each sack holding only 5 not 6 bushells) - two cartloads to be forfeit.

p.137: 21 Apr. 1581 Office vs W. Burwell – B to be bound in 10 £ not to sell wine henceforth, notice of appeal, entry erased; Robert Hasyll vs Reginald Curtois/Curtesse - Gyll bound in £10 to produce Curtois; St John’s College vs Ventreis – assignation; Evers, Brookes and Reding [tailors] vs Samuel Symson for breach of statute of labourers, not having been apprenticed – assignation.

p.138-9: 21 Apr. 1581 Evers, Brookes and Reding vs John Stagg for the same – assignation; Humphrey Breton of Framlingham, Norfolk, gent., for his brother Thomas Breton of Banningham, Norfolk, gent., gives evidence of a Statute Merchant [a form of security] made by John Helsdon of North Walsham, Norfolk, yeoman, deceased, for the payment of £80 to William Burwell, vintner, who admits to payment of the sum but is too sick to come to court. Burwell’s deposition given – the lands from which payment was to be made (and had in part been made) came into the hands of Thomas Greene of Knapton, Norfolk, gent., who completed the payment and to whom B surrendered the statute. Stokys to draw up notarial account of these proceedings, witnesses John Amy MA, John Bacster MA and Henry Yemes MA.

p.140: 24 Apr. 1581 Memorandum of meeting between VC Perne and Drs Styll, Howland, Byng, Legge, Hatcher, Ward, Messrs Norgate and Tundall with Mr Foxton, Mayor, in Great St Mary’s church to take order for the hospital for the poor and finishing the books for Sturbridge Fair – Mayor ready to proceed with hospital but his company would not assent, in respect of books waiting for an answer from Mr Baron Shutt; 28 Apr. Hasell vs Curteis – C to find sureties in £20 for his future appearance; St John’s College vs Ventreis, alderman – V fined £20 for contumacy.

p.141: 5 May 1581 Hasyll vs Curteis – C fined 2s for contumacy in not submitting to examination, Richard Foote, Robert Barnard, John Harte, Henry Auger, William Annable witnesses for H, C denies court’s competence; Taxors vs Richard Sacker, Robert Machet, Peter Jones and Thomas Adams, victuallers – fined 20s and costs each for victualling without licence; 11 May William Norgate, Corpus Christi College vs Henry Yes, Corpus Christi College, for return of loan of 100s – Y to find sureties for the repayment or be in custody.

p.142: 11 May 1581 William Norgate, as proctor for Mr Chever, steward of Corpus Christi College, vs Henry Yemes for debt to the College for himself and his pupils of £22 11s – to find sureties for the payment of be committed to custody; Robert Norgate, Master of Corpus Christi College vs Henry Yemes for debt to RN of £4 19s 5d for himself and his pupils – Y denies the debt, N to exhibit commons books; R. Norgate, Master of Corpus Christi College vs Henry Yemes for recovery of a silver cup called Mr Fannes cup (40s), another called Mr Harrys and Averells cup (60s) and a gilt goblet (100s) - Y to find sureties for their restitution, meanwhile handed over to Mr Medcalfe, bailiff of the Tolbooth.

p.143: 19 May 1581 W. Carowe of Chesterton vs W. Goodwyn for injury (defamation) - G examined forthwith and denies the words were defamatory, assignation for sentence.

p.144: 19 May 1581 W. Carow vs John Barnard of Chesterton – as above; 22 May John Morden MA, Scholar of Peterhouse, banished for making an oration or invective against monseur [Francis, Duke of Anjou, suitor of Elizabeth I] in the common schools in the presence of Mr Nevell, Proctor, Mr Hilliard and Mr Perne ‘and so he was delivered as Frantike’ to Richard Marshe of Balsham, W. Wilkyn of Fulbourn and John Perneby of Hinton, husbandman; 26 May J. Duport, Proctor vs wife of Douglas – fined 3s 4d for contumacy; Office vs W. Goodwyn and John Barnard of Chesterton - fined 2s 6d for contumacy, B bound in 10 £ for appearance; [Henry] Hickman, Taxor vs Thomas Ventreis – John Warde, tailor, testifies that he sold 60 score combs of malt to V within two weeks of Easter last; Evers and Brookes, tailors vs Simson, tailor – S exhibits a schedule deemed insufficient proof, given a fortnight to provide better proof.

p.145: 22 May 1581 Roger Harrison vs Marten – M to be examined; Hasyll vs Curteis- parties submit to arbitration of Dr Howland and Dr Harvey by Feast of St John the Baptist or by Dr Perne by Michaelmas if Howland and Harvey do not agree, parties bound to this in £20 each; 2 June Proctors vs Richard Rocrofte and [John] Stagg, tailors – no entry; 13 June Drs W. Fulke, John Styll and Roger Goad vs [Alexander] Mascall and [Robert] Bendishe, improperly presented as BDs - T. Legge, a jurist, was not qualified to deputise for VC, as Commissary also disqualified, BDs must not be presented after St Barnabas Day, not presented by a member of the Faculty of Theology, rejected last year as not having completed exercises, assignation.

p.146: 14 June 1581 Further assignation of case above; 16 June Proctors vs William Woulfe – for killing and selling flesh in Lent and for killing calves between the Feast of the Purification and 1 May, fined 6s 8d for each calf and 40s for other flesh; Proctors vs Margaret, wife of Robert Wylliamson – Proctors allege fornication between Henry Alcock and the wife of one Mote of Haverhill [?in W’s house], Alcock and Williamson bound in £20 to appear, do not do so and Proctors claim sum forfeit; William Steward, William Hurst and Hugh Marsh to be imprisoned for fighting in the night; H[?enry] Evans [?St John’s College] to be punished in Trinity College; ?Office vs Edmund Burges and Elizabeth Tawier – to be in custody overnight, then carted from the market to the great bridge [Magdalene Bridge] and so to Tawyer’s house and there to leave the woman and to carry B to the Tolbooth, to remain there until order be taken for finding a child; Doctors vs Mascall and Bendish – assignation.

p.147: 16 June 1581 Robert Preist bound in £10 with sureties John Barnarde, tailor, and W. Dante, yeoman, in 100s – that P, barber, keep the peace and especially towards John Bourne, pewterer. P sentenced to pay 3d 4d to Bourne with costs for breaking B’s ‘rethe’ (?net); 20 June Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – continued in statu quo; 23 June Robert Williamson, tailor, bound in 20 £ to appear before the VC from time to time and not to leave Cambridge without the VC’s permission; Carvyll vs Howell – H produces one Hunt of London, soaper, with a bill for £28 for funeral expenses – case dismissed; Office vs Henry Alcocke, saddler, on suspicion of adultery with Mrs Mote of Haverhill – imprisoned for 12 hours, bound in £20 to appear and to make certain payments for the house of correction.

p.148: 6 July 1581 Everard Digbye vs William Temple BA – libel, both parties to refrain from libel and slander henceforth on pain of expulsion;

p.149: 7 July 1581 Thomas Barber vs John Threder – John Mourton and Edmund Wylson witnesses for B.; John Matthew vs Peter Jones – rent of 75s owing, to be paid at once with costs; Office vs R. Norgate, Master of Corpus Christi College, and Messrs Sawyer and Whillobye – S and W bound in 100 £ to appear and answer charges brought by Norgate, and [?Sophonius] Smith in the same sum to appear from Norgate; 14 July Cuthbert Cooke vs Thomas Rowsley for debt of £13 6s 8d for rent of Shippe Farm and £6 13s 4d for implements – R denies any debt, swearing on the Bible, and is absolved.

p.149A: ?29 Mar. 1589 Inserted slip with part (cancelled) of cause of Hamond and servants vs Edmondes – Christopher Fletc.her of St Michael’s parish surety for Edmondes.

p.150: 14 July 1581Thomas Gilly vs Dr Hunt, attorney for Edward Smith, for debt of 113s 8d on wares delivered – assignation; Thomas Rowseley, gent. vs Cuthbert Cooke of Helgay [Hilgay, Norfolk] - C denies court’s competence and is to find sureties in ?£116 13s 4d for his appearance; John Hunt LLD, attorney for Thomas Hunt vs Francis Gibbynson for debt of £8 for three barrels of sweet soap – assignation.

p.151: 14 July 1581 Barbor vs Threder – depositions published – assignation; Peter Whale vs Peter Jones for debt of 21s 3d – J seeks time to consider and to produce his wife and servants who have delivered tallow to W in part payment; Whillobye vs Webbe, College collier – Webbe to send 21 cart-loads of coal to Corpus Christi College, agrees, John Peryman, under-cook, says 19 loads were received, W. claiming he has delivered 20, given two weeks to furnish proof; Roger Johnson vs John Hurst for debt of 19s acknowledged and to be paid in two instalments; Christopher Adison vs Wylson – A given leave to enter upon half the house now in the possession of Wylson’s absent wife and to pay half the rent come Michaelmas, W and wife to find sureties to A for sufficient reparations to the house which is hired from Vaham, principal cook of Queens’ College, or to leave the house.

p.152: 20 July 1581 John Peryman vs Robert Sayer – S to pay P 37s 7½d and costs; Robert Sayer vs R. Norgate, Master of Corpus Christi College, for debt of 10 £ and also for stipend and other commodities for the last year and three quarters; 21 July Peter Whalley vs Peter Jones – assignation; Dr [John] Hunt vs Francis Gibbynson - adjourned until Sturbridge Fair time; Office vs Robert Chever – C to produce an inventory of the debts and credits of Corpus Christi College at present from the beginning of his stewardship, to be bound in 10 £ to do so and to be held responsible for all debts not exhibited in writing; Thomas Gillye vs Dr Hunt – agreed that G will seek remedies at law against Edward Smith, tailor, for the recovery of debts of 113s 8d, and if these fail, Hunt will pay the debt.

p.153: 21 July 1581 Proctors vs Leonard Glascocke – for payment of fines imposed at the Upper Leet for fishing, ingrossing corn and acting as a ‘furrion’ without apprenticeship – decree against Glascocke; Thomas Gill vs Mr Palmer – P accused of contumacy, assignation; Thomas Gill vs Mr Baylie – assignation; Thomas Gill vs Mr Pilson – assignation; Proctors vs James Robson for buying merchandise and spices at Midsummer Fair before the proclamation – R states, but will not swear, that he bought the goods at London not at the Fair, assignation; Barbor vs Threder – decree that B should be restored to possession of the shop and chamber wherein he was before the suit, T to be imprisoned if he does not obey the decree, Proctor Duport to assist Standish in seeing decree enforced if necessary, B to be examined, John Ward, Robert Bittyn and Thomas Herman witnesses for Threder, assignation.

p.154: 21 July 1581 Office vs William Gibbons – Henry Sled testifies that he has supped four or five times at Gibbons’ house and spent a night ‘in the man his chamber’, G consents to pay 40s for each offence and costs; Assize of ale – quarter of barley 11s, double beer 2s 9d the kilderkin, single beer 15d, good ale 2s 8d the barrel, carded ale 15d; 4 Aug. Dr Warde vs Elizabeth Subden – defamation by saying that ‘yf the seyd Dr Warde had not leyd colde clothes upon one Wayshington by the which he kylled hym, she would have cured hym’, W estimates damages at £100, S to be in custody until satisfaction given; Proctors vs Elizabeth Subden for practising surgery and physic contrary to statute – she denies physic.

p.155: 11 Aug. 1581 Ducke vs John Robynson for taking into his hostelry Ducke’s pupil Henry Sledd – R blames his wife; Proctors vs Mannying for candling without licence – discharged because he was allowed by Dr Whitgift when VC; Office vs John Robynson – R and wife to buy nothing from scholars and to keep no victualling, R states that Vesaye, Welch and Duglas buy and sell wares of scholars; Warde vs Subden – to do penance at evening prayer in Great St Mary’s church, words quoted, and pay costs.

p.156: 19 Aug. 1581 Office vs Henry Alcocke – to pay 40s towards making a house of correction for adultery with Motte and to do so in two instalments; Office vs Agnes Vipenye – £10 forfeit on a bond not to pernoctate in Cambridge, bound again in £10 not to consort with Arthur Leache, L bound in same sum not to consort with her; [Lawrence] Barnewell BD vs Mundaye, Sheriff of Cambridge, for attempted arrest in breach of the University’s privileges – M cited, appears and absolves B.

p.157: 19 Aug. 1581 Thomas Nevell, Proctor vs Mr Jemes for throwing sticks and mud at him – J apologises and promises reform; 12 Oct. [Robert] Chever, Fellow and Syndic of Corpus Christi College vs Nichols for debt of 73s 2d for N’s pupils’ commons and 74s for the admission of some of his pupils, and £6 for loads of coal – assignation.

pp.158-9: 16 Sept. 1581 Robert Lilesse and Francis Bertie vs Morgan Pova - alleging that B when a minor and student at King’s College and pupil of L was bound to P in bonds of 40 £ (for £23 6s 8d) dated 4 Jan. 1580 and £24 (for £13) dated 13 Jan. 1580 for goods not worth more than £6. Bonds declared invalid, P to produce them cancelled or to give acquittance, says he will not appear.

p.160: 20 Oct. 1581 Rowsley vs Cooke – Amye, proctor for R, accuses C of contumacy in not appearing, assignation; Edward Smith fined 20d for not appearing to answer Hugh Chambley; 23 Oct. Dr Lorkin vs [B.] Cansfylde (for St Catharine’s College) - assignation for final act; 21 Oct. (margin) Double beer 5s a barrel, 2s 6d a kilderkin, single beer 15d a kilderkin; 26 Oct. Taxors (John Amye and William Stone) vs John Nashe, baker, for underweight bread – fined 10s to use of Taxors, 3s in bread for prison, Tolbooth and Spittle House, and costs.

p.161: 27 Oct. 1581 Thomas Rowsley vs Cuthbert Cooke – C proved contumacious, Amye (for R) exhibits allegations etc.; 14 Oct. Taxors vs Flemson, baker, for underweight bread – fined 12d to be divided equally between Taxors and Bedell; Taxors vs Elizabeth Taylor, widow and tailor – fined 2s 6d and costs for underweight bread; 23 Oct. Taxors vs Hinnedge, baker – fined 12d for underweight bread; Taxors vs Clarke, innholder – fined 2s 6d and costs for underweight hay; Taxors vs Pilkyngton – fined 3s 4d and costs for underweight hay; Roger Johnson vs Hugh Jones, tailor, for debt for a canvas doublet and other goods bought; 31 Oct. Wardall vs Crofote – depositions to be published.

p.162: 31 Oct. 1581 John Scot, baker, and Thomas Hodiloe, beer brewer vs Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College for debt for bread and beer – this and all other College debts to be paid by Lady Day; 2 Nov. 1581 Dr Hawford vs Fellows of Corpus Christi College – decree that H’s account be allowed; 4 Nov. Lorkyn vs St Catharine’s College – sundry adjournments.

p.163: 10 Nov. 1581 Roger Johnson vs Hugh Jones Blande MA promises Stokys that he will pay all debts due from Jones and costs, paid in full, with 2s 6d costs, 24 Nov.; Taxors vs William Hawkyns, baker – fined 3s 4d for underweight bread; Taxors vs Roke – fined 12d and costs for some bread ‘to hevye and unholesome’ and some underweight; Wardall vs Crofote – no entry; Barbor vs Threder – Amy, proctor for T, sentence again for B and notice of appeal by T.

p.164: 10 Nov. 1581 Nicholas West vs John Harvye for defamation – apology in court and 6s 2d costs paid; 24 Nov. Wardall vs Crofote – Bettes, proctor for C, W to be examined, Henry Flemson, W. Tomson and Joh Tomson witnesses for C to be examined; John Stevens vs Owen Wilson – assignation; John Whaller vs John Aspie – assignation; John Newman of Shelford vs Richard Newman of Thriplow for debt of £8 6s 8d for 20lbs of saffron – decree for plaintiff, payment in Great Shelford church porch on the eves of Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas, RN undertakes to pay the whole sum on the Saturday before Christmas in court.

p.165: 24 Nov. 1581 John Mosse vs Anthony Emerson – E proved contumacious, penalty in next; Treder vs Barbor – T warned to appear for assessment of costs; 25 Nov. Richard Kyllingworth of Bradley, gent. vs John Bacster, Bedell – John K, proctor for his father, alleges debt of £30 on two bonds for the delivery of 60 quarters of barley, B only a surety, sentenced to pay, JK undertakes that is £25 is paid by 1 May bonds will be cancelled.

p.166: 1 Dec. 1581 Furmerye vs Hownde – assignation; Stevens vs O. Wilson – assignation; Barbor vs Threder – T not found, viis et modis decreed; Francis Gibbynson vs Mr Walpole – W warned to appear; Proctors vs Robson – fined 24s for selling overpriced candles; Proctors vs Medcalfe and Richard Goldisborow - postponed for a week and fined 12s; Proctors vs John Barbor, chandler, for exporting candles out of the town and abusing the Proctors when they asked to see them – apology.

p.167: 8 Dec. 1581 Furmerye vs Hounde – assignation; Stevens vs Wylson – Bettes proctor for W under seal of the commissary of John [Young], Bishop of Rochester for Isleham and Freckenham, his proctorship disputed by W – assignation; Francis Gibbynson vs Mr Walpoole – W associates Henry Caesar with himself in sundry protestations – assignation; Edward Wardall vs Thomas Rise for a debt of £6 – admitted, to be paid in two instalments, £5 10s paid in court by Mr Hedley and W acknowledges himself satisfied for the whole sum; Barbor vs Threder - B exhibits bill of expenses of 31s 2d assessed by the court at 23s 2d to be paid by T; Furmerye vs Hound – H claims that F by prosecuting is in breach of his statutory oath as Fellow of St Catharine’s College, H to be examined.

p.168: 8 Dec. 1581 Stephen vs Wilson – entry deleted; Stephens vs Wilson – W to be examined, Bettes proctor for W; Gybbynson vs Whalpole – for sums of £4 10s and £16 incurred by Henry Caesar and Mr Badley who stayed at G’s inn for 16 weeks, falsely represented themselves as well-born and of good fortune and for whom Whalpole stood surety [libel is given in informal manner], W to respond to allegation.

p.169: 8 Dec. 1581 Philip Welborowe vs James Scawcrofte – S contumacious in not appearing, penalty in next; Gillye vs Mr Bayle – B contumacious, as above; Button vs Haies – entry deleted; 15 Jan. 1581/2 Widow Wyddowse vs Nicols [? John, BA or Philip, Fellow of] Corpus Christi College – N contumacious, penalty in next; Stephens vs Owyn Wylson – assignation; O. Wylson vs Stevens – assignation; Anthony Wynckfeyld/Wyngefeild, Orator and Fellow of Trinity College vs [Henry] Punter BA for pushing him into the gutter, calling him ‘scabbe and rascall’ and then fleeing the town – assignation; Bourne vs Widow Robinynson – R contumacious, penalty in next, R to show cause why he should not be fined.

p.170: 15 Jan. 1581/2 Edward Ball vs Edward Mundaye – assignation [entry deleted then reentered at greater length], M to be cited at Mr Hedley’s house, The Dolphin; Furmerye vs Hounde – Bettes proctor for H, F exhibits will of one Bonde MD [apparently not Cantab. or Oxon.] living at Lincoln – assignation; Thomas Marten vs Philip Pecocke for cancellation of a fulfilled bond which P states is not in his hands, John Smith Registrar of the Bishop’s Consistory, surety for P; Gylly vs Bayly – B fined 6s 8d for contumacy and to be cited again.

p.171: 15 Jan. 1581/2 Gibbynson vs Walpole – continued in statu quo; 22 Jan. Lorkyn vs St Catharine’s College – assignation until 5 March for sentence; 26 Jan. Furmerye vs Hounde – John Holden MA and Edward Maplisden MA, witnesses for F, to be examined; Stevens vs Wilson – John Haselope, Robert Dawson, William Hawkyns and William Ball, witnesses for S, to be examined; Wynckefield vs Punter – no entry.

p.172: 26 Jan. 1581/2 O. Wylson vs Stevens – Bettes, proctor for W, enters allegations, Amy, for S, to answer; Ball ve Mundaye – Amy, proctor for B, Bettes for M. Ball, freeman and burgess of Cambridge and no scholar’s servant (Dr Perne had signified that he was a scholar’s servant on 15 Jan.) - assignation; Gyll vs Bayly – B cited by Stringer, contumacious, assignation for sentence.

p.173: 9 Feb. 1581/2 Furmerye vs Hounde – assignation; Elizabeth Beeselye vs William Woralle for debt – W having failed to appear, Standish at the court’s behest distrained a grey horse at the sign of the Eagle against a debt of £10, Bettes appears for W and excuses his absence on the ground that he lives without the jurisdiction at Sudbury, assignation; Gilly vs Mr Baylye for debt of £4 7s 4d, Samuel Hodgson appears for B. and admits the debt, to be paid in two instalments with costs of 8s 10d; Proctors vs Thomas Thorogood of Bishop’s Stortford, poulterer – fined 12s for buying hens within the liberties; O. Wylson vs Stevens and Stevens vs Wylson – continued in the hope of agreement with assignation in case of no agreement; Martyn vs Pecocke – P refuses to respond and is deemed contumacious, to restore bond or quitclaim M for £30 on pain of imprisonment.

p.174: 15 Feb. 1581/2 John Paman, Richard Gerard, Paul Gold, Roger Browning, Thomas Hawes, Michael Rabbet and Thomas Howse MAs and Fellows of St Catharine’s College vs Dr Thomas Legge, Master of Gonville and Caius College, and Richard Swale MA, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College – S appears for himself and Legge, assignation; 17 Feb. Legge appears and protests at shortness of time allowed, given until Wednesday, protest again, 16 Feb. Steffens vs Owyn Wilson – S claims that Robert Frevyll, Edmund Smalwood, Henry Flemson and Edward Rall, gent., are necessary witnesses, assignation; O. Wilson vs Stevens – S to be examined; Furmerye vs Hounde – continued in statu quo; Edward Ball vs Edward Mundaye – Bettes complains that he has had no copy of the allegations, M to be cited at the Dolphin to appear in person.

p.175: 16 Feb. 1581/2 Francis Hande MA vs Richard Bateson of Clare Hall – H states that B is not fit to be BA a) because of his vitiosi mores b) because he has not kept enough terms – binds himself in 100s and is given assignation to prove and produce witnesses; 21 Feb. Fellows of Gonville and Caius College vs Legge and Swale – assignation; 26 Feb. Fellows of Gonville and Caius College vs Legge and Swale – Rabbet produces Robert Some DD and unnamed others as witnesses.

p.176: 23 Feb. 1581/2 W. Marten vs Thomas Knevet – Amye for Marten lays allegations, assignation; Stevens vs O. Wylson – witnesses not found, to be sought again, assignation; Wylson vs Stevens – S to be examined; Furmerye vs Hounde – Bettes for H denies validity of evidence (will), entry deleted; Philip Hammond vs Jeremy Chayse – assignation; W. Burwell vs Edmund Wylson – W found contumacious, penalty in next; Ball vs Munday – both bound in £100 to stand to arbitration of Roger North.

p.177: 24 Feb. 1581/2 Assize of bread – bushel of flour 2s 2d, ½d loaf 9oz; 2 Mar. Marten vs Knevet – K to be examined; Furmerye vs Hounde – F to be examined; Hammond vs Chace – C denies that H is properly constituted proctor for Richemond, C is cited as one of his father’s two executors, R present cited, C offers to pay the £4 1d sought if R is prepared to swear that C has promised it, R so swears and C is to pay in two instalments with 7s 6d costs.

p.178: 2 Mar. 1581/2 Owyn Wilson vs Stevens – S still not examined, to be so on pain of contempt; Stephens vs O. Wylson – witnesses still not found or examined, assignation.

p.179: 1 Mar. 1581/2 Gonville and Caius College cause – assignation; 3 Mar. Rabbet produces Robert Norgate DD, Anthony Rudd, Martin Williams BD, Abraham Conams MA, Simon Sherrard, W. Carow, Henry Symson and Philip Scarlet witnesses, to be examined; 7 Mar. Dr Peerse to be examined; 12 Mar. Gonville and Caius College cause continued – Gerard appears and admits that he thinks his side will not be able to produce its witnesses, adjournment;15 Mar. Case to be transmitted to Chancellor; 16 Mar. VC receives all writings, depositions etc. including the Caius’ statute book for transmission to the Chancellor.

p.180: 12 Mar. 1581/2 Assize of beer – malt 11s a quarter, double beer 2s 9d a kilderkin, single beer 15d, good ale 2s 7d a barrel, carded ale 14d, the [?ganakers] and typlers to sell 1¾ pints of good ale and double been for ½d and 1 pettle of carded ale and single beer for ½d.

p.181: 5 Mar. 1581/2 Dr Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – continued in statu quo: Proctors vs John Cutbard – fined 40s for promising to allow dicing; 9 Mar. Stevens vs Wilson and Wilson vs Stevens continued in statu quo; Farmery vs Hound – F proved contumacious for not having undergone examination, penalty in next; James Scocrofte vs Richard Blunt – assignation; Button vs Neville Hayes – B testifies that the horse in question was ‘a good travelyng gelding or nagge’ and usually hired at 12d a day, witnesses for B are Richard Philo, draper, Thomas Williamson, Agnes Lyon and James Armestrong, B accuses wife of Thomas Hayes of contumacy in not appearing, assignation.

p.182: 16 Mar. 1581/2 Stephens vs Wylson – S alleges that Henry Flemson is a necessary witness, not found, other witnesses to be examined; Farmerye vs Hound – assignation; Scawcroft vs Blunt – assignation; Wilson vs Stevens – S examined.

p.183: 19 Mar. 1581/2 Dr Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – L asks for instant execution of sentence, sentence given for L in presence of Philip Stringer, Thomas Rockley MA and Richard Knewstubbis BA, notice of appeal to University.

p.184: 23 Mar. 1581/2 Furmerye vs Hounde – John Fox MA, witness for H, to be examined; Stevens vs Wylson – H. Flemson for S to be examined; Scocroft vs Blunt – B to be examined; 30 Mar. Fermary vs Hound – at request of Bettes adjournment for examination of Seston and Langeworth, for H, Amy proctor for F procures decree that if Fox be not examined by next court day his testimony be not allowed; Stephen vs Wylson – H. Flemson not examined, proved contumacious, penalty in next.

p.185: 30 Mar. 1582 Scawcroft vs Blunt – assignation; 6 Apr. Proctors vs Henry Alcocke, Alexander Clarke and Arthur Wylson for allowing dicing and other illicit games at their hostelries, witnesses John Doryngton, Thomas Payne and Gisbright Jacob. Alcock, Clark and Wilson fined 40s each and Alcock, Wilson, Tonson, Reding, Kyllyngback and Doryngton fined 20s each for dicing on 21 March; Gisbright Jacob vs Dns Bartie – B contumacious, penalty in next; Fyrmary vs Hound - Peter Seston BA, witness for H, examined at 4 pm the same day; Stevvens vs Wylson – depositions to be published; Scawcroft vs Blunt – B to respond more fully.

p.186: 6 Apr. 1582 Gyll vs Baylie – B appears and G asks for execution of sentence, namely payment of £4 16s 2d now overdue; Thomas Alenson vs John Johnson BA for debt of 30s – William Potto, W. Fawconer and Robert Campion witnesses for A.

p.189: 22 May 1582 St Catharine’s College vs Dr Lorkin – Messrs Tyndall, Wood and Rudd, arbitrators, L denies that the cause can be carried further; 25 May Firmary vs Hound – Mondford, proctor for H, substituting for Bettes, assignation for sentence; Scocroft vs Blunt – Thomas Wright, W. Green, Thomas Galland and Henry Bewdyn witnesses for S, they and B to be examined; Preist vs Marlyn – assignation; 30 May St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – Delegates set out term for St Catharine’s College to produce summary of case and grounds for appeal.

p.190: 8 June 1582 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College in case re Dr Byng’s sentence – continued in statu quo because of L’s illness; 9 June Firmary vs Hound – sentence for F in presence of Thomas Lovering MA, Barnard Philips ‘literatus’ and M. Stokys, H allowed to appeal.

p.191: 13 June 1582 St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – Wood and Rudd, Delegates, announce assignation, L protests that appeal is not valid; 15 June Scawcroft vs Blunt – B not yet examined, to be so on pain of forfeiting 6s 8d; Smyth vs West – assignation; Anthony Aspinall vs Alan Hall – parties choose Mr Alder, Vicar of Foxton, Mr Asheton, Vicar of Meldreth and Philip Wylborow, gent., arbitrators, bound in 100s to abide by arbitration; Thomas Welles vs Alan Hall – similter; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – St Catharine’s College contumacious in not appearing, penalty to be execution of sentence, they not having showed cause why not.

p.192: 15 June 1582 Assize of bread – flour 17s 4d a quarter with 2s allowance, ½d loaf 10oz; 20 June St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin - Delegates absent, Berry for St Catharine’s College ready to proceed, leaves his materia with Stokys; 22 June Woulfe, butcher vs Raye – R contumacious, penalty in next; Scocroft vs Blunt – assignation; Smyth vs West – continued in statu quo; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – continued in statu quo; 6 July Taxors vs W. Harte of Great Thurlow, Suffolk, collier – charcoal underweight, including 13 quarters to Gonville and Caius at 15s a load, only five bushels in each quarter sack, the charcoal to be forfeit and the costs of 22d paid, the sacks to be retained until their lawfulness tried and satisfaction made.

p.193: 6 July 1582 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – St Catharine’s College absent, their appeal, to be cited to say why sentence should not be executed; John Amye vs John Fyld for debt – A exhibits bond of F and Richard Paris of Chesterton in 106s 8d, F to be in custody until the principal (54s) paid with costs; Furmery vs Hound – H to appear and state why his appeal should not fail for lack of prosecution.

p.194: 6 July 1582 John Jegon vs Leonard Wright, Robert Wylliamson and Richard Patenson for debt of 100s on bond, to be paid with 22d costs; Anthony Aspinall vs Alan Hall – H bound in £10 to pay £5 due from not standing to arbitration as bound, also to pay 22d costs of first cause; Thomas Welles vs Hall – similiter; Richard Browne, proctor for Thomas Gyll vs Luke Thorne for debt – T to find sureties in 53s 4d for his appearance; 13 July John Paske vs Cecilia Wright, widow, for debt of 100s incurred by her husband, Leonard, deceased.

p.195: 13 July 1582 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – continued in statu quo, Cragge present to warn Master and Fellows to appear; Furmerye vs Dr Hound – H contumacious, penalty in next; Aspinall vs Hall – continued in statu quo; Welles vs Hall – similiter; Mosse vs Tyffyn for debt of 48s – to be paid with costs before the 15th; Farr vs Bull for debt – F having delivered to B a truss containing four shirts, four shirt bands, four pairs of ruffs, 10 yards of lace, valued at 26s 8d, B admits to receiving these and books and delivering them to an unnamed carrier, bound in 10 £ to appear and prove; 20 July Furmery vs Hound – H's appeal ruled to have lapsed by non-prosecution, H to appear and show cause why original sentence should not be executed; Aspinall vs Hall and Welles vs Hall – H sentenced to pay 20 £ for not appearing; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – St Catharine’s College to be cited once more to hear final stages, execution of sentence and assessing of costs, L’s documents returned to him.

p.197: 20 July 1582 Richard Warryn bound in £10 to keep the peace, especially towards Cutchye; Jegon for Proctors vs Homes, fined 2s at Leet for non-appearance: H claims it was only 12d, to pay 2s and costs, Standish testifies that he took a distraint to the value of 2s from H who violently took it from him, to pay the penalty for a rescue; Luke Thorne dismissed from all causes against him; 12 Sept. William Burwell, vintner vs Thomas Houghton of Lynn for debt of £15 – to be paid with 9 £ 9s costs; 17 July St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin before Delegates – L absent, penalty the continuation of the case, assignation.

p.198: 14 Sept. 1582 William Byrde, musician, of Westminster, bound in £10 with sureties William Watson of Worcester, draper, and W. Button, innholder, in £5 each, to appear before justices at next sessions to answer charges [probably of recusancy]; 18 Sept. Swale and Paman renounce all interest in and title to the office of Proctor in the coming year, each to nominate two persons not from Gonville and Caius College from whom the Heads shall choose one of each pair; Interpretation of statute 40 - ‘vacancy’ allowing Heads to prick to consist of death, refusal or unsuitability of candidate occurring between 1 Aug. and 10 Oct.

p.199: 4 Sept. 1582 Lorkin vs Williams for return of a charter referring to L’s property in Chesterton which he handed to W to read, judgement for L and memorandum of return of charter on 14 Sept.; 12 Oct. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – cancelled entry followed by memorandum of appearance of Cragg, President of the College, stating that the appeal was not renounced and was now being heard before the Delegates, costs to Lorkin nevertheless assessed at £4 and St Catharine’s College to make payments as decreed in sentence.

p.200: 12 Oct. 1582 Richard Philo vs Moses Fowler MA for debt – F absent proved contumacious, penalty in next; Furmerye vs Hounde – continued in statu quo; 15 Oct. St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin before Delegates – L, told to answer, states that the VC has declared the appeal invalid, Berry for the College denies the VC’s authority in the case.

p.201: 15 Oct. 1582 Michael Woolf, apothecary vs John Edmondes, vintner, for debt – John Amye proctor for W, Bettes proctor for E, entry cancelled; Michael Woolf, apothecary vs John Edmondes, vintner, for debt – assignation; 11 Oct. - Michael Woolf, apothecary vs John Edmondes, vintner, for injury – assignation.

p.202: 15 Oct. 1582 Woolf vs Edmondes – Amye proctor for W, Bettes proctor for E, E to answer, W to answer.

pp.203-4: 19 Oct. 1582 Smyth vs West - [Remigius] Booth, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College for S who is a minor – assignation; Anne Paske vs Agnes Freningham alias Closkyng for defamation in St Clement’s parish and elsewhere to the effect that AP was a witch and had caused AC’s daughter to go lame, repeated to Dr Styll and Messrs Foxton and Flynt, assesses her injury at 100 £, Nicholas Fremyngham, husband of Agnes, bound in £20 for her appearance.

p.205: 19 Oct. 1582 Furmerye vs Hound – viis et modis for H; Philoe vs Fowler – Amy proctor for P, F absent, to find sureties for his appearance; 22 Oct. St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin before Delegates – Dr Fulke witness for St Catharine’s College and ex-Proctors Jegon and Lilesse to be examined, penalty for L’s contumacy, further action.

p.206: 26 Oct. 1582 Smyth vs West – continued in statu quo; Henry Covell, by his proctor, and James Forester vs John Richardson, furrier, for debt – R contumacious, penalty in next; Furmery vs Hound – F to be restored to his Fellowship with all its prerequisites and to his seniority, Junior Proctor to see that his name is re-entered on the College boards (usitata in promptuario) accordingly, costs assessed at 40s.

p.207: 26 Oct. 1582 Anne Paske vs Agnes Closkyn – C fined for contumacy, parties bound in £10 each to stand to the arbitration of Christopher Elsden, Thomas Atkynson, Thomas Andrewes and John Sawyer, butcher; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – execution of sentence, John Bacster given mandate to distrain goods to the value decreed from the College and to require the Fellows to tell him where such goods might be.

p.208: 26 Oct. 1582 Philoe vs Fowler – viis et modis for F decreed; 30 Oct. Furmery vs Cragg – C contumacious, fined 4s costs; 31 Oct. Proctors vs James Robson, chandler – fined 20s for three defective weights; Proctors vs Wylliamson – fined 20s for three defective weights; Proctors vs Stephen Newman – fined 6s 8d for one defective weight.

p.209: 20 Oct. 1582 Richard Smyth BD vs Bishop of Peterborough (Edmund Scambler) before Drs Roger Goad and Thomas Byng, Delegates – appeal from High Commission.

p.210: 2 Nov. 1582 William Love vs Edmund Burges for debt of 70s – B to be in custody until he provide sureties or pay; Henry Covell, by his proctor, James Forester, vs John Richardson – R contumacious in not having undergone examination, deemed to have admitted charges; [Philo] Filoe vs Fowler for penal sum of twenty marks on two bonds each of 10 marks for loan of £3 6s 8d – F Maintains that P had released him from the debts and seeks terms to prove, assignation.

p.211: 2 Nov. 1582 Taxors vs Mr Mannyng for buying for resale and exporting from the town 40 quarters of wheat – assignation.

p.212: 2 Nov. 1582 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Bacster testifies that he was unable to effect a distraint, the buttery and kitchen doors being closed against him, Cragg proved contumacious and to be proceeded against; 6 Nov. St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin before Delegates – continued in statu quo; 9 Nov. Further assignation.

p.213: 6 Nov. 1582 John Chapman bound in £10 £ to observe the condition of his warrant as purveyor of conies to the University (at a price of 8d the pair for ‘tale conies’ and 12d a pair for the ‘wagers’); 9 Nov. Furmerye vs Hounde – court reiterates that F should retain his fellowship until he be proved ultra vires; Dr Fulke vs John Cragg for breach of statutes of 21 H VIII c13 and 28 H VIII c13 concerning residence – assignation; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – assignation.

p.214: 9 Nov. 1582 Covell (by Forester) vs Richardson – Bettes substitute for Forester – assignation; 12 Nov. Proctors vs James Robson for exporting candles - R claims that a butcher sent him tallow to make candles and then sent to fetc.h them, candles to remain in custody of Proctors pending appearance of the butcher; Proctors vs Richard Goldisborow, chandler – fined for false, unsealed and unsigned weights and measures; Proctors vs W. Bredon – fined for defective weight and measure not sealed; Proctors vs W. Campion – fined for three defective weights; Proctors vs Thomas Medcalf – absent, to be fined for five defective weights and measures unsealed; 16 Nov. All cases deferred because of the feast [? of St Edmund].

p.215: 23 Nov. 1582 Fyloe vs Flower – assignation for sentence; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – continued in statu quo; Taxors vs Mannyng – assignation; 30 Nov. Orders for chandlers – price of 1lb of candles of clean cotton, half cotton and half wick or clean wick not to exceed 3d until next Easter unless the VC announce otherwise, no scholar to be refused but none under the degree of MA to have more than 2lbs at a time, John Howell, Thomas Mannyng, Thomas Medcalf, Roger Smyth, John Bowser, James Robson, John Hawkyns, Stephen Newman, Thomas Cooper, Richard Goldisborowe, William Archer, Samuel Robynson and John Wylliamson all bound in £10 each to observe the orders, Howell, Medcalfe and Mannyng to see the orders observed.

p.216: 7 Dec. 1582 St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – continued in statu quo owing to absence of College representatives (before Delegates); Forester vs Richardson (before VC) - R discharged on sight of acquittance but for not paying before charged with costs of 5s incurred up to the time of the acquittance, Leonard Glascocke his surety for payment before Epiphany; Taxors vs Mannyng – assignation; Philoe vs Fowler – assignation; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – St Catharine’s College again insists that appeal is in order and continuing.

p.217: 14 Dec. 1582 Furmary vs Hound – Drs Byng and Legge to assess sums due to F from time of his expulsion; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – continued in statu quo; Taxors vs Mannyng – assignation; Filoe vs Fowler – continued in statu quo; Robert Gardiner vs Nicholas Rust for debt of £6 – assignation; Whaller vs W. Hodson, brewer, for debt – assignation.

p.218: 24 Dec. 1582 Office vs College bakers – exhibition on oath de veritate dicenda in connection with Assize of bread, Trinity College baker is Waxam, master of bakehouse is Mr Williams, St John’s College baker is Bikerdike, master of bakehouse is Mr Boothe, Queens’ College baker is John Steven, master of bakehouse is Mr Mydleton, Peterhouse baker is John Barbour, master of bakehouse is Mr Farbecke and Bounde, Pembroke Hall baker is Robert Exon, master of bakehouse is Mr Robynson, ‘bowser’.

p.219: 9 Jan. 1582/3 Taxors vs George Horne, maltster, for buying wheat for export – ordered to sell in Cambridge and to appear; Taxors vs John Keymer – similiter; 11 Jan. Orders of VC that no wheat be carried out of the liberties of the town ‘for that the price of wheate did begyn to start’ on pain of 3s 4d a quarter, Manyng permitted to send away 20 quarters of wheat which he has at Clay Hithe provided that he sell 10 combs in the market on the next two Saturdays and pay 3s to the Proctors’ servants for their pains in staying the same, similar permission to Keymer to sell 10 combs not above 2s the bushell and pay 2s; William Griffiths LLD vs Robert Medcalf, one of the town bailiffs – M bound in 13s 4d to appear.

p.220: 18 Jan. 1582/3 Griffites vs Medcalfe – John Howell and Thomas Mannyng, necessary witnesses for G, have refused to testify, to be compelled; Office vs Horne – confesses to carrying away 30 quarters of wheat contrary to order, to sell five combs for four successive Saturdays in the market and to pay 100s; Office vs Hera Wallys, appearing for her sons Harvy and Whalles – similarly condemned for 40 quarters, to sell five combs on two occasions and be fined 100s; Whaller vs W. Hodgeson – H fined 20d for not appearing; Fyloe vs Fowler – Fowler fined 2s 6d for going away without leave and not answering; Proctors vs Hera Whalles – her sons Harvy and Whalles confess to forestalling one comb of wheat, fined; Proctors vs Thomas Goodfelowe, tapster at the Antelope – for dicing in sermon time, denied, assignation.

p.221: 21 Jan. 1582/3 St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin before Delegates – current proceedings in VC’s Court pronounced null and void, assignation for sentence; 24 Jan. L denies authority of Delegates – assignation.

p.222: 25 Jan. 1582/3 Dr Griffites vs Medcalfe – M, Howell and Mannyng to be examined, Berry and Bettes proctors for G; Richard Green vs Blounte, shepherd – B fined 2s 6d with 2s 6d costs for destroying G’s corn with life sheep; Whaller vs Hodgeson – H to be cited with warning; Taxors vs Dormer – fined 2s 6d and costs for underweight hay; 31 Jan. Office vs Guy Harrison, scholar of Gonville and Caius College – fined 10s and suspended for one year on suspicion of having forged the head lector’s hand to his own grace; 30 Jan. Dr Griffittes vs Medcalf for defamation – M asks pardon in court and pays 14s costs.

p.223: 8 Feb. 1582/3 Decree of VC that Amye and Stone, late Taxors, are to pay 6s 8d towards buying a new brass gallon measure costing 2s, that Waterman the cooper who had charge of the old gallon, the bottom of which was broken, should pay 6s 8d, the remaining 6s 8d being paid by the University; Helen Wyddowse, widow vs Stephen Barton of Kingston for a debt of 78s being the costs incurred by W in a suit brought against her on behalf of Edward Sponer MA, Parson of Kingston, in the Ely Consistory, for which B has promised payment, B admits promise but claims to have been released from it by a bond from Sponer to W – assignation.

p.224: 8 Feb. 1582/3 Robert Gardiner vs Nicholas Rust of Barnwell for a debt of £5 – R fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing, to be re-arrested and find sureties or be in custody; Whaller vs Hodgeson – H in hiding, to be arrested as above; Miles Barker, glazier vs Martyn, glazier – M fined 20s for contumacy in not appearing and to be re-cited; 15 Feb. T. Preston vs John Holmes, baker – Robert Cansfield for P exhibits bond of Gabriel Holte, late of Papworth Everard, and John Holmes in £8 for delivery of six quarters of wheat, H agrees to pay the penal sum.

p.225: 15 Feb. 1582/3 Gardiner vs Rust – assignation, Sanderson surety for R; Michael Purfie BA vs Christopher Batsford of Chesterton for injury – B bound in 20 £ to appear, memorandum of VC’s offer to hear any action brought against any scholar by Batsford and Parys (refused) and Mr Nevill’s offer to pay 2d for every 1d’s worth of damage done by scholars; Thomas Nevyll, Master of Magdalene College vs Richard Parishe of Chesterton for injury – P bound in 20 £ to appear; 18 Feb. St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin before Delegates – sentence in L’s absence that St Catharine’s College should pay L £9 10s and no more.

p.226: 7 Feb. 1582/3 Decree in cause between Master and Fellows of Pembroke Hall about a grace for a questionist – the Master citing the University statutes and the Fellows the College statutes which required the consent of the most part of the society, not of the Master and most part of the Seniors, ancient custom supported but the grace in question to be ratified, the questionist having already been admitted.

p.227: 22 Feb. 1582/3 Thomas Nevyll vs Richard Parishe – P denies injurious words, Amye proctor for N, Bond on 20 £ continued; Widow Woodhouse vs Stephen Barton – Paul Pecke of Caldecote, gent., and William Lay of Kingston, yeoman, witnesses for B examined (Mundeford substitute for Bettes), sentence for B, W to pay 6s 6d costs, notice of appeal; Norgate vs Dormer – continued in statu quo in hope of settlement; Dean and Chapter of Ely vs Andrew Arkynstall for collecting tithes on two occasions from incumbents sede vacante to the total of £50 despite their statutory right to do so – judgement for plaintiffs.

p.228 23 Feb. 1582/3 Office vs [Thomas] Mudde BA of Pembroke Hall – sentenced to three days in the Tolbooth for abuse of the Mayor in a comedy composed by him, 26 Feb. Makes public apology; Miles Mosses MA imprisoned in the Tolbooth for three days and fined 3s 4d for breaking the head of Mr Threxton when the comedy was played at Pembroke Hall; Office vs [Thomas] Evance, scholar of Pembroke Hall, imprisoned for three days on 25 Feb., beaten in the public schools for proposing scandalous, inept and opprobrious questions at an exercise and for secretly entering and throwing stones during plays at Corpus Christi College; 1 Mar. Taxors vs Thomas Hodiloe for brewing double beer without licence and selling over price – fined 6s for each of 80 barrels, with costs; Taxors vs Hodiloe for not sending forth ‘fyllyng beere when he sendeth forth his beer’ [?short measure] - assignation.

p.229: 1 Mar. 1582/3 Office vs Thomas Tomson, serving-man and victualler - fined 40s for selling flesh in Lent (26s 8d to the Proctors, 13s 4d to Little St Mary’s parish), bound in 100s to pay and to forbear selling or preparing flesh in Lent; Office vs Philip Clarke, butcher – fined 20s to be paid at Sturbridge Fair, and 3s 4d for the poor of St Edward’s parish for killing and selling flesh in Lent, similarly bound in 100s.

p.230: 1 Mar. 1582/3 Repetition of the first three entries on p.228, cancelled.

p.231: 1 Mar. 1582/3 Repetition of Office vs Hodiloe, cancelled; T. Nevyll vs R. Paris – John Swanne MA, Michael Purifie BA, John Knatsbull, gent., Anthony Bradshawe and Michael Whitman witnesses for N, Paris hereupon confesses and undertakes to apologise and to pay costs.

p.232: 4 Mar. 1582/3 Agnes Vipenye and John Harvy, innholder, bound before M. Stokys in the High Street in 100s to appear and answer charges brought by Jegon, late Proctor, witnesses Henry Frogg and Dawson; Interpretation of statutes c21 as applying only to indigenis et incolis and not to aliegenis et peregrinis and so allowing Francis Gomarus, a Fleming, to proceed BA at the next latter Act and MA at the next Commencement following provided he perform all the Acts for the degree; 8 Mar. Robert Gardiner vs N. Rust – R promises to appear; Decree in favour of Nicholas Warde, grocer, permitting him to act as grocer, haberdasher and chandler, although not apprenticed, because his wife Elizabeth, widow of John Bell, had served seven years as apprentice to Mr Basse, grocer of London, and her first husband had dealt in grocery in right of this.

p.233: 15 Mar. 1582/3, 12 Apr. 1583 Causes continued in statu quo in VC’s illness; 19 Apr. Nicholas and Pernel Algate vs Russell and his wife Joanna, widow of Owen Wilson (before Dr legge, VC being sick) - assignation; 25 Apr. George Hawes, now or lately citizen of London, salter vs Edward and Alice Parker for debt of £21 3s (before VC in Jesus in his lower parlour); 26 Apr. Edward Parker absent, sick – assignation, Bettes proctor for Hawes.

p.234: 26 Apr. 1583 Sophonius Smith MA and W. Reade vs Stephen Rooke, baker, for injury – SR not found, to be cited again; 29 Apr. Robert Nicolson bound in £20 to appear and lay information if and when he has it as to where Robert Browne, lately BA of Corpus Christi College [the separatist and founder of Congregationalism], may be arrested, and to give Browne no warning; Richard Taylor, lately BA of Corpus Christi College, bound precisely similarly; Arthur Howe of Ickleton vs Robert Curde of Chesterton – both parties bound in £6 13s 4d to stand to the arbitration of John Wood of Ickleton in a cause concerning one rood of saffron ground.

p.235: 3 May 1583 George Howes vs Alice Perkin, seamstress, for debt of £20 2s 11d in which she and her husband were bound for certain parcels – Christopher Moore of St Michael’s parish, yeoman, and W. Batemanson of St Clement’s parish, shoemaker, bound in £40 to pay the £20 2s 11d in three instalments, AP to pay costs of 15s; Nicholas and Pernel Algate vs [Robert] and Johanne Russell – Rs to answer; Smyth and Reade vs Rooke – assignation; Rose, widow of Robert, Clarke renounces executorship of his will in the interests of the three sons and two daughters of Margaret, wife of John Williamson (sons aged 13, 10 and 9, daughters 15 and 14), guardianship granted to Margaret and John W (John W stepfather to the children, R. Clarke grandfather).

p.236: 10 May 1583 Thomas Welles and Aspinall vs Hall – agreement exhibited.

p.237: 10 May 1583 Smyth and Reade vs Rookes – Bettes proctor for S and R, assignation; Gressam vs Robert Johnson – no entry; 31 May Smyth and Reade vs Rookes - Rookes to be examined; N. Algate vs Robert and Johanna Russell – James Hewitson appears for the Rs, assignation, Rs to appear; Johnson vs Richard Cobbe – C bound in £20 to appear; John Cutbard vs Gervase Brigan – B fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing.

p.238: 31 May 1583 Howe vs Courde – C bound in £6 13s 4d to appear; 3 June Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before Dr Goade and Amy, Delegates to hear his appeal – Dr Isaac Barrow, the other Delegate, being out of town, representatives of the College to appear the next day; 4 June Bacster testifies that he could only find Messrs Crag and Maplet to cite, Cansfield said that he could appear on his own account but not that of the College, not having been delegated, viis et modis to be issued.

p.239: 5 June 1583 No entry.

p.240: 6 June 1583 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before Delegates – Cansfield appears as Delegate for the College and denies the authority of the Delegates, assignation; 7 June Smyth and Read vs Rooke – assignation; Howe vs Courde – Bettes proctor for H, assignation; Henry Mescall bound in £5 not to molest Mary Inglesent.

p.241: 7 June 1583 Office vs Henry Mosse, servant to Mr Woulfe – fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing; Christopher Hosegothrope, tailor, to appear or to produce his servant, Lyne, in court; 14 June Office vs William Woulf – warned to appear; Howe vs Curd – Truner substitute for Bettes, assignation; Smyth and Read vs Rookes – continued in statu quo in hope of an agreement; Ezechiel Waren vs John Banes – B fined 20d for contumacy in not appearing; Henry Mason vs Richard Parker for defamation – to ask pardon in court and in the house of James Mason, father of Henry, and pay 3s 4d costs; 21 June Johnson vs Cobbe – bound in £20 to appear.

p.242: 21 June 1583 Smyth and Read vs Brookes – continued in statu quo; Waren vs Banes – B to restore the horse to W by 1 August ‘in as good plight as he was’ or pay 40s for it; Office vs Jevee, John Coppyn, John Evance, Arthur Crampton and Paul Hammon – Jevee fined 20s for victualling without licence and to be bound not to victual hereafter, the others fined 10s each and to be imprisoned for 10 days for eating flesh on prohibited days; 4 July Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before Delegates (including Barrow) - Delegates decree that any one of them may act in the cause in the absence of the other two, assignation.

p.243: 5 July 1583 All causes continued in statu quo the VC being busy; 6 July Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – St Catharine’s College absent, assignation; 10 July Johnson vs Cobbe – in presence of Stokys C offers to be bound to pay £20 if J will drop all action against him, offer accepted; 12 July Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before Delegates – assignation.

p.244: 12 July 1583 Martin Williams vs Thomas Paris – Bettes proctor for W, assignation; Smyth and Read vs Rookes – continued in statu quo; Howe vs Curde – continued in statu quo; 16 July Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – adjourned until after Michaelmas; 19 July William vs T. Parys jnr. – P contumacious in not having rendered his account, to do so by next or pay 10s; Smyth and Read vs Rokys – assignation until after Michaelmas; Taxors vs W. Hawkyns – fined 2s for ½d loaves 1oz light and some loaves to be distributed to the poor; John Thacksted vs Anthony Haymons – H fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing; 1 Aug. Price of hay fixed at 2lb down weight for ½d.

p.245: 5 Sept. 1583 Dr John Hatcher vs Christopher Stevenson of Trumpington, husbandman, ?for stealing fruit or some other crop – S to be bound in £10 to appear; Hatcher vs Stevenson for injury – similiter; Assize of bread – ½d loaf at 10oz in the town, 9oz at Sturbridge Fair, Assize of beer – double beer 3s 2d in the Fair; Order that the bakers are to sell bread in seven separate places in the fair, 1 shop in Barnwell, 1 at the end of the cheese booths, 1 about the goldsmiths, 2 in Garlick Row and Cooks Row and 2 in the Fish Fair, places to be appointed by the Taxors and to have signs, the bakers to use no horses unless the old custom proves needful; 17 Sept. Richard More MA, (Fellow of King’s College) and Geoffrey More BA (Trinity College) bound respectively in £20 for the appearance of GM to answer charges of John Pounseby of London, upholsterer, and not to leave Cambridge in term time without the VCs leave. Similar bonds by Mr Whitwell MA (Fellow of Trinity College) and John Wincoll MA (Fellow of Trinity College), Charles Farrand MA (Fellow of Trinity College) and Anthony Maxie BA (scholar of Trinity College); 11 Oct. Pounseby withdraws all cases vs Moore, Wyncoll and Maxie, Edward Sybrons remits all injuries.

p.246: 12 Aug. 1583 Smyth ?jnr. vs Anthony King snr., cutler, for defamation – K bound in 10 £ to appear and answer; Memorandum of bond of Anthony King snr., cutler, and Thomas Evers, tailor, in 100s as sureties for Henry [sic] Kyng jnr., cutler, which Anthony [sic] jnr. is himself bound in £10 to appear; John Peechy, tailor, and Martin Wharton, joiner, sureties in 100s for the appearance of W. Johnson, butcher, himself bound in £10; Office vs Edward Bucke of March, labourer, Joan Pickden alias Killinge of Wilbraham and Joan Bentley alias Brigges of Barton for adultery, all in one bed – to be imprisoned overnight, in the bull ring from 9-12, carted and then banished; 30 Sept. Thomas Moundeford vs Robert Lylesse MA (Fellow of King’s College) - L to be imprisoned or provide sureties in £40 for his appearance.

p.247: 2 Oct. 1583 Office vs Robert Lylesse MA (Fellow of King’s College) - banished the University for suing T. Moundeford MA other than in a University court, to leave within seven days of the end of the cause; 7 Sept. Warrant by VC to all repairing to Sturbridge Fair, issued at the request of the citizens of London and others, for the office of the Lord of the Tappes (a musician who sounded opening and closing times at sunrise and sunset) to be granted to William Byrde, musician and University Wait, recommended by them.

p.248: 4 Oct. 1583 Moundeford vs Lilesse in a cause of damages assessed at 1000 £ – L to be examined; Johnson vs Cobbe – Bettes proctor for J, C to be examined; Smythe and Reade vs Rooke – Rooke contumacious, penalty in next; W. Woolf vs Peter Jones – J fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing; 8 Oct. Arbitration between Edward Sibrons of London, upholsterer, John Wyncoll, Charles Farrand MAs and Geoffrey Moore BA – 66s 8d to be paid to S for his keep, surgical charges etc., half to be paid by Moore and half by Wyncoll and Anthony Maxie, S remits all charges and actions and will procure an acquittance from Pounseby (does so on 14 Oct.).

p.249: 11 Oct. 1583 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before the Delegates (actually Amye alone) - assignation; Moundeford vs Lilesse – Bettes proctor for M exhibits letter in L’s hand confessing to having slandered M, also a letter Video et taceo, deus videt, nulla dies sine linea, labor omnia vincit allegedly written phrase by phrase by John Barker of King’s College, George Tucker of King’s College, Mr Turner of King’s and Barker, again. L admits and asks for Bery as his advocate, court allows costs; Smyth and Reade vs Rokes – continued in statu quo in jope of settlement; Johnson vs Cobbe – C contumacious in not having undergone examination to pay costs of retarding suit; Edward Smyth BD vs Anthony Kynge for injury – Josiah Archer witness for Smyth – assignation,

p.250: 14 Oct. 1583 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before the Delegates – Cragg for St Catharine’s College not found, he and Master and Fellows to be cited again in writing under the VC’s seal; 16 Oct. Baxter finds only Cragg whom he has cited in the presence of other Fellows, none appear, Master and Syndics to be cited viis et modis; 21 Oct. Cragg only appears and exhibits again Cansfield’s objections to the appeal – assignation for 7 Nov.

p.251: 25 Oct. 1583 Smyth vs Kyng – John Pope MA proctor for S, Josiah Archer’s wife to be examined, assignation for 7 Nov.; 25 Oct. Smyth and Read vs Rooke – continued in hope of settlement; Johnson vs Richard Cobbe – C contumacious in not having been examined, penalty in next; Proctors vs John Dawson, Arthur Charleton and Thomas Richardson for preparing flesh on Friday 18 Oct., D and C confess and are to be fined, R denies; Proctors vs Roger Harrison – H fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing; Proctors vs James Robson for exporting 12 dozen candles out of the town – confesses to five dozen and is to be fined for these and pay costs; Moundeford vs Lilesse – L asks for Mr Scrivener as his proctor.

p.252: 25 Oct. 1583 Mr Chever vs W. Norgate for debt on account – both parties bound in £10 to stand to the arbitration of Messrs Fowler and Bound, Fellows of Corpus Christi College; 29 Oct. Moundeford vs Lilesse – assignation to next day for sentence; Proctors vs Roger Smith and Thomas Gillye, draper – warned to be present next day in court with their servants, Carleton also to be present; Dr Hatcher vs Christopher Stephenson - according to decree of 20 Sept. that S should restore to H all the ‘Rye that did growe in and upon two acres of land in trumpyngton fyldes which the said Dr did sowe and the said stephenson did croppe and carye away …', S did this on 23 Sept. (witness Peck of Trumpington) - H now to pay costs of court, return S’s bond and S to be absolved; 30 Oct. Moundeford vs Lilesse – assignation for sentence deferred for one day.

p.253: 30 Oct. 1583 Proctors vs Richard Jee, Rowland Campion (through his wife) and Roger Harrison (through his servant Griffin Rise) for preparing flesh – J and C fined 40s (26s 8d to Proctors, 13s 4d to the poor of the parish) with expenses, same sentence for H (?Arthur Charleton and Dawson in margin – witnesses?); 31 Oct. William Burton of Killinghall, Yorks., and George Belloses MA bound in 10 £ that B will withdraw the action he has started in London against John Porter; Moundeford vs Lilesse – assignation for sentence until the afternoon at the request of M; Samuel Robinson allowed to practise as a chandler having married Maria nee Bendich previously the wife of one Thomas Dawson, chandler, R himself havingbeen apprenticed for eight years to John Hodgeson who sold candles; Moundeford vs Leiles – assignation until Saturday (?L absent).

p.254: 5 Nov. 1583 Chever vs Norgate – C withdraws, N having taken his oath ‘I payed mr Chever in money numbered the 23 of July 1583 of the £12 4s 6d which I receyved of mr Smyth and Mr Mosse fyve poundes’; 7 Nov. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before Delegates – St Catharine’s College still not represented, Syndics, Master and Fellows to be cited in writing wherever it may be affixed on pain of the cause continuing in their absence as requested by Lorkin; 8 Nov. [Edward] Smyth (Fellow of St John’s College) vs Kynge – John Pope appears and reads K’s personal answer and depositions of S’s witnesses, testifies that the ‘libel’ was not by K who is discharged.

p.255: 8 Nov. 1583 Edward Smith BD (Fellow of St John’s College) vs W. Sanders, alias Smyth, of St Sepulchre’s parish for debt – John Pope proctor for ES accuses WS of contumacy in not appearing; John Howell, Thomas Medcalf, Thomas Mannyng, Thomas Cooper, John Bowsar, James Robson, John Hawkyns, Stephen Newman, Richard Goldisborowe, W. Archer, Samuel Robynson, John Williamson, John Barber, John Wilkynson, Henry Raper, John Tydswell, Roger Smyth, John Haselop, Miles Reynes, Thomas Breadon, Richard Raye, Robert Lynsey, W. Huntley, Christopher Ray, richard Robinson, Christopher Walker, W. Campion and Esdra Jenkynson, chandlers, bound in £10 each that none ‘of the university or town should lack any candle between this and Easter next for 3d the pound, and of such making and goodness as is limited by the proclamation’, Howell, Mannyng, Medcalf and Tidswell to be overseers; 5 Nov. William Reade MA vs Francis Kette for recovery of 15 £ 11s 10d paid by him to Corpus Christi College for K as bound - William Norgate MA then a Fellow of Corpus Christi College testifies that K promised to save R Harmless; 8 Nov. Robert Norgate, Master of Corpus Christi College, testifies likewise.

p.256: 11 Nov. 1583 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Cansfield present warned to appear on pain of suit continuing his absence; 15 Nov. Continued in statu quo; owing to press of business; 22 Nov. Proctors vs Peter Arkynden of Newmarket, fishmonger, for buying fish from one Noble and another on the journey from Newmarket to Cambridge and selling it in Cambridge market – convicted; 22 Nov. Proctors vs Christopher Raye for selling flesh on forbidden days – wife appears and is discharged on promising to pay twice the fine if again offending.

p.257: 22 Nov. 1583 Condemnation by the judge of Henry King, cutler, and W. Johnson, butcher, for night-wandering and disturbance in the streets, as proved on oath of Robert Whalles, gent., John Iverye, serving-man, and Richard Green, cook - they are to forfeit £10 and their sureties (Thomas Evers, John Peechi, Anthony Kynge and Martin Wharton) 100s each; 29 Nov. Proctors vs William Button – fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing, to be in custody or find sureties for his appearance; Proctors vs Gill for eating flesh on Friday – witness Peter Whaly, shoemaker, who refused to swear and Hodgeson, tailor, who also refused until legal advice taken. Witnesses warned to appear.

p.258: 6 Dec. 1583 Proctors vs Gill – Whaley and Huitson appear and are to be examined; 9 Dec. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before Delegates – Cansfield denies jurisdiction.

p.259: 13 Dec. 1583 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before Delegates – Cansfield proved contumacious for refusing to respond, L exhibits documents as before, C leaves, St Catharine’s College to be cited again on pain of suit continuing in their absence.

p.260: 13 Dec. 1583 Proctors vs Gill, Whaley and Huitson – G testifies that he has already been convicted before the Mayor for eating flesh on the day stated, on his confession, to be fined; Proctors vs Martin Wharton – assignation; Proctors vs Lancelot Barker for keeping a dicing house – fined 40s with costs; Proctors vs W. Button – fined 40s for keeping a dicing house, Richard Sill jnr., John Myller fined 20s for dicing there; Proctors vs Marmaduke White – fined 20s for dicing in Barker’s house (W is Barker’s apprentice); 17 Dec. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before Delegates – St Catharine’s College proved contumacious, penalty on 14 Jan., viis et modis again decreed.

p.261: 17 Dec. 1583 Moundeford vs Lilesse – sentence for M, L to pay £50 and to be in custody until …; notice of appeal; 19 Dec. Edward Ball, town clerk of Cambridge, cited and apologises for having written a letter to the Lord Mayor of London falsely alleging that some scholars had released prisoners and rogues who were in custody after Sturbridge Fair ‘a thinge to fowle to be suffered’.

p.262: 14 Jan. 1583/4 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before Delegates – St Catharine’s College contumacious, deemed to have confessed, assignation.

p.263: 17 Jan. 1583/4 As above – assignation until Tuesday when further action in the cause will be allowed; 21 Jan. Further action to be on 14 Feb, viis et modis decreed; 24 Jan. Proctors vs Martin Wharton – W to prove his allegation that he is not obliged to pay the 100s in which he was bound for W. Johnson because he was absolved at the last sessions and is bound only as surety for Richard Smyth; Proctors vs Hawkyns for a defective weight – H swears that the weight was not his and none of his servants ever used it and is absolved.

p.264: 29 Jan. 1583/4 George Horne, maltster, and Thomas Evance, tailor, sureties in 100s for Hugh Jones, serving-man, himself bound in 10 £ to appear in court after Easter and to keep the peace especially towards Thomas Evers, tailor; Thomas Evers, tailor, and Gilbert Corbet, singing man and glazier, similarly bound for Henry Evers to appear and to keep the peace towards Hugh Jones; Evers and Corbet also bound as above that H. Evers will keep the peace towards Paris Currier, cobbler; 14 Feb. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before Dr Amy, Delegate – Bacster certifies serving of mandates on St Catharine’s College, assignation to 19 Feb., L protesting at delay.

p.265: 19 Feb. 1583/4 Assignation for sentence sought and granted; 21 Feb. Bacster testifies that he could find only Cansfield but that he had forgotten the time at which they were to appear, St Catharine’s College to be cited again.

p.266: 24 Feb. 1583/4 Assignation to 12 Mar. for final sentence.

p.267: 5 Mar. 1583/4 John Marley, gent. vs Nevell Hayes, cook – M alleges that he lent to [?William] Austen BA (Corpus Christi College), pupil of Mr Taxton, a cloak (toga) bought from Austen’s father in Canterbury. Samuel Beale BA (Corpus Christi College) testifies for Taxton who is sick that A sold the cloak with the consent of his friends. Hayes testifies that A had pledged the cloak to himself and his wife for 13s 4d in cash and 13s 4d worth of food. The cloak to be restored to M and Hayes to pay costs. Nevell testifies to good character of M; 12 Mar. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – assignation for final sentence the next day; 13 Mar. Sentence given against St Catharine’s College in presence of Robert Church BD, Robert Newcom BA and George Estith BA. L seeks and is given written copies of sentence.

p.286: 13 Mar. 1583/4 Richard Jones, inceptor in Theology, bound in £40 to pay his composition fees to all the officers by the Feast of St John the Baptist [24 June], signed and cancelled; Proctors vs John Goldisborowe jnr. – Redman, deputy proctor, proves G contumacious, fined 3s 4d for contumacy, to appear on pain of 10s fine and to be bound in 100s not to kill or sell any flesh this Lent, Fydlyng likewise; Taxors vs Hawkyns – Landesdale proves H contumacious, fined 3s 4d and to appear on pain of 6s 8d fine, Flamson also to appear on pain of 6s 8d fine; Proctors vs Gerves, Richardson, Harryson, Hartle’s wife, Campion, Gee and Fydlyng – all to appear at next on pain of 10s fine and meanwhile to be warned by the Proctors not to prepare or sell flesh on pain of 100s fine; Standish fined 3s 4d for absence from court, 6s 8d for next such offence, cancelled; Taxors vs Hawkyns for selling underweight bread (1d loaves 2½oz light) - H absent, to pay for his contumacy by forfeiting two batches; 20 Mar. Alexander Raye MA vs Josiah Soresbye of Walden, gent., for recovery of a ring worth 2s 6d – S confesses and is sentenced to pay 2s 6d for the ring and expenses of 8s 6d, paid in court.

p.269: 20 Mar. 1583/4 Proctors vs John Nashe, baker and town bailiff, for resisting the Proctors’ authority in attempting to disperse disorderly persons in Pompe Lane and for effecting a rescue, for ‘pullyng of the said proctor’s hat and callyng him Goodman Proctor’; Proctors vs Goldisborowe, Fydlyng, Campion, Richardson, Gee and Hartle’s wife – all find 10s for non-appearance, to appear at next on pain of 20s fine; Proctors vs Harrison and Gerves – fined 40s each and costs on confessing to preparing flesh in Lent; Richard Algate vs Robert Russell and wife – James Huitson appears for R and states that the case is under arbitration, assignation; Thomas Spencer vs Thomas Jacson for debt – Richard Smith, proctor for S, Digbie for J (absent), to appear at next.

p.270: 20 Mar. 1583/4 Taxors vs Henry Flamson and W. Hawkyns, overseers of bakers, cited through their servants, Richard Evans and Leonard Landesdale, but absent, fined 6s 8d each to appear at next; Decree for Andrew Smyth, chandler, that noone shall buy torches, links or ‘staftorches’ except from Smyth or Medcalf on pain of 4d fine (ed to Proctors, 2d to Smith); 27 Mar. 1584 Proctors vs John Tomson – to be imprisoned for killing flesh in Lent, released on bond of W. Hurst in 100s that he offend no more; Proctors vs Thomas Richardson - refuses to appear or to pay any fine; Spencer vs Jacson – S appoints Richard Smyth his proctor as he has to be absent, J proved contumacious, penalty in the next; Proctors vs Nashe – continued in next, N to be cited at request of Redman, deputy for Hickman, Proctor; Proctors vs Gee, Richardson and Campian – all fined 10s for contumacy in not appearing.

p.271: 3 Apr. 1584 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College before VC – St Catharine’s College to be cited to shew cause why they should not appear and see execution of sentence and assessment of costs; Nicholas Algate vs Joanna Russell – R ratifies all action taken by Huitson on her part in the case and appoints him her proctor, Gervase Slyed and William Person of Cottenham, labourer, witnesses for R to be examined; Proctors vs Gervase Brigan, Harrison, Goldisborowe, Fidlyng, Campion, Richardson, Gee and Hartles [wife] - sentence to be executed on Brigan and Harrison, others to appear at next or pay 20s each; John Paske snr. sworn as aletaster; Proctors vs Brigan – fined for preparing flesh last Saturday; Assize of bread – ½d loaf 11oz.

p.272: 10 Apr. 1584 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Cansfield appears and is granted adjournment to next; Proctors vs Fidlyng, butcher, for killing flesh in Lent – assignation; Proctors vs Richardson, cook, fined for preparing flesh in Lent and to pay costs; Proctors vs Richard Gee, victualler, fined for the same offence and to pay costs; Nicholas Algate, barber vs Robert and Joanna Russell – Edward Rickard and Rohn Richemond both of Madingley, labourers, witnesses for A to be examined; 7 May Jane, wife of John Hatcher, swears that she is in fear of her life and limbs at the hands of William Woulfe, butcher, W bound in £20 to keep the peace towards her during the VC’s pleasure.

p.273: 8 May 1584 Algate vs Russells – a testifies that the Rs are intending to remove to outside the jurisdiction of the court, they are to be bound in 40 £ to appear; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – continued to next for execution of sentence and assessment of costs; Dr Hatcher vs William Woulfe for trespass – assignation; Tobias Bland BA (by his brother William) vs James Forester MA – F contumacious, penalty in next; John Nashe committed to Tolbooth for ‘injust and incivil behaviour towards the Proctor Hawkyns’, witnesses Richard Palmer and Francis Burgoyne MAs; Henry Alcocke bound in 100s to appear.

p.274: 11 May 1584 N. Algate, barber, bound in £30 to Robert Russell of Gamlingay, gent., and Simon Watson, gent., in the same sum to A for R that the suit long continued between O. Wylson, deceased, whose widow is Joanna Russell, and Nicholas and Pernell Algate, should go to arbitration by Drs Byng and Legge and to abide by the arbitration; 15 May Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – continued in statu quo; Hatcher vs Woulfe – assignation; 22 May H alleges damage to trees etc. on H’s ground between his wall and the King’s Ditch by W and his cattle.

p.275: 22 May 1584 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – assignation; Richard Belward MA vs Edward Gretheade of Comberton for indicting him on suspicion of felony, G to be bound with sureties (Thomas Crofote of St Bene’t’s parish, baker) in £100 to appear.

p.276: 29 May Hatcher vs Woulfe – assignation; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – assignation, Cansfield absent; Taxors vs Flemson, baker, for bread 2oz underweight in the ½d loaf and 2½oz in the 1d loaf – assignation; Bulward/Bullard vs Greatheade – G to be examined; 19 June All cases continued to next owing to press of business; 26 June Hatcher vs Woulfe – assignation.

p.277: 26 June 1584 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – execution of sentence granted, costs to be assessed at next; Bulward vs Greathead – G contumacious in not having undergone examination, penalty in next; Holland vs Swanne – assignation to Thursday in VC’s room; Office vs Horne and Field for slandering the VC ‘that [they] as it was reported had taken and receyved of the vynteners of Cambridge £10 apeece for a bribe to sell wyne the deerer’ - witnesses Leonard Landesdale, W. Hawkyns, John Standish, Richard Evans. H and F confirm that they had heard that Mr Burwell and other vintners had given the VC £10 from John Keymer in the presence of Nicholas Gaunt, burgess, assignation.

p.278: 3 July 1584 Richard Philoe vs Thomas Harris for a debt of £4 – H not found in his rooms, to be recited; Bulward vs Greathead – assignation; Dr Hatcher vs W. Woulf – W alleges that the VC has received letters from ‘Mr barone shutt’ which call for deferment until next court day; W. Woolf vs H. Smyth (Corpus Christi College) - assignation; 3 July Robert Newcom, inceptor in Arts vs Richard Barowes MA for an assault in the School Lane at 9 the previous night and for tearing off and retaining his shirtband worth 6s, assesses his personal injury at £20 – B to pay 13s 4d and N to restore B’s cap (galerum).

p.279: 3 July 1584 Office vs Horne and Field – continued in statu quo; John Amye LLD and John Hammond MA (Fellows of Clare Hall) bound in 100s each that Robert Newcome, himself bound in £10, shall keep the peace towards Richard Barowes MA; John Jegon BD (Fellow of Queens’ College) and Roger Parker MA bound in the same sum for Barowes, himself bound in £10, to keep the peace towards Newcom; 10 July Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – L exhibits costs, St Catharine’s College, absent, proved contumacious, penalty in next; Hatcher vs Woolf – continued in statu quo; Woolf vs Sophonius Smyth – S proved contumacious, penalty in next; Burward vs Greatheade – G to be further examined.

p.280: 10 July 1584 [Henry] Wayland, Bursar of trinity College vs John Chpman, fishmonger for debt of £50 – penal sum on a bond, W on C’s confession says that the College will settle for £15 and costs (22d); John Chapman, fishmonger vs Agnes Vipeny for failing to save him harmless on the above bond – confesses, to pay C the £15 and 22d costs and 22d costs for this action also; Philo vs Harrys – H not found, viis et modis decreed; John Hutchinson BD vs John Bacster, Bedell, as surety for one Dr Burton whose son Richard was in H’s charge, Dr B having failed in his payments, B confesses and is to pay 115s and 22d costs.

p.281: 17 July 1584 All cases continued until after Michaelmas owing to press of business and the harvest; W. Woolf, butcher vs Sophonius Smith MA for debt of £41 17s 8d for victuals delivered to Corpus Christi College and taken as S’s private debt – Elizabeth, wife of William Woolf, testifies that Norgate (Master of Corpus Christi College) had repudiated the debt on the College’s behalf and that S had taken it upon himself, S to be in custody until the sum is paid with costs.

p.282: 24 July 1584 Philoe vs Harrys – H counter claims for ‘una ulna of shirtyng’ stolen by P’s wife for which P promises to make satisfaction, H to pay 40s now and 40s later and to be in custody until …; Bond of Thomas Thomas, printer, in 50 marks ‘not to print any book, pamphlet or paper after he has finished Saddils [Sadeel’s] works until further order is taken with him’ by the Chancellor, VC and University. To bring in another surety in the same sum by tomorrow night.

p.283: 25 July 1584 John Pake, draper, John Mosse, draper, and Peter Winge vs Remigius Booth MA (Fellow of Gonville and Caius College) for debts of 44s 9d to Paske, £4 13s 4d to Mosse and 2s 6d to Winge – payment to be made within six months, John Cowell (Fellow of King’s College) surety; 7 Aug. Thomas Barber, carpenter vs Mr D. Monforde for debt of 13s 4d for 225 foot of board, payment decreed; 15 July Formal nomination by R. Howland VC, in his great room in St John’s College, of surrogates – T. Legge, R. Norgate and H. Tyndall, or any of them; 12 Aug. [Henry] Nelson MA (Fellow of St John’s College) vs Mother Ellen alias Blande for two pairs of sheets and a blanket bought about Midsummer Fair time from his pupil Hodgeson – witness John Lucas, assignation to Friday next and then to 18 September.

p.284: 14 Aug. 1584 Beatrix Allein vs Brookes, tailor – charge of paternity, assignation to 18 September, Redman, deputy Proctor, undertakes to produce Brookes; 25 Aug. Agreed by bakers Henry Jackson, William Hawkyns, John Nashe, John Stevens, Thomas Crofote, John Scot, Roger Jackson, William Sparow, John Baker, Miles Goldisborowe, John Tooley (and ‘at the last’ Henry Flemson and Hobson), that the bread supplied by them is to be carried and sold by horse in Sturbridge Fair, riding up and down after the old usage, by two bakers, viz. for this year Stevyn and Hawkyns, each bound in £12 to satisfy all customers (all bakers to supply the bread); Assize of bread – ½d loaf 11oz in town 10oz in Fair, quarter of wheat 15s with 2s allowance; 28 Aug. Imprisonment of Spring (St John’s College), Millesent, Smyth (St John’s College) and [?John] Wright (Clare Hall) for playing football on 21 and 24 Aug. and for meeting in the fields to fight on 26 Aug., [Thomas or William] Westfield (Clare Hall), Henry Ramsonne (Trinity College) and Emerson (Trinity College) to be beaten in the schools, Sisley, Curle, M. Smyth, Campion, Wright, Hurst, Charles Smyth, Peerse, Pooley, [?William] Caverley, E[dmund] Caverley, Leeke, Rookes and Mr Moore fined 5s (Moore 20s and suspended from degrees), Rookes to declaim in the schools on the subject of obedience, 31 Aug. Blowe fined 5s, Walker and Davies imprisoned; 1 Sept. Green (Peterhouse) and Mr Allen (King’s College) fined 5s; 4 Sept. Mr Askam and Mr Stafford fined 5s each; Linsay and Bayle MAs (St John’s College) to make public apology after the Fair for having entered the Consistory and uttered uncivil words, L fined 20s, B 10s.

p.285: 4 Sept. 1584 Mr Elles of Chesterton vs Thomas Paris and John Barnard – defendants bound in £10 to appear; Mr Braken vs Thomas Paris, W. Goodwyn and John Barnard – defendants bound as above; Wright of Clare Hall has 5s fine remitted because he was committed to the Tolbooth and beaten by his tutor in Clare Hall; 9 Sept. Dr Styll (Master of Trinity College) and Seniors (John Copcottes, Leonard Chambers, Martin Williams, Henry Wayland, John Ducke, Jeremy Radcliff) vs John Brownyng DD for recovery of books and keys belonging to the office of Master – assignation; Styll vs Brownyng for injury – S seeks to have B bound in £300 to appear until sentence, S warned.

p.286: 10 Sept. 1584 Styll etc. vs Brownyng – B charged with contumacy for not handing over keys and books and for not appearing, Stokys testifies that B when cited said ‘I do reverence Mr vichech aucthoritie but I can not come for my savetie’, penalty for contumacy further action in B’s absence, missing books listed ‘statute booke, the book of exiits, the regester of leases, the books of admission of schollers in to the Colledge, the book of allowances of dyes etc. and also the keis of the Thresurer house’, B’s receipt exhibited, B to be bound in £10.

p.287: 10 Sept. 1584 Styll vs Brownyng for injury – John Newton and John Warren witnesses for S that ‘Brownyng upon tewsday last about vj of the clocke in the mornyng did with his knyff cut owt the masters name sc. Mr collegij being the tytle of mr Jo: Styll … and standing in the place here articulated and that he commanded W to put in to the table of the buttery no name that he had cut out’; 11 Sept. am Styll etc. vs Browning – B fined £10 for contumacy in not appearing (to the use of the University) and proved contumacious also for not handing over books etc., penalty in next; Styll vs Browing for injury – continued in statu quo, Heads agree that VC may imprison B if it is opportune and possible; Decree ‘that no scholler should play at foteball before michaelmas come twelmonth / yf any scholler of what degree so ever did playe in eny colledge for the first tyme he should pay 5s, for the ijd time 10s and for the third he should be banished / And if any should playe in the streates of the towne / or in the fieldes or in any other place within fyve myles of the towne of Cambridge for the first tyme he should be banished’; 11 Sept. pm Styll etc. vs Browning – B has refused to pay the £10 or hand over books etc., contumacious, penalty in next.

p.288: 11 Sept. 1584 Styll vs Browning for injury – B contumacious, penalty further action, John Copcottes DD, witness for S, objects to being sworn and states that he does not intend to violate the statutes and privileges of the College, witnesses of action Edward Holte and Gregory Cayme; 12 Sept. VC sick, Perne as deputy continues both cases to 14 Sept.; 14 Sept. Styll etc. vs Browning – decreed that one of the Bedells assisted by the Proctors may enter B’s room by force and force open chests and other locked places and take ‘the keys of the towre’ and the books etc. and report.

p.289: 14 Sept. 1584 Styll vs Browning for injury – adjourned to same time as above; 15 Sept. All hearings postponed in absence of assessors, Browning allowed to have counsel of Mr Swale and Mr Revell; 16 Sept. Styll vs Browning – B appears and is bound in £300 for future appearances, Jeremy Radclyff proctor for Styll; 17 Sept. Styll vs Browning – adjourned to 15 Oct., B promises but is not bound to appear, decreed that B should give an address where he can be cited, gives that of [Edward] Lively Regius Professor of Hebrew.

p.290: 3 Oct. 1584 Taxors vs John Towley, baker – fined 6s 8d and 22d costs for selling underweight bread; 9 Oct. Brakyn vs Parys, Goodwyn and Barnard – assignation; Elis vs Parys and Barnard – assignation; Taxors vs Nashe, Flemson and Hobson – H fined 6s 8d and 2s 2d costs for underweight bread on the evidence of Loon [?Leonard] Landisdale, N and F absent; Crag vs Lorkin – one entry cancelled, assignation; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – assignation; Norcote vs Evers for £30 due on a bond – assignation.

p.291: 9 Oct. 1584 Office vs Keymer – K not found, his wife cited, both absent, K or wife to be re-cited; Taxors vs diverse delinquents at the Leet – schedule admitted, no further action; Creditors of Edward Wylson vs his administratrix viz. - Crag (£6 10s), Ward (£20), Petc.hy (43s), Hodiloe (£6), Foxton (£6 16s 6d), Brendon (19s 10¾d) and Richard Surgion (34s 2d), absent creditors pronounced contumacious and to be excluded from any settlement, assignation;12 Oct. Norcot vs Thomas Evers – Edmund Mondeforde proctor for E (absent because of pressing business), adjourned; 16 Oct. Crag vs Lorkin – continued in statu quo; Norcoke vs Evers – continued in statu quo, E warned to appear if agreement not reached; Creditors of E. Wylson – adjourned for creditors to examine conduct of administration; W. Marten, glazier, by his wife vs Arthur Leache, glazier – Elizabeth M testifies that L has a horse belonging to M and seeks restoration; Office vs Keymer – K not found, his wife refuses to appear.

p.292: 16 Oct. 1584 Hawkyns vs Horne, Bourne jnr., Jenkynson, Woodward and Wright – all defendants fined 20s for contumacy in not appearing; Hawkyns vs Smartfote – Standish certifies that S’s wife insulted him when he went to collect fine imposed on s by Leet, S fined 5s for contumacy in not appearing and for his wife’s contumacy and boldness; Hawkyns vs James Morley for recovery of a fine of 40s imposed on M by the Leet for keeping a shop while a bachelor – to be in custody or find sureties for his appearance; Alice Fyld vs Alexander Clarke – C absent, to be re-cited; 23 Oct. Hatcher vs Woulf – assignation; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – continued in statu quo; Cragge vs Lorkin – L maintains that C’s materia should not be admitted as C has previously denied the VC’s authority, assignation; Taxors vs Hawkyns – fined 6s 8d and 22d costs for selling underweight bread; [Henry] Hawkyns, Proctor vs Roger Harrison and Mr Green – Harrison fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing, G promises to make satisfaction to Hawkyns; [H.] Hawkyns vs Horne for recovery of a fine of £16 imposed by the Leet for ingrossing – claims to have a licence by three justices but is ordered to pay.

p.293: 23 Oct. 1584 [H.} Hawkyns vs Gilly for dicing – G fined 40s, gives notice of appeal; A. Field vs A. Clarke - C to be examined; 30 Oct. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – assignation; Crag vs Lorkin – assignation; Hatcher vs Woulf – adjourned to next; John Goodwyn vs Laurence Barker – G asks that B’s appeal to the VC’s Court from the Commissary’s Court not having been brought by B within the defined time, it should lapse and be invalid, assignation.

p.294: 30 Oct. 1584 Laurence Barker vs John Goodwyn – B attempts to initiate appeal – assignation; Barker vs Goodwyn for debt of 64s – G alleges ‘that he is a Freeman of the towne of Cambridge and the said Laurence is a forennerand by reason therof he is not here to aunswere the same’; Bulward vs Greathead – Thomas Brayne, William Halhed, Thomas Anger, W. Hill, Andrew Herborowe, Peter Lion and Elizabeth, wife of Anthony page, witnesses for B; Landisdale and Tayleboys vs Dormer, alderman, and Mannyng – assignation [fine of 20d on D for contumacy, cancelled]; Fyld vs Clarke – C to be examined further.

p.295: 6 Nov. 1584 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Perne, deputy VC, assigns to VC; Cragge vs Lorkin as above; Hatcher vs Woulf – continued in statu quo; Landisdale and Taleboys vs James Robson for buying 30 quarters of wheat from Carowe of Chesterton and exporting it to Lynn – R confesses to having bought and sold five quarters, assignation; Field vs Clarke – both parties bound in 10 £ to stand to the arbitration of Dr Fulke; Goodwyn vs Barker – Bettes, proctor for G, B’s appear deemed invalid, Commissary Legge to proceed to execution of sentence; Hawkyns vs Gill – fined 2s for contumacy in not appearing; Hawkyns vs Richard Wright for recovery of fine in Leet for keeping a shop while unmarried – W absolved as a foreigner and not practising a trade listed among those for which keeping a shop unmarried and under thirty is an offence; 13 Nov. All cases continued to next owing to press of business.

p.296: 20 Nov. 1584 Hatcher vs Woulf – deputy VC Legge assigns to VC; Martin vs Leache - Pope proctor for M, L not found, to be in custody etc.; Proctors vs Roger Harrison – contumacious in not appearing, penalty in next; Taxors vs Flemson, Mr Henry Clarke, Wylliamson and Leonard as above; Taxors vs Homes of the Eagle and Child for underweight hay – assignation; Taxors vs John Harvy for underweight hay – assignation; Taxors vs John Harvy for using defective measures unsealed – assignation.

p.297: 20 Nov. 1584 Hawkyns vs Robson – sentence for exporting five dozen candles to be executed; Nicholas Fisher and William Poole sworn as aletasters; Taxors vs Flemson, baker, for underweight bread on the evidence of Richard Bicardike – fined 3s 4d and costs and 20d worth of bread to the poor; Hawkyns’ bread underweight [marginal note]; 27 Nov. Larkin vs St Catharine’s College – continued in statu quo; Cragge vs Lorkin – continued in statu quo; Taxors vs John Harvy – the five dozen bottles [or bundles] of hay to be forfeit and costs paid; Taxors vs Harvy – the measures to be broken up, no further action; Taxors vs Mannyng for exporting gran contrary to Dr Perne’s mandate – M claims that he did not know of the order and that the grain was bought outside the liberties, absolved; Hawkyns vs Mannyng for recovery of fine imposed by Leet for ingrossing 10 quarters of wheat and 10 of barley – M claims that he did not ingross as defined by the statute – assignation; Hawkyns vs Dormer and Gill – absent, to be re-cited; Hawkyns vs Bourne – absolved from last case brought against him by H because unjustly asked to pay.

p.298: 27 Nov. 1584 Landesdale and Tayleboyes vs James Robson – assignation; Marten vs Leache - Thomas Richardson of ‘Stoke quye’ witness for M, L warned to appear; 4 Dec. Bond of Thomas Chayre, citizen and stationer of London, exhibited by Bettes; Taxors vs Dormer, innholder, for 14 dozen faggots defective in length and thickness – D admits defects (he cannot make them otherwise) but denies quantity, assignation; Taxors vs Leonard Taylor, innholder for underweight hay – hay (two dozen) to be forfeit and T fined 6s 8d and costs for defective half-peck measure.

p.299: 4 Dec. 1584 Taxors vs Oliver Green – 1½ dozen faggots defective in length and thickness forfeit; Taxors vs John Clarke – fined 6s 8d and costs for not bringing two measures to be sealed; Braken vs Paris, Goodwyn and Barnard – cause remitted to the common law; Landisdale and Tayleboys vs Robson (first entry cancelled) - assignation; Hawkyns vs Gill – execution of previous sentence (fine of 60s to Proctors) decreed; 11 Dec. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – L exhibits schedule of costs, to be assessed first court day after Christmas.

p.300: 11 Dec. 1584 Ralph Roebucke vs John Hurst for a debt of 60s – H to be in custody or find sureties for his appearance after Christmas; Taxors vs Dormer – execution of sentence for 600 bottles (or bundles) of hay decreed; Clement Furde vs George Wylson – W absent to be in custody or find sureties in £4 for his appearance; Taxors vs Dormer – defective faggots, 14 dozen confirmed, to be forfeit; Taxors vs Hawkyns, baker, for underweight bread – fined 3s 4d and costs and 12d worth of bread to the poor.

p.301: 4 Jan. 1584/5 Agreement by chandlers John Howell, Mecalf, Cooper, Roger Smyth, John Bowser, Goldisborowe, Mannyng, Newman, Hawkyns, John Williamson, to guarantee a supply of candles to the University and town at 3d a lb until Easter, licensed to export. Remaining chandlers Robson, Haselop, Tidswell, *Raynes, Bredon, Archer, Campion, Lynsey, *Samuel Robynson, Michael Ward, *John Bevys, *Raper, Richard Robynson and *Barber to be summoned to give the like undertaking (those asterisked agreed). Stated that Robson, Barber, Richard Robynson and Raper ‘did usually carie out candles’; 15 Jan. Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – costs assessed at 40s, Master and fellows to be ordered to pay by mandate under VC’s seal posted on their gate, also to pay sums decreed by Drs Good, Amy and Barowe.

p.302: 15 Jan. 1584/5 St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – Cansfield syndic, assignation; Cragg vs Lorkin – C's materia admitted; 22 Jan. Henry Crifford vs Thomas Crowfote for debt of 10 £ (penal sum on a bond of £5) - £5 costs paid in court, Crifford satisfied; Cragg vs Lorkin – L refused further time to deliberate, Dr Amye, Gisbright Jacob and Roger Dod witnesses for C to be examined (and cross-examined).

p.303: 22 Jan. 1584/5 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Bacster testifies that he cited Messrs Foster and Reader (Fellows of St Catharine’s College), L claims that not all the money has yet been paid, Cansfield syndic for St Catharine’s College, assignation, L warned to appear; Archer, attorney for Daniel Ventreis, administrator of the estate of Thomas Ventreis to the use of Thomas, son of Daniel Ventreis, scholar vs Robert Raye for a debt on a bond – R denies the jurisdiction on the grounds that a similar suit is in progress before the Mayor and another in the Court of Requests, TV and RR were both burgesses, DV a ‘Foryner or freeburges, and no scholer or schollers servaunt’, R absolved and A’s letters of attorney pronounced fraudulent, R to produce credible certificate that suit is in progress in the Court of Requests.

p.304: 22 Jan. 1584/5 St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – entry cancelled; 29 Jan. John Fletcher MA vs Thomas Jackson, fletcher, for debt of £16 (penal sum on a bond for £8) - J claims that £4 10s is already paid and that two others were bound surety with him for the loan, decreed that J shall pay the remaining 70s with costs; Taxors vs Elizabeth Whalles for forestalling 15 bushells of wheat – John Tidswell for EW denies the charge and promises to pay fine should Taxors prove otherwise; Lorkin vs Cansfield for defamation - ‘That he … had gyven false and wronge informacion to the universitie and to this courte’, C confesses and apologises.

p.305: 29 Jan. 1584/5 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – all three Bedells mandated to warn Master and Fellows to pay L and if they do not to distrain goods up to £26 18s, other expressions of intention to execute sentence; Cragg vs Lorkin – Thomas Wenham MA, Thomas Archer MA and Richard Reader MA, witnesses for C, to be examined; St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin for cutting down woods in their grounds in Chesterton to the sum of £30 and for breaching the statute of maintenance for buying a title whereof there was a suit depending in Chancery – assignation.

p.306: 29 Jan. 1584/5 Thomas Tomson vs Mark Sadlyngton MA for debt of 40s and for destroying the bill – assignation; John Bettes LLB vs John Bacster, Bedell, for debt of £20 for which he was bound with Robert Thacker as penal sum for debt of £10 – Bacster to pay the full £20.

p.307: 5 Feb. 1584/5 Tomson vs Sadlington – assignation; Taxors vs Hera Walles – Robert Stydman for Taxors testifies to having sold wheat to W including some that had not yet arrived although he suspected that it was too early in the day; Archer vs Raye – A seeks to prove R contumacious for not having provided the required certificate, Richard Richardson, servant of Raye, testifies to R’s being sick and exhibits documents relating to the suit pending in the Court of Requests.

p.308: 8 Feb. 1584/5 Office vs John Woodward, butcher and John Cooper, tailor, for contempt – Standish testifies that while he was serving a writ on W (to be in custody or find sureties) C affected a rescue ‘and tooke hold of his staff and did plucke of the mace of his staff and so strooke or tripped twise or thrise at the legges of the said standish and so tumbled with hym that the said W made a scape. Whereupon the said S holdyng the said C browght him to the prison’ where C picked up a ‘cowltree’ [pole used to carry burdens] and threatened S with it, then threatened the prison keeper with his dagger. On leaving the prison keeper’s house he saw W who attacked him with a ‘cowgell [cudgel] or cowltree’ and drew blood. Both to be imprisoned during the VC’s pleasure; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Bacster testifies to having executed mandate and having personally summoned Tomson and Burton BAs but having received no money or goods, St Catharine’s College proved contumacious, L admits to owing St Catharine’s College 20s rent due for 12 acres of arable in Chesterton leased to one Woodcocke, pays this and asks for acquittance, £27 18s still due to him from C.

p.309: 8 Feb. 1584/5 Cragg vs Lorkin – depositions published; Lorkyn vs Cragg for repeating the defamation uttered by Cansfield and for promising to justify it, L assesses damages at £100; 12 Feb. Office vs Keymer (before VC and 10 Heads) for selling wine without licence from the University – should be fined 100s for each month, K refuses to pay or to put in a caution for his appearance, to be in custody until he does provide a caution.

p.310: 12 Feb. 1584/5 All other cases continued in statu quo propter alia graviora academie negocia; 19 Feb. Proctors vs Keymer – K confesses to having continued to sell wine after being forbidden to by the Proctors, denies jurisdiction of the court, committed to custody; Henry Seman of Soham, yeoman, bound in £200 to appear ‘every court day being Friday’ until the end of the cause between Robert Rummet of West Wratting, husbandman, and himself, unless prevented by sickness or the Queen’s service; St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – L to appear at next (not proved contumacious as requested by Cansfield); Cragg vs Lorkin – continued in statu quo.

p.311: 22 Feb. 1584/5 John Standish, Bedell vvs Roger Acrod BD for recovery of 18s due by order of the court to Richard Elwood, waterman, from one Totynham/Totham of Barley, oatmealman, for whom A stood surey – A promises to pay the 18s to Elwood and costs; 26 Feb. Office vs Keymer – K committed to custody for contempt of court in refusing to show cause why he should not be fined and for denying jurisdiction; Taxors vs Hera Whalles – fined for forestalling; John Norcot vs W. Barcroft MA for debt of £30 on a bond – assignation.

p.312: 3 Mar. 1584/5 Office vs [John] Tall BA (Jesus College) - fined 13s 4d for coming before the VC without square or hood; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Cragg and Foster, present for St Catharine’s College, ordered to pay L £27 18s, they deny the court’s competence; 5 Mar. Lorkin vs Oliver Green – G summoned refused to come because ‘he had ride to [?Land] Beach rectory’, penalty for contumacy at next; Henry Seman vs Roomet – assignation; Lorkin vs John Cragg MA and [Benedict] Cansfield MA for accusing him of false evidence in VC’s Court – L esteems his injury at £200 between them both, C and C refer themselves to Cansfield’s answer of 29 Jan.; Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College- Cansfield ordered to pay the £27 18s, replies as Cragg and Foster on 3 Mar.; St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – L allowed delay until his counsel returns to Cambridge.

p.313: 4 Mar. 1584/5 John Fletc.her MA vs Edmund Smalwood for debt of £7 on a bond of S, Thomas Jacson and Gervase Brigan – decreed that S shall pay 70s and costs within a fortnight; 11 Mar. John Cutbard, stationer vs Edmund Smalwood for debt of £9 on a bond – S to pay the full sum and costs before Easter; 12 Mar. Francis Earle, tailor, bound in £40 to produce for questioning, after her delivery, a pregnant woman named Mary whom he is harbouring (E lives in a mansion house in St Michael’s parish); Lorkin by his son in law, [Edward] Lively vs Oliver Green and J. Godfrey, churchwardens of All Saints’ – G and G fined 2s for not appearing on 5 Mar., assignation.

p.314: 19 Mar. 1584/5 Lorkin (via Lively) vs Green and James Godfrey – Bettes proctor for L, assignation; Taxors vs Thomas Crowforthe for underweight bread – C claims that it was 2½ not 3oz underweight and that it was in any case ‘quested’ [crushed] bread, fined 12d and 22d costs.

p.315: 19 Mar. 1584/5 Taxors vs T. Crowforth for underweight bread – fined 12d and 22d costs; Taxors vs Crowforth for underweight bread – fined 2s and costs; Taxors vs William Hawkins for underweight bread – fined 5s and costs.

p.316: 19 Mar. 1584/5 Proctors vs Thomas Pechie of Haverhill, butcher, for killing and selling flesh in Lent – to be in custody until bound with sureties in 100s for his appearance.

p.317: 19 Mar. 1584/5 Office vs Keymer – proceedings hitherto summarised in VC’s admonition of K. At the request of Sir Walter Ralegh [patentee for licensing vendors of wine throughout the kingdom], the Lord Treasurer (Burghley) has asked for K’s release from custody which the VC is willing to allow if K will be bound in £100 to appear before the Chancellor within 10 days of the beginning of Easter term if the cause is not yet settled by the two Chief Justices. K protests offensively ‘he was neither a Jew or a Turk’ and states that he ‘will enter into no bond until he understand what order Sir Walter Raleigh hath taken in this matter’, returned to custody [see Cooper, ii.398-9, 404-6 and UA Lett.9, B.20(a-f)]; 2 Apr. Robert Roomet vs Henry Seman – R absent but not fined, assignation.

p.318: 3 Apr. 1585 Roomet vs Seman for breach of contract – R absent, proved contumacious, penalty to be release of S from suit and R to pay cost of 20s, S’s bond of 19 Feb. cancelled, R to be arrested and in custody until bound with sureties in 40s to appear and show cause why this sentence should not be executed; 23 Apr. Lorkin vs Green and Godfrey – G and G proved contumacious, penalty in next; George Rychardson, cordwainer vs John Bacster, Bedell for debt – Francis Hisson literatus proctor for R, B warned to appear, Ezechiel Warren of Little St Mary’s parish, necessary witness for R, also to be cited.

p.319: 23 Apr. 1585 Remigius Booth MA vs Peter Swalder of Barton – assignation; 1 July Arthur Hildersham MA, pensioner of Christ’s College, nominated with William Perkins to dispute at Commencement and subsequently ordered to do so by the Proctors and then the VC, suspended from all degrees, stripped of his hood and master’s insignia and committed to custody for refusing to do so; 2 July Restored to his degrees and, on his knees, absolved.

p.320: 31 Apr. 1585 All cases continued in statu quo from press of business; 5 May Taxors vs Henry Flemson for underweight bread on two occasions – all the bread forfeit and yesterday’s batch of four dozen to be distributed to the poor and the inmates of the Castle, Tolbooth and Spittle House; 14 May Proctors vs fishmongers – Robson, Goldisborowe, Vipenye, W. Campion, Williamson, John Hawkyns, Robert Lynsey, John Barbar and Henry Rapar, assignation, Robson to appear for the fishmongers; 18 May Lorkin vs Green and Godfrey – G and G agree to pay the 2s costs already assessed, decreed that they shall publicly restore L’s daughters and servant to their seat in All Saint’s church and pay 10s to L and certify performance, witnesses as in next; Proctors vs Robson etc. – R to be fined 10s for contumacy in not appearing and to be cited for Wednesday, witnesses Robert Jeninges and Robert Gell.

p.321: 18 May 1585 Richardson vs Bacster – John Durant proctor for R, debt of £11 confessed, to be paid with 2s costs in two instalments, 1 August and Michaelmas, D objecting to the delay, witnesses Jeninges and Gell, scribes; 3 June Bond of William Saunderson of Barnwell, thatcher, in £100 for the future good behaviour of his wife, Mabel who in drunken rage threatened to set fire to her neighbours’ houses and to kill Joan Saunderson, and for her conveyance at least three miles from Cambridge and Barnwell within three hours of her release never to return.

pp.322-3: 11 June 1585 All cases continued in statu quo for press of business; 18 June Nicholas Algat and his wife, Pernel vs Robert Russell and his wife, Joan (arbitration) - assignation for sentence, James Huitson to appear for Russells; Lorkin vs Green and Godfrey – G and G contumacious in not having restored L’s daughters to their seats in the time stated, to do so on pain of 40s fine and to certify performance at next court day; 14 June Proctors vs Robson etc. – continued in statu quo; 28 June Proctors vs Robson etc. – Standish testifies that Robson and Medcalf, proctors, were to be cited or this day, R not found, Medcalf and Vipeny’s wife cited, M and Semor, proctor, appear and claim that they were elected proctors without their consent and refuse to act, all parties to be cited in person on pain of 40s fine each; 13 July Proctors vs Robson etc. – deposition of John Wylkynson, witness for the prosecution, published, sentence (for using ungauged measures and vessels) given verbatim, fined 3s 4d per vessel ungauged with 13s 4d costs and to certify performance.

p.324: 13 July 1585 Clare Hall vs Henry Raper, chandler, for debt of £4 due from his deceased uncle – to be paid (1 pound at Easter, and then 5s every quarter day until …), James Robson and Richard Goldisborow, chandlers, his sureties in £4; 14 July Proctors vs Matthew Patten of Ipswich, pewterer, found in Newmarket with two platters and a pottinger from Christ’s College which he claims to have bought from one Cooper (?cooper) of Newmarket, also charged with a false weight (too large, for buying) for which fined 6s 8d and the weight to be broken, and to produce Cooper on pain of forfeiting his pack, thought to be worth 40s.

p.325: 14 July 1585 Proctors vs Thomas Lownt of Walden, tinker, for having in is pack a platter from Trinity College and another of St John’s College and for using defective (light) weight – the platters to be returned and the weight broken, fined 6s 8d for the weight and ordered to produce the vendors of the platters; 16 July Proctors vs Henry Mace, Oliver Green and Richard Artur – M and A fined 2s 6d and G 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing; Algat vs Russells and Huitson – sentence deferred at request of Rs, to be present at next or penalised for contumacy; 21 July John Harvy, innholder vs Senior Proctor [W. Hawes] for throwing down his inn sign between 11 and 12 at night – H states that his deputy walked but returned to Clare Hall before 11, H admits that he thinks it may have been ‘certain gentlemen of the inns of court’, VC promises action against the culprits, H absolved.

p.326: 23 July 1585 Algat vs Russells – Huitson appears for Rs, sentence Rs as executors of Owen Wylson to pay A £14 3s 4d for a house and land in Cottenham, plus 40s for dilapidations which obliged A to sell at a lower price, plus £6 costs, notice of appeal; Proctors vs Robson etc. – distraint ordered on goods of Robson, Goldisborowe, Vipeny, Campion, Williamson, Hawkyns, Lyndsey, Barbar and Raper according to the number of ungauged vessels, Standish to execute; 28 July William Bishop and William Egleston, scholars of Trinity College, mandated to remain in Cambridge until Michelmas to answer charges of Killingbacke, prison keeper, of effecting rescue; 30 July Taxors vs Dormer for execution of sentence passed on 11 Dec.; 31 July Dormer satisfies Proctors; 30 July Office vs Dormer for saying on sentence (above) ‘that yf the Taxers should come to take a distas in his howse … he would make vpropre in Cambridge’ - decree that D be imprisoned until the VC report his words to Queen’s Counsel. Released next day at humble petition of D’s wife and on bond in £100 of Thomas Hodliloe to Messrs Foxton and Clarke, aldermen, appears with Henry Clarke and John Howell, and makes humble retraction, cause continued in statu quo until VC have time to consult his colleagues, D allowed home.

p.327: 30 July 1585 Taxors vs Thomas Ives of Barnwell, James Mason, W. Frenche and W. Coverdale – all fined 6s 8d and to be in custody until they find sureties that they shall never victual; Taxors vs Duglas’ wife and goodwives Bell, Gill, Mayer, Batle, Eaton, Beache, Rayleton, Baker and Archer for buying apples, eggs, butter, peas etc. to sell again before 3 of the clock contrary to statute – to do so no more on pain of forfeiture of wares; Algate vs Russells - sentence to be executed, Standish mandated to cite once more; 6 Aug. Algate vs Russells – entry cancelled, see below; 7 Aug. Office vs Keymer for failure to obey the VC’s order to ‘pluck downe his garland or signe of sellyng of wyne’ within three days on pain of £10 fine - to pay the £10 on pain of another £10 and to certify performance on pain of £20; 6 Aug. Algates vs Russells – Rs still absent, to be arrested and in custody until they find sureties of 40 marks for their appearance.

p.328: 9 Aug. 1585 Proctors vs Keymer for selling wine without licence – K to appear on pain of £10 fine; 12 Aug. K appears and refuses to be examined or to answer, shows copy of alleged letters patent from the Crown in the hand of one of his servants, John Bennet, and one George Hag of Swaffham Market, Norfolk, neither of them notaries, VC requests sight of original and is denied, assignation to 19 Aug. not accepted by K, to appear in person on pain of £10 fine.

p.329: 18 Aug. 1585 Assize of beer – malt 13s 4d a quarter, double beer 3s the kilderkin, single beer 16d, good ale 2s 10d the barrel, carded ale 15d, the ? ganaker to sell 1½ pints of double beer of good ale for ½d and 3 pints of single beer or carded ale; 19 Aug. Proctors vs Keymer – K persistently refuses to recognise jurisdiction and to answer, proved contumacious and deemed to have confessed, assignation for sentence.

p.330: 21 Aug. 1585 Proctors vs Keymer – sentence deferred to 17 Sept.; William Burwell vs Keymer – K bound in £10 to appear on 13 Sept.; John Bacster vs Keymer – as above; Assize of bread – wheat 18s a quarter with 2s allowance, ½d loaf 10oz; 3 Sept. Confession and submission of Thomas Dormer for defamation of the Taxors - verbatim in presence of VC, four Heads, Proctors, Taxors, Mr Foxton, Deputy Mayor and Henry Clarke.

p.331: 13 Sept. 1585 Burwell vs Keymer – K absent, £10 forfeit, to be re-cited; Bacster vs Keymer – as above; 17 Sept. Proctors vs Keymer – assignation to 24 Sept. for sentence, K states unwillingness to attend; Burwell vs Keymer – B seeks distraint for £10, K claims that he did know he was expected on 13 September and that he would anyway have been detained by business at Sturbridge Fair viz. collecting some £60 from chapmen there to pay to Mr Woodman of Lynn. Gave the £60 to Mr Spence in the presence of Mr Duplecke (who gave evidence to this effect in court), assignation.

p.332: 17 Sept. 1585 Standish testifies that he arrested a man’s servant at the fair for an assault on Mr Harrison MA (Fellow of Trinity College) and that the Mayor, Mr Slegg, and Mr Barne/Baron Shutt/Showte had allowed the man’s master to liberate him on grounds that S had no warrant in writing; Bacster vs Keymer – as in Burwell vs K above; Office vs Keymer – K committed to the Tolbooth for ‘unreverend words and gestures’ and ‘sauciness’ to the Judge (as taken down in schedule).

p.333: 24 Sept. 1585 Burwell vs Keymer – K refuses to answer and as penalty for contumacy is deemed to have confessed, assignation to 28 Sept. for sentence; Bacster vs Keymer - as above; Proctors vs Keymer – assignation for sentence to 28 Sept.

p.334: 24 Sept. 1585 Office vs Keymer – asked if he regrets his ‘lewd unseemly words’, K repeats them and is again committed to the Tolbooth; 28 Sept. Burwell vs Keymer – sentence pronounced in presence of Gisbright Jacob, Thomas Bradock and Sophonius Smith MAs, further assignation for K to show cause why sentence should not be executed and for assessment of costs; Bacster vs Keymer – Thomas Smith MA, Bedell, proctor for B, otherwise as above, witnesses Sophonius Smith, Thomas Wenham and Edward Jones MAs.

p.335: 28 Sept. 1585 Proctors vs Keymer – as in last two, witnesses Thomas Smith, Thomas Brooke and Thomas Goodwyn MAs; 1 Oct. All causes continued in statu quo; 5 Oct. William Dawson, shoemaker or cobbler, withdraws his accusation against Messrs Brydon and Sherman that he lost a purse when Proctors’ deputies searched his house; 8 Oct. Taxors vs Ralph Locket of Grantchester, husbandman, for buying from William Stephen of Comberton, husbandman, 10 acres of standing wheat in Barton, 11 acres of barley and 6 acres of ‘bullingmounge’ for resale, ?fined and committed to Tolbooth; Taxors vs Hera Scot, Thomas Evers, Banbrig, James Haverell, Hu Hie, George Lyon, Roger Harrison, Richard Elwood, Mr Green, Roger Johnson, Chamblen and Willes, ?as above; 14 Oct. William Mydleton MA (Fellow of Queens’ College) vs John Chaplein of Trumpington, yeoman, for debt of £60 on a bond – to be paid with 22d costs; 10 Oct. Algates vs Russells – Rs cited, absent, assignation.

p.336: 10 Oct. 1585 Proctors vs Keymer – K absent, to be cited; Burwell vs Keymer – as above; Bacster vs Keymer – as above; 22 Oct. Burwell vs Keymer – K absent, B’s costs assessed at 20s, distraint ordered for the £10 and the 20s, Thomas Smith, Bedell, ordered to execute it with the assistance of one or more Proctor and suitable witnesses; Bacster vs Keymer – as above but costs 22s and distraint to be made by Philip Stringer; Proctors vs Keymer – as in Burwell vs Keymer.

p.337: 22 Oct. 1585 Office vs Henry Mason MA to remove his tenants from his house next to Emmanuel College and to take no more tenants; Lancelot Darnell – to depart the town and go to Ely; William Lambe to move out of the house near Pembroke Hall where he lives; William Barakers to allow no houses to be built on his ground against Pembroke Hall and to allow no one to live in the houses already built there; John Gascoyne, alias Wynge – as Lamb; Robert Turver to evict his tenant Thomas Rawling who is to provide a new house; Richard Grenham and William Oldfield and Robert Gyles to remove before Christmas; Thomas Hayes, yeoman, sworn as deputy to John Standish, Bedell, ‘morbo et infirmitate correptus’; VC receives from Registrary royal letters patent which he hands over to Philip Stringer who is bound in £10 to redeliver them intact within a month; Farbeck and Wolleston vs Agnes Scott, widow, for selling underweight horse bread – her son John Yackley appears for her, fined 2s and costs; Algates vs Russells – Rs absent and proved contumacious, distraint upon their goods ordered in execution of sentence, to be performed by Standish or his deputy.

p.338: 25 Oct. 1585 Samuel Farr MA, Treasurer of Pembroke Hall vs Richard Ramsey, tanner, for debt to the College of £60 on a bond (the other signatory being John Fincham of Withersfield, Suffolk, yeoman), to be paid with costs; 29 Oct. Widow Malim vs Margaret Steder for recovery of a shirt worth 4s 4d, the property of John Greneward, which MS claims to have lost in the laundry – to restore it or pay 4s 4d; 2 Nov. John Malim vs William Bradley for reaping and carrying away barley from land rented by M – B committed to the Tolbooth for contempt in not appearing, submits and has sentence remitted; 8 Nov. Edward Stuttevile vs Remigius Booth MA - B bound in £40 (with surety Nicholas Foster MA) to appear and answer.

p.339: 18 Nov. 1585 George Flude MA, scholar of Magdalene College, bound in £10 to appear and answer in suit brought against him by Owen Hewes, tailor; John Cowell, Junior Proctor vs Thomas Woodward; John Cowell, Junior Proctor vs Thomas Woodward, William Hurst, butchers, John Subden and Trowte for assault and injury to Sophonius Smith, Senior Proctor – witness for the prosecution, Henry Whallet of Barnwell, butcher, John Hall, capper, Christopher Gryme, servingman. W, H and T committed to the Castle, partly for riot and partly for their safekeeping it being feared that the SP’s injury was ‘dangerous, if it were not deadlye’; 16 Nov. Process of admission of Humphrey Tyndall as VC in the ‘senate house’ by his proxy, Dr Norgate, oath given verbatim.

p.340: 16 Nov. 1585 Text of Norgate’s letters of proctorship, dated 13 Nov., issued by Henry Hickman LLD, official of the Bishop of Peterborough; 23 Nov. Richard Swale vs John Cowell for debt of 14 £ penal sum on a bond to pay £7 6s 8d. The bond was for payment by Remigius Booth. £7 6s 8d to be paid by C by St Andrew’s Day, with costs.

p.341: 23 Nov. 1585 John Cowell MA vs Remigius Booth MA for recovery of the £7 6s 8d – B maintains that he gave C sufficient surety with C denies on oath, B to pay with costs; 24 Nov. Nicholas Rutterford of Barnwell, smith, and William Moundeford of Barnwell, husbandman, each bound in 100s for the appearance in court of William Lambe, servant at husbandry, himself bound in 310, to answer charges of having hurt William Curle, scholar of Peterhouse; 27 Nov. John Edmundes vs Philip Stringer for debt – S fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing, to be re-cited by Thomas Smith.

p.342: 3 Dec. 1585 Edmundes vs Stringer and John Bacster for debt on a bond – assignation; Edmundes vs Stringer for debt on a bond – assignation.

p.343: 4 Dec. 1585 Master and Fellows of Trinity College vs William Underne of Starthrope, Nottinghamshire, gent., for debt – John Byll, Bursar, alleges arrears of £116 11s 4d rent for the manor of Starthorpe. Henry Clarke and Roger Smyth, aldermen, sureties in £200 for U’s appearance; 8 Dec. Trinity College vs Underne as above, sum now stated as £69 16s 10½d, rent due from Lady Day 1582 to Lady Day 1585 (at £23 5s 7½d p.a. (?) of which £11 11s 6¾d has been paid, leaving £58 7s 3¾d). U denies jurisdiction, assignation.

p.344: 10 Dec. 1585 Edmundes vs Stringer (both causes) - S absent, deferred to Wednesday in VC’s rooms; Trinity College vs Underne – U still denies jurisdiction, to find sureties in £100 for his appearance, gives the house of Henry Clarke at the sign of the Black Bull in St Bene’t’s parish as the address at which he may be cited, assignation.

p.345: 10 Dec. 1585 John Whaller vs Hemry Flemson – F cited by John Stevens, absent, fined 3s 4d for contumacy; 13 Dec. Trinity College vs Underne – U absent, contumacious, penalty in next; Assize of bread – quarter of wheat 19s with 2s allowance, ½d loaf 9oz; 15 Dec. Richard Filowe/Philo vs Philip Stringer for debt of £4 17s – William Warde MD and Matthew Stokys MA to examine accounts on either side and report to the VC by the Feast of the Purification; Proctors vs Nicholas West and William Bell, tailor, for dicing in Goose’s house – fined with costs.

p.346: 15 Dec. 1585 Valuation of wine distrained from Keymer for debt due to Burwell and Bacster, by John Edmundes and Sherwood, University Appraisers, at £12 for a butt of sack and £14 for a butt of muscatel plus 30s for cost of transport from London. The wine to be sold if not redeemed by New Year’s Day, K to be warned; John Edmundes vs Philip Stringer – S not examined, to be so on pain of action at law (both causes); Whaller vs Flemson – F fined for 10s for failing to deliver 500 bricks for lack whereof the said W hath lost his house rent from Michaelmas to Christmas for that he could not make up his chimney, beside the rotting of his timber; Trinity College vs Underne – U again absent, T seeks distraint of the £100, assignation until after Christmas; 13 Dec. Sophonius Smith, Proctor vs Thomas Woodward – Matthew Sutle proctor for S who cannot leave his house. W to be imprisoned at the Castle until he find sureties for his appearance in £200, injury cause.

p.347: 13 Dec. 1585 Sophonius Smith vs William Hurst, John Trowte and John Subden for injury as above – but sureties in 200 marks; 15 Dec. Smith vs Hurst, Trowte and Subden – assignation; 18 Dec. Office vs John Bartlemew, Frenchman, W. Blythe and W. Hanchet for affray - B to be imprisoned until he find surety for bond of good behaviour, B and H to be beaten, as unable to pay for bloodshed, Nicholas West surety in 100s for B, himself bound in £10; 14 Jan. 1585/6 Trinity College vs Underne – assignation as on 15 Dec.; Edmundes vs Stringer and Bacster – Robert Hall BA proctor for S, assignation; Edmundes vs Stringer as above.

p.348: 19 Jan. 1585/6 Claydon vs Gold – deferred to next court day in hope of settlement; 21 Jan. Claydon vs Gold - continued in statu quo at request of C called away on business; 26 Jan. Sophonius Smith, Senior Proctor vs Woodward, Hurst and Subden – Smith assesses his injuries at £200, he has spent £15 on treatment for a head injury, W to pay £66 13s 4d, H and Subden each £20, in addition to Smith’s legal and medical expenses, W paying half, H and S a quarter each, W and H to be imprisoned in the Castle and Subden in the Tolbooth until payment.

p.349: 26 Jan. 1585/6 John Trowth freed from prison on condition that he leaves Cambridge for ever by Monday, to be imprisoned if he returns; Assize of bread – quarter of wheat 20s with 2s allowance but since the rainy autumn has produced wheat whose flour does not keep well and it is difficult for the bakers to make good bread, ½d loaf 7½oz; 28 Jan. Taxors vs Robson and Whalles – alleged that R has bought 100 combs of wheat and sells it outside the liberties, so ingrossing, R admits to 100 combs but claims that some was of his own growing, neither R nor W to carry any more wheat before their next appearance; Trinity College vs Underne – deferred until after Easter unless U comes to Cambridge before then; Dr [Reuben] Sherwood vs Thomas Evers for debt – Robert Holbem [MA (King’s College), Rector of Elsworth], proctor for S, claims £13 6s 8d penal sum on bond for £6 13s 4d, decree that the principal sum be paid, 40s paid in court, the rest to be paid in two instalments, with 22d costs, in default of subsequent payments the bond to remain in force; Booksellers vs Thomas Wylliamson for bookselling without previous apprenticeship - decree that he serve as an apprentice according to the orders; Thomas Vahan vs John Lyne, tailor – L find 20s for not appearing.

p.350: 4 Feb. 1585/6 Wharton vs Hedley for debt of 11s 8d which H had promised to pay for Francis Hynde – cause deferred in hope of settlement until after the Assizes, W seeks 5s 2d for wood received from him and exhibits his account ; Thomas Williamson vs John Tyffyn for injury – deferred to next in hope of settlement; Richardson vs Haselop – H to be cited in next; 8 Feb. Thomas Williamson, barber vs Nicholas West, bookseller, for injury, West examined; Thomas Williamson vs John Tyffyn for injury – as above; Ferbecke vs William Pikering of London, surgeon, for negligence in treating F’s pupil, William Curle – Richard Hope BA (Fellow of King’s College) and Benjamin Gownvel BA (scholar of St John’s College) bound in £100 each for the appearance of P, himself bound in the same sum.

p.351: 11 Feb. 1585/6 Ferbecke vs Pickerell – P to be bound with sureties in £20 to appear for sentence and whenever personal attendance required, to be cited at the house of William Huntley’s widow in St Sepulchre’s parish; 21 Feb. Office vs John Smith MA for a sermon on the first day of Lent attacking plays on Saturday and on Sunday night, argument given; 26 Feb. Propositions from this sermon listed with the judgements of a) Smith and b) VC and Heads assessing. S to preach another sermon ad clerum in which he will clarify the issues, the text of this sermon having first been approved by VC.

p.351: 2 Mar. 1585/6 Proctors vs George Sanders, butcher for killing and selling flesh in Lent – fined 100s and costs and committed to custody; Proctors vs Philip Clarke, butcher as above; Sanders and Clarke both bound in £10 to kill no flesh before the Tuesday before Easter, prison sentence respited accordingly; 4 Mar. Ferbecke vs Pikering – John Pope proctor for P, assignation.

p.352: 4 Mar. 1585/6 Christopher Fletcher vs George Scot MA - S absent, proved contumacious, to be arrested and in custody of Bacster until he puts in a caution of £8 for his appearance.

p.353: 4 Mar. 1585/6 Dr Barrow vs Thomas Warren for restoration of a brass kettle worth 5s, judgement for plaintiff with 22d costs; Thomas Williamson, Leonard Glascocke and his wife Ann, Nicholas West and John Tyffyn all bound in 100s to stand to the arbitration of Drs Warde and Monford and Mr Whitaker, Regius Professor of Divinity; Thomas Legge LLD vs Thomas Williamson, barber, for defamatory remarks about L’s judgement in a cause – L assesses his injury at £40, James Huitson of Little St Mary’s parish and John Benson of Gonville and Caius College witnesses for L (‘as Christ was condemned by false wytnesses so am I, and am condemned by false iudgment’), fined £20 and 3s costs, the costs paid in court.

p.354: 6 Apr. 1586 VC nominates Goad, Norgate, Byng and Legge as his substitutes until his return.

pp.355-65: Record in hand of ?Philip Stringer.

p.355: 11 Mar. 1585/6 Office vs William Hodgeson for refusing to serve as a searcher of victualling houses – decree for his imprisonment deferred at H’s humble request, to decide by Monday next; Thomas Lorkin MD vs Richard Fanne of Chesterton for unjust detention and injury by loss – fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing and to be in custody until he find sureties for his appearance.

p.356: 11 Mar. 1585/6 Farbeck vs Pickeringe - continued in statu quo; Mondeford vs Killingbeck - as in Lorkin v Fanne; John Edmundes vs Philip Stringer and John Backster snr. – S offers to be bound in £140 for the payment to E of £70 as awarded by Perne and Byng, also to pay £50 as parcel of another due to E by S for wines on pain of £200 forfeit.

p.357: 11 Mar. 1585/6 Bulmer vs Robert Harvie – Matthew Setle proctor for B, assignation; Lorkin vs Williamson – continued in statu quo; 15 Mar. Farbeck vs Pickeringe – assignation; Office vs Ursula, wife of John Johnson of All Saints’ parish – Setle and Woodcocke, deputy Proctors, allege that UJ was taken in adultery with Andrew Pratt in Pratt’s house, she confesses the intention of adultery and seeks pardon, assignation.

p.358: 15 Mar. 1585/6 Office vs Oliver Homes of St Giles’ parish – his licence to victual cancelled for receiving into his house ‘idle rogish women verie suspiciouslie’ and for stating that he deliberately sought acquaintance with such at Sturbridge and Barnwell Fairs; Henry Hawkins vs Gill – Farbeck, attorney for H, decree that a piece of red broadcloth, valued at £3, left as a pledge by G, arising from sentence given by VC, should be sold if not redeemed by G within seven days.

p.359: 17 Mar. 1585/6 Office vs Andrew Prat and Ursula Johnson – Thomas Hatton of All Saints’ parish, carter, and Robert Lawrence of the same parish, plumber, witnesses for the deputy Proctors. Evidence quoted at length, J and H to be imprisoned while judge deliberates.

p.360: 18 Mar. 1585/6 Thomas Gill vs Remigius Booth – Francis Hisson proctor for G, G seeks payment of £6 and 29s 8d and 3s, B absent and proved contumacious, penalty in next; Gill vs John Bacster for £20 penal sum on bond for Booth’s appearance – judgement for plaintiff, Booth to be cited to answer Bacster on charge of debt when he can be apprehended.

pp.361-2: 18 Mar. 1585/6 John Waller vs [?Henry] Flamson – F fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing, to be re-cited; Office vs Prat and Johnson – P confesses to intention, Henry Brombridge BA, Silas Johnson and Henry Smith witnesses for prosecution, B’s evidence given at length. To be committed to the Tolbooth overnight, to stand in the bullring with a paper ‘for committing adultery’ on their backs or heads from noon to 2pm and to be returned to the Tolbooth during the judge’s pleasure.

p.363: 24 Mar. 1585/6 Martin Wharton vs William Hedley – H absent, to be re-cited; Proctors vs Henry Flamson for dressing flesh on prohibited days – fined £5 and in custody according to statute (4d paid); Waller vs Flamson as surety for the delivery of bricks to W at Cambridge by one John Read of Ely – F claims that the bricks were to be delivered at Ely and that he was so bound; Proctors vs John Calton for dressing flesh on a forbidden day – fined £5 and in custody according to the statute (4d paid); Proctors vs Roger Harrison – H cited by John Stevens, Bedell, absent, fined 3s 4d for contumacy.

p.364: 24 Mar. 1585/6 Proctors vs Mary Chomleie and Gervase Brigan as above; Taxors vs Edmund Gates – fined 20s for victualling (selling beer) contrary to statute (?unlicensed), 4d paid; Taxors vs James Mason – as above, (4d paid); Taxors vs William French and Widow Lestige, alias Butcher - fined 2s each for contumacy in not appearing; Proctors vs Thomas Richardson – fined £5 etc. for dressing flesh on forbidden days.

p.365: 2 Mar. 1585/6 Proctors vs George Sanders, Clarke, John Goldisborowe and Wilson, butchers – all fined 100s and committed to custody for killing and selling flesh in Lent; 22 Mar. Ferbecke vs Pickering for negligence in treating W. Curle of Hatfield Wood, Hertfordshire, gent. - Hisson proctor for P, materia submitted, assignation; Widow Woodhowse vs Thomas Tomson – both bound in £20 to stand to VC’s arbitration in 15 days hence; 26 Mar. Powell vs Hampton and Hampton vs Powell [see also William Holland vs Richard Palmer on p.373] – H confesses ‘Wallenses [The Welsh] to be as good subiectes as any other in England, and that he thincketh no worse of that nation then he doth of any other countrey, but only ment of one only person whoe had abused hym’. Both Hampton and Powell suspended from the Regent House for this half year (until Ascension Day), to keep the peace towards one another.

p.366: 30 Mar. 1586 Hugh Wilson of London, haberdasher vs Hugh Chamley for a debt of 160 £ and hats now in St John’s College unpaid for - Edmundes and Burwell, Appraisers, appraise 18 hats with linings, bands etc. at 106s 2d, the hats to be returned to W in part payment; 31 Mar. Richard Claydon MA vs Owen Powell, sherman [shearman], for recovery of two doublets, a pair of sheets and an old gown which P bought from C’s pupil, Kenion – P confesses to one doublet (12s) and the sheets (20d) and says he has returned the gown. The rest to be returned and P fined 40s and costs, intended prison sentence remitted.

pp.367-71: Other hand.

p.367: 10 Mar. 1585/6 Bonds in £40 each of John Goldisborow and other butchers (named) for the observance of Privy Council orders, received 9 March, for the restraint of eating and killing of flesh.

p.368: 10 Mar. 1585/6 Bonds in £40 of John Clark, alderman, and other innkeepers (named) not to kill or dress flesh in Lent or on other forbidden days.

p.369: 10 Mar. 1585/6 Similar bonds by John Dowsinge, carpenter and alehouse-keeper, or vintner, and his colleagues and proxies (named).

p.370: 11 Mar. 1585/6 Oaths of searchers (named) for offenders against Privy Council orders; 12 Mar. Henry Clarke bound in £40 as John Goldisborow, butcher.

p.371: 14 Mar. 1585/6 John Goldisborough, alderman and butcher, bound in £40 to sell flesh only to those licensed by the VC and at least one other Justice and that he make a return of flesh so supplied for fortnightly to the VC, exceptions as in previous bond.

p.372: 15 Apr. 1586 Trinity College vs Underne – U proved contumacious, penalty further process in his absence, £100 to be levied from U; Ferbecke vs Pikering – P to be cited to appear and answer in person (at the house of Elizabeth Huntle, widow); 22 Apr. John Steven certifies P summoned, absent, proved contumacious; 29 Apr. P again proved contumacious.

p.373: 29 Apr. 1586 Henry Tooley, glover vs John Steven, baker, for residue of 40s for a dozen of gloves supplied by T to John Stonier for whom Steven was surety, decreed that Steven pay the remaining 20s and costs; 5 May William Holland MA, Welshman vs Richard Palmer MA for slandering Welshmen in the public philosophy act - ‘Iubiter [sic] sophistas invisos habet eque ac Wallos’, apologises and signs English confession here entered; Thomas Moundeford MD vs Lilesse – M offers to allow L out of prison where he has been a long time and to drop all actions against him if L will subscribe to six articles here given, L refuses and remains in custody.

p.374: 5 May 1586 Thomas Browne of Westwell, Kent, clothier vs Roger Johnson, draper – Richard Harrys MA, proctor for B, exhibits B’s account book to prove a debt of 12 £ 2s, decree for its payment in three instalments, J to find sureties or be in custody; 6 May Ferbecke vs Pikeryng – P present, to be examined before he leaves town. Robert Cannon BA, proctor for W. Curle snr., P denies jurisdiction (at length, in English), assignation.

p.375: 6 May 1586 Wharton vs Hedley – W alleges that Francis Hynde was bound in 11s 8d for certain planks which were to be delivered for the reparations of the Great bridge and that Hedley had promised to pay, asserts this on oath as challenged by Hedley who thereupon pays, with 3s 4d costs; Asheby and Richardson and Pechie to be summoned to show cause for their failure to appear this day.

p.376: 13 May 1586 Thomas Evers and W. Pewe, tailors vs William Asheby, tailor, for practising as a tailor without seven years’ apprenticeship - A admits to having served only six years and having kept a shop for one year, to pay fine of 40s and costs and to forbear keeping the shop; Robson (5s), Campion (3s 4d), Wilson, Clarke and Pepper (all 3d 4d) fined for non-appearance; Evers and Pewe vs John Rowebucke – R claims a testimony (admittedly sealed since last Friday) from Mayor, and Roger Slegg and Thomas Kymball, and states that he has served seven years, bound in 100s to appear and prove; Leonard Glascock vs John Richardson – R to prove that he has paid the 11s 6d paid by G to George Pechy.

p.377: 17 May 1586 [William] Hawes, lately Proctor vs W. Campion, fishmonger – C to be in custody until he pay the fine of 11s 8d for selling fish ungauged; Evers and Pewe vs John Clarke for practising as a tailor although unqualified – C claims that he has served seven years apprenticeship and is worth £10, assignation for C, to prove, meanwhile fined 12d for contumacy; Evers and Pewe vs Pepper as above; Evers and Pewe vs Roebucke – R fined 40s and 5s 6d costs (25s 6d paid to E and P, 20s to Crown), to be in custody until paid; Hawes vs Vipeny’ wife – to pay fine of be in custody; Hawes vs Williamson – W refusing to appear is proved contumacious, to be arrested and remanded in custody until he pays; Evers and Pewe vs Asheby – absent and contumacious, to be in custody until he pays 20s and 22d costs to E and P and 20s to the Crown.

p.378: 17 May 1586 John Swanne BD vs Arthur Williams MA, lately of Magdalene College, for debt of £4 16s – W to be in custody until he find sureties in £7 for his appearance, if not found before the Feast of St John the Baptist a distraint on his good to £4 16s is decreed; Holmes’ licence to victual to be called in [marginal note]; Office vs Elizabeth Shute and Randall Crawe – S to leave the town and go to Bottisham where she says she is bound to service, C to remain in prison until he finds surety for his ‘honest conversation’; 29 May Assize of ale – double beer 6s 6d the barrel, single 3s, ale 3s 1d the barrel, malt 14s the quarter, a quart and half a pint of double beer and ale for 1d, and pottle and a pint of single beer; Elizabeth Chambley vs Remigius Booth for debt of 16s for fodder for a black horse left at her house ‘at the livery of 6d day and night’ which horse in four weeks has eaten more than it is worth - the horse to be sold if the debt be not paid by St John the Baptist’s Day, valued by William Burwell and George Sherwood at 33s 4d.

p.379: 3 June 1586 Ferbecke vs Pikeryng – P examined, assignation; Evers and Pewe vs George Scorer, tailor, for breach of Statute of Artificers as before – he claims that he has served seven years and works for Roebucke on a weekly basis, absolved but to bind himself to a master or depart the town; Evers and Pewe vs John Clarke – fined 40s for failing to prove that he was worth £10 in goods or £2 in land; William Asheby receives a fastening penny [binding the contract] for a year’s service at 60s with Hugh Reding; Audrey Payne vs John Sammon/Salmon for violently removing from her yard at Newnham two kine [cows] impounded there for eating her corn, John Cursall, witness for the widow, also Thomas Ireland, ‘millner’, S to pay 40s to the use of P and 4s 10d and to be in custody meanwhile.

p.380: 3 June 1586 Daniel Cauket vs Mr Thomas Cobbe – Cauket given leave to proceed against Cobbe at common law as Cobbe is keeping outside the VC’s jurisdiction, Cobbe to have no benefit by the VC’s Court; Claydon vs Gold – assignation; 10 June Evers and Pewe vs Clarke – continued in statu quo; Evers and Pewe vs Pepper – P to be arrested and held in custody unless he find sureties for his appearance; Claydon vs Gold - ‘Wheras mr gold in a sermon by hym made in St maries church in Camb. was thought, and also reported to have spoken against the crosse, and the use of the same now receyved in the church of england; The said mr gold in the presence of mr Dr Tyndall vicech: mr doctor Fulke, Goad, Norgat and Lorkin opolye [sic] protested that he had no such intendment, and that he doth not disalowe or condeme the crosse, or the signe of the same, but thinketh it to be tollerable’, absolved.

p.381: 10 June 1586 Dr Moundeford vs John Dawson and Margaret, widow of Robert Dawson, milner [miller], deceased, for debt – D to be in custody in the Tolbooth until he find sureties in £40 for his appearance; Moundeford vs Hugh Chambley for debt – English summary of proceedings to date, argued that the hats distrained may be sold and further citation of C.

p.382: 17 June 1586 James Forester vs Crofote – no entry; Monford vs Chambley – C absent and proved contumacious, decree for sale of hats, M bound in £20 to ensure that the proceeds be ‘at the commandment’ of the VC until further order; Thomas Mondeford MD vs Joan, widow of Robert Dawson, deceased, milner [miller], for debt – penal sum of £40 for debt of £22 11s by RD, JD claims that the £22 11s was paid by RD in his lifetime ‘saving the sum of £10 15s … which remaineth unpaid’, this admitted by M, JD to pay the £10 15s and 5s 2d costs, to be in custody meanwhile.

p.383: 17 June 1586 Robert Exon vs Joan Dawson for penal sum of £40 on debt of £20 – £4 still to pay and 10d costs; Hawes vs Williamson of The Red Hart – decree for arrest and imprisonment of W until satisfaction made; Hawes vs Robson as above (principal sum and costs); 20 June James Forester vs Thomas Crofote for bloodshed (on JF and his wife) - to be fined 6s 8d, C questions F’s standing as a scholar’s servant but refuses to state it on oath and is in custody for contumacy.

p.384: 20 June 1586 Edmund Mondeford [LLB, Fellow and] Syndic for Trinity Hall vs Thomas Wylynson for 60s being a year’s rent of a house in the butchery – to be paid in three instalments and W to find sureties or be in custody; 18 June Copy of demission from Chancery of a suit brought by Richard Bradley against Robert Prawnce MA (Trinity College) on the grounds of Prance’s privilege as a resident MA, Kateryne Prawnce also sub poena’d but it is alleged that the process was not in fact served; 1 July All cases continued in statu quo because of a public fire and other serious business; 2 July Thomas Bowes MA vs Christopher Ussher BA – to promote the office of the judge against U for treasonous words against the Queen in table talk with William Pratt MA, Adam Lofthouse BA and Edward Lofthouse, scholar, all of whom give evidence for U who is admonished and dismissed, B also admonished to keep the peace towards U.

p.385: 2 July 1586 Office vs John Keymer and his servant James Banister for breach of University privileges – K forbidden to sell wine and ordered to take down his sign and garland, refuses, committed to custody and B ordered not to not wine and to take down the garland; 8 July Office vs Richard Bradley, burgess and brewer, for infringing University privileges in citing Robert Prawnce in Chancery – B claims it was only a testamentary cause, forbidden to proceed against B in VC’s Court and discommuned; Office vs Keymer – K discommuned.

p.386: 15 July 1586 Edmondes vs Stringer and Bacster – S offers instant payment of £8 (bond was in £60 for £30), accepted by E with payment of costs of 6s 8d; Edmondes vs Stringer for debt – assignation; Laurence Lambe vs John Richardson – R absent proved contumacious, fined 3s 4d; Leonard Glascocke vs Laurence Barker – as above, 3s 4d fine; 18 July John Matthew, skinner vs Gilbert Blande, cooper, for injury – both parties bound in £40 (with John Fabbe, Butler of Clare Hall, as surety for B) to stand to the arbitration of John Bacster, Senior Bedell, John Norcot, NP, Nicholas Gaunt, bencher and John Praunce, gent. Fabbe and Blande bound in further £40 for B’s appearance before the VC in the event of settlement not being reached.

p.387: 22 July 1586 Daniel Mounsey BD and John Dawson, innkeeper, both bound in 100s to stand to the arbitration of Dr Legge and Hickman in a cause concerning a missing horse; Robert Praunce vs Richard Bradley for recovery of legal costs of 31s 10d, decree that they be paid; Thomas Dormer vs John Cutbard – Edmund Moundeford LLB, proctor for D – assignation; 26 July John Ellis fined 3s 4d for shedding blood of Robert Dawson (marginal note of receipt of sum).

p.388: 29 July 1586 Alice Bourne, widow vs John Bourne for debt of 20 £ penal sum on debt of £10 - decree that £10 be paid, £5 within a fortnight or distraint of goods; Dormer vs Cutberd – C absent, proved contumacious, penalty in next; Prance vs Bradley – B proved contumacious in not having paid the 31s 10d, to be arrested and imprisoned until payment is made; Glascocke vs barker – B absent, proved contumacious, John Cowell, Proctor, mandated to apprehend him and bring him before VC; John Standish , Bedell vs John Richardson, skinner – evidence given by Junior Proctor that R threatened to thrust his dagger into S who claims to be in fear of bodily harm, VC and Drs Perne and Norgate decree that R is to be bound to keep the peace before he is released from custody; John Paske snr. discharged by VC, Mayor, Drs Perne, Norgate and Legge and Messrs Foxton, Henry Clarke, John Edmundes and Ball, on the advice of Mr Aunger, a counsellor and Justice of the Shire, for uttering unseemly words against the Queen, on the grounds that the incident happened more than a year ago and was not reported then by Mr Slegge.

p.389: 6 Aug. 1586 Isaac Flemmyng, haberdasher vs James Morley, tailor, for debt of 66s 8d – John Goodwyn, burgess and bailiff, excuses the absence of his partner M, assignation; Henry Slegge vs John Nixon, servant to Mr Jeames for defamation (’a knave’) and assault – witnesses Ellen Carleton, John Bradley and Alice Bradley, fined 3s 4d and committed to the Tolbooth, the prison sentence then remitted on the request of HS on the prompting of HS’s father; 6 Sept. Assize of bread – quarter of wheat 32s with 2s allowance, 1d loaf 11oz; Henry Jacson, John Nashe, W. Sparrow, John Steven, Roger Jacson, John Tooley, Miles Goldisborowe, Samuel Steven, Thomas Smarte, John Yackley, Thomas Crofote, Richard Scott and Edmund Hobson, bakers, bound in 20s each not to sell more than 13 to the dozen of man’s bread at Sturbridge Fair or thereafter on pain of a 20s fine; 7 Sept. Agreed by Dr Tyndall, Perne, Fulke, Norgate, Legge, Hatcher, Bridgwater, Hickman, Warde, Mondeford and Messrs Chaderton, Barwell and Preston that the VC and his company ‘shall upon their foteclothes [richly ornamented cloths laid over the back of a horse] ryde to the fayer, & their make their solemne proclamations on horsebacke’.

p.390: 28 Sept. 1586 Thomas Tomson, glover vs Ralph Emerye, John Hall, Fynes Morison and Thomas Moyne BAs and the Fellows of Peterhouse for breaches of the peace and threats to his person – William Wade MA and Robert Cannon BA (Fellows of Peterhouse) bound in £10 each for each culprit (themselves bound in £10) that they will keep the peace and appear when cited; 29 Sept. Thomas Moyne, Fynes Morison and Ralph Emerye vs Thomas Thomason, glover – T also bound over to keep the peace and to be in custody until he find sureties; 30 Sept. Recognisances remitted by all parties provided only that T may still sue for debts due to him.

p.391: 4 Oct. 1586 John Cowell, Junior Proctor vs Henry Mace and his wife, Mary, for practising as chandlers in breach of the statute not having been apprenticed, HM maintains that MM served 13 or 14 years with her ?father-in-law or stepfather (socer) William Payne, absolved.

p.392: 7 Oct. 1586 Dr Warde vs Henry Flemson for penal sum of £80 for failure to supply 120 quarters of barley of £40 by Easter last (George Horne also party to the bond with HF); Warde vs Flemson for £40 penal sum for failure to deliver 60 quarters of barley by 20 Feb. last, as above; Dr Lorkin vs John Whaller – JW to evict from his house one Cooper, a pointmaker [maker of laces], and to take no other lodger ‘that shall disquiet Mr Dr Lorkin in his study by any noise’ on pain of £10 fine; Lorkin vs Richard Fanne – F pays 3s 4d fine, to be in custody until he find sureties in £20 for his appearance.

p.393: 7 Oct. 1586 Helen Wyddowes vs Thomas Thomson – Thomas Revell, gent., a connection by marriage of HW’s, appears on her behalf and alleges debt of 60s for a half year’s rent of a tenement and of £20 in which he was bound to stand to arbitration by Dr Byng on 14 Apr. 1586. T offers the 60s in court, to leave the house and the utensils and household stuff hired from HW and to pay her 30s for a quarter’s rent, and 13s 4d for boards and timber taken away, to leave behind a hovel in the yard and ask no payment for it and to pay 7s legal expenses.

p.394: 7 Oct. 1586 John Matthew vs Gilbert Blande – both parties and John Fawlber bound in £40 to stand to the arbitration of Drs Legge and Warde and M. Stokys and B and F bound in £40 for the appearance of B; 14 Oct. Lorkin vs Fanne – L exhibits four deeds, assignation; Warde vs Flemson (both causes) - continued in statu quo; John Cursall of St Sepulchre’s parish vs John Salmon for injury – C to prove privilege in Great St Mary’s church according to Composition, S to be in custody until he find surety in 10 marks for his appearance, John Steven his surety.

p.395: 14 Oct. 1586 Isaac Flemmyng vs James Morely – no entry; 15 Oct. Thomas Thomson, glover vs Mr Ferbacke for debts of 78s 2½d, including 5s for a warming pan, for goods delivered to F’s pupil Curle - admits to having received 12s, F states that 21s 8½d is owed by C alone, promises to pay 39s 6d into Stokys’ hands and to return the warming pan repaired and to try and obtain the 21s 8½d from C’s father; 19 Oct. Humphrey Atherton MA (Fellow of Queens’ College) cited at the suit of Thomas Richard of Woodbridge, fletcher, swears that he has no knowledge of bonds said to concern the estate of his brother William Richar.

p.396: 19 Oct. 1586 Proctors vs John Graver, shoemaker, for offering for sale two barrels of oil ungauged – convicted, fined with costs; Bridget Vahan vs William Fletcher for an assault (beating her almost to death) - F to be beaten by his tutor, Mr Greeke, and to pay 34s owed by him to BV, Greeke undertakes to inform F’s parents of the debt; 10 Oct. John Amy LLD vs Richard Bradley, yeoman and burgess, and John Holywell for a debt of £27 – decree for plaintiff, B to be in custody until payment.

p.397: 21 Oct. 1586 Lorkin vs Fan – assignation; William Revell LLB (Fellow of Trinity Hall) vs James Scaucrofte – S absent, to be re-cited, Edmund Moundeford LLB (Fellow of Trinity Hall), proctor for R; Dr Warde vs Henry Flemson – continued in statu quo; Martin Burye and W. Revell LLB vs Cotton Gargrave kt. and Thomas Gargarve esq. - Jeremiah Bridgman, cook to Trinity Hall, certifies to having served a sub poena on CG in Christchurch, London, issued in the Court of Chancery, CG absent and notification to be made to Chancery.

p.398: 21 Oct. 1586 Dr Goad, Provost of King’s College, for the College vs the confirmation of the election of Proctors, Taxors and Scrutators, claiming that the College received much hurt by reason of a combination ‘lately made as is pretended for the election’ - the combination to stand as published but Goad permitted to state his case three weeks hence; Algates vs Russells – execution of sentence decreed, Rs to be in custody until payment made.

p.399: 22 Oct. Thomas Ridley vs William James MA – Richard Bridgwater LLD (for R) alleges that J was bound to R in £40 with William Wrenne of Chesterton for the delivery of 40 quarters of red and ‘purkie wheate’ - debt acknowledged and payment to be enforced; 24 Oct. Isaac Flemyng and James Morley, servant to Dr Hickman, for penal sum of £6 on bond - M acknowledges bond but claims that he was at the time underage and apprenticed to Richard Fallowe, servant of King’s College, assignation for M to prove, he being in custody until he finds surety for his appearance in 10 £.

p.400: 24 Oct. 1586 Margaret George, widow of Christopher George vs Mr Nauton/Nanton, deputy Senior Proctor, for breaking into her house at night and carrying her to Market Hill being only in her smock – N states that he was informed that Thomas [ ], Under-Butler of Trinity College, and others were in the house with intention to commit adultery. Katherine Whalley, Joan Chapman and Elizabeth Whalley, witnesses for MG, affirm that they saw her in her smock, but not carried out of the house. Thomas Banister, witness for N, testifies that she called them ‘knaves, rogues and villains’. MG confesses and is ordered to expel Thomas [ ] and other dishonest persons from her house and is absolved.

p.401: 24 Oct. 1586 Bond of John Cole of Coton, yeoman, in £10 to produce Avise Peirson to answer Robert Westley, haberdasher; 26 Oct. William Rust of Felstead, clerk vs Richard Bradley, brewer and burgess, for debt of £30 on a bond – B to be in custody until satisfaction made; Holywell vs John Soothis – decree for payment of 13s; 31 Oct. John Betters LLD vs John Bacster snr. for debt of £24, penal sum for payment of £12 – assignation.

p.402: 2 Nov. 1586 Richard Stephens MA vs Richard Bradley, burgess and brewer (S suing on behalf of his wife, the widow of Thomas Rust MA, late of Chelmsford) for debt of £30 on a bond (as above) - TR in his will left the bond to his son, John Rust, B to remain in custody at the Tolbooth, Standish to report this to Mr French, Bailiff of the Tolbooth; Dr Warde vs Henry Flemson for debt of £80 – F absent, proved contumacious, to be arrested and in custody until payment made; Warde vs Flemson for debt of £40 as above.

p.403: 18 Nov. 1586 Lorkin vs Fanne – assignation; Thomas Gill vs John Hurst, tailor, for debt of £11 for goods received – G exhibits his shop book, assignation, H to be in custody until he find sureties in £20 for his appearance; Dormar vs Cutbard – Thomas Sherde proctor for D, C absent, proved contumacious, penalty in next; Bettes vs Bacster – B absent, contumacy not proved; Goad for King’s College – John Cowell for G to propound on 16 Dec.; Revell vs Scawcroft – Moundeford for R proves S contumacious, Michael Woulf, apothecary, surety for S’s appearance in £60, to be cited.

p.404: 18 Nov. 1586 Copy of sub poena (£100) from Crown for Robert and Joan Russell to appear before the VC dated 31 Oct. 1586; Note of similar sub poena granted at the suit of Martin Bery and William Revell for Cotton and Thomas Gargrave; 25 Nov. Lorkin vs Fan – assignation; Revell vs Michael Woolf – assignation; Warde vs Flemson (£80) - sentence to be executed; Bettes vs Bacster – assignation; Dormer vs Cutbard – Sherde for D has C proved contumacious, fined 2s 6d and to show cause why he should not pay it.

p.405: 2 Dec. 1586 Lorkin vs Fann – assignation; Matthew Stokys vs Michael Woolfe for debt of £60 – decree that it be paid by 24 December; Algates vs Russells – evidence that the Chancery sub poena was served on the Rs by Thomas Philipp in Gamlingay parish church, witnessed by Peter Mery of Cambridge, cordwainer, decree that report of proceedings hitherto be made to the Lord Chancellor in Chancery.

p.406: 2 Dec. 1586 Lorkin vs Henry Flemson for debt of £4 – to be paid with costs and F to be in custody meanwhile; Gylly vs Hurst – G exhibits schedule of other goods supplied to H not in the book previously exhibited and amounting to 4 £ 6s 9½d, admitted, H to pay the full sum of £15 6s 9½d and 8s costs and to be in custody until he find sureties in £20 for payment of the sum in three instalments.

p.407: 2 Dec. 1586 Bettes vs Bacster – Bacster to appear and show cause why sentence should not be carried out; Algate vs Machet – assignation; Dormer vs Curbard – assignation; Thomas Hodiloe vs Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College – assignation; Office vs Keymer – K released from custody, ordered not to sell wine, wholesale or retail, on pain of fine of £10 a month; 6 Dec. Assize of bread – quarter of wheat 40s with 2s allowance, ½d loaf 5oz.

p.408: 8 Dec. 1586 Hodiloe vs Corpus Christi College for debt – CCC proved contumacious, to be re-cited by Thomas Brookes; 9 Dec. Francis Cooper of Barnwell, gent. vs Michael Mounke alias Skevington for debt of £18 14s – M not found at his house in Barnwell, viis et modis decreed at request of Bery, proctor for C; Lorkin vs Fanne – W. Osse, Thomas Dayntrye of Chesterton and John Birde, witnesses for L, assignation; Revell vs Woolf – W proved contumacious, appears and is cited for sentence at next; Dormer vs Cutbard – assignation.

p.409: 9 Dec. 1586 Hodiloe vs Corpus Christi College – Christopher Abbis appears for CCC, assignation; Agnes Scott vs Corpus Christi College – C. Abbis again, assignation; Nicholas Algate vs Robert Machet for debt of 22s 2d for which M claims to have acquittance from Henry Greenwood – assignation for him to prove; Laurence Lambe committed to custody until he find sureties to keep the peace towards Benet Walter [bookseller]; 10 Dec. Martin Gyll, burgess, and John Matthewe, skinner, sureties in 100s for Laurence Lambe, glover, himself bound in £10 to appear and meanwhile to keep the peace, especially towards Benet Walker; F. Cooper vs M. Skevington alias Moonke – S proved contumacious, penalty, further proceedings, C alleges debt on 22 quarters of barley at 17s a quarter (£18 14s), distraint on S’s goods by C and Standish decreed, C bound in £40 to save the VC harmless.

p.410: 12 Dec. 1586 H[enry] Wayland BC vs Christopher Adison, tailor, for debt of £14, penal sum on debt of £7 and debt of £40, penal sum on debt of £23 – A admits and is to be custody until payment is made; 14 Dec. T. Hodiloe vs Corpus Christi College for debt of £133 18s 6d (of which record of £71 14s and 10d is already registered) - debts denied, assignation.

p.411: 14 Dec. 1586 Agnes Scott vs Corpus Christi College – John Yaxley appears for his mother, she being sick, and alleges debt of £23 12s for bread, assignation; Cooper vs Skevington alias Moonke – distraint effected and inventory exhibited by Standish; Michael Taylor, Butcher of St John’s College vs William Barcrofte MA for debt of 50s – assignation, Thomas Pechy MA (Fellow of Pembroke College), surety for B’s appearance; Order of the VC in the Queen’s name that ‘no Innekeper, ganeker, victeler, typler, or any other that do sell any kynde of victuals shall receyve any Syser, scholler or bachiler of arte to table, eating, drynkyng, banketting, playing or otherwayes to staye or tarye in their howses’ on pain of 40s for each offence, proclaimed in 15 places.

p.412: 16 Dec. 1586 Henry Mace, weaver vs Roger Smith BA for debt – S absent, to be arrested and kept in custody until he find sureties in £10 for his appearance; Goad, by John Cowell who obtains adjournment to next, Dr G being sick; Revell vs Woolf – assignation for sentence, W to be cited; Bettes vs Bacster snr. - Bacster absent, penalty sentence in next; Dormer vs Cutbard – continued in statu quo; 19 Dec. Assize of ale – quarter of malt 18s, double beer 7s 2d the barrel, good ale 3s 5d, single beer 3s; Order – ganakers and typlers to sell 2½ pints [of double beer] and 3 quarts of single beer for 1d, to sell strong ale already in stock at 1d a quart on pain of 6d fine, no one to brew strong beer or ale for sale at more than the above prices on pain of forfeiture, Mrs Blande and Messrs Hammond, Bradley and [ ] to send a barrel each of double beer to the Castle, the Tolbooth and the Spittle House for brewing double double beer without licence.

p.413: 18 Nov. 1586 Algates vs Russells – NA states that he has obtained sub poena from Chancery, VC at his request specifies date and time of appearance; 19 Dec. John Woodward and Thomas Harding elected ale and beer tasters and sworn; Jeremy Bridgeman, Nicholas Warde, John Newman, Widow Ellen, Nicholas Agate, William Rive, Thomas Ive, Henry Howse, Robert Johnson, Christopher Raye, Thomas Gray, Thomas Dix, William Elders, Thomas Petit, Francis Byrde, Michael Sloane all accused of victualling without licence – forbidden to continue and to appear after Christmas. John Paskfield, Thomas Galland, Francis Earle and George Horne warned and did not appear; 22 Dec. Proctors vs Thomas Vahan, Reginald Tolson, Roger Harrison, Roger Brookes and Mr John Clarke, alderman, and John Rogers for preparing and selling flesh on forbidden days – all fined 100s and to be in custody, execution of sentence deferred to 11 Jan. when all are to appear on pain of £10 fine; 11 Jan. 1586/7 All appear and hearing deferred to 18 Jan.

p.414: 11 Jan. 1586/7 Orders of VC and Drs Perne, Legg and Messrs Chaderton, Barwell, Preston, Nevell, Farr, Mownsay, Jegon, Best, Sophonius Smyth and Cansfield – numbers 1-3 as on p.419, erased.

p.415: 13 Jan. 1596/7 Goad, for King’s College, exhibits materia; Lorkin vs Fanne – John Corye of Chesterton, maltster, witness for L; Nevell, for Magdalene College vs Ralph Paris of Dullingham, gent. - P warned to appear; Algate vs Machet – M exhibits letters of Henry Greenwood acquitting him of the debt – assignation; Lorkin vs Edmundes – no entry; Hodiloe vs Corpus Christi College – CCC proved contumacious, penalty in next; Agnes Scott vs Corpus Christi College – continued to next; Matthew Stokys vs Michael Woulf – viis et modis decreed for W.

p.416: 13 Jan. 1586/7 Taxors vs Henry Flemson (20d), Richard Scott (20d), John Towley (20d), Thomas Smarte (20d) (and Miles Goldisborow (20d) cancelled) for underweight bread – fined as above, all with costs; Mr Nashe and Agnes Scott to appear in next; Bettes vs Bacster - assignation for sentence; Revell vs Woolf - continued in statu quo; 16 Jan. Hodiloe vs Corpus Christi College – assignation; Bettes vs Bacster – Bacster contumacious, sentence in next regardless of his absence; Taxors vs Edward Gates and Francis Earle – no entry; Taxors vs Nicholas Algate – a committed to gaol for unlicensed victualling, fined 20s and to be bound with sureties to victual no more.

p.417: 19 Jan. 1586/7 Hodiloe vs Corpus Christi College – H exhibits written account for £71 14s 10d and four tallies for £86 19s 11d, S. Smith for CCC maintains that £34 9s 6d is due on the old debt and £55 8s 6d on two tallies of which £10 16s 6d is to be allowed to the College, H claims that £31 11s 5d is due on the other two tallies, S asks that payment on these may be respited until the coming of Mr Harrys, late Steward and the Butler, delay granted in respect of these, action on rest next day; Bettes vs Bacster – continued to next; 20 Jan. Lorkin vs Fan – depositions for L published; Anthony Wingfield vs Roger Frenche, Bailiff of the Tolbooth, for impanelling a jury without first taking an oath contrary to the statute of 27 Eliz., F pleads ignorance of the statute, assignation for sentence.

p.418: 20 Jan. 1586/7 Revell vs Woolf – continued in statu quo; Taylor vs Barcroft – no entry; Scott vs Corpus Christi College – continued in statu quo for a fortnight in hope of a settlement; Bettes vs Bacster – Bacster proved contumacious, sentence in next; Proctors vs John Clarke, alderman, Thomas Vahan, Roger Harrison and John Rogers – each fined 100s and committed to custody for 10 days; Proctors vs Reginald Tolson and Roger Brooke – respited for a fortnight.

p.419: 11 and 13 Jan. 1586/7 Orders by VC, Drs Perne, Bell, Goade, Norgate and Legg and Messrs Barwell, Preston, Chaderton, Nevell, Monsay, Jegon, Farr and Cansfield that those denouncing preachers, in accordance with the Book of Advertisements, for uttering to the derogation of religion, must not do so publicly but privately and within one month on pain of conviction for contempt; 1. No bachelor or pensioner in scholars’ commons to wear silk facings or to stand in the schools in anything but his customary gown, or wear coloured nether stocks 2. Bachelors and questionists to attend all scholastical exercises in their habits and hoods 3. This year’s questionists and all other bachelors to wear hoods of the usual style and size, penalty for breach of any of these articles above 6s 8d 4. No bachelor or scholar to sit by an MA at any sermon or any lecture in the schools, nor to sit on the forms before the pulpit in St Mary’s, nor in the seats before the Mayor nor in the choir, nor to stand on forms, desks etc. in the schools, nor to disturb any act or reading by kocking [cocking], hissing etc. Discipline left to the senior present or to the Bedell, penalty 3s 4d for adults, the rod for non-adults.

pp.420-6: 9 Nov. 1586 Visitation of Christ’s College – citation by VC of Master and others to the College chapel on 28 Nov. between 8 and 9 am, the College statutes and muniments to be there also; 28 Nov. Master and Fellows sworn, all members to attend for separate questioning or pay penalty for contumacy. List of members given.

Interrogatories put to Master and Fellows:

Whether the honor of god be there carefullye looked for, whether there be any notorious swearer, a blasphemour of god, a stubborne defendor of heresie, or erronius doctrine, or a wilfull contmenor of Religion, & orders nowe established in this realme.

Whether the master, Fellowes, & schollers as well founded in the house, as pensioners come to the Chapell upon the sondayes, & other allowed holydayes to the common prayer, & divine exercises dulye, & reverently in fayer surplesses, & graduates in hooddes according to their degrees and be their at or before the begynning, & so contynue to thende.

Whether the holye communion be ministred, & also reverently receyved by all and singuler the above named master, fellowes and schollers, at such dayes, & feastes as by her majesties statutes is commaunded, & by custome of th’universities receyved.

Whether the Fellowes, and all other bounde therunto, be present at mornyng prayers according to the letter of the statute.

Whether the common places, problems in divinitie, quarter sermons, & other exhortacions ordayned by statute, or otherwise by custome receyved, be dewly performed, without any impugning of the state of the churche now established.

Whether the ordinarie lectures, disputacions, Sophams, declamations, & other scholasticall exercises be dewlie reade, kepte, & performed, and all the auditors, & actors present according to your statutes.

Whether the master and deanes do suffre any to be absent from divine service, lectures, or any other scholasticall acte for favour, or any other corruption.

Whether the forsaid magistrates have a care, & a vigilant eye that all & singuler studentes of that college frequent, and dewlye heare their ordinarie lectures, & doe other exercises in the common schooles.

Whether the said magistrates do cause all the fellowes and studentes of that colledg to accompany such as dispute, or publiquelie do procede for any degree in such apparell as the statytes require & namely in cappis, habittes, & hooddes according to their othe, & for that ende cause all their graduates to have de proprio both capp, habite, & hood according to their degree.

Whether any of that colledg do use to goe in to the towne or to the schooles in a gowne of norwich stuffe, &c., and a cloth hoodd, to the mocking of the degrees of th’universitie, or whether any being no doctor where any hoodd lyned with silke when he goith in the towne against thorder of th’universitie.

Whether the master and fealowes do dewlye kepe the statutes of thowse in the election of felowes, and schollers, in dew tyme, & in preferring of the best & poorest schollers, & not to suffer the place to be longer vacant than the statute lymyteth: whether they sell any roome or place, or take any bribe for the same, or assent or consent that any shall sell, & buye any place.

Whether the master according to his othe hath & doth inforce, & compell the Fellowes of the said colledge to be mynisters, at & in such tyme, as the states doth require, and all them, all all [sic] other to receyve degrees of schooles as sone as the maye respectyvelte by their standing receyve them.

Whether the master and felowes do lett their fermes, & revenues of the said colledg to the best fermors & such as do & wyll best rewarde the colledge, and whether they do kepe their privat statute & also the statute of the realme in leasing their manors, landes, fermes, or tenementes, & whether they do observe thacte of provision, and accordinglie dispose the same, whether they do ley up in their common thresure howse all such Fynes, & somes of money as they receyve for Fynes, sales of wooddes, or letting of leases, whether they make the most commodities of the chambers within the colledg, & converte the same to the onlye use & profit of the colledge and incontinently (as sone as it ys dewe & come to their handes) they do laye it up in the common threasurye howse.

Wheather the master, fellowes, & schollers do make unto themselves any greater allowaunces of the gooddes of the colledge then the statutes, of the founder, or benefactors do prescribe, and allowe.

Whether they have, or dothe devide amonge themselves any money or other commodities commyng to the colledge by fynes, amerciamentes, leases, woodsales, or rentes of chambers within the colledge, or that shall remayne after the generall accompte.

Whether the master, & fellowes, yf with the common money of the colledge they purlase any lande, or increase any commodities, they do first see the said money restored unto the colledge before the converte any thing of the same to their particuler benefit.

Whether the master, and the Fellowes do borowe, kepe or have in their handes, or do lende, unto any other any money, or plate of the colledge, & whether they be indebted to the colledge.

Whether the master and Felowes fo every month accompte for their owne debtes & their pupels unto the colledge, and paye, & clearly discharge all such debt, and paye, and discharge all brewers, bakers, butchers, and all other creditors that can or may clayme any debt monthlye for victuals.

Whether the master, felowes, and schollers do alwayes according to the statute, dyne, & suppe and cause all other of the said colledge to do the like in the common hall, & do suffer no person to have any allowance but in the common hall.

Whether the master & fealowes or any other by their permission have any plate, pewter, table clothes or any other utensiles apertaynyng unto the colledge to their chambers but such as the statute doth expresly permitte.

Whether they do observe the custome of dinyng at eleven of the clocke for hindring of any scholasticall acte eyther at home, or in the Common schooles.

Whether the master and felowes do accepte, and allowe any more servantes or ministers in the coledge at the charge of the colledge, then the statutes do name, & allowe, & wheather they do cause all & singuler the said servantes in their owne proper person to do, & execute such offices, as they are placed in, & do not suffer them to have underservants or hangbyes, eyther scholler, or other laye man, and whether they do carefully provide, & see that the manciple, cookes, butlers, butchers, and all other do not abuse, or abridge the poore schollers, or cause them to paye more that they owght to do for their victuals; & that their breade by of lawfull size, and wayte, & that none kepe any dogges.

Whether the said master & felowes do faythfullye discharge all & singuler the liberalities and gyftes of good men heretofore, or now gyven for the benefitt of the colledge & the relieff, & comfort of any person in that colledge according to the trew intent of the doner & gyver.

Wheather they do permitt any to have his name in the butterye or to be accompted as a pencioner of that howse which neyther lyeth in the colledge nor is at commons in the said colledge.

Whether any of that colledge use or frequent any common alehowses, dyring howse, or suspecte company, or have any suspecte persons resorting to their chambers, in the colledge, or use to be abrode in the night after the usuall shutting of the gates, or knowe any probablye suspected of any evyll demeanor that doth or may tende to the slandor of that colledge, or of thuniversitie.

Wether the colledge, & every parte therof be kepte in dew reparacions.

Whether the librarye, & all the bookes therof be well kepte.

Whether the gates of the said colledge be locked, at th’owers appoynted, & so kepte tyll the mornyng, & that none knocke after the shutting of the said gates.

Whether any of that colledge do knowe of any breach of any statute, or order in that colledge not particularlye towched in some of their interrogatories before.

Continued to 29 Nov., 6 & 22 Dec., 11 Jan., 8 Feb. 4 pm Martin Key (Fellow of Christ’s College) exhibits schedule of injunctions and ordinances and asks that the Master and Fellows consider why they should not be so enjoined; Thomas Braddock MA for himself and the rest of the company states that as the Visitation has continued for longer than the statutory time, neither he nor the others will again appear before it; 22 Feb. VC gives Master schedule of injunctions and decrees which he promises to promulgate, allowance for arbitration by Drs Perne and Bell if any are contrary to the College statutes; Braddock summoned and refuses to come, he and all other Fellows pronounced contumacious, penalty on 22 March, noted that only the Master and Thomas Osburne appeared on this occasion.

Injunctions:

All members to attend public prayers in the choir at all times and in the habits decreed by the University and College statutes.

Daily (‘public’) prayers and holy communion to be celebrated at times and in ways decreed by laws of the land and University statutes.

Common places to be so treated that no individual is singled out and to be finished by six so that there be no further hindrance to praelections in the hall.

Master to take note of any that are negligent in religious or academic exercises; that do not use Latin in the courts and hall; to ensure that provision and dining be not allowed to those from outside the College, without his special permission; that everyone wears the cap proper to his degree; and that no one goes into the town except in the habit decreed by the University ordinances. The Master to set an example for others; that those taking part in public acts or preaching ad clerum be accompanied by members of the College.

Master to allot rooms to scholars according to the date of their admission; not to give preference to any pensioner or sizar; not to distinguish seniority of those in College from that of those living in the town.

Rooms in the Master’s lodging to be allocated to gentlemen to the profit of the College; no room rents to be demanded for any room which anyone occupies as part of his entitlement.

The Master to exhibit his accounts, according to statute, in the presence of the majority of the Fellows, and to display all plate; which account, if not approved by the majority of the Fellowes, to be null.

The Master not to spend the College revenues on horse hire, except for College business approved by the majority or for the accommodation of strangers at the time of Sturbridge Fair, unless he can satisfy the Visitor that this has been the custom for forty years.

The Master not to take, or allow to any Fellow, days away on the pretext of College business without the consent of the majority of the Fellows; nor, without their consent, to allow more than statutory leave to students; nor, without their consent, to appoint ? manciple/bursar/chapel clerk (promum vel custodem sacelli).

Not to allow anyone, however long they have been in the University, to stay in the College unless they are to stay the night; not to fulfil himself all the offices laid down in the statutes; not to take boys too young.

No female bedmakers to be allowed except for the sick, nor to allow anyone to stay in the College who has once been expelled; nor to keep any boy from due castigation, nor to let any be insolent to his superiors in word or deed at lectures or any other time.

To ensure that the duties of deans are properly fulfilled; lists of offenders to be read in hall every Friday; punishments not to be administered in private (in cubiculo aut promptuario); no one to be fined twice for the omission of one exercise even if he be persistently absent.

The monthly steward to be one of the Fellows; the other keeper of the common chest to serve by rotation; the requirements of the statutes to be observed; commons to be calculated weekly, or within three days of the end of each week. Dinner to be at eleven in term time, except on feast days and weekends, fast days excepted.

Plate not in daily use to be kept in the treasury and not to be removed except for good reason, and then to be returned as soon as possible. Cash to be in the treasury, not in the Master’s custody, and only removed when required.

All Fellows and pensioners to proceed to their degrees as soon as the statutes allow; all Fellows to attend theological problems on Fridays when the respondent may not provide dinner, contrary to the law and good custom; the Master to allow no one to avoid a disputation for any reason except the gravest and one approved by the Master and majority of Fellows.

Fellows to pay College bills within six days of the end of each month, and the College officers to pay bakers and other creditors in the same space of time; no one to be accepted into the College who has no Fellow to pay his debts.

Sermons in memory of the Foundress and benefactors to be given quarterly.

Pensioners not to be admitted except as prescribed in College statutes.

Profits from sales of woods and farm produce, and any profit arising from bakers and brewers no longer to be divided between Master and Fellows but to be to the use of the whole College until such time as the Chancellor may decree otherwise; nothing to be spent beyond the ordinary commons at audit time unless he shall approve it.

Master to see that all these are observed, and to report delinquents to the VC on pain of the penalty laid down in the statutes.

22 Mar. Master, Keye and Osborne appear – pronounced contumacious, penalty reserved, to be warned by the Master to appear on 10 April; 10 Apr. Master, Key, Osborne, Richard Clarke and John Powell appear – Fellows testify that injunctions have not been put into execution, visitation adjourned to 26 May. Sentence pronounced as follows (entered after proceedings against Osburne below):

p.426: 10 Apr. 1587 Contumacious Fellows to be deprived of all commons and other emoluments of their Fellowships until they appear and submit themselves and show cause (if any) for their absence; Master to put injunctions into execution forthwith; visitation continued to 26 May. Sentenced in absence – Thomas Bradocke, Andrew Wylliat, Cuthbert Banbrig, W. Knight, W. Perkins, Francis Johnson, Robert Baynes and Thomas Morton MAs; 26 May Continued in statu quo to 7 July or before awaiting the return to Cambridge of Drs Perne and Bell to resolve certain difficulties; 14 June Drs Perne and Bell in the presence of Barwell, Key and Osburne decree that the VC may continue his visitation; the injunctions to be put into execution.

p.427: 27 Jan. 1586/7 Lorkin vs Fanne – assignation; Proctors vs French – assignation for sentence; Bettes vs Bacster – Bacster proved contumacious, sentence to be executed in next; Revell vs Michael Woolf – W proved contumacious, to pay R £60 and costs; Hodiloe vs Corpus Christi College – continued in statu quo; Machet vs Algate – M seeks to be dismissed with costs A not having brought proof, continued until after Ash Wednesday; 3 Feb. Lorkin vs Fanne – assignation; Proctors vs French – continued in statu quo; Revell vs Woulf – assignation for execution of sentence.

p.428: 10 Feb. 1586/7 Lorkin vs Fan – process and assignation; Revell vs Woolf – W not found, assignation; Christopher Helsden vs Peter Bell for debt – B absent, fined 2s 6d for contumacy; 17 Feb. Lorkin vs Fanne – continued in statu quo because of press of business; Hodyloe vs Corpus Christi College – assignation; 23 Feb. Hodiloe vs Corpus Christi College – CCC sentenced to pay H £108 5s 5d and costs; John Porter, bookseller vs Charles Bell MA – B absent, proved contumacious, penalty in next; 27 Feb. Assize of bread – quarter of wheat 38s with 2s allowance, 1d loaf 9oz, wheat bread 1d loaf 13½oz; brown 1d loaf 20oz. Wardens agree that VC should punish severely those not keeping the assize; 3 Mar. ‘A leete for purging and clensing the kynges ditch in defaulte & negligence of the maior and bayliffes’ Andrew Pilkynton, John Dawson, Richard Cage, Alexander Clarke, John Stevens, Robert Exon, W. Pewe, Thomas Evers, Nicholas Warde, Peter Lyon, Richard Harrison, James Borowes, John Porter and Benedict Walker sworn as jury, to make presentments on 10 March, fine for non-attendance to be 3s 4d.

p.429: 3 Mar. 1586/7 Algate vs Machet – no entry; Dr Nevell (Master of Magdalene College) for the College vs Ralph Paris for debt – assignation; Francis Birde, W. Robynson, Widow Lyon, Michael Swanne, Thomas Petit, William Elder, Thomas Evers, Francis Erle, Hugh Burwell, Richard Harrison, Nicholas Algate, Hugh Hie and Oliver Holmes all fined 20s for victualling (ale houses) without licence, month’s imprisonment respited, ordered to victual no more, Thomas Woodward, George Horne and Richard Medcalf similarly forbidden; 4 Mar. Richard Love, apothecary, bound in £40 to save harmless the township of Sawston for the maintenance of one Agnes Cowell until it be proved that John White, servant to Love, be not the father of her child (signed by Love); 6 Mar. Office promoted by Proctors vs John Clarke, alderman, for forfeiture of his bond in £40 not to prepare flesh on forbidden days, three pieces of powder beef [salted beef] having been found sodden in a chamber - assignation; Public proclamation against eating of flesh, addressed to butchers, vintners, innholders and victuallers.

p.430: 4 Mar. 1586/7 A decree for taking of corn for the Queen’s Majesty within the liberties - decree ordering grant to be delivered for the royal ships to Nicholas Basshe, deputy of Edward Basshe, Surveyor General of Victuals, by John Ballard of Balsham, yeoman (20 combs of wheat), John Battisford of Chesterton, gent. (12 combs of wheat) and Thomas Parishe of Chesterton, Chief Constable (8 combs of wheat), notwithstanding the University’s privileges; 8 Mar. Anthony Wingfield elected Orator; 10 Mar. Notice that presentments were made and penalties inflicted, reference to document in archives [?Leet records]; Lorkin vs Fan – continued to 5 May; Trinity Hall vs John Talbott, William Lewys, Thomas Talbot and John Dade for debt – Edward Mondeford for Trinity Hall seeks sub poenas, already obtained from Chancery, to be given date of hearing, fixed at 5 May.

p.431: 10 Mar. 1586/7 Hodyloe vs Corpus Christi College – assignation to 5 May for execution of sentence; Thomas Adams, yeoman, bound in £20 to appear and answer charges of buying fowl in the name of the University; Taxors vs John Ward – fined 2s 6d for selling seven dozen wheat-bread underweight and 12d worth of bread to the poor for white bread defective in weight; Skevington/Monke vs Cooper for unjust detention of goods – C has refused to appear having business to finish by 4 pm, and has asked for Bery his proctor, S lays charge, assignation; 13 Mar. Taxors vs William Pernell of Ware, husbandman, for ingrossing 10 quarters of malt – convicted, malt forfeit and to be sold in the market, prison term respited.

p.432: 13 Mar. 1586/7 Cooper vs Skevington/Monke - Rose Cooper, Thomas Hitch and Thomas Emont of Barnwell, witnesses for C, assignation; 12 Mar. Proclamation by VC in obedience to an ‘advertisement’ from the Privy Council – 1. Victuallers and alehouse keepers only to serve out of doors idle and unthrifty persons, penalty forfeit of licence; 2. Bakers, owing to dearth, to make no symnels, cracknells, bammes or sodd bread on paid of forfeiture; 3. No brewer to brew strong beer, double double beer (hovecap) or strong ale, ale to be sold at 2½ pints a penny, penalty fine of 12d a quart; 4. All grains to be sold in the open market and weekly as much as vendors can spare on pain of prosecution before the Privy Council.

p.433: 15 Mar. 1586/7 William Archer denies any quarrel with Henry Smith or any other but seeks an enquiry by the VC’s authority as to who cut down his willows; John Goldisborowe of West Wickham, butcher, son of John Goldisborowe, alderman, bound not to kill any flesh in Cambridge or the precincts before the Tuesday after Palm Sunday and to appear and answer charges; Robert Williamson bound in £40 to produce John Halvyn within three days of notice being left at the house of Leonard Taylor, cordwainer.

p.434: 17 Mar. 1586/7 Magdalene College vs Ralph Paris – John Swanne BD, proctor for Magdalene College, alleges that RP was bound in 200 marks for payment of rent, assignation to 7 April; Dormer vs John Cutbard – Moundeford proctor for D claims C contumacious in not replying, assignation; Taxors vs Thomas Smarte, baker – fined 2s 6d and costs for bread underweight; Taxors vs W. Reve, Tewys Rise, Rowland Hutchinson and H. Allen – all absent, assignation.

p.435: 18 Mar. 1586/7 John Stevens vs Robert Pippyn – Henry Pecke of Bourn and Nevyll Hayes witnesses for S - assignation; 21 Mar. Cooper vs Skevington/Monke - process and assignation; Bettes vs Bacster – Bacster to be cited to show cause why sentence should not be executed; 24 Mar. Dormer vs Cutbard – C absent, to be arrested and in custody until bound with sureties in 40s to appear; Cooper vs Skevington/Monke - depositions published, S/M maintains that C has goods of his to the value of £30, C that other creditors of S/M desire possession of the goods and to remove S/M from VC’s jurisdiction, assignation.

p.436: 24 Mar. 1586/7 Peter Baro elected Lady Margaret Professor; Bettes vs Bacster – Bacster cited by Brookes, Bedell, still absent, to be re-cited; Elizabeth Bland vs [?Christopher] Tucke MA in causa locati [?a lease] - T fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing; Office vs John Haselope, Burgess, for obstruction of the King’s Ditch by an aqueduct from a house in Penny Farthing Lane – fined 7s, paid and is absolved.

p.437: 24 Mar. 1586/7 Taxors vs Richard Scot, baker – fined 2s 6d for underweight bread, 2nd offence; 31 Mar. Algate vs Russells – Thomas Moundeford MD pays 10 £ in court to NA, barber, husband of Petronella, in part satisfaction of a debt of 20 £ due from Rs, remainder to be paid in two instalments, Henry Jackson, burgess and baker, bound in £20 for its payment; Bettes vs Bacster – case adjourned but to be pursued if Bacster return to Cambridge; Algate vs Machet – M absolved with costs; 3 Apr. Blande, smith vs Loftus BA – B wishes L to be bound to keep the peace towards him, assignation.

p.438: 31 Mar. 1586/7 John Welles, goldsmith, appointed guardian to his sons William and Andrew (over fourteen) and John (under fourteen); 7 Apr. Thomas Cooper, chandler vs Thomas Bredon, pharmacist, for debt of 75s – to be paid with costs; Proctors vs Thomas Bredon – 2s paid for fines imp sed [?] at leet; Magdalene College vs Ralph Paris – continued in statu quo; Office vs John Keymer (in camera) - K seeks leave not to appear in court owing to a fever, warned to sell no more wine on pain of £20 fine for each week, witnesses Anthony Wingfield (Orator), Proctors and John Sledge; Richard Gee vs William Austen for 18s 4d due for victuals – Robert Smyth MA surety for Austen to pay before Whitsun.

p.439: 25 Jan. 1586/7 Dr Goad for King’s College – Dr G having challenged the new cycle of Proctors and Taxors and reference having been made to, and a reply received from, the Chancellor, decreed by VC that the new cycle (combinatio) of September 1586 is null and void, and that the old cycle should remain in force until another new cycle to include Emmanuel and Magdalene Colleges be drawn up. Note of this, and copies of both cycles, to be preserved in archives.

p.440 13 Dec. 1586 Copy of the Chancellor’s letter [Lord Burghley] on this subject.

p.441: 10 Apr. 1587 Office vs Robert Smith MA – committed to the Tolbooth for wandering the streets at night and making a disturbance, fine to be assessed later; 28 Apr. Robert Shutt esq., Justice of the Court of Pleas vs Michael Skevington/Monke - S/M acknowledges himself bound to S in 56 £, bond date 14 Jan. 1585; 5 May Certificate of Matthew Skriviner LLB (Fellow of Trinity Hall) that he has served the VC’s mandate to appear on Thomas Talbot of Wymondham, Norfolk, on W’s wife, Mondeford, Syndic of the College, seeks notification to the Lord Chancellor and the Court of Chancery, postponement decreed; Lorkin vs Fanne – assignation; Coopervs Monke – C alleges that the price of barley is and was at the beginning of the cause, 22s a quarter, seeks leave to submit further proof, assignation; Lorkin vs Whaller – L seeks forfeiture of W’s bond for £10, W not having obeyed the VC’s decree of 7 Oct.

p.442: 5 May 1587 Norton Knatchbull vs John Haliwell – H fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not appearing; Hodiloe vs Corpus Christi College – distraint of goods to the value of £20 by Thomas Smyth, Bedell, ordered; 8 May Monke/Skevington vs F. Cooper – assignation for sentence; 12 May Cooper vs Monke/Skevington - continued in statu quo for a fortnight; Lorkin vs Fanne – John Cheryngton of Chesterton witness for F who exhibits indenture (sealed with the seal of the dissolved monastery of St Giles at Barnwell) and documents from the Bishop of Ely’s consistory (both signed by Richard Petit, notary public), evidence admitted despite L’s plea that they are ‘private’.

p.443: 12 May 1587 Knatchbull vs John Holywell – Robert Turner LLB assigned as proctor to K, alleges that K hired a horse from H for eight days for 8s to ride to Norwich, which horse was worn out on the return journey, six or eight miles the other side of Thetford, obliging K to hire another horse and to incur costs of 5s, claims total costs of 40s, that Richard Pinder of St Bene’t’s parish had vouched for K’s good treatment of the horse (as it received), H to be punished, Richard Harris MA and Ralph Furness MA witnesses for K.

p.444: 12 May 1587 James Forester vs Ralph Dunthorne - D bound to keep the peace towards F; William Johnson, draper, and James Walker, tailor, bound in 100s each that R. Dunthorne, cook, himself bound in £10, appear at the next sessions and that he keep the peace meanwhile towards JF, cutler; Thomas Nashe vs Richard Sacker for debt – S fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not appearing.

pp.445-6: 16 May 1587 Jane, widow of John Hatcher vs John Cooper esq. and Edward Lyvely MA, executors of her husband’s will, for one pair of parcel latten andirons (£4) and four pieces of Flemish tapestry (120 Flemish ells, £21 in earlier valuation), previously the property of her first husband, Edward Bankes, alderman of London, whose executrix she was – she exhibits documents from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (extracts from will and inventory attested by John Lawe). Witnesses for JH, John Bankes esq. of Little Shelford, Robert Frevyll esq., Thomas Hitch of Barnwell, husbandman, and Winifred, his wife, and WIlliam Gryffen of Little Shelford, attest that they saw the goods in EB’s house in Soper Lane, London. Judgement for the plaintiff.

p.447: [29 May 1587 Lorkin vs Whaller – W to pay £10 and costs (sentence of 7 Oct.) and promises not to molest L through his tenants. Deleted]; 19 May Lorkin vs Fanne – process and assignation; Nicholas Algate vs Dr Mondford MD – renunciation of claims (unspecified) by plaintiff.

p.448: 19 May 1587 Knatchbull vs Holywell – John Bartholomew and Richard Pyndar witnesses for K, verbatim depositions signed, assignation for sentence; 17 May Robert Boothe MA (Fellow of St John’s College) bound in £20 for the appearance in court at two hours’ warning of Edward Booth and for EB’s presenting himself daily to the Master of the College and submitting to instruction by him or by a deputy appointed by the Master of VC, John Palmer MA (Fellow of St John’s College) similarly bound.

p.449: 23 May 1587 Memorandum that Elizabeth, wife of James Forister, cutler, was committed to the Tolbooth on 21 May by Robert Killingbanck, one of the Sergeants of the town, and that the Mayor, when JF went to claim privilege and to ask for her release on bail, took no responsibility, witnesses William Wylson, glover, John Cotton, tailor, and John Clemens jnr., tailor; Lewis Webster, currier, W. Wylson and J. Clemens further depose that Mr French, Bailiff of the Tolbooth, had not seen the writ when they went to him on 21 May, that they obtained a copy of it from Killingback (for 4d) and had it read to French by … MA and William Diconson, whereupon F also refused to meddle; Martin Charleton, yeoman, certifies that he has served a sub poena on Mr Beale, late of Peterhouse, in the garden of his house at Wyboston [Bedfordshire] in the presence of B’s servant.

p.450: 26 May 1587 George Newman LLB vs Ralph Dunthorne, cook, for injury and defamation – D having no fixed abode to be bound with sureties in £30 to appear; Proctors vs John Harvy, innkeeper – bond in 40 £ forfeit for dressing on Friday 26 May a loin of veal, roasted, and a calf’s head sodde [baked]; Christopher Smyth, brewer vs John Edmundes MA for injury – suspicion of stealing a purse, estimates damages at £100, E states that he ‘erected a figure’ and ‘gave judgement by a lawful art’ to the effect that someone in Hammond’s house had the purse; Nicholas Thomson vs J. Edmundes MA as above - damages estimated as ‘the sum of all his goods’; Silvester Lyon vs J. Edmundes MA as above – damages estimated at £13 6s 8d.

p.451: 26 May 1587 W. Hammond, beer brewer vs Edmundes (one entry deleted and a false start, then) as above - ‘if he hammond were or had been a good or honest master, before this tyme he hammond had found owt, or should have founde owt that person who hath stollen a purse with money that is missing’, estimates damages at £100, admission and assignation.

p.452: 26 May 1587 F. Cooper vs Skevington – assignation for sentence in three weeks; Lorkin vs Fanne – assignation; W. Hammond vs Richard Joseph for driving off his swine – J to be committed to the Tolbooth until bound with sureties in 20 £ for his appearance; 27 May John Edmundes, Mayor, discommuned by VC and majority of Heads (listed) for exhibiting great ingratitude towards scholars and their servants; 30 May John Standish, Bedell, and John Clemens, tailor, bound in 100s each for James Forester, cutler, himself bound in £10, to keep the peace towards Ralph Dunthorne, same sureties bound in same sum to same effect for John Hayward, servant to F, himself bound in £10, same sureties willing to be so bound also for F’s wife if she be released from the Tolbooth.

p.453: 1 June 1587 Lucas vs Claverley for defamation (in Mr Newman’s rooms in Trinity Hall) - ‘that the said Lucas had suborned one Thomas Dallocke Master of arte to speake contrarye to the trueth concerniyng the takyng awaye of certeyne of the apparell of the said Calverley, which as the said C said was taken from hym the said C’, C claims that he indicated that this was the opinion of Newman, George Newman LLB and Thomas Dallocke MA witnesses for L, assignation; 2 June W. Hammond vs John Edmundes – process and assignation; Nicholas Tomson and Silvester Lion vs Edmundes – similiter.

p.454: 2 June 1587 Miles Sandes vs Edmundes – similiter; Thomas Vahan of St Botolph’s parish vs Katherine, wife of James Armestronge of the same parish for injury – process and assignation; Thomas Vaughan vs Ann, wife of Richard Jey for injury – similiter; T. Vaughan vs Alice, wife of Michael Holmes for injury – similiter; Lucas vs Calverley – continued in statu quo until Friday after Trinity; Robert Booth MA (Senior Fellow of St John’s College) bound in £20 to produce Edward Boothe BA at any time in the ensuing year; 7 June Hammond vs Edmundes – E examined, assignation; Christopher Smyth vs Edmundes – Hammond proctor for S fails to prove E contumacious in not having been examined, decree that E shall produce the ‘figure’ he ‘erected’ in court.

p.455: 7 June 1587 N. Tomson and S. Lyon as in Hammond vs Edmundes; T. Vaughan vs A. Holmes – Mary Mase, Helen Tolson and Joan Malyn, witnesses for V, H to be examined; Vaughan vs A. Jey – J to be examined; Vaughan vs K. Armestronge – A to be examined, Henry Mace witness for V; MIles Sandes vs John Edmundes for debt – Turner proctor for S, E to be examined.

p.456: 7 June 1587 Knatchbull vs Holywell – H to be cited to hear sentence; 16 June Lucas vs Calverley – depositions published; Lorkin vs Fann – process and assignation; Hammon vs Edmundes – John Sherman MA, proctor for H, E exhibits his ‘figure’ and asks that it be submitted to expert opinion; Smith vs Edmundes – as above, Sherman proctor; Tomson and Lyon vs Edmundes – as above.

p.457: 16 June 1587 Hammond vs Richard Joseph – Sherman, proctor for J who was to remain in the Tolbooth until he cautioned for his appearance, has not so cautioned but has been seen at large in St Peter’s parish, beyond the great bridge and elsewhere, he has been cited and is absent, assignation; Swanne vs Arthur Williams for debt – distraint on W’s goods to the value of £4 16s decreed as in decree of 17 May 1586.

p.458: 16 June 1587 Sandes vs Edmundes – process; Vaughan vs K. Armestronge – A's replied accepted, Cowell proctor for A, process; Vaughan vs A. Holmes and A. Jey – as above; Knatchbull vs Holywell – H re-cited to hear sentence; Cooper vs Monke/Skevington - M/S proved contumacious, fined £16 to the use of C and costs, to be assessed, and C to keep possession of forfeited goods of M/S except for ‘5 heares marked with JE which he wylled the said cooper to deliver to Marsellus Allen, as parcels of gooddes demised unto hym by mr John Edmundes now mr maior of Cambridge’; Peter Whalley vs Robert Sparke for debt of 60s 10d for shoes – S admits to 51s and certain debts remaining in the book of the said Whalley.

p.459: 30 June 1587 All cases continued to next; 6 July Proctors vs John Keymer – K cited for 8 am excused himself on grounds of sickness, same excuse from wife when cited for 1 pm; 7 July Standish unable to find K to cite him personally, decree for further personal citation or viis et modis; Cooper vs Skevington - M/S to be cited to show cause why sentence should not be executed and to hear costs assessed; Lorkin vs Fanne – L seeks to add to his ‘libel’, F protests, assignation for decision of judge; Hammond vs Edmundes – the figure to be given to Messrs Wright and Fletcher of Gonville and Caius College and Mr Felton of Pembroke Hall for their written opinion, Cowell, proctor for E, asks that they give their opinion on oath; Smyth, Tomson and Lyon vs Edmundes as above; Sandes vs Edmundes – Turner proctor for S, Cowell for E, process and assignation; Hammond vs Edmundes – continued in statu quo to next.

p.460: 7 July 1587 Whaley vs Sparke – S fined 20d for contumacy in not appearing and to be re-cited; Vahan vs Armestrong, Jee, Homes – all continued to next; Knatchbull vs Holiwell – continued to next; Office vs Banister, servant to John Keymer – B cited, willing to appear, but forbidden by K’s wife who being cited herself refuses to appear; 12 July Henry Wayland BD vs Richard Bradley, brewer, for ?penal sums on three bonds; 13 July Thomas Gilly vs Landesley/Langdale for debt of 52s 11d - confessed by L as to the document but claiming that G has been satisfied, assignation; 14 July Anthony Sowthill of Lincolnshire, gent. vs Mr Mydleton of Queens’ College – case stated, M to be cited; Lorkin vs Fanne – F to reply more fully.

p.461: 14 July 1587 Cooper vs Monke/Skevington - M/S not found, to be recited personally or by viis et modis; Gonville and Caius College vs John Haselop and Thomas Cooper, burgesses - Robert Church BD and Edward Burton MA, proctors for Gonville and Caius College, allege debt of £120 on a bond, admitted, to be paid with costs of 11s 3d within the week.

p.462: 14 July 1587 Hammond vs Edmondes – exceptions entered, assignation; Smyth vs Edmundes – assignation to next for sentence; Lyon and Tomson vs Edmundes – assignation to next for sentence; Sandes vs Edmundes – E to respond more fully; Whaley vs Sparke – continued to next; Knatchbull vs Holywell – continued to next but one; Proctors vs Keymer – viis et modis served; K absent, proved contumacious, penalty further action, another viis et modis decreed.

p.463: 21 July 1587 Sandes vs Edmundes – continued to next in statu quo; Whaley vs Sparke - continued to next in statu quo; Hammond vs Edmundes - continued to next in statu quo; Smyth, Thomson and Lyon vs Edmundes - continued to next in statu quo; Edward Lyvely as executor of Dr J. Hatcher vs William Gere, gent., for debt – assignation; Mosse vs Henry Smyth MA for debt of 20 £ – S not found in his room in King’s College, to be arrested and in custody until he caution for his appearance.

p.464: 21 July 1587 Cooper vs Monke/Skevington - certified that viis et modis was served as M/S’s house at Barnwell, proved contumacious, penalty, costs assessed at 50s and M/S to be in custody until he pay C £16 and the costs, C given leave to sell the goods of M/S in his hands in part payment; Whaley vs Sparke – S to be arrested and in custody until he is bound with sureties in £6 13s 4d for his appearance; Whaley vs Cruse [Humphrey, sub Crews] and Gardiner BAs (King’s College) for debt – to be arrested and in custody until bound with sureties in £6 13s 4d for their appearance; Lorkin vs Fanne - continued in statu quo; Proctors vs Keymer – viis et modis served, immediately torn down and destroyed by a woman, allegedly K’s sister, who also threw a stone at Standish, to be served again on threat of proceeding in K’s absence as penalty for contumacy.

p.465: 26 July 1587 John Sledd MA (Fellow of Trinity College) bound in £20 for the appearance of William Barker BA (pensioner of Trinity College); 28 July 1587 John Bettes LLD vs Anthony Style, gent., of Norwich – B exhibits a sub poena from Chancery for S to appear before the VC, VC fixes date at 20 Oct., Thomas Sherde, litteratus of Trinity Hall, to be the messenger.

pp.466-8: 28 July 1587 Proctors vs John Keymer – K absent, pronounced contumacious, penalty, further process in his absence; Hammond vs Edmondes – on petition of ‘two’ justices (Wraye, Peryman and Shutt) H remits his case vs E on the condition that E behaves quietly and honestly in future; Smithe vs Edmonds - continued in statu quo; Lyon and Tomson vs Edmonds - continued in statu quo; Sandes vs Edmonds – Cowell, for E, obtains assignation for Turner, for S, to prove; Lorkin vs Fanne - continued in statu quo until after Michaelmas; 11 July Decree of VC and Heads declaring nullity of the new proctorial cycle; 5 Aug. Decree of VC and Drs Perne and Baro in dispute between Thomas Bradocke MA (Fellow of Christ’s College) and the College, B having failed to proceed BD seven years after MA, that he should within a stated time carry out exercises for the degree, but that this be not allowed as a precedent.

p.469: 6 Aug. 1587 VC Copcot being obliged to travel on business, appoints Drs Perne, Tyndall and Legge his deputies; 20 Sept. Assize of bread – quarter of wheat 14s 8d with 2s allowance, ½d loaf 11oz, only ½d and ¼d loaves to be baked.

p.470: 21 Sept. 1587 Michael Gardiner MA vs Spencer BD for debt – S has given all his books to G in part payment, Thomas Osborne MA (Fellow of Christ’s College) witness to the offer of the books having received them from S for G at the time of S’s death, arrangement approved; 27 Sept. John Churchyard, servant to Christopher Funnyby of Brampton, Hunts., gent., and Peter Scarlet, apothecary, bound in 10 £ each for the appearance of C or F to answer charges as to a cynet [signet] marked with the Trinity College mark carried away by C; 3 Oct. Richard Grenelles vs Ralph Millers MA for debt of 40s over the year – G allowed to retain a gown of ‘buffen stuffe, faced with conye and lyned with white rugge, the which gowne for lack of use is indammed and corrupte with mothes’ which was left with him for security, G to inform M of this judgement and to wait 6 weeks for his answer.

p.471: 6 Oct. 1587 Proctors vs John Bacster snr., vintner, for debt to the University – to be cited by Thomas Brookes (who could not find him before, but left word with B’s wife) for the next day when he was also absent; 9 Oct. Master and Fellows of Trinity College vs William Martyn of Whitwell, yeoman, for debt of 180 £ on two bonds for the delivery of wheat – judgement for the plaintiff; Dr Styll vs Edward Marshall MA for injury – M committed to custody until bound with sureties for his appearance; Dr Bell vs Edward Marshall MA for injury – as above; 10 Oct. Proctors vs John Bacster snr. - B absent to be cited by viis et modis.

p.472: 10 Oct. 1587 William Warde MD vs John Keymer, John Carter and Roger Jackson for debt of 200 £ – K absent, viis et modis decreed for him; 12 Oct. Dr Styll vs E. Marshall – M to be examined; Dr Bell vs Marshall – as above; Drs Perne, Tyndall, Norgate and Barwell vs Marshall for injury – Mondeford proctor for all four, process and assignation.

p.473: 12 Oct. 1587 Warde vs Keymer, Carter and Jackson – K proved contumacious, penalty, process in his absence, assignation; 13 Oct. Lucas vs Mr Calverley – depositions published, assignation; Lorkin vs Fan – assignation for sentence on the petition of F; Thomas Gill vs Mr Landesdale – L to be cited.

p.474: 13 Oct. 1587 Smyth, Lion and Tomson, servants of Hammond vs Edmonds – assignation; Sandes vs Edmonds – term for proof prorogued to next; John Matthew vs Peter Jones for 30s rent on a house owned by M and occupied by J – J denies that he is tenant to M and states that if he ever paid rent to M it was in the life-time of John Osborne, owner of the house, in whose name M demanded it and that O who died at Shrovetide left this house to J as also the house in Bridge Street where Mr Blande, the cooper, lives. J to exhibit O’s will and to prove that at the time of O’s death M was O’s servant.

p.475: 13 Oct. 1587 Warde vs Kaymer, Carter and Jacson – no entry; 14 Oct. Lucas vs Calverley – C has not entered exceptions, complains that the charge is too vague, objects to the witnesses Newman and Dallock as inconsistent and partial.

p.476: 14 Oct. 1587 Newman LLB vs Mr Hammond for defamation - ‘that if he newman were in mr Dallockes case (who as a witnesse was sworne and examined) he Newman would rather dispense with god for his oathe or forsweare hymself than testifie upon his oathe agaynst his freend’, estimates his injury at £40 (H MA of Clare Hall).

p.477: 14 Oct. 1587 Thomas Dickynson MA (Trinity College) constituted guardian of his nephew Toby Greneberye especially with respect to a suit to be brought by Dr Lorkin; Newman vs Calverley – process and assignation; John Palmer MA vs Thomas Gill, draper, for debt – process and assignation; Matthew vs Jones – J fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not exhibiting Osborne’s will.

p.478: 14 Oct. 1587 Styll vs Marshall – Mondeford proctor for S, process and assignation; Bell vs Marshall – as above; Perne, Norgate, Tyndall and Barwell vs Marshall – process and assignation; John Palmer vs Peter Whalley – no entry; 16 Oct. John Matthew vs Peter Jones – J fined 5s to the use of M for contumacy in not exhibiting O’s will.

pp.479-605: 1579-89 DEPOSITIONS

pp.479-80: Mar./July 1579 Lorkin vs St Catharine’s College – Philip Pecocke of Chesterton, maltster, aged 41, Richard Covington of Chesterton, smith, aged 42, Edward Jackson of Chesterton, weaver, aged 32, Thomas Smyth of Chesterton, yeoman, aged 30, William Goodwin of Chesterton, yeoman, aged 31, Richard Livelie MA, aged 32, Thomas Smyth, George Sherwoode, gent., aged 40,

pp.481-3: 1 July 1579 James Bolton, William Spicer.

pp.484-5: 7 Oct. 1579 Gonville and Caius College vs Remigius Booth – depositions of Stephen Perse MA (Fellow and Syndic of Gonville and Caius College), aged 30;

pp.485-6: Thomas Hawes MA (Fellow and Syndic of Gonville and Caius College), aged 27;

pp.486-8: Stephen Perse again;

pp.488-9: Thomas Hawes again;

p.490: John Finglaye, Butler of Gonville and Caius College, aged 25;

p.491: William Sorell, ‘cater’ [buyer of provisions] of Gonville and Caius College, aged 30;

pp.491-3: Richard Swale MA, aged 34;

pp.493-4: John Trace (Tracey) MA (Fellow of Gonville and Caius College), aged 34;

p.495: Robert Church BD (Fellow of Gonville and Caius College), aged 30.

p.496: 22 Oct. 1579 St Sepulchre’s vs Evers – depositions of John Matthew, skinner, aged 29;

pp.496-7: Nicholas Hewes, scholar, aged 24.

p.497: 22 Oct. 1579 Farrand vs Wharton – depositions of John Amye MA aged 31;

p.498: John Bacster, Bedell, aged ca 50.

p.499: 27 Oct. 1579 Office vs Simon Watson – personal answer of Watson.

p.500: 29 Oct. 1579 St Sepulchre’s vs Evers – depositions of John Boyes, carpenter, aged 30,

pp.500-1: Edward Bonde, tiler, aged 50,

pp.501-2: John Waller, slater, aged 40,

p.502: William Butcher alias Leistriche, carpenter, aged 48.

p.503: 29 Oct. 1579 Farrand vs Wharton – deposition of Martyn Wharton

pp.504-5: 21 Nov. 1579 Woulfe vs Threader – depositions of George Brooke, tailor, aged 31,

p.505: Henry Alcocke, saddler, aged 53,

pp.506-7: William Burwell, vintner and praiser [appraiser], aged 55.

pp.507-11: St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – depositions of John Cragg MA (Fellow of St Catharine’s College) aged 45.

p.511: 18 Feb. 1579/80: Aylward vs Mase – personal answer of Mase,

pp.511-12: 23 Feb. 1579/800 depositions of Gerard Barleman, labourer, aged 50,

p.512: Christopher Marten, labourer, aged 40.

p.512: 17 May 1580 St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – personal answer of Robert Cansfield, Syndic for the College,

pp.512-13: 6 June 1580 depositions of Margery Fanne,

pp.513-15: Richard Fan of Chesterton, husbandman, aged 34,

pp.516-17: Thomas Parysh snr. of Chesterton, yeoman, aged 70,

p.518: Robert Cansfield MA.

pp.518-19 [?Aug.] 1580 Usher vs Killingback – depositions of Thomas Ashwode, servant to Dr Ferrand, aged 20, William Heyman, scholar, aged 18, Henry Sledd, scholar of Trinity College, aged 20. [June] Byng vs Harrison – depositions of Robert Crudd, servingman, aged 28,

pp.519A-B: John Standyshe, Bedell, aged 44. St Catharine’s College vs Lorkin – further deposition of John Cragge.

pp.521-2: 1 Feb. 1580/1 Button vs Hayes – personal answer of Nevel Hayes and deposition of Peter Lyon, aged 59.

p.523: 17 May 1581 Hasyll vs Curtois – depositions of Richard Foote of Milton, husbandman, aged 68, W. Annable of Milton, carpenter, aged 30, Henry Aunger of Chesterton, yeoman, aged 28, John Harte of Milton, ploughman, aged 29, Robert Barnard of Milton, labourer, aged 24.

p.524: 17 May 1581 Robert Chesteney vs John Poleye – depositions of Margaret Lyllie, widow, aged 75 and Joan Chapman, aged 46. Office vs Burges and Tawyer’s wife (adultery) - deposition of Thomas Talbot, Anthony Style and W. Kempe.

pp.525-8: 12 July 1581 Barbor vs Threader – depositions of John Murton, musician, aged 46, Edmynd Wylson, cook, aged 30, John Warde, tailor, aged 40, Thomas Heardman, scrivener, aged 20.

p.529A: [1587] Sandes vs Edmonds – fuller answer of John Edmonds MA.

p.529: [1587] Office vs Edmund Chippingdale (St John’s College) - depositions of Christopher Webbs BD (Fellow of St John’s College) aged 34, Laurence Stanton BD (Fellow of St John’s College),

p.530: 21 Nov. 1587 John Furmarie BD, aged 33.

pp.531-2: 16 Feb. 1581/2 Furmerye vs Hounde – depositions of John Houlden MA, aged 28,

pp.532-3: Edward Maplet MA (Fellow of St Catharine’s College), aged 27.

pp.534-5: 15 Mar. 1581/2 Personal answer of John Stevens, baker, aged 39, to material of Owen Wilson against him and depositions of Robert Dawson, mylner [miller], aged 65, 6 April. Henry Flemson, baker, aged 30.

pp.536-7: 3 Apr. 1582 Furmery vs Hounde – deposition of John Fox MA (Fellow of St Catharine’s College), 6 Apr. Peter Sestom BA, aged 24.

pp.538-9: 31 May 1582 Scocroft vs Blunt – depositions of Thomas Wright of Barnwell, glover, aged 43, W. Green of Fen Ditton, shepherd, aged 26,

pp.539-40: 18 June 1582 Fuller answer of Richard Blunt. [?Nov.] W. Fulke’s appeal – depositions of former proctors John Jegon MA and Robert Leiles MA, aged 30. Covell vs Richardson – personal answer of John Richardson, furrier, aged 30.

pp.540-1: [Feb. 1582/3] Puryfie vs Batsford – personal answer of Richard Batsford (?Christopher) to Nevell’s material.

p.541: 12 June 1583 Howe vs Curde – personal answers of Robert Curde of Chesterton, maltster, aged 45.

pp.542-3: 17 Oct. 1583 Smith vs King – personal answer of Anthony King, cutler, aged 41, depositions of Josias Archer and his wife Sara; 13 Apr. 1584 Algate vs Russell – depositions of Gervase Slyed of Cottenham, labourer, aged 60 (resident in Cottenham for ca 30 years) and John Richemonde of Madingley, labourer, aged 50, freeman, born and bred at Madingley.

pp.544-50: 14 July 1584 Bulward vs Greathead – personal answer of Edward Greathede; 30 Oct. Field vs Clarke – personal answer of Alexander Clarke, capper; 2 Nov. Fuller answer of the same; 8 Nov. Bulward vs Greathead – depositions of Elizabeth Page of ‘Fenton Stanton’, wife of Anthony Page, aged 40; Andrew Herborowe of Fen Stanton, husbandman, aged 31; Thomas Aunger of Comberton, yeoman, aged 28; William Hill of Cambreton, husbandman, aged 40; William Halfhed of Westwicke, parish of Hoggington, aged 53; Thomas Braine of Comberton, clerk, aged 31; Peter Lyon, cook, aged 60.

p.550A: 8 Nov. 1584 Depositions by ?Thomas Smith, ?Nicholas Watson, Richard Gedney and ?Pell re an assault by Sir Rockley with a staff taken from a stage-keeper.

pp.551-5: 10 Dec. 1584 Marten vs Leach – personal answer of Arthur Leache; 28 Jan. 1584/5 Cragge vs Lorkin – depositions of John Amye LLD, aged 36; Gisbright Jacob MA, aged 32, Thomas Wenham MA, aged 28, Thomas Archer MA, aged 26, Richard Reder BA aged 25, Roger Dod MA, aged 24; [Mar.] Seman vs Roomet – personal answer of Robert Roomet and depositions of John Clarke of Soham, Shoemaker, aged 60; John Nethercote of Soham, weaver, aged 50, William Free of West Wratting, husbandman, aged 30 and George Free of West Wratting, husbandman, aged 31.

pp.556-7: 28 June 1585 Proctors vs Robson etc. - deposition of John Wylkynson of Dunnington in the Isle of Ely, chandler, aged 34; 28 Nov. Cowell vs Woodward etc. re injury to Sophonius Smith – depositions of John Hall, aged 23, Henry Whallet of Barnwell, butcher, aged 34; William Hurst, Christopher Gryme, aged 28, George Flude BA, aged 24; 11 Dec. John Subden, glover.

p.558: 11 Dec. 1585 Richard Gent of Lynn, waterman, deposes re deliveries of wine to Keymer (also to Messrs Burwell, Woulf and George Dinsdale), supporting depositions by Thomas Hatton, carrier, of St Sepulchre’s parish, John Parkinson, porter, of St Peter’s parish, Richard Robertes, porter, of St Clement’s parish and Jeffray Bulle, porter, of St Clement’s.

p.559: 14 Dec. 1585 Smith vs Woodward, Hurst and Trowth – personal answers of Thomas Woodward, butcher, John Subden, glover, William Hurst and John Trowth, hosteller.

pp.560-1: 29 Apr. 1586 ?Hatcher vs Woulf – confession of John Cawlcot, carpenter; 10 May Memorandum that Thomas Manser of Preston, Westmorland, clothier, gave to John Hutton BA (King’s College) a bill of debt of Roger Johnson, draper, for 56s, another of Henry Goose, draper, of 38s in the presence of Bacster; Payne vs Salmon – deposition of John Cursall; Daniel Clarke of Bletsoe, yeoman, aged 40, deposes re apprenticeship of George [sic] Clarke in London and with Mark Rise; 7 Nov. Lorkin vs Fan – personal answer of Richard Fanne of Chesterton, husbandman [deleted].

pp.562-4: 7 Nov. 1586 Lorkin vs Fann - the same, fair copy and further answer.

pp.564-6: 2 Dec. 1586 Gilly vs Hurst – personal answer of John Hurst, tailor; 15 Dec. Lorkin vs Fan – depositions of William Osse of Chesterton, tailor, aged 56, John Burde, tailor, aged 40, John Core of Chesterton, maltster, aged 62.

pp.566-7: [?Mar. 1587] Skevington/Monke vs Cooper – deposition of Rose Cooper of Barnwell, gentlewoman, aged 54.

pp.568-9: [?Mar. 1587] Cooper vs Skevington/Monke - depositions of Thomas Hitch of Barnwell, husbandman, aged 50, Thomas Emont of Barnwell, husbandman, aged 44.

p.569: [Apr. 1587] Gee vs Austen – statement of Gee’s cause on oath and supporting deposition of Christopher Marley BA.

pp.570-1: [May 1587] Knatchbull vs Holywell – deposition of Richard Harries MA, aged 28 and Ralph Furness MA, aged 25, with personal answer of John Holywell, tailor, aged 40.

p.572: [May 1587] Smyth vs Edmondes – personal answer of John Edmondes jnr., MA.

p.573: [June 1587] Vaughan vs Armstrong – personal answer of Katherine Armstrong; Vaughan vs Holmes – personal answer of Alice Holmes; Vaughan vs Armstrong – deposition of Henry Mace, weaver, aged 50.

p.574: [June 1587] Vaughan vs Holmes – deposition of Helen Towlson, wife of Reginald Towlson, aged 49; Vaughan vs Gee – personal answer of Anne, wife of Richard Gee; Vaughan vs Holmes - deposition of Joan Malyn, widow, aged 65; 6 July Lorkin vs Fan – personal answer to F and L’s exceptions.

p.575: [July 1587] Sandes vs Edmondes – fuller answer of Edmondes; Lorkin vs Fan – fuller answer of F; Sandes vs Edmondes – fuller answer of Edmondes.

p.576: 14 Oct. [1587] Styll vs Marshall – answer of Edward Marshall MA (pensioner of Clare Hall); Bell vs Marshal – personal answer of Edward Marshall.

p.577: 14 Oct. 1587 Newman vs Hammond – personal answer of John Hamond MA (Fellow of Clare Hall), aged 31; Newman vs Calverley – answer of William Calverley MA (pensioner of Clare Hall) aged 25; Penn, Norgate etc. vs Marshall – answer of Edward Marshall MA; Lucas vs Calverley – deposition of John Hamond MA (Fellow of Clare Hall) aged 30.

p.578: [Oct.] 1587 Lucas vs Calverley – deposition of Robert Newcome MA, aged 25, and Edward Page MA, aged 28, fuller answer of Robert Newcome.

p.579: [Oct.] 1587 Sandes vs Edmondes – deposition of John Bacster snr. MA, aged ca 39, John Man, apothecary, aged 21, Francis Burgoine MA, aged 24.

p.580: [Oct] 1587 Probate of Peter Jones – depositions of Richard Fallowes, tailor, aged 33, William Smithe MA, aged 24; [18 Dec.] Corpus Christi College vs Smith – personal answer of Sophonius Smith MA.

p.581: 10 Jan. 1587/8 Corpus Christi College vs Smith – fuller answer of Sophonius Smith MA and answer to exhibits (?indentures of chest); Copcot vs Sheffield – depositions of Thomas Bolton MA and Matthew Sethell and personal answer of Samson Sheffield MA.

p.582: 10 Jan. 1587/8 Sandes vs Edmondes – deposition of Laurence Bonde MA; Copcot/Office vs Sheffield – depositions of Thomas Archer MA and Edmund Battie MA.

pp.583-5: 10 Jan. 1587/8 Otowell Hill vs Michael Gunnell/Gonnell - personal answer of Michael Gunnell of Trumpington, husbandman; [Feb.] Matchett vs Mase – deposition of John Standyshe, Bedell, aged 54, and of Thomas Barber, aged 54; Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Charles Chadwick – depositions of John Smithe MA, Junior Proctor, aged 32, Roger Morrell BD, aged 29, Lionel Ducket MA (Fellow of Jesus College) aged 24.

pp.586-7: [Feb.] 1587/8 Edmondes vs Sandes – personal answer of Miles Sandes MA; [Mar.] Gill vs Smyth and Collimer – depositions of Peter Whalye, aged 40, John Paske, draper, aged 50.

p.588: [Mar.] 1587/8 Leonard vs Sandes – depositions of Anthony Eversfilde MA (Fellow of Clare Hall) aged 23, Henry Smithe MA (Fellow of King’s College) aged 35, Robert Cansfield MA (Fellow of St Catharine’s College) aged 36.

p.589: 19 June 1588 Evers and Pewe vs Jeamson – personal answer of John Jeamson; ?Scorer vs Evers and Pewe – personal answers of Thomas Evers and William Pewe; Sandes vs Edmondes – deposition of Thomas Perne MA.

pp.590-1: 9 July 1588 Evers and Pewe vs Smyth – personal answer of Henry Smith, tailor; Evers and Pewe vs Hawxshew – personal answer of John Hawxshew, tailor; Evers and Pewe vs Jameson – personal answer of John Jameson, tailor; [July] Stevens vs Newman – depositions of Thomas Barbor, scrivener, aged 54 and Godfrey Coulton, tailor, aged 28; Pewe and Evers vs George Skorer – deposition of Thomas Smith MA, Bedell.

p.592: 11 Oct. 1588 Hemmyng vs Moore – personal answer of Geoffrey Moore MA; Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – deposition of Richard Warfilde MA (Fellow of Jesus College) and Andrew Bendish MA (Fellow of Jesus College) to Chadwick’s exceptions.

p.593: 29 Nov. 1588 Alcock vs Revell – deposition of John Steven, baker, aged 36; 17 Dec. Probate of Thomas Taylor, Butler of St John’s College – depositions of Anne Hie, wife of Alexander Hie, shoemaker, aged 26, William Thorlow, shoemaker, aged 42; Joan Neede, widow, aged 50, Jane Haselop, widow, aged 40, Alexander Hie, shoemaker, aged 40, Christopher Moore, Butler of St John’s College, aged 42.

pp.594-5: 17 Dec. 1588 Alcock vs Revell – deposition of Michael Holmes, brewer, aged 30; [Jan.] 1588/9 Webb vs Alcock – depositions of John Loder, smith, aged 33 (for A), Kenelm Pickinge (?Pickering), haberdasher, aged 26 (for W), William Parsonn of Chesterton, servingman, aged 21 (for W).

p.596: [Jan.] 1588/9 Leonard Lansdale vs John Cutchie – personal answer of John Cutchie, carter; Lansdale vs Mondford – personal answer of W. Mondford of Barnwell, husbandman, aged 33.

pp.597-8: [Jan.] 1588/9 Lansdale vs Whitfield – personal answer of John Whitfield, carter, aged 40; Hemmyng vs Moore – personal answer of Geoffrey Moore MA; Lansdale vs Cutchie – depositions of William Moundford (as above) and John Whitfield, servant to Mounford, aged 40.

p.599: [Jan.] 1588/9 Keyne vs Fewe – personal answer of John Fewe; Alcock vs Webb – personal answer of Giles Webb; Keyne vs Fewe – fuller answer of Fewe.

pp.600-1: [Jan.] 1588/9 Lansdale vs Cutchie – depositions of William Moore, aged 28 and Thomas Godfrey of Fulbourn, aged 20.

pp.602-3: 11 Apr. 1589 Hemming vs Moore – personal answer of Robert Hemming to Moore’s exceptions; 7 May Kempe vs Holywell - personal answer of John Holliwell, deposition of George Johnson (for K).

p.604: 9 May 1589 Hemming vs Moore – fuller answer of H to M’s exceptions; 5 June Fletcher vs Newman - personal answer of George Newman LLB.

p.605: 18 July 1589 Cayme vs Fewe – personal answer of Gregory Cayme to F’s exceptions.

pp.606-32: blank.

pp.633-80, 479*-655* 1578, 1582, 1587-9 ACTA

p.633: 7 Oct. 1588 am John Firmarie BD and his wife Margery vs Michael Wolfe and William Warnes concerning a legacy – material submitted, assignation; John Firmarie, as proctor for Bridget Warnes vs Wolfe and Warnes – process and assignation.

pp.634-5: 7 Oct. 1588 p.m. John and Margery Firmarie vs Wolfe and Warnes – F has received, since the morning, a salt, six spoons and a bowl from the goods of William Burwell in full satisfaction of a legacy of 20 nobles, W and W to pay 20s and costs; Bridget Warnes, through John F, vs Wolf and Warnes – F proves himself attorney for Robert Warnes of ‘Swafeild’, Norfolk, yeoman, and Bridget his wife, to receive the £5 left to Bridget by William Burwell, the £5 paid and costs of 6s 6d respited by F as above, F bound in £6 13s 4d to pay the £5 to Bridget Warnes.

p.636: 31 Oct. 1588 Robert Newcome MA admitted proctor in the consistory court of the University and sworn.

pp.637-80: blank.

p.479* (=681): 16 Oct. 1587 Lucas vs Calverley – John Hammond MA and Robert Newcome MA, witnesses for C who also claims that Dr Byng and Edward Page, ‘alumnus’ of Trinity Hall, are necessary witnesses, to be cited; John Reynold and John Allen, servants to Dr Tyndall vs John Gregg, servant and apprentice of Peter Whaley, John Lewes, currier, Edward Wardall, butcher, Owen Wright, shoemaker, Miles Palmer, shoemaker and Christopher Blande, shoemaker, for injury – an assault in Petty Cury in which R lost a hat worth 9s, Gregg fined 20s for ‘streeking up the heels’ of R, the others also fined 20s for the medical costs of R and A and 9s for R’s hat, to be in custody until payment. Those who have not appeared to be cited. Gregg to be bound in £20 for his good behaviour before his release from custody.

p.480*: 17 Oct. 1587 Office vs Edward Marshall – M to be cited; Dr Styll vs Edward Marshall – assignation; Drs Bell, Perne, Norgate, Tyndall and Barwell vs Marshall – as above; 20 Oct. Thomas Dikenson vs Dr Lorkin – D sues on behalf of Toby Grenbury for unjust detention, L fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not appearing, assignation; Lorkin vs Fan – assignation as penalty of L’s contumacy; Newman vs Hamond – H to be cited; Newman vs Calverley – C to be cited; Knatchbull vs Holiwell - assignation for sentence; Proctors vs Widow Hatley, Arthur Carleton and Francis Earle – each fined 20d for contumacy in not appearing and to be cited.

p.481*: 20 Oct. 1587 John Bettes LLD vs Anthony Style of Norwich, gent., for debt – Thomas Sherde certifies that the sub poena from Chancery has been served on S on 4 Oct. on the highway between Norwich and Dickleborough, his absence to be certified to Chancery.

p.482*: 20 Oct. 1587 John Waterhouse MA vs Giles Barker for injury – B to be bound with sureties in 20 £ for his appearance; Proctors vs Griffyth Rise for £10 on a bond – R to be in custody until payment; Proctors vs Henry Allen, John Hill, Richard Harrison and Nicholas Algate for payment of fines imposed by Leet (Allen 20s, Hill £7, Harrison £6, Algate 60s) - to be in custody until payment; Proctors vs Edward Person, Thomas Swallowe, Gervase Brigam and Thorney – all fined 20d for contumacy in not appearing, to be cited; Proctors vs Richard Harrison, Thomas Thomson and John Hill for dressing and selling flesh on forbidden days – to be imprisoned for 10 days and pay 100s each and costs.

p.483*: 20 Oct. 1587 Hodyloe vs Corpus Christi College – costs assessed at 33s 4d, Thomas Smyth, Bedell, mandated to execute distraint if payment not made; 23 Oct. Thomas Dikenson vs Dr Lorkin – D states that Trinity College have leased to Grenburye two tenements, the Blue Boar lately demised to WIlliam Odam and another lately demised to Lorkin, both in L’s occupation, in All Saints’ parish, between two Trinity tenements occupied by Thomas Holton on the north and Lancelot Sewell on the south at a rent of 50s, L refuses to vacate, arbitrators appointed, Dr Fulke by L and Dr Bettes by D.

pp.484*-5*: 23 Oct. 1587 Lucas vs Calverley – witnesses to be more fully examined at instance of C; Proctors vs James Borowes for allowing cards and dice in his house – fined 40s and costs and to be bound with sureties to offend no more; Lorkin vs Fan – assignation; Proctors vs Hammond – process and assignation for sentence; Smith, servant to Hammond vs Edmondes – continued in statu quo; Tomson and Lyon vs Edmondes as above.

p.486*: 23 Oct. 1587 Proctors vs Francis Earle – deleted, see next; Farr, late Proctor vs Earle for unlicensed victualling – fined 20s and costs and to be in custody until bound to victual no more; Farr vs Dormer and Thorney – both absent, D fined 3s 4d for contumacy, T expected; Proctors vs Thomas Vahan, Thomas Richardson and Widow Hartley – each fined 20d for contumacy; 24 Oct. Dickenson vs Lorkin – L to exhibit in writing his reason for denying the VC’s authority; Styll vs Marshall – continued in statu quo; Bell, Perne, Norgate, Tyndall and Barwell vs Marshall - continued in statu quo; Lorkin vs Fan – assignation for sentence; 25 Oct. Lucas vs Calverley – C accuses witnesses of contumacy in not having been examined, to be so, Page to be examined.

p.487*: 25 Oct. 1587 Newman vs Hammond - continued in statu quo; Newman vs Calverley – C to enter exceptions; Knatchbull vs Holywell – H to be cited; Dikenson vs Lorkin – VC appoints Legge as an assessor, assignation to next day; 26 Oct. Lucas vs Calverley – process and assignation; Newman cs Hammond – Cowell proctor for H – assignation for sentence.

p.488*: 26 Oct. 1587 Thomas Hodiloe vs Giles Chisell, gent., for debt of £50 on an unfulfilled bond to deliver hops - C claims that the hops have been undelivered, C to be committed to the Tolbooth until bound in £100 with sureties for his appearance, Thomas Gill, draper, and C duly so bound.

p.489*: 26 Oct. 1587 Dikenson vs Lorkin before the VC and Legge – L to be examined, appoints Robert Turner LLB his proctor; Palmer vs Gill - continued in statu quo.

p.490*: 26 Oct. 1587 St Catharine’s College vs William Jenkynson, glover – John Cragg for St Catharine’s alleges that Dr Tyndall as VC forbad J to hang raw skins in his yard, to the annoyance of the Fellows of St Catharine’s, on pain of 40s, confesses and is to be in custody until 40s paid, to offend no more on pain of £5 fine; 27 Oct. Ralph Atwell vs Edward Harryes and Goodwife Richardson – no entry; Sandes vs Edmondes - continued in statu quo for proof; Hodiloe vs Chissell - continued in statu quo, assignation; Bell vs Marshall – John Smith, Leonard Ithell and Francis Burgoyne and Andrew Bendish MAs, witnesses for B; Perne, Styll, Norgate, Tyndall and Barwell vs Marshall – Mondeford proctor for doctors, assignation as above.

p.491*: 27 Oct. 1587 John Palmer MA, attorney for Margaret Bright of Bury St Edmunds, executrix of Thomas Bright snr., of Bury St Edmunds, draper vs Thomas Gill – Edmund Mondeford proctor for Palmer, assignation; Dr Swale vs Barnaby Clandon of Bures [Essex], clothier - Thomas Reve MA, proctor for S, C has failed to appear in response to a sub poena from Chancery, his absence to be certified; Knatchbull vs Holywell re horse-hire - H in his absence fined 5s for inconvenience to K and hire charge not to be paid, also to pay costs for which assignation; Newman vs Hammond and Newman vs Calverley – settled out of court; Servants of Hammond vs Edmondes – assignation for sentence; Lucas vs Calverley - continued in statu quo.

p.492*: 30 Oct. 1587 Hodiloe vs Chisell - continued in statu quo; Bell vs Marshall – depositions published, continued in statu quo in hope of settlement; Perne, Styll, Norgate, Tyndall and Barwell vs Marshall – as above; Lorkin vs Fan – F accuses L of contumacy, expected the next day; Diconson vs Lorkin – D exhibits indenture and letters of guardianship, accepted in spite of L’s plea that they are private documents, Turner for L given term to except.

pp.493*-4*: 30 Oct. 1587 Sandes vs Edmondes – John Bacster snr., Francis Burgoyne MA and John Man, apothecary, witnesses for S; Hodiloe vs Corpus Christi College – Edmund Mondeford, proctor for H, Smith mandated to execute distraint; John Palmer vs Gill – P exhibits bond which is admitted by G, to pay 20 £ and costs; Knatchbull vs Holywell – K exhibits schedule of expenses amounting to 10s, H to be arrested and in custody until he pay the 5s decreed before and 10s costs; John Palmer as attorney for Margaret Bright, executrix of the late Thomas Bright of Bury St Edmunds, draper vs Thomas Gill and Peter Wanley for debt of 120 £ (penal sum for payment of ?£80) - G to pay the £80 and £20 specified in preceding case in two instalments and to be bound in £200 with sureties for the payment.

p.495*: 31 Oct. 1587 Proctors vs John Legge for dressing and selling mutton on a Saturday – witnesses George Battell and Philip Uti (Utey), scholars, fined 100s and costs, imprisonment reserved; Lorkin vs Fan – Turner proctor for L, sentence for F by VC pronounced in the presence of Dr Perne and Henry Farr and Thomas Dikerson MAs, notice of appeal; Lucas vs Claverley - continued in statu quo.

p.496*: 2 Nov. 1587 Perne, Styll, Bell, Norgate, Tyndall and Barwell vs Marshall – M sentenced to pay £40 to each doctor with costs, to be assessed, M bound in £150 to appear and answer and give satisfaction to any of them demanding execution of sentence; Charles Chadwick MA (Fellow of Emmanuel College) bound in £50 to appear and answer charges arising from his sermon in St Mary’s on St Bartholomew’s Day.

p.497*: 2 Nov. 1587 Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick for injury – Mondeford, proctor for doctors, process and assignation; [?Richard] Moore MA (Fellow of King’s College) bound in all respects similarly to Chadwick; Perne, Fulke, Styll, Tyndall vs More for injury – as above vs Chadwick; 3 Nov. Dikenson vs Lorkin – sentence that L retains the tenement unjustly to restore it, notice of appeal.

p.498*:10 Nov. 1587 John Paske snr. and John Silke sworn as aletasters; Thomas Evers vs John Clarke – C to be imprisoned until he pay the 45s previously decreed, with costs; Perne, Styll, Tyndall vs Chadwick - continued in statu quo for a fortnight; Perne etc. vs More – as above; John Porter, bookseller, vs John Stevyn – S absent, proved contumacious, penalty reserved, George Newman to be cited; John Bacster snr. vs John Harding for theft of a goblet – confesses and is to restore it or pay 50s, also for 53s 4d due on a bond, to be paid, H to be in custody until bound with sureties to make satisfaction.

p.499*: 10 Nov. 1587 Dr Amye vs Christopher Adeson for debt – Thomas Leonard MA (Fellow of Clare Hall) proctor for Amye, Adeson proved contumacious, penalty in next, to be cited, as also Roger Fidlyne the other debtor; Richard Swale LLD vs Barnaby Cleydon of Bures [Essex] for debt - no entry; 11 Nov. Proctors vs John Clarke, alderman, for selling beast and pies on prohibited days (blames his wife) - fined 100s and costs, prison sentence reserved; John Cowell MA (Fellow of King’s College) bound in £100 for the appearance of Sophonius Smith, late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, on warning left in Mr Bates’ room in CCC to answer the College’s charges of debt.

p.500*: 16 Nov. 1587 Proctors vs ?Richard Goldisborow, WIlliamson, Barber, Mecalf and Mannyng, chandlers, for refusing to sell candles to scholars – G confesses and is fined 2s, Williamson denies (?as also others), assignation; ?24 Nov. Lorkin vs Fan – Drs Bell, Barnewell and Mr Chaderton appointed delegates; Amye vs Adison – Leonard proctor for Amye, L alleges debt of £23, Adison says he will pay when Dr Amy has paid his rent to the town; Smyth, Lyon, Tomson vs Edmondes - continued in statu quo, E to appear; John Porter vs John Steven for 20 marks due on a bond for the payment of £6 13s 4d, confessed, assignation.

p.501*: 24 Nov. 1587 Proctors vs Williamson, chandler, for selling 400 candles outside the town and refusing to sell to scholars – witnesses Lionel Ducket and Thomas Marchant MAs testify that one Joylye delivered 200 tallow candles to W, 200 candles forfeit to the Proctors; Proctors vs Barbor for exporting candles – absent, fined 20d for contumacy, appears (see below); Proctors vs John Ivorye, chandler, for exporting candles and refusing to sell to scholars – 2 dozen candles forfeit and costs to be paid; Vahan vs Armstronge’s wife – absent and proved contumacious, penalty to be publication of depositions; Taxors vs Thomas Dix, brewer, for selling four barrels of beer above price (8s instead of 6s) - fined 6s a barrel; Proctors vs Barbor (see above) for exporting candles – confesses to 11lb, assignation; Assize of beer – quarter of malt 10s 6d, double beer 2s 6d the kilderkin, good ale 2s 4d the barrel, single beer 15d, double beer and good ale ½d a quart, sindel beer 1d a gallon.

p.502*: 21 Nov. 1587 William Rant and John Goslyn BAs, witnesses in the absence of Stokys; Hodyloe vs Giles Chissell - continued in statu quo for a fortnight; 23 Nov. Proctors vs Thomas Rutt, purveyor, for exporting a great many rabbits – fined fourfold, prison sentence reserved; Proctors vs Tutcher Carleton for buying at Willingham 27 dozen larks at 4d a dozen, 2 mallards at 5d each, 2 widgeons at 3d each, a green plover at 4d, 16 snipes at 2d each, 33 fieldfares at 8d the dozen, fined the value fourfold, prison sentence respited; 28 Nov. Robert Cansfield presented as Proctor by St Catharine ‘s College; 23 Feb. 1587/8 Miles Sandes MA presented as Proctor by Queens’ College.

p.503*: 27 Nov. 1587 Oliver Robynson MA (Fellow of Corpus Christi College) vs John Mosse, draper, for debt of £120 penal sum on a bond – agreement, M to pay R £10 by St Thomas’s Day and to delete debt of 40s from R from his account book and to pay a further £60 by Whitsun whereupon R to pay him what remains in M’s account book; 1 Dec. Proctors vs Barbor, chandler – B refuses to stand to his oath, Leonard Ithell, proctor for the Proctors, proves him contumacious; Proctors vs Thomas Cooper, chandler for exporting 80lb of candles – Ithell proctor, fined, costs to be assessed; Proctors vs Arthur Carleton for selling flesh and pigeon pies on 28 Oct. and a breast of mutton on 25 Nov. - Ithell proctor, assignation; Proctors vs Nashe, baker – Ithell proctor, N proved contumacious, penalty in next; Dr Bell vs Marshall – costs assessed at 23s 4d, M to be bound with sureties to pay by Christmas; Styll vs Marshall – similiter; Perne, Tyndall and Barwell vs Marshal – similiter, 20s each.

pp.504*-5: 1 Dec. 1587 Perne vs Chadwick – process and assignation; Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – similiter; Porter vs Steven – Matthew Setle proctor for P, sentence, S to pay £6 13s 4d to P as sentenced, and costs, to be assessed; Thomas Cooper, chandler vs Thomas Bridon, apothecary, for debt – B not found; Thomas Evance, Cook of Trinity College vs John Hoppell, tapster, servant to John Field of the Cross Keys for ‘spoiling certain pewter vessel of Trinity College and cutt[ing] them in to the plate’ - confessed, H imprisoned until further examination; 2 Dec. Lorkin vs Fann - no entry; 4 Dec. am Perne and Fellows of Peterhouse vs Richard Palmer, lately Fellow, for debt – Perne certifies that he served a sub poena from Chancery on Palmer in London at James Emery’s house in Distaff Lane. Charles Horne BD and Peter Baro MA, Fellows, Syndics for Peterhouse. Palmer appears, to be bound in £200 for his appearance, William Greek MA (Fellow of Peterhouse) his surety, assignation.

p.506*: 4 Dec. 1587 p.m. Syndics allege debt of £58 11s 5d, Palmer confesses to receipt of £25 1½d, 15s, 13s 4d, £7 14s 10d, 65s, 19s 9d, 46s 8d and 104s at different times, on examination confesses to all sums in schedule (except £10, as debt to Hodiloe) i.e. total of £48 11s 5d, this sum to be paid with 20s costs, Palmer to be in custody meanwhile, £26 18s 2d paid in court, bound with sureties to pay reminder before Feast of the Purification.

p.507*: 5 Dec. 1587 Peterhouse vs William Ferbecke, Richard Palmer and Mark Sadlyngton MAs for £400 – Charles Horne and Peter Baro Syndics for the College, sum due as penal sum on two bonds, Palmer denies failure to fulfil conditions of bonds, Ferbecke claims that as a Fellow he cannot be sued outside the College without the consent of the majority of the Fellows which has not been obtained, both bound in £400 for their further appearance, assignation.

p.508*: 6 Dec. 1587 Peterhouse vs Palmer and Ferbecke – continued in statu quo, P and F again bound to appear; John Dawdie, brewer vs Henry Mace, eaver for debt of £20 on a bond to pay £10, to pay the £10 and 3s 4d costs; Thomas Hodiloe vs WIlliam Ferbecke MA for debt of £11 12s, assignation; 9 Dec. Peterhouse vs Palmer and Ferbecke – both released from cause at the request of the College, bond in £200 returned to Palmer who pays 10s costs in court; Richard Grennels, tailor vs Ralph Miller – G put into possession of a gown ‘of buffyn stuffe faced with Coney and Lyned with white rugge’ valued by George Sherwood and Thomas Howse, Appraisers, at 46s 8d, being 6s 8d more than M’s debt to him of 40s.

p.509*: 8 Dec. 1587 Nicholas Algate vs John Lyne, tailor, for debt of 41s – L absent, contumacious, to be arrested and in custody until bound with sureties in £4 for his appearance; Henry Mace vs John Ward for debt of £40 on a bond to save Mace harmless in a bond of £20 to pay £10 to Robert Machet – sentence for plaintiff, W to be in custody until he make satisfaction for the £40 and 5s costs; Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – process and assignation; John Stonard vs Thomas Ridley for debt of 6s – R requests that S prove himself privileged (see below); John Cowell MA released from his bond for the appearance of Sophonius Smith.

p.510*: 8 Dec. 1587 Proctors vs John Nashe, innkeeper, for dressing flesh on St Andrew’s Day – assignation; Proctors vs Carver – as above; Proctors vs Widow Modye [for dressing flesh] - statutory sentence; Stoner vs Ridley – parties bound to each other in £40 to pursue cause/answer, S to prove himself privileged, R bound with Nicholas Ward in £40 for his appearance; Thomas Cooper, chandler vs Thomas Bredon – B to be cited (by viis et modis if necessary) to show cause why sentence should not be executed and to hear costs assessed; Porter vs Stevens – costs assessed at 6s 6d; Farr vs John Vipenye - V fined 100s and 22d costs for ingrossing corn; Farr vs Whalie – no entry.

p.511*: 8 Dec. 1587 Probate of Peter Jones by Joan Jones of Great St Mary’s parish, his widow, who exhibits will containing scribal errors, witnesses William Smith MA (Gonville and Caius College) and Richard Fallowes of Great St Mary’s parish, tailor; 12 Dec. John Standish, Bedell, and John Stevens, baker, bound in 100s each that Edward Oliver, servingman, himself bound in £10, will keep the peace towards William Medicrofte; Oliver vs Medicraft – O stating that he is in fear of his life, or of serious injury, M to be in custody until bound to keep the peace; John Mosse vs John Edmondes, alderman, for a piece of cloth – E absent, proved contumacious, penalty in next.

p.512*: 12 Dec. 1587 Corpus Christi College vs Sophonius Smith MA for debt – Christopher Abbys, Henry Ruse and Matthew Setle MAs, Syndics for CCC, S confesses to £11 15s 4d in 1st article, 5s 8½d in 3rd, ? in 4th, 112s 8½d in 5th, ? in 6th, 4 £ in 7th, ? in 8th, denies 2nd, that he has restored salt mentioned in 12th, that he satisfied the last master as to articles 9-11 and 13, and so on, to be bound in £200 with Cowell for his appearance.

p.513*: 13 Dec. 1587 Taxors vs Richard Cotisford, Nicholas Algate, John Stendge, Hugh Burwell and Oliver Homes – convicted of victualling without licence, statutory penalty with imprisonment respited; Taxors vs William Bull, Henry Allen, Rowland Hutchinson, WIlliam French, George Horne, Arthur Church, William Robynson (12d), Francis Byrde, John Rase, Gervase Brigam (12d) and John Martyn – fined for contumacy in not appearing and to be re-cited; 14 Dec. George Newman vs Richard Bounde – alleges that B was bound in £14 to Edward Newman of Thriplow as surety for Francis Cuttes for the payment of £6 6s 8d, not made, to pay the £6 6s 8d and 22d costs.

p.514*: 14 Dec. 1587 Cooper vs Bredon – costs assessed at 10s; Stonard vs Ridley – S alleges that he is Dr Lorkin’s servant and matriculated, process and assignation; Stephens vs Newman – process and assignation; Sandes vs Edmondes – depositions published; John Stavar vs Thomas Skylliter – process and assignation, Skilliter to be bound with sureties in 40s for his appearance.

p.515*: 18 Dec. 1587 Corpus Christi College vs Sophonius Smith – S to be examined; 19 Dec. Corpus Christi College vs Sophonius Smith – process and assignation; 20 Dec. Corpus Christi College vs Sophonius Smith – process and assignation; 10 Jan. 1587/8 Corpus Christi College vs Sophonius Smith – Syndics allege that S did ‘lay into fen and neale cheast in the universities schooles the x of novembre certayne parcels of plate presertim the parcels folowinge: a cover to a goblet J.A. gilt, a cover to an old goblet gylt, and a cover to a salt parcell gylte’ which were College property and worth 60s, 40s and 40s respectively, S to be further examined.

p.516*: 12 Jan. 1587/8 Corpus Christi College vs Sophonius Smith - Syndics exhibit ?College account book.

p.517*: 15 Jan. 1587/8 Corpus Christi College vs Sophonius Smith – process and assignation; Dr Copcot vs Samson Sheffield MA (pensioner of Christ’s College) for three false assertions in a sermon in Great St Mary’s church on 24 Dec., viz. 1. It is not lawful for a minister of the word to be a magistrate, 2. He denounced woe against him that put out some of the lightes that was wont to shine in this town, 3. The heads conspired against their brethren and are pricks in their sight. Details of S’s defence, he is bound in £20 to appear.

p.518*: 17 Jan. 1587/8 Dr Copcot vs Samson Sheffield MA - witnesses for Copcot, Matthew Setle and Thomas Bolton MAs; 16 Jan. Taxors vs Henry Allein of St Bene’t’s parish for victualling without licence – fined 20s and costs, to be in custody until satisfaction made; Taxors vs Francis Birde of St Giles’ parish – as above; Taxors vs Hugh Burwell for continuing to victual after prohibition – convicted; Taxors vs Nicholas Algate – as in case vs Burwell.

p.519*: 18 Jan. 1587/8 Corpus Christi College vs Smith – assignation for sentence; 19 Jan. Corpus Christi College vs Smith – S sentenced to pay £13 4s and costs, to be assessed, and to be in custody until satisfaction made.

p.520*: 19 Jan. 1587/8 Pembroke Hall vs John Chapleyn of Trumpington and William Peck jnr. of Trumpington - Robert Robynson (Fellow and Bursar of Pembroke Hall) alleges that C and P were bound in £24 for the delivery of 20 quarters of wheat, they allege that a new condition had been agreed for the delivery, term to prove, Robert Hughes and John Harding bound in £24 for the appearance of C and P; Office vs Sheffield – Thomas Archer MA and Edmund Batty MA witnesses for the prosecution, S examined.

p.521*: 19 Jan. 1587/8 Sandes vs Edmondes – process and assignation; Stalver vs Skylliter – Stalver alleges that John Baise of Gamlingay is indebted to him for 38s and that Skilliter who had promised to be the ‘paymaster’ had paid him 17s, Skilliter alleges that Stalver has no locus standi in court being excommunicated by the Bishop of Ely’s consistory, Stalver claims to have been absolved of excommunication at London, assignation to prove; John Palmer MA vs Peter Whaley to recover debt of £120 due from W to Thomas Bright of Bury St Edmunds and now to Bright’s widow and executrix, Margaret – process and assignation.

p.522*: 26 Jan. 1587/8 William Woulf, alderman and butcher vs Philip Hammond MA for debt of £7 14s 2d - £4 and 22d costs to be paid next day at Stokys’ house, rest in a fortnight; Pembroke Hall vs Chapleyn and Peck – Henry Farr MA and Robert Exon witnesses for C and P, adjournment until return of Mr Hall; Perne etc. vs Chadwick – assignation.

p.523*: 26 Jan. 1587/8 Otowell Hyll MA vs Michael Gunnell for debts of £13 6s 8d, £4 and 60s by reason of ‘a lease, bonde, and certayne thinges taken awaye by the said gunnell’, G admits to the £4 due for rent and denies the rest, the £4 to be paid with costs, G to be examined, John Paske bound in £20 for G’s appearance; Robert Machet vs Henry Mace – Mace to be examined; Sandes vs Edmondes – S to be examined on E’s exceptions.

p.524*: 26 Jan. 1587/8 Palmer vs Gill and Whaley – G and W not found, to be re-cited, by viis et modis if necessary, Turner proctor for W gives notice of appeal; John Mosse vs Smyth – S to be cited by viis et modis at King’s College; Stoner vs Ridley – R dismissed at the request of his proctor, Turner, as S has not bothered to pursue the case; Stevens vs Newman – Cowell, proctor for S, proves N contumacious in not appearing, to be fined 2s 6d.

p.525*: 26 Jan. 1587/8 Knatchbull vs Holywell – distraint ordered on H’s goods to the value (to be estimated by the University Appraisers) of 10s for costs and 5s for the principal; 29 Jan. George Sherwood vs John Dawde – s attorney for John Warde, baker, alleges debt of 34s 2d, admitted and to be paid with 22d costs; 1 Feb. Pembroke Hall vs Chapleyn and Peck – continued in statu quo for a fortnight; Mosse vs Smith – decree for S renewed; Stephen vs Newman – decree for N to appear and show cause why he should not pay fine imposed for non-appearance; Machet vs Mace – Mace proved contumacious for not having been examined, John Standish and Thomas Barber witnesses for Machet.

p.526*: 1 Feb. 1587/8 Stoner vs Ridley – R dismissed as above, S to be cited to hear costs assessed; Vaughan vs Harmestronge – continued in statu quo, assignation for termination of cause if possible; Hill vs Gonnell – Thomas Smyth proctor for H, Turner for G, process and assignation; Robert Machet vs Michael Holmes for debt of £40, penal sum of a bond to pay £18 – H to pay the £18 with costs of 3s 4d and to be in custody meanwhile; Robert Turner LLB vs Philip Taylor, butcher – T in hiding, not found, to be re-cited by viis et modis if necessary.

p.527*: 9 Feb. 1587/8 All cases continued to 13 Feb. on account of the VC’s sickness; 13 Feb. Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – John Smythe MA, Roger Morrell MA and Lionel Ducket MA, witnesses for the prosecution, C asks leave to draw up interrogatories; Machet vs Mace – Mace contumacious in not having been examined, penalty on next and to be so; Stalver vs Skilliter – Stalver produces certificate of his absolution from excommunication by Richard Petit, notary public and scribe to the Bishop’s consistory, assignation; Vaughan vs Armestrong – assignation for sentence, A to appear for his wife; Stevens vs Newman – process and assignation; Hill vs Gonnell – Cowell as substitute for Turner, proctor for G, has his standing disputed by Mondeford, proctor for H, G to be cited at Paske’s house and to be more fully examined.

p.528*: 13 Feb. 1587/8 Proctors vs alderman Clarke – C to be cited; Sandes vs Edmondes – E to be re-cited, the previous decree for his appearance having perished through no fault of his; Stoner vs Ridley – continued in statu quo; John Alcocke vs Robert Revell - R to be in custody until bound with sureties in 60s for his appearance; Office, for administration of goods etc., of Dr Robert Norgate DD (Master of Corpus Christi College), decreased - proclamation for creditors decreed and assignation, Leonard Glascocke appointed executor of the decree.

p.529*: 16 Feb. 1587/8 Pembroke Hall vs Chapleyn and Pecke – continued in statu quo until the last court day of term; Archer vs Raye – R to be in custody until bound with sureties in £30 for his appearance, assignation; Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – Ducket not examined, William Wade MA further witness for prosecution; Mosse vs Smith – further decree for S to be summoned; Stoner vs Ridley – S still absent; Machet vs Mace – Mace not examined or present, proved contumacious, to be deemed to have confessed, to be cited to hear sentence in next.

p.530*: 16 Feb. 1587/8 Sandes vs Edmondes – S to be examined; Stephens vs Newman – N to be examined; Proctors vs alderman Clarke - [Henry] Hudson MA (St John’s College) and [ ] Ellis, scholar, necessary witnesses, have not appeared, to be compelled; Sophonius Smith vs Thomas Woodward and Richard Jeames – Cowell proctor for S alleges debt of 8 £, penal sum on bond of £4, to pay the £4 and 2s 10d costs; John Salmon vs George Wylson – W absent, to be in custody until bound with sureties in 40s for his appearance; John, for his father William, Woolhe vs Hammond for payment of £7 14s 2d previously decreed – assignation.

p.531*: 23 Feb. 1587/8 Thomas Gill, draper vs Gregory Smith of London, merchant-tailor, and James Cullimer of London, haberdasher, to render accounts and deliver documents – G alleges that on 9 Feb. last S and C ‘did promise unto the said G that whereas the said C and S or one of them had taken in to their handes respective and expended upon the gooddes of the said G … to the value of ?£900 … that they the said S and C respective would gyve an accomte unto the said G of the premisses And likewyse of all maner of reconinges, byls, debtes duites and demaundes dewe from the said G unto the said S and C respective [and] that they the said S and C respective would delyver or cause to be delyvered unto the said G all such writinges and instruments as did and doe remayne in the handes of the said S and C’ signed by G (registered launderer of Queens’ College). S and C deny jurisdiction, give an account of their arrest in Cambridge by Standish while lodging there on their way from Lynn mart to London and their being obliged to enter into a bond in £2000 for their appearance. To be in custody until bound in £100 each to appear, notice to be given at Mr Dorman’s house, assignation.

p.532*: 25 Feb. 1587/8 Richard Stockdale MA vs Robert Hendry – sub poena from Chancery for H to appear.

p.533*: 26 Feb. 1587/8 Thomas Dorman, alderman vs Thomas Gyll, draper, for debt of £220 on a bond [deleted]; 23 Feb. Thomas Dorman vs T. Gill for debt of £120 – cases stated, G to be in custody until bound in £120 to appear.

p.534*: 26 Feb. 1587/8 Perne etc. vs Chadwick – depositions published; Sandes vs Edmondes – process and assignation; Stevens vs Newman – process and assignation; Stalver vs Skilliter – continued in statu quo; Hill v Gonnell – Standish certifies that he has left notice at John Paske’s house, G appears and is to be examined; Gill vs Smyth and Cullimer – G alleges that John Paske and Petr Whalley are necessary witnesses, to be cited, S and C not to be required in court before 29 March but to appear then.

p.535*: 26 Feb. 1587/8 Dormer vs Gill – case stated, G to be examined; Gyll vs Dormer – process and assignation; Gyll vs Dormer (two more cases) - as above; Machet vs Mace – Mace again absent and proved contumacious, penalty, sentence in his absence, to pay Machet £10 and costs (to be assessed), Mace cited to hear costs assessed.

p.536*: 26 Feb. 1587/8 Mosse vs Smith (King’s College) - continued in statu quo; Salmon vs Wylson – W re-cited; Archer vs Raye – Cowell proctor for R, process and assignation; Gregory Smith and James Cullimer appoint Edmund Mondeford their proctor.

p.537*: 1 Mar. 1587/8 John Stevens vs George Newman – ratification of actions of Cowell as proctor for S, assignation for sentence; Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – C to except, Turner his proctor; Machet vs Mace – Mace absent, contumacious, costs assessed in his absence at 20s, decree for him to be arrested and in custody until £10 paid; Stalver vs Skylleter – continued in statu quo.

p.538*: 1 Mar. 1587/8 Gyll vs Collimor and Smyth – G alleges that he has been laundress [sic] to Queens’ College since 8 Feb. last, exhibits register to prove, Richard Sparke MA (Fellow of Queens’ College) witness to the fact and Thomas House, Butler of Queens’ College, John Paske, draper, and Peter Whaley, cordwainer, further witnesses, to be examined, M (for S and C) to offer interrogatories.

p.539*: 1 Mar. 1587/8 Sandes vs Edmondes – process and assignation; Dormer vs Gill – D exhibits bond, acknowledged by G, G to be examined; Gyll vs Dormar for debt of £30 – case stated; Gyll vs Dormar – case of security, as above; Gyll vs Dormar for debt of £100 – as above; Dormar vs Gyll – case of a lease, as above; Dormar vs Gyll for debt – as above; Hyll vs Gonnell – G examined, assignation; Vaughan vs Armestrong – assignation for sentence; Ventres vs Raye – Cowell proctor for R, continued in statu quo.

p.540*: 1 Mar. 1587/8 Stalver vs French – F not found, to be re-cited; 8 Mar. Gyll vs Smyth and Collimer – Paske and Whaley examined; Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – Turner puts in exceptions, Mondeford to answer in next, Francis Johnson, Richard Woodcock and Edmund Sharpe, witnesses for C, to be examined; Stalver vs Skilleter – Skilliter granted expenses from Stalver for retarding of cause (to be assessed), Cowell for Skilliter offers Stalver 2s and costs in full satisfaction, accepted, Skilliter to be examined.

p.541*:8 Mar. 1587/8 Dormer vs Gill for debt of £220 – G to be examined; Dormer vs Gill re lease – G protests that he has offered the sum in question, 46s 8d, before and since opening of cause; sum now accepted, costs against G to be assessed in next; Dormer vs Gill for debt – materia entered, G warned to appear; Gill vs Dormer for debt of £30 – D to answer at next, warned to appear; Gill vs Dormer – security as above; Gill vs Dormer for debt of £100 – as above; Sandes vs Edmondes – continued in statu quo.

p.542*: 8 Mar. 1587/8 Vaughan vs Armestronge – assignation for sentence; Gill vs Collimer and Smith – witnesses not examined, continued in statu quo; Stephens vs George Newman – N protests that S’s materia is too general, states that they were both bound to John Porter as sureties for a debt of Francis Cuttes neither of them being party to the loan, S to be examined on these and other exceptions.

p.543*: 8 Mar. 1587/8 Ventris vs Raye for debt – Thomas, son of Daniel Ventris of Bottisham, scholar and pupil of Thomas Archer MA appoints A his attorney who alleges that Daniel V, as executor of his father, Thomas V, appointed A to recover from R the sum of £44 due on a bond for repayment of £28, John Cowell proctor for R to appear and answer.

p.544*: 8 Mar. 1587/8 Robert Saunders vs John Edmundson for injury – William Hammond, brewer, testifies that S is sick (wounded), and appears as his proctor, states case, E confesses to having struck S with his fists and drawn blood, to be examined and to be in custody until bound with sureties in £10 to appear; 12 Mar. Martin Berry LLB vs Master and Fellows of Trinity Hall – case stated, assignation.

p.545*: 15 Mar. 1587/8 Perne, Tyndall and Styll vs Chadwick – assignation; Stalver vs Skilliter – costs of retarding cause assessed at 20d, paid by Stalver in court, Skilliter’s answers accepted; Dormer vs Gill for debt of £220 – G not examined, assignation; Dormer vs Gill re lease - costs to be assessed at 10s; Dormer vs Gill for debt – Cowell and Turner proctors for Gill, Gill to respond to allegations; Gill vs Dormer for debt of £30 – C and T proctors for G, D to be examined.

p.546*: 15 Mar. 1587/8 Gill vs Dormer – security, D to be examined; Sandes vs Edmondes – S to answer, continued in statu quo; Vaughan vs Armestronge – A (James for Katherine) sentenced to pay 26s 8d and costs, to be assessed, JA warned to appear; Stevens vs George Newman – process and assignation; Saunders vs Edmundson – E not examined, to be so.

p.547*: 15 Mar. 1587/8 Hill vs Gunnell – G's fuller answer accepted; Archer (for Ventris) vs Raye – bond exhibited, Thomas Barker and Thomas Raneewe witnesses for A to be examined; William Hammond vs Laurence Younge for debt of 24s 8d – confessed and to be paid with 22d costs, Y to be in custody until satisfaction made.

p.548*: 15 Mar. 1587/8 John Alcock vs Robert Revell for debt – R to be examined; Mark Charleton vs Leonard Glascock for debt of 20s for rent of a shop and other rooms in St Michael’s parish for half year ending at Lady day next – G claims to owe 8s 4d for a quarter to Christmas last at rate of 33s 4d per annum, not liable for last quarter because told by C to leave and agreeing to do so as soon as C would find him another house, John Tiffin testifies to eviction order etc.

p.549*: 19 Mar. 1587/8 Berry vs Trinity Hall – B puts in materia and exhibits two indentures and five acquittances, Turner (Fellow of Trinity Hall) challenges jurisdiction.

p.550*: 20 Mar. 1587/8 John Copcot DD (Master of Corpus Christi College) and Messrs Abbys, Sethell, Ruse and Tilman, Fellows vs estate of Dr Norgate for debt of £815 11s 8d over and besides parcels of plate to the value of 100 marks – distraint ordered by VC has been executed by Thomas Brookes, Bedell, assignation and decree for creditors.

p.551*: 20 Mar. 1587/8 William Evers and Peewe vs George Scorer for having served as a tailor for 15 months without having served an apprenticeship for seven years – liable to fine of 40s a month, assignation, S to be in custody until bound with sureties for appearance.

p.552*: 22 Apr. 1587/8 Thomas Leonard MA vs Miles Sandes MA (In presence of Mark Cheswright and William Atly, literati, in the absence of the Registrary) - Anthony Eversfield, Robert Cansfield and Henry Smith MAs, witnesses for L, to be examined, Francis Burgoyne MA, proctor for S, objects to Eversfield and Smith, enters interrogatories for all three witnesses, assignation; Assize of bread – quarter of wheat 13s with 2s allowance, ½d loaf 8oz; 23 Apr. Assize of ale – quarter of malt 8s, double beer 2s 4d the kilderkin, single beer 14d, good ale 2s 2d the barrel, carded ale 13d, double beer and good ale ½d a quart, ale-tasters to taste beer and ale in the open street and not in brewers’ houses.

p.553*: 21 Mar. 1587/8 21 Mar. Sandes vs Edmondes – S to be examined; 22 Mar. Sandes vs Edmondes – S's answers accepted; Stalver vs Skilliter – Skilliter to be cited in person to answer; Dormer vs Gill – G’s answers accepted; Dormer vs Gill re lease – Turner pays 10s in court to Bettes to the use of D as costs; Dormer vs Gill – renewal of decree for G to respond; Gill vs Dormer for debt of £30 – D to be examined; Gill vs Dormer – security as above; Gill vs Dormer for debt of £100 – as above.

p.554*: 22 Mar. 1587/8 Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – Turner for C claims that Andrew Bendish is a necessary witness, to be cited, C to prove exceptions; Saunders vs Edmundson – Hammond for his servant proves E contumacious in not having been examined, penalty continued process, E to make fuller answer; Vaughan vs Armstronge – costs assessed at 20s, A to pay 26s 8d in all and to certify payment; Yonge vs Cheselipp – C absent, his bond with Anthony Cage for his appearance forfeit, to appear and show cause why it should not be.

p.555*: 26 Mar. 1588 Thomas Evers, William Peewe and others vs Scorer, Robert Hardinge and Thomas Jacson – all three proved contumacious in not appearing, penalty in next; Corpus Christi College vs remaining creditors of Norgate – none present, proved contumacious, penalty continued process on 2 April when continued to 19 September; Anthony Hickman MA in a matter of record – Henry Ruse and John Broome MAs (Fellows of Corpus Christi College) cited, not present, proved contumacious, penalty is admission of depositions of witnesses, Nicholas Bate, Robert Parker, Ralph Dawson and Edward Elvin MAs, on the questions of seniority between Hickman, Ruse and Broome, witnesses to be cited on pain of contumacy.

p.556*: 29 Mar. 1588 Pembroke Hall vs Pecke and Chaplin – continued in hope of settlement; Stalver vs Skilliter – William Gray of Elsworth witness for Stalver to be examined.

p.557*: 29 Mar. 1588 Dormer vs Gill for debt of £220 – Mondeford for D alleges D is being sued by one Thomas Driwood for the 200 £ due on a bond to him by D and G, G to be examined; Stevens vs Newman – continued in statu quo until after Easter.

p.558*: 29 Mar. 1588 Dormer vs Gill – incomplete entry.

pp.559*-67*: blank.

pp.568*-9*: 28 May 1588 Final sentence of Archbishop Whitgift, William Cecil (Lord Burghley) and Drs Perne and Byng in a cause between the Master of St John’s College and Everard Digby whom the Master (William Whitaker) has attempted to deprive. Royal Commissioners for visitation (above) annual sentence of deprivation against Digby.

p.570*: 14 June 1588 Stalver vs Skillieter – Turner proctor for Skilliter, continued in statu quo; Sandes vs Edmondes – Turner ratifies action in the case by Woodhouse, Newman proctor for E, Perne (witness) fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not having been examined (at request of Newman), to be re-cited; Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – Andrew Bendish MA to be examined; Evers and Pewe vs Scorer – S asserts that he has served seven years apprenticeship, if above 35 (or at least 31) years old, is worth at least £10 in goods and has been allowed by two justices for four (or at least one) years, E and P to be examined, S to prove.

p.571*: 14 June 1588 Evers and Pewe vs Henry Smyth – case stated, assignation; Evers and Pewe vs John Hawxyarde – as above; Evers and Pewe vs John Jeamson for practising for a month or so as a tailor in St Sepulchre’s parish in partnership with Henry Smyth without having served seven years apprenticeship and being unmarried and under 30 years of age, and is not worth £10 in goods - J to be examined.

p.572*: 15 June 1588 Taxors vs Christopher Warmeman, Nicholas Awmont, Charles Bonifant, Laurence Kendall, Thomas Jeames, Rowland Hutchynson and Francis Birde for keeping alehouses unlicensed – all confess and are sentenced with costs; Taxors vs John Cutchy – C fined 20s for contumacy in not appearing; Taxors vs Arthur Church – as above; Taxors vs Francis Birde for bewing without licence and selling in unsealed measures – fined 3s 4d for ‘setting up’, further penalty in next; Taxors vs William Smyth – S to be cited in next; 21 June All causes continued until next week; 28 June Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – Bendish and Warfield both fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not having been examined; Sandes vs Edmondes – Horne and Perne examined, depositions to the published.

p.573*: 28 June 1588 Stephen vs Newman – term for N to prove extended as he has been unable to find Godfrey Coulton, Thomas Barber and John Porter, necessary witnesses; Stalver vs Skilliter – assignation for sentence; Evers and Pewe vs Scorer – Thomas Smyth MA, Bedell, witness for S, to be examined; Evers and Pewe vs John Robuck – R fined 2s for contumacy in not appearing, to be arrested and in custody until bound for his appearance; John Mosse vs Gregory Boidon – continued in statu quo to next; Christopher Putto vs Hammond snr. MA for debt – no entry; John Mosse vs Henry Smyth MA for debt – S to be cited; Evers and Pewe vs Henry Smyth, tailor – S to be examined.

p.574*: 28 June 1588 Evers and Pew vs John Hawxshew – as in last; Evers and Pew vs Jeamson – J to be examined; 12 July Evers and Pewe vs Skorer - continued in statu quo; Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – continued in statu quo to Monday (in camera); Evers and Pew vs Smyth – S's answer accepted; Evers and Pew vs Hauxshey – as above; Evers and Pew vs Jeamson – as above; Stephen vs Newman – John Porter and Thomas Barbor, witnesses for N, to be examined, decree for Coulton the same day, afternoon.

p.575*: 12 July 1588 Mosse vs Boydon – continued in statu quo to next; Stalver vs Skilliter – Turner alleges that Skilliter has paid Stalver 18s and exhibits acquittance, Stalver acknowledges the 18s but denies the force of the acquittance, Stalver to be examined; Alcock vs Revell [first entry cancelled] - Newman for R proves A contumacious for not prosecuting cause, R to be dismissed with costs if no process in next; Sandes vs Edmondes – continued in statu quo to next; 15 July Sandes vs Edmondes – continued in statu quo to Thursday afternoon next; All other causes continued to Thursday afternoon.

p.576*: ?6 July 1588 Office at the instance of John Chapman, cordwainer vs Agnes, widow of John Morton, musician, for debt of £20, penal sum on a bond of JM and JC to pay 9 £ 3s 4d to John Welch which sum JM received from JW’s parents – AM to pay the 9 £ 3s 4d and to offer sureties; 13 July Office at the instance of William Warde MD, John Mosse and others vs John Beeston for abusing five or six girls left in his care – confessed, Laurence Williamson, sherman [shearman], surety for B’s appearance, assignation; 9 July Susan Colvis vs Richard Reynold for the maintenance of Sara, daughter of Susan and allegedly R – R to pay 12d weekly for seven years and then either to take her in or pay 5 marks to provide her with a master or a dame; Richard Cage, tanner, and Richard Reynold bound in £30 each to the use of Sara for the fulfilment of the conditions, 13 July R pays 4d to Susan’s parents for maintenance to date and to pay 12d every Saturday.

p.577*: 17 July 1588 Laurence Williamson, sherman [shearman] and John Beeston, singing man, each bound in 40 £ for JB’s appearance before the VC at any time to answer any objections that may be raised against him.

p.578*: 19 July 1588 Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – Warfield and Bendish both fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not having been examined; Alcocke vs Revell – R not yet examined, John Stevens, necessary witness for A, and others resident in West Wratting and beyond the VC’s jurisdiction, not available, A seeks prolongation of term for proof, Newman (for R) protesting, A alleges that R had the horse in question flayed and received 2s or 22d for the skin, Stevens to be examined, N to present interrogatories.

p.579*: 19 July 1588 Stalver vs Skilliter – assignation; Mosse vs Boydon – continued in statu quo to afternoon of next day in camera; Stevens vs Newman – Coulton re-cited, appears and is to be examined, Barber and Porter not yet examined; Proctors vs Thorney – T proves contumacious in not appearing, penalty in next; Evers and Pewe vs Scorer – Smyth expected; Evers and Pewe vs Smyth, Hawxshew and Jeamson – S, H and J contumacious in not having proved, penalty is term in which to do so.

p.580*: 19 July 1588 John Stevens vs George Dawson for debt of 14 £, penal sum on a bond for payment of £7 6s 8d – D sentenced to pay 44s 11d and 2s 10d costs; Corpus Christi College vs Anthony Hickman MA for debt - assignation; 20 July Mosse vs Gregory Boydon of Wood Walton, Huntingdonshire (in the presence of W. Atlee and Andrew Reade, literati) - B to be examined and also John Norkot, Notary Public, and James Watton, witnesses for M.

p.581*: 22 July 1588 Mosse vs Boidon – Newman proctor for M, depositions published, assignation; Stevens vs Newman – Barber and Coulton examined, depositions published, assignation; Evers and Pewe vs Skorer – Smyth examined, continued in statu quo; Mosse vs Boydon - continued in statu quo; 26 July [John] Seman ([Fellow of] Queens’ College) presented as Taxor; [Robert] Church ([Fellow of] Gonville and Caius College) presented as Scrutator; 29 July Evers and Pew vs Skorar – deposition of Thomas Smyth published, John Smyth, Junior Proctor, protesting as having an interest in the case; Corpus Christi College vs Hickman – Turner proctor for H, assignation.

p.582*: 29 July 1588 Stephen vs Newman – Turner proctor for S, assignation for sentence; 30 July Stevens vs Newman – further assignation for sentence; Marginal memoranda - ‘to see the charges of Woolf and Edmondes’, time of 2nd Stevens vs Newman assignation, decree for Hammond to see costs assessed.

p.583*: 30 July 1588 Evers, Pew and Smith (Proctor) vs J. Jeamson alias Chalinswood – J alleges that he has served an apprenticeship with William Chapman of Cambridge (six years) and Edmund Taylor (one year) who both testify to this effect, assignation; Woolf vs Hammond – H cited to see costs assessed; 5 Aug. Evers and Pew vs Scorar, Jeamson, Hawxew and Smyth – all proved contumacious, penalty in next, assignation; Woolf vs Hammond – costs assessed at 12s and paid; Steven vs Newman – N proved contumacious in not appearing, penalty is sentenced in absence to pay 66s 8d and 2s 6d and costs, to be cited to see costs assessed.

p.584*: 15 Aug. 1588 Office promoted by William Warde MD and John Mosse vs John Beeston, singing man – the girls’, Joan Webbe, Frances Mosse, Sarah Harvy, Elizabeth Bosame, Elizabeth Huitson and Margaret Drew, examinations read (and ocular inspection), B sentenced to be taken to the Tolbooth and to stay there until taken to the bull ring at noon on Saturday, to stay there for two hours with the words ‘for lewd and filthy behaviour towards young maids being his scholars’ on his back, to be returned to the Tolbooth until bound in £40 to depart from Cambridge within ten days, and in 100 marks to appear at any time in the next half year within eight days of citation should any further charges be preferred.

p.585*: 31 Aug. 1588 Assize of bread – wheat 15s a quarter, double beer 2s 6d a kilderkin, single beer 14d; 17 Sept. William Scot MA vs John Waterhouse for injury – assignation; William Scot vs ?Bownes/Bowmer of Trinity Hall for injury – B proved contumacious, to be arrested and in custody until bound for his appearance; William Scot vs Woodroff for injury – as in last; Agnes Scot, widow vs Bowmer –as in WS vs Bowmer; Agnes Scot vs Woodroff – as in last; 19 Sept. Corpus Christi College vs Dr Norgate – Abbis and Tylman for Corpus Christi College, evidence as before, viz. debts of £815 11s 8d, and for rent and contents of a tenement ‘the Christopher’ with two other tenements adjoining, £29 15s 8d, goods of N’s distrained and in College hands to the value of £32 12s 4d awarded to the College but to be paid for if the VC decides in future that they hold them illegally.

p.586*: 20 Sept. 1588 John Bettes LLD vs George Wallys of Whittlesey – B exhibits sub poena from Chancery, date set for 11 Oct., sub poena served on Whitley, literatus; Decree to allow Elizabeth, widow of Dr Robert Norgate, ‘One fylde bedsteade … 20s, the valance to the same 6s 8d, 5 courtaynes of green and read saye and 3 courtayne roddes 16s, a strawe bed 2s, a feather bed and bolster 26s 8d, 2 freese blankettes 8s, and a green Irishe Rugge 13s 4d, in the whole £4 12s 8d for a bed for herself and all her children, for that she hath no other parte of his gooddes’.

p.587*: 19 Aug. 1588 Thomas Evers vs Thomas Warren – continued to 18 Sept.; Office promoted by Taxors vs William Robynson for victualling without licence – fined 20s with 22d costs and to victual no more; Office promoted by Taxors vs Henry White of St Giles’ parish, William Batemanson of St Clement’s parish, William Heldon of St Clement’s parish, John Welles of All Saints’ parish, John Tomson of Great St Mary’s parish, [ ] Willington of Great St Mary’s parish, Richard Cottisford of Holy Trinity parish, Helen Modye widow, Agnes Morton widow, Thomasina Harrison widow of Great St Mary’s parish for victualling without licence – penalty as above; Office promoted by Taxors vs Thomas Evers of St Sepulchre’s parish – confesses, as in Robinson, sentence deferred; The same vs Lewis Webster of Holy Trinity parish- as in case vs Evers; The same vs George Dowman of Holy Trinity parish and Alexander Capper – charges denied, assignation; 20 Aug. Taxors vs Richard Bolland, Francis Earle, Allan Edin and widow of Reginald Tolson – as in case vs Robinson; Taxors vs Thomas Howes of St Botolph’s parish – charges denied, assignation; Taxors vs John Cutchy of St Andrew’s parish and William Beamond of Little St Mary’s parish – both defendants claim that their houses are inns, assignation to prove; 26 Aug. Taxors vs Thomas Howes – charge again denied, assignation.

p.588*: 26 Aug. 1588 Taxors vs Christopher Adison of St Andrew’s parish – same charges, denied, assignation; Taxors vs Thomas Adams of Great St Mary’s parish – fined 20d for contumacy in not appearing and to be re-cited; Taxors vs Henry Flemson – as in last; 30 Aug. Office promoted by Taxors vs Thomas Moore for victualling without licence – confesses to one kilderkin, statutory sentence; The same vs William Fisher – same charge, claims he thought the licence issued to him by Dr Copcot was still in force, assignation; The same vs Edward Holmes – same charges, denied; The same vs Thomas Adams – confesses, statutory sentence with costs; The same vs Tomson – absent, expected in next; The same vs Feilde and Thomas Myller – same charges, confess, statutory sentence with costs; 23 Aug. Decree that the Crown in Bridge Street, St Sepulchre’s parish, near to the Dolphin, be allowed as an inn on the commendation of Mr Anger JP for the town and county, stabling for 20 horse, 20 beds.

p.589*: 24 Aug. 1588 Similar decree for the King’s Arms in All Saint’s parish near the Blue Boar, 20 beds and stabling for 10 or 12 horses, further stabling to be erected at the back by John Whaller, tiler; 26 Aug. Proctors and William Hammond vs John Smyth of Barnwell for serving as a brewer without having been apprenticed - confesses, assignation;

p.590*: 5 Sept. 1588 Taxors vs [John] Smyth of Barnwell, brewer, for selling four or five kilderkins of beer above price – statutory sentence with costs; 30 Aug. Robert Hemyng vs Geoffrey Moore for injury – materia submitted and M to answer on 13 Sept., also, being of no fixed abode, to be bound with sureties in 100 £ for his appearance; 13 Sept. Hemmyng vs Moore – M denies charges, to be examined; 30 Aug. Robert Prance vs Cobbe of Chesterton for debt of £4 – confesses and to be paid with 4s 4d costs, C to be in custody until payment.

p.591*: 27 Sept. 1588 Agnes Scot vs John Waterhowse – process and assignation; William Scot MA vs Waterhowse – as in last; Jonas Waterhowse vs Agnes Scott – process and assignation, W to be in custody until bound in £20 for his appearance (with sureties), William Scot bound in £10 13s 4d with John Yacksley, his surety in £10, to prosecute cause; 2 Oct. Agnes Scot vs Waterhowse – John Yacksley proctor for AS, his mother, W to be examined; William Scot vs Waterhowse – as in last; Jonas Waterhowse vs Agnes Scot for injury – Yacksley proctor for AS, decree for AS to appear in person; 4 Oct. Judith, widow of Richard Bridgewater LLD vs Robert Bradley for debt – B arrested by Standish, released on the bond in £20 to Judith B of John Tyffyn to produce him, Bradley being absent, JB sues for the payment of the £20 by Tyffyn, assignation.

p.592*: 4 Oct. 1588 John Bourne vs Warren – continued in statu quo; 11 Oct. Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – depositions of Richard Warfield and Andrew Bendish published; Hemyng vs Moore – M examined and to be further examined on first article, Robert Turner constituted his proctor; Joan Russell, executrix of Owyn Wylson vs John Stevens, baker – John Harrison proctor for R, S to be cited; George Newman and John Stevens vs Godfrey Coulton for debt of £20 penal sum on a bond to save N and S harmless from a bond payable to John Porter, bookbinder, they having sustained damage of £13 6s 8d – C sentenced to pay £10 and to be in custody meanwhile.

p.593*: 11 Oct. 1588 Stalver vs Skilliter – term for proof prorogued; Bourne vs Warren – continued in statu quo to next; Stevens vs Newman – costs assessed at 33s 4d, to be paid with principal of 69s 2d; Sandes vs Edmundes – process and assignation, Newman proctor for E; 14 Oct. Robert Frevill Esq. and Francis Bourgoyne MA (Fellow of Jesus College) bound in 100s each that George Ball, clerk and singing man of Trinity College, himself bound in £10, will keep the peace, especially towards his father Edward Ball gent.; 21 Oct. John Cragge MA vs Geoffrey Colpottes for detention of a dun coloured gelding (described at length) - James Thorneton MA and Edward Fox witnesses for Cragge (F states that his master’s brother, Mr Cansfield, gave Cragg another bridle because Cragg’s bridle cut the horse’s tongue), Colpottes to restore the horse and pay 6s costs and to be in custody meanwhile.

p.594*: 21 Oct. 1588 John Cragge MA vs John Cawcot, carpenter, for debt of 60s penal sum on a loan of 30s – to be paid with 3s costs and Cawcot to be in custody meanwhile; 23 Oct. John Halsdon and Thomas James, constables of St Andrew’s parish vs Laurence Cutler, [George] Bell (Pembroke Hall), Beaupre Bell, Thomas Flemyng, [William] Askwith, [Thomas or William] Mydleton and John Bambridge (both of Emmanuel College), and [?William] James (Pembroke Hall) for making an uproar and a great tumult in the street between 9 and 10 at night – Cutler, Fleming and Bambridge charged with resisting the constables, Cutler committed to the Tolbooth and to be bound over to keep the peace, Fleming fined 20s, Midleton tanquam grassator nocturnus perturbaverit pacem to be deprived of all scholar’s privileges, Bambridge committed to the Tolbooth, the rest to appear a fortnight hence; Henry Curde of Chesterton, yeoman vs Margaret, widow and administratrix of WIlliam Hammond for debt of 45 £ 10s on a bond - defendant pleas as in Hodiloe and Haselopp, assignation, George Newman proctor for C.

p.595*: 23 Oct. 1588 William Bradye of Ditton, yeoman vs Margaret Hammond for debt of 120 £ on a bond to pay £60 – as in last; George Cayme, barber vs John Prewe, chandler – to be arrested and in custody until bound in 100s to appear; 25 Oct. Hemyng vs Moore – M proved contumacious for not having been examined, to be fined 10s if not examined before next, his materia not admitted, gives notice of appeal; Master etc. of Corpus Christi College vs John Drake of Framlingham, Suffolk – Edward Elwyn and Abraham Tylman, Syndics for the College, assignation to 9 May.

p.596*: 25 Oct. 1588 Sandes vs Edmundes – process and assignation; Cayme vs Phewe for unjust ‘vexation’ in the Court of the Exchequer, London – process and assignation; Joan Russell vs John Steven – continued in statu quo; Curde vs Hmmond – assignation; Bradye vs Hammond – assignation; 2 Nov. Leonard vs Sandes – continued in statu quo to 14 Nov.; 12 Nov. Robert Hutton BD (Fellow of Trinity College) vs Matthew Squynton, gent. - H exhibits sub poena from Chancery, assigned to 6 Dec. and to be served by Mark Charleton, yeoman, 6 Dec. S’s servant, Robert Heyton, appears and testifies that his master is too ill to the obey the warrant.

p.597*: 15 Nov. 1588 Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – continued in statu quo; Sandes vs Edmundes – to be cited again; Hemyng vs Moore – continued in statu quo, Newman proctor for H, Turner for M; Potto vs Hammond – Turner proctor for P, H to be cited; Leonard vs Sandes – S seeks to be dismissed since L has not pursued cause, assignation; John Paske vs John Bacster jnr. - Peter Atkyns, servant of P, his proctor, continued in statu quo, charge of contumacy against B failing.

pp.598*-9*: 4 Nov. 1588 Francis Burgen MA vs William Lucas for breach of contract whereby L by 31 October last was to have vacated the benefice of Carleton in Willingham to the use of B, B claims bond in 100 £ forfeit, L that B has also broken agreement, both parties bound to appear further, Henry Farr MA (Fellow of Pembroke Hall) surety for B; [John] Seaman, Taxor vs John Vipen for attempting to convey 25 combs of barley out of the town – V bound in £5 to appear on 22 Nov.; [Otwell] Hill, Taxor vs William Warnes for attempting to convey 40 quarters of malt out of the University without licence – bound in £30 to appear on 22 Nov.; 21 Nov. Thomas Hodiloe vs Margaret Hamond – assignation for sentence; John Haselop of Trumpington vs Margaret Hammond – as in last; Joan Flynt vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £54 – John Norcot proctor for F, as above; Joan Flynt vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £54 on a bond – John Norcot proctor for F, assignation; Joan Flynt vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £16 on a bond – as in last.

p.600*: 22 Nov. 1588 Francis Burgoyne MA vs William Lucas – assignation to 6 Dec.; Hemmyng vs Moore – M fined 10s for contumacy in not having been examined, to be fined 20s if not examined before next and to be cited; Edward Lively MA vs William Gerey, gent., for debt or breach of contract – G absent, expected in next; Pembroke Hall vs Thomas Evers for debt of £29 on a bond to deliver 20 loads of coal – to be paid with costs; Taxors vs Warnes – w proved contumacious, to be re-cited.

p.601*: 22 Nov. 1588 Leonard vs Sandes – Turner proctor; Braddye vs Hammond – assignation for sentence in next; Curde vs Hammond – as in last; Hodiloe vs Hammond for debt – assignation for sentence on Monday next; Joan Flynte, widow vs Hammond – as in last; Putto, draper vs Mr Hammond snr. - continued in statu quo; all other causes continued owing to nightfall; 25 Nov. am Flynte vs Hammond – Norcot alleges William Hammond to have been bound in 100 £ for payment of £54, confessed, assignation for sentence in afternoon.

p.602*: 25 Nov. 1588 Flynte vs Hammond for debt of £16 on a bond – as in last.

p.603*: 25 Nov. 1588 p.m. Hodiloe vs Hammond – sentence for plaintiff in presence of John Harding, Philip Stringer MA, Thomas Brookes MA and Edmund Mondford LLB, distraint by Stringer ordered on goods of Margaret Hammond to the value of £107 and costs, to be assessed; Haselop vs Hammond for debt of £100 – distraint ordered as above; Flynte vs Hammond for debt of £54 – distraint as above.

p.604*: 25 Nov. 1588 Flynte vs Hammond for £44 – distraint as above; Flynt vs Hammond for £16 – distraint as above; same witnesses to all sentences.

Pp.605*-6*: 25 Nov. 1588 Bradye vs Hammond for £120 on a bond to pay £60, confessed, assignation for sentence at 1 p.m. next day; John Swanne BD vs Margaret Hammond - George Harlakaden MA (Magdalene College) proctor for S alleges debt of £80 on a bond to pay £40 and an agreement that all beer brought into Magdalene College after the expiry of the bond should be in part payment, confessed, assignation for sentence at 1 p.m. the next day; Thomas Watson of Chesterton, maltster vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £60 by WH to pay £34 – confessed, assignation for sentence as in last.

p.607*: 25 Nov. 1588 Elizabeth Walles vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £10 14s 10d – Robert, son of Elizabeth Whalles her proctor, exhibits her account book showing payment due from WH for seacoal, assignation for sentence as in last.

p.608*: 25 Nov. 1588 James Robson, burgess and chandler vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £16 for seacoal – assignation for sentence as in last.

p.609*: 25 Nov. 1588 Henry Curde of Chesterton, maltster vs Margaret Hammond for debt of WH of £45 10s on a bond – assignation for sentence as in last.

p.610*: 25 Nov. 1588 Leonard Chaundelor of Bennington, Hertfordshire, yeoman vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £40 – Thomas Grymston MA proctor for C, assignation for sentence as above.

p.611*: 26 Nov. 1588 am Robert Hutton of Wisbech, gent. vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £100 – Edward Hammonde of Over, yeoman, proctor for Hutton, alleges bond of WH in £100 to pay £60, assignation for sentence to p.m.; 26 Nov. p.m. Bradye vs Hammond (£120) - distraint to the value of £60 and costs, to be assessed, mandated to Thomas Smyth and Thomas Brooke, Bedells, witnesses John Bettes LLD, Thomas Grymston MA and George Harlakenden MA.

p.612*: 26 Nov. 1588 John Swan BD vs Hammond (£40) - distraint as above to value of £40 and costs, to be assessed, George Newman LLB also a witness, Stringer to distrain; Chaundelor vs Hammond (£40) - Stringer to distrain to the value of £40, and costs, to be assessed; Watson vs Hammond (£60) - Smyth and Brook to distrain to the value of £60 and costs, to be assessed.

p.613*: 26 Nov. 1588 Walles vs Hammond (£10 14s 10d) - Smyth and Brooke to distrain; Robson vs Hammond (£16) - Smyth and Brooke to distrain; Curde vs Hammond (£45 10s) - Smyth and Brooke to distrain; Hutton vs Hammond (£100) - Smyth and Brooke to distrain; witnesses to this sentence, variously, John Bettes LLD, Thomas Brymston and George Harlakenden MAs, George Newman LLB, Edmund Mondeford LLB, Robert Walles, yeoman; 29 Nov. Thomas Dryver of Fulbourn, yeoman vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £50 on WH’s bond payable to St John the Baptist – confessed, assignation.

p.614*: 29 Nov. 1588 William Sterne of Stoy cum Quy vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £8 13s 4d – as in last; John Isaac of Fen Ditton vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £140 – Philip Isacson proctor for his father who is ill, exhibits account book, confessed, assignation; 9 Dec. Dryver vs Hammond – heading deleted; 7 Dec. Edmund Hammond of Thurfield, Hertfordshire vs Margaret Hammond for debt of £80 on bond for payment of £40 – confessed, assignation for sentence on Monday next.

p.615*: ?Date John Goldisborowe, alderman vs Margaret Hammond for debt of 109s 2d for meat - ?sentence.

p.616*: 29 Nov. 1588 Cayme vs Phewe – P fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not appearing, to be in custody until bound in £4 for his appearance; Hemmyng vs Moore – M not found by Smyth, to be cited by viis et modis to show cause why he should not pay 2s; Office promoted by John Stephens vs Thomas Smarte for practising as a baker without having served seven years as an apprentice – denied, assignation for proof.

p.617*: 29 Nov. 1588 Leonard vs Sandes – continued in statu quo to next; Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – as in last; Putto vs Hammond – as in last; Lyvely vs Gere – G fined 3s 4d for contumacy in not appearing, to be re-cited; Proctors vs Roger Hill, cook, for dressing flesh on a forbidden day – confessed, fined 100s and costs; Alcocke vs Revell – Stevens examined, A alleges Michael Holmes, brewer, John Wylkynson, barber to be necessary witnesses, Newman maintains that A has had four productions of witnesses and is not entitled to a fifth, the new witnesses to be produced at next on pain of no further witnesses being allowed, Holmes present, sworn, and to be examined; Taxors vs Richard Tomson, baker, for underweight bread – fined 3s 4d with costs and three dozen of bread to be delivered to the Castle, Tolbooth and Spittle House at the oversight of Matthew Stokys.

p.618*: 29 Nov. 1588 Office promoted by John Stevens vs John Elsden, baker, for serving as a baker without having served seven years as an apprentice – E exhibits his indentures, takes his oath and is dismissed; Office promoted by John Stevens vs Edward Hobson, baker – charged as in last, assignation; Office promoted by Steven vs Richard Scott and Owen Wright, bakers – Scott and Wright to be cited; Taxors vs John Vipenye – V absent, expected in next; Taxors vs W. Warnes – W proved contumacious, in breach of bond in £30 to appear, to be arrested and in custody until bound with sureties for his appearance; James Forester, cutler vs Ralph Dunthorne, cook – Robert Cansfield, Senior Proctor, promises D in next; 6 Dec. Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – continued in statu quo to next; Taxors vs Henry Alleby for eight kilderkins of beer over-price - fined 3s 4d per kilderkin, with costs.

p.619*: 6 Dec. 1588 Hemmyng vs Moore – M fined 40s for contumacy in not appearing; Taxors vs Warnes for ingrossing – fined the value of 40 quarters of malt and imprisoned for two months, also to pay costs; Taxors vs Vipenye – V absent, expected in next; Taxors vs Mr Cropley, Margaret Hammond, [Ambrose] Purchas, John Smyth and Michael Holmes – all continued in statu quo; Office promoted by Stevens vs bakers – continued in statu quo; Robert Cansfield, Proctor vs Thomas Warren, pewterer, for sending certain pewter vessels about the streets to be sold and for offering violence to him (Cansfield) - witness John Bourne who asserts also that W’s servant ran to his assistance with a hammer, W promises to produce a certain Tinker to be examined.

p.620*: 6 Dec. 1588 Lucas vs Burgayne – B to be examined, John Smith BD and Oliver Philips BD, witnesses for L, also Jasper Waren, gent., Ralph Dobido, Geoffrey Marshe and Robert Rookes, all to be examined; Leonard vs Sandes – continued in statu quo to next; Proctors vs Thomas Thomson for preparing and selling meat in his hostelry on forbidden days – fined 100s and costs and committed to the Tolbooth for 10 days; Proctors vs John Harrison – as in last; Proctors vs John Periman – as in last; Lively vs Gere – G fined 6s 8d for contumacy in not appearing, to be re-cited; Giles Webbe vs John Alcocke, saddler – assignation; All other causes continued in statu quo to the next.

p.621*: 9 Dec. 1588 Office promoted by John Stevens vs Thomas Smarte - continued in statu quo until after Christmas; Office promoted by Stevens vs Owen Wright – as in last; Office promoted by Steven vs Richard Scot – Steven accepts Scot’s proof for four years on the testimony of three Horningsea men, proof of remaining years to be brought after Christmas; Proctors vs Owen Wright for accommodating scholars in his house overnight – confesses that [Edward] Towneroe BA (scholar of Trinity College) did spend the night, same testimony from his maid and lad (daughter and son), fined 40s with costs; Proctors vs Edward Markham, tinker, pewterer or brasier for false weights - proved by demonstration, fined 20s and costs (?14d); Michael Woolf vs William Warnes – John Pooley, apothecary, and Hugh Rose, supervisors of William Burwell’s will, witnesses for Woolf, to be examined at once in court on a matter of record, judgement for plaintiff.

p.622*: 9 Dec. 1588 Taxors vs Thomas Cropley MA, beer brewer, for selling seven barrels of beer overprice – fined 7s a barrel with costs, assessment and adjustment reserved to judge; Taxors vs Michael Holmes – as in last for six barrels; Taxors vs John Smythe of Barnwell, brewer, and Ambrose Purcas, brewer – each fined 20d for contumacy in not appearing; Taxors vs Thomas Smarte for underweight bread – examples exhibited, John Steven, guardian of bakers, witness, fined 10s and 3s 4d of bread to be distributed to the poor by Stokys, costs also to be paid; Taxors vs Vipeny – fined 2s 6d for contumacy in not appearing; 10 Dec. Proctors vs Earle for dressing and selling flesh on forbidden days – convicted, fined with costs; Proctors vs Earle – fined 40s for allowing scholars to spend the night in his house, witness Robert Cansfield; 11 Dec. Richard Bettes MA (Fellow of Peterhouse) presented by Perne as Proctor.

p.623*: 13 Dec. 1588 Cayme vs Phewe – P to be examined; Lively vs Geere – G not found by Standish, continued in statu quo; Taxors vs Ambrose Purchas for selling 17 kilderkins of beer over price – assignation for proof; Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – continued in statu quo; Taxors vs Vipenye – continued in statu quo; Hemmyng vs Moore – continued in statu quo in hope of agreement; Leonard vs Sandes – continued in statu quo; Stalver vs Skilliter – assignation for sentence after Christmas; Webbe vs Alcocke – Turner proctor for W, exhibits schedule; Edward Elvin MA (Fellow of Corpus Christi College) vs John Golding and Elizabeth Golding, widow, for debt – sub poena from Chancery assigned to 7 Feb., to be served by John Holiwell, yeoman, letter of certification by VC to be served also; Edward Elvin vs Elizabeth Fynowx – another sub poena assigned to the same date and to be served by the same.

p.624*: 13 Dec. 1588 Thomas Archer MA (Fellow of Trinity College) and Richard Waynsford, gent., bound in £10 each that Geoffrey Moore MA himself bound in £20, will keep the peace towards Robert Hemmyng; 17 Dec. Anthony Hickman vs Dr Copcot – C denies competence of court.

p.625*: 16 Jan. 1588/9 John Bettes LLD vs Elizabeth Cobbe of Wolverton, Norfolk, widow of Geoffrey Cobbe, Esq., of Sandringham, Norfolk – T. Brooke certifies summons, absence, expected in next; 17 Jan. Synics of Corpus Christi College vs Anthony Hickman MA – Christopher Abbis and Matthew Setle, Syndics for CCC, H to be bound with sureties in £20 to appear and answer after Easter, Ottowell Hill MA (Fellow of Jesus College) his surety.

p.626*: 17 Jan. 1588/9 Taxors vs Vipenye – expected in next; Perne, Styll and Tyndall vs Chadwick – Mondeford for Drs objects to all C’s witnesses, assignation for sentence in three weeks; Pembroke Hall, by the Bursar, Paul Berbeck vs Thomas Evers – E to be cited to show why sentence should not be executed and costs assessed; Stalver vs Skillitor – assignation for sentence; Pembroke Hall (through Berbeck) vs Mr Leonard – L cited for next; Lively vs Gere – G fined 13s 4d for contumacy in not appearing, to be cited for next; Hemmyng vs Moore – continued to 28 January in camera, Perne and Tyndall appointed arbitrators, both parties bound with sureties in £100 to stand to arbitration.

p.627*: 17 Jan. 1588/9 Webbe vs Alcocke – w alleges that A has confessed elsewhere to the charges, a to be examined, John and William Rogers, witnesses for W, both attest that A admitted that he ‘did neither buy nor hire but borrow the horse of the said W’, assignation; Alcock vs Revell – depositions published; Dryver vs Hammond – distraint by Brooke decreed; Edward Hammond vs Margaret Hammond – as in last; Office vs Thomas Smarte – continued in statu quo to next; Leonard vs Sandes – continued in statu quo to next; Letters of administration for William Hammond, deceased, granted to Margaret Hammond, widow, only William Sterne of Stow-cum-Quy, yeoman, appearing as a creditor, all others pronounced contumacious; Creditors of John Halmond summoned for this day by Standish, expected in next.

p.628*: 22 Jan. 1588/9 Office vs Bambridge – B required to take oath on the gospels to reply to articles objected against him, given until next morning to comply; 23 Jan. B refuses his oath and examination, pronounced contumacious and to be in custody during the VC’s pleasure; Office vs Mr Johnson (Christ’s College) - as in last.

p.629*: 24 Jan. 1588/9 Probate of John Almond – creditors absent proved contumacious, widow and other creditors to appear at next; Taxors vs Martin Wharton for exporting 100 quarters of malt by water – assignation; Office promoted by John Steven vs Thomas Smarte – S alleges that he served as apprentice to Thomas Raye for 4½ years until R died and was then set under R’s wife, Margaret, by R’s executors, John Edmundes and Mr Clifford, where he served 1¼ years and on her death was sent by the same executors to Miles Goldisborowe with whom he served 3 years, swears this on oath, Edmundes to be examined; Lively vs Gere – G absent contumacious, penalty in next; Revell vs Alcock – assignation for exceptions; Webb vs Alcock – Kenelm Picking and John Loder, witnesses for A, to be examined, Turner proctor for W.

p.630*: 24 Jan. 1588/9 Stalver vs Skilliter – assignation to Friday after Ash Wednesday for sentence; Stevens vs Scot and Edward Hobson – assignation; Cayme vs Phewe – continued in statu quo; Administration of William Hammond – Newman, as proctor for William Sterne, Thomas Driver of Fulbourn and Rose Courd of Chesterton, obtains copy of account; Office vs Martin Wharton, burgess, for exporting 100 quarters of malt although expressly forbidden by the VC – assignation at request of W owing to press of business.

pp.631*-2*: Blank.

p.633*: 1584 Orders of VC and Heads for the better government of the whole University at the Commencement, 1584.

p.634*: Blank.

p.635*: 18 Jan. 1582/3 Henry Frogge elected by the Bedells as Schoolkeeper and Bellringer – tradita listed, 10 keys, cushions and cloths for the VC.

p.636*: [pre July 1582] Draft proclamation forbidding the playing of unlawful games (‘dice, cards, bowls, closse and such like’) and the eating of flesh on prohibited days; [July] Receipt by Thomas Lorkin from Stokys of all his writings and evidences put into court.

p.637*: 24 July 1578 Martin Berye constituted proctor of James Robson and John Clarke of St Sepulchre’s parish; 4 Dec. John Bettes LLB proctor for Thoams Evers; 18 June 1579 Martin Berye LLB proctor for James Robson, chandler; 27 June Martin Berye proctor for Edmund Garnet, kendalman, in case vs John Mayer MA; 23 [Oct.] John Bettes proctor for William Farrand vs Martin Wharton; 5 Nov. Bettes proctor for Michael Woulfe in case vs Threder - Berye proctor for Threder in same case; 29 Jan. 1579/80 Bery proctor for Thomas Ventres, alderman, in case brought by St John’s College against him in his case against Newsam; 12 Feb. Bettes proctor for Richard Aylward in case vs Henry Mase; 22 Apr. 1580 Bettes proctor for Roger Johnson in case vs Henry Alcocke; 22 July Bettes proctor for Roger Harrison in case vs W. Martin; 13 July 1581 John Amye MA Proctor for John Threder in case brought by Thomas Barbor; 18 July Bettes proctor for Thomas Barbor in same case; 27 Oct. Bettes proctor for Roger Johnson in case vs Hugh Jones; 22 Jan. 1581/2 Amye proctor for Edward Ball in case vs Edward Mundaye, Bettes proctor for Edmund Hound in case brought by Furmery; 10 Feb. Swale proctor for Thomas Legge MD in case brought by Paman etc.; 16 Mar. Amy proctor for John Furmerye BD in case vs Hounde; 5 Apr. 1582 Amye proctor for John Scawcroft, glover, in case vs Richard Blunt; 2 May [ ] LLB proctor for John Johnson MA (Fellow of Jesus College) in case brought by [Alenson].

p.638*: ?Robert Turner LLB proctor for John Be[?ll]; 8 July 1584 Memorandum signed by John Bettes ‘that I am contented that Mr Newsham shall have such bounds or wrightinges obligatory as remayned in the office at the Sentence of Mr Pepis and Wiborough which were in ?Sentence agenst the sayd mr Newsham in the tyme when as ms Dr Good was VC at which tyme I was accouncell (?) with Mr pepis and Widborow’; 2 Jan. 1585/6 Robert Hall BA substituted for Philip Stringer in case brought by Edmundes; Oct. John Cowell MA proctor for Thomas Smyth MA in case vs [Nicholas] Foster MA, lately of King’s College; July 1587 Robert Turner proctor fir Peter Whaley [in case vs Sparke]; 16 Oct. William Hawes promises to buy three weights (½oz, ¼oz, 1/8oz) at Sturbridge Fair next; 7 Mar. 1588/9 Receipt by William Wadie for three bills containing £110 due to Jane Baeshe, widow of Edwards Baeshe, by Henry Parker.

p.639*: 2 July [?1585] Receipt by John Bettes for allegation of Algate exhibited before Dr Kelke and Owen Wylson, also receipt for Act Book; 3 Oct. {no year] Note of conviction of Elborowe; 7 Aug. [no year] Receipt by ? from Stokys of University Statutes for the use of Mr S[?tringer]; 23 Feb. 158/7 Memorandum that ‘Thomas Hodiloe did assent and consent that at the execution to be made of the sentence given at this daye, if Mr Sophonius Smyth can make any just proof that he hath paid £20 of that sum wherein sentence is given, that then Mr VC, Mr Dr Copcottes, may use his discretion herein’; 19 Mar. Receipt of John Bacster for the loan from Stokys of ‘the little black booke in 4to of commencement …'; 19 Jan. Memorandum that Master and Syndics of Corpus Christi College allow Sophonius Smyth three weeks to show that he is not bound in sundry sums to John Cooke and others, in which case the VC may have discretion in the matter of Smith’s sentence to pay £120 and £14 2s.

p.640*: 19 Jan. 1587/8 Rough notes of assignations for causes, payments, receipts etc including receipts of Thomas ?Heinly for the statutes at large in three volumes; 28 Apr. 1582 Payment of 4d to the carter for bringing up 240 paving tiles to the schools costing 23s; 6 Feb. 1588/9 Promise of John Matthew to warrant Mr Bac[?ster] in six weeks; Receipt of 6s 8d fines from Mr Abbes etc.

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p.655*: 21 Nov. 1578 Account of John Denys, bookbinder, deceased – inventory £69 17s ½d; desperate debts, expenses etc, £20 11s; 17 named creditors, defaulting £48 13s 4d from total of £102 18s 2d; note that other creditors are to be excluded.