County: Cambridgeshire
Code: D6029
Reference: Cambridge, King's College: KCA/342
Function: Affidavit




For as moche as by the provost and Scolers of the kynges College of our lady and Saynt Nicholas of Cambrigge . J william Millyngton̕ Clerke don Doctor of diuinite haue be praied
and required to declare the trouthe and therto to record and shew the very trouthe in what condicionn Maister John langtonn late Bisshopp of Saynt Davyes . and by
whos auctorite commaundment and costes the saide Maister John purveied Bookes vestimentes . Belleȝ and other ornamentes to the kynges College aforesaide ; how be it . that J
here wrytenn as hit apperithe by my letter wrytenn at Cambrigge in the Feste of Saynt Brice vndre my seale the very trouthe in the same that from the bygynnyng of þe College
acordyngly to my first wrytyng ; J certifie alle menn that the saide Maister John langtonn was never Rector nether Prouost ther . nether Felaw of the College . for he
was Maister of penbroke halle longe bifore the bigynnyng of the saide College . and so desesed Maister of the forsaide benbroke halle . nether was deputed by me . nor by þe
Scolers . nor made any purvyour for any ornamentes or belleȝ . or any other thyng that longed to the College in alle . or in any parcelle . but that alle thyng that was
purveied was oonly at the costes and commaundementes of kyng henry aforesaide . And so the saide Maister John langton̕ never had entresse by me . nor by þe College
for any maner purviaunces to be made in any maner wyse . And therfor the College aforesaide was never charged but oonly to pray for kyng henry as ther foundre
And the saide Maister John langtonn receyued alle money of the saide kyng henry for suche purviaunce to be made . Jn witnesse wherof J haue put to my Seale . And
if my feblenesse wold suffir me . J wolde cumme byfore the kyng . or his jugges . and alle men that this mater shalle [...] bothe in juggement & other wyse
to certifie the trouthe and to recorde as it is aforesaide . And vpponn this my wryting and my Seale . many worshipfulle . men haue put to ther Sealeȝ . as Robert
Cope at this tyme Mayre of Cambrigge . John Beltonn . John Asshwelle Thomas heyrmann late maireȝ of the same Townn John Crofte . John Ereliche . Thomas
walter . and John Rasour at this tyme Bayleȝ of Cambrigge aforesaide . And if nede sholde be many other Gentilmenn in the sher̕ . and also in the Townn of
Cambrigge to this trouthe by me reported as it is afore-saide wolde put to ther sealeȝ // wryten̕ at Cambrigge the secunde Day of May . the yere of the
Regne of our soueraynn lord kyng Edward the . iiijthe . after the conquest of Jnglonde the . vthe .