County: Middlesex
Code: D4195#4
Reference: London, London Metropolitan Archives: COL/AD/01/009, fol. 212r-v
Function: Proclamation
[fol. 212r][line xx]For as moche as Thomas of Forde of Caunterbury Sawyer other-wyse called Thomas of
Forde Sothseyer that here stant be a solempne enquest afore the Mair and Aldermen take .
was endited and aftur be a-nother enquest atteint and convict of hidous trespasses and disseites
that is to seye þat he now late cam to oon Jonet þat was þe wyfe of Jauyn Cook of Estchepe seing
that he was a sothseyer and trewely wolde telle here where CC li and more was be-come withe
a litel Cofre closed be her housbond in his life was beried in þe ground if it so were þat she wold
paye as welle for the sotell instumentes [sic] þat longen to his craft as for his mete and drinke
that he spended al þe mene while þat he were in this tounn and withe that also þat she
wolde ensuir him to be wedded to him which Jonet nat knowyng his falsnesse and
disceit paied at his byddyng for his instrumentes and mete and drinke xl s and more onward
and Jnnocently trustyng to hes wordes and beheft behot hym for to do alle þat he desired withe
[fol. 212v]that condicoun that he wolde perfourme and do as he hadde hight and promised the
whiche Thomas Contynuyng his falsnesse and disceit aboueseyd wityng wel þat he might
Ne cowde nat perfourme þat he hadde behight delaied her forth fro day to day til at the laste
he knouliched his Falsnesse and profered hem amendes and in the same wyse he begiled and
disceyued an other woman þat hight Nauerine Mauncelle behetyng here for to gete a-geyne
half a gowne of clothe of gold whiche was stolen out of here kepyng and made here to spende
vpon hym up trust therof xviij s vj d and more For the whiche falsnesse and disceytes þe
Mair and Aldermen willyng þat suche shul be war be hym in tyme comyng han a-
warded after þe Custume of this Cite þat he as a fals lyere and disceyuer of þe comune
peple shal stonde here vpon þe pillorye thre market dayes eche day an hour wiþ a
westoun aboute hys necke in tokene of a lyere ⸫ ~~~ [signed: Carpenter]