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Officium domini contra gardianos veteres ibidem videlicet Iohannem Bynkes ⸤Iohannem Dimming⸥
The plaiers of longe Coulton plaied in their church at christenmas last they beinge Churchwardens: which though thy confesse to be trew yet wold they neither present the same nor yet say what day or in whose presence the same was
Super articulum comparauernt &c. quo die
comparuerunt et fatebantur
that the was said play was ther plaied in the
Quier et submiserunt se vnde dominus
iniunxit e<.>s
penitenciam in ecclesia de sigesten &c probandum
&c iniunxit ‸⸢quolibet⸣
eorum ad confitendum solvendum ij s. 6 d. in
vsus pauperum dictæ ecclesiæ et
inde certificandum in proximum sub manibus
<....>rij et gardinorum in
proximum/ ...
Sigeston
Sigeston
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The office of the lord (judge) against former (or
long-standing) wardens there, namely, John Binkes, John Dimming. (English) They
appeared concerning the article, etc. On which day, they appeared and confessed
(English) and submitted themselves (ie, to the mercy of the
court), wherefore the lord (judge) enjoined them penance in the church of Sigeston,
etc, to prove, etc enjoined each of them to confess pay 2s 6d for the use
of the poor of the said church and thereafter to certify at the next (session) under the
hands of <......> and the wardens at the next
(session). ...
Although there are both a Coulton and a Cawton in the Howardian Hills, neither is in the diocese of Durham and so would be unlikely to leave records more appropriately belonging to the diocese of York. 'Long Coulton' is more likely North/East Cowton in the deanery of Darlington.
Record title: Durham
Dean and Chapter Act and
Visitation Book
Repository: Durham Cathedral Library
Shelfmark: DCD/D/SJC/2
Repository location: Durham
17 December 1595–9 October 1606; English and Latin; paper; i + 176 + i, 42 leaves in eight booklets sewn together, as follows: 1: ff 1–42, 2: ff 43–51, 3: ff 52–59, 4: ff 60–66, 5: ff 67–85, 6: ff 86–103, 7: ff 104–125, 8: ff 126–176; average 295mm x 195mm; modern pencil foliation with leaf 4 not foliated, contemporary pagination from 2 to 314; leaves foliated with the following numbers are stubs: 11, 15, 50, 63, 127–28, 130–31, 139, 143, 175 (all actually +1); modern cardboard binding in grey vinyl, no title on the cover, spines of individual contemporary booklets are into the modern binding.