County: Middlesex
Code: D4196#3
Reference: London, London Metropolitan Archives: COL/AD/01/010, fol. 11v, item 1
Function: Proclamation
For as mochelle as Alson̕ Boston̕ þat her̕ stont is lawfully conuict a-fore þe Mair ∧ & aldermen̕ be solempne
processe aftir þe Custume of þe Cite þat she as a woma̕ nat dredyng god ne shoonyng þe worlde bot
continuely vsyng þ abhominable Custume maintenance and conselyng of synne of foule lecherye and bawdery
now late a yong damselle Jnnocent of synne þt was putte to her be wey of apprintishode to lierne hir craft She
lete to hire to diuerse persones for diuerse summes of mony to execute and exercise withe hem þ orhible vice of lecherye
to vndoing of hir Jnnocence and grete shame to oþer gode peple if hir vicious gouernauns shuld passe vn-ponisshed
wherfore þt alle oþyr shuld be war in tyme comyng̕ to do fauour or consele eny suche dampnable greuance &
offenses . / þe Mair & Aldermen haue ordeined and a-wardyd þt she shuld thre Market dayes wt pypys or oþer opyn
Minstralsy be led fro þe prison̕ þt she is in vn-to þys place and here to stonde eche day be an houre wt þe cause
why proclamed