Manuscript Document, Signed by 'John Yorke Deputy Clerk of the Peace of the Said Town [Cambridge]', certifying that Gossip has shown himself to be member of the Church of England and loyal subject of the King.

One page, on laid watermarked paper roughly thirteen inches by eight wide. Good though lightly creased and aged. Begins 'These are to Certifie whome it may concerne that William Gossip A.M. Library Keeper of Trinity College in the University of Cambridge came before his Majestys Justices of the peace at the Generall Quarter Sessions of the peace held at the Guildhall in and for the sd. Towne on Wednesday the Sixteenth day of July instant and then and there before the said Justices at the sd. Sessions Did Deliver into Court a Certificate of his receiveing the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the usage of the Church of England under the hands of the Minister and Churchwarden of the parish of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the said Towne of Cambridge where the Sacrament was by him received'. He has also produced 'two Credible Wittnesses', and has taken the anti-papist oaths regarding the royal succession required in the Test Act of 1673 and the 'Act for the further Security of his Majesty's person' of 1714. The document and Yorke's signature are in different hands.