1665

1. GREAT BUDWORTH Thomas Deane of Peover c William Powdrell for slander. Powdrell accused Deane of fornication and bastardy with his women servants. Detailed information on travel - libel, depositions, citations, interrogation, responsions, presentments by churchwardens.

2. HOLFORD John Wilson c Thomas Holford for tithe hay. Gives custom of payment in lieu of tithe in kind - libel, deposition, interrogation, sentence.

3. CHESTER (ST MARY) Nicholas Stevenson c William Bracegirdle for tithe of cattle pasturing in manor of Hambridge Lach. Lands were formerly those of nunnery of St Mary and paid 1 wheatsheaf in 30 of corn to nunnery - libel, responsions, interrogations.

4. FRODSHAM John Davies vicar c Richard Nangreave for tithe dues on farm house - libel, depositions, interrogations.

5. LEIGH James Hatton of Chowbent c Thomas Hulton nailer for breach of promise, to Joan Hatton. Refused to marry Joan although she was pregnant by Hulton and failed to appear at wedding - depositions, sentence, penance in Leigh, Bolton and Wigan churches for fornication. Appeal and transmission to York.

6. DODLESTON Charles Duckworth rector c John Maddocks for tithe of cattle in Kinnerton meadows. Imports Irish cattle for beef fattening - citation, responsions, depositions, prohibition, bill of costs, transmission to York on appeal - libel.

7. CHESTER (St John Baptist) John Sparke c William Bristow, tanner for tithe dues. Gives details of tithe payments from 1597-1642 - exhibit, libel.

8. BUNBURY Thomas Aldersey c Thomas Eaton for tithe barley - libel.

10. THORNTON LE MOORS Impropriators c William Edwards & John Johnson for tithe corn - libel.

11. GRESFORD Fabian Billingham c John Carter & Sam Lloyd for tithe hay from the five doles - libel, interrogations, responsions, depositions.

12. WEAVERHAM John Holland vicar c Richard Harefinch for tithes - sentence, bill of costs.

13. BRADWALL Richard Sutton c William Hough for tithe pease (not in sheaves but carried away as cut) corn, oats, barley, prices given - responsions.

14. MELLING Richard More c Thomas Bootle re disputed will of Margaret Scarisbrick - depositions.

15. CHESTER (St John) John Sparke c William Bristow for dues of 12d in lieu of tithes. Details commence in 1632/3 - depositions, responsions. See no.7.

16. CHESTER (St Mary) Thomas Swan c William Dicas for tithe lambs - depositions.

17. PRESTON Sir Richard Hoghton c Corporation of Preston concerning appointment of a sexton. Note on election of Chris Sawter in 1650 and intrusion of Alexander Jolly by Corporation. Jolly said Corporation elect sexton since he is also the town bellman but Hoghton says this is not so but the right to appoint is in his family - citations, interrogations, depositions, sentence, commission for evidence, transmission to York.

18. Admiralty Court of Chester & Lancaster; proclamation concerning a right of way from Preston to towns in the Fylde over a marsh called Lea Marsh being within the seas marks and jurisdiction of this court. Sir Richard Hoghton and others claiming rights to appear at the Falcon Inn, Northgate Street, Chester.

19. WEAVERHAM William Pownall c Sir Richard Venables concerning pew rights in church in respect of property called Brownheath Hall - libel, interrogation, responsions, depositions, sentence gives details of several owners of property. (See 1663 - no.100).

20. BOLTON Robert Harper vicar c Richard Goodwin for dilapidations to the vicarage - interrogations, depositions. (See 1664 no.50).

21. BARTHOMLEY Thomas Butterton c Richard Beech et alia concerning pew rights, traces, ownership of property from 1591 - libel, allegations, sentence, bill of costs.

22. CHRISTLETON John Sellars churchwarden c William Cotgreave old churchwarden for money due to him for expenses of office - libel, deposition, responsions, sentence.

23. WITHINGTON Elizabeth Smallwood c Elizabeth Barker called her "an old hackney whore and I will burn thy house" - slander, libel, depositions. (Urgent repair).

24. GREAT BUDWORTH John Blackburne c Thomas Hough for slander - sentence, bill of costs.

25. WHALLEY Certificate testifying to the characters of William Clayton and Robert Baron by churchwardens and parishioners.

26. RUNCORN Office c Sir Richard Brook for non payment of his share or repairs to the church. Says his ancestors bought the mansion house (abbot's lodging) and Norton Priory from Henry VIII and so is exempt property - libel, depositions.

27. ROCHDALE (Milnrow) John Stock c Maria Clegg concerning title to a form or seat in Milnrow chapel - libel.

28. ASTLEY John Oldfield notary public c John Parkinson for slander - libel.

29. KNUTSFORD Hester Griffin c James Urmston for slander - sentence.

30. CHESTER Anna Hutchinson c Richard Morgan for breach of contract - depositions, interrogation.

31. PRESTBURY John Massey c Catherine Taylor for bastardy - libel, depositions, sentence, bill of costs, interrogations.

32. TARPORLEY Elizabeth Radley c John Withers saying he was not worth a groat and a rogue who should hang - deposition, sentence, libel, interrogation.

33. ASTON Margaret Faulkner c Margaret Howard for slander - libel.

34. PARBOLD Peter Litham c Jane Woodcock for adultery and bastardy - libel, deposition (urgent repair).

35. PEMBERTON Elizabeth Rigby c Thomas Mollineuz for slander -libel, Rigby's confession.

36. CHRISTLETON Robert Wainwright c Thomas Smith for saying he was drunk all week and received Communion on Sunday - depositions, sentence.

37. CHESTER (St Oswald) John Ashton c Robert Booth for slander - libel.

38. ALDERLEY Hugh Dean c John Dean for calling him a cheat and fraud - libel, depositions.

39. CHESTER (St Oswald) Robert Booth c Temperance Ashton for slander - libel.

40. ROSTHERNE Hugh Leigh c Jane Bewdly for slander - libel.

41. HALSALL Office c George Aspinall for adultery with Ellen Hunt - depositions.

42. WALTON Office c John Broughton calling John Heawood rector a dumb dog and saying he, "could preach no more than a tub and more fitter to drive the plough than preach" - libel.

43. WALTON LE DALE Office c Henry Byard and Maria Darwin for libel of William Pincocke - repair.

44. PARBOLD Peter Lathom c Margaret Morecroft for saying he was an adulterer - interrogations.

45. Caldwell c Harper and Wilson - affidavits only.

46. ASHLEY Fragment of depositions in Office c Edward Hankisson.

47. CHESTER (St Mary) Depositions in tithe cause of John Anderson for corn in Mellington (see 1664 no.39).

48. ASTBURY Richard Drakeford c Roger Drakeford saying that his son was Roger Buckley's bastard - libel, repair.

49. ALTRINCHAM George Wilson curate c John Barret et alia for non payment of stipend - allegations, bill of costs.

50. TATTENHALL Impropriators c Edward Gregory for tithe of animals on pasture.

51. Disputed will of William Mouldsworth - libel.

52. CHESTER Sentence in slander case Robert Ridge c Robert Livesley.

53. CHESTER Disputed will of John Prenton - depositions.

54. NORTHENDEN Office c Arnold Baxter for non attendance at church and having his child baptised privately by a friend - depositions, repair.

55. PRESTON James Abbot et alia c John Clifton parish clerk for not making responses, baptising without sign of cross, evicted as minister at Longridge 1662 but given clerk's post by Sir Richard Houghton - depositions, bill of costs, interrogations, sentence.

56. GREAT BUDWORTH Thomas Deane c William Powdrell for slander - libel, citations, letters compulsory, interrogations, depositions, sentence, inhibition.

57. Elizabeth Moule c Theophilus Cooke in re defamation of Winsor Ouldfield.

60. DODLESTON Charles Duckworth c William Compton (see also 1664 no.40, no.58)