1671

1. ROCHDALE George Wilson c Francis Worrall and others for tithe of oats and barley - responsions, citations.

2. ROCHDALE Sir Richard Byron c Abraham Holdroyd for tithe.

3. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Smith c Robert Gardner for tithe pease, carrots, leeks, 3 pints turnupseed, cabbidge at Boughton - full file.

4. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Smith c Thomas Hall for tithe pease and carrots at Boughton (full file).

5. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Smith c Peter Barker for tithes of corn and animals in Boughton (full file).

6. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Smith c Richard Broster for tithes of Boughton. "Arable land now being converted to pasture and holly gardens and other garden stuff. There is more gardening than before the late war". - full file.

7. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Smith c Wm Hough for tithe of pease in Boughton (full file).

8. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Smith c Robert Highfield for tithe of garden stuff (full file).

9. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elenora Turner c Margaret Bibbie for slander. Witnesses came from Shoemakers' Row - libel, depositions.

10. CHESTER Alderman John Poole c Wm Selby accusing him in Court in the Inner Pentice before the Mayor for issuing a forged Bill of Exchange for £50. John Poole was a haberdasher.

11. CHESTER (St Mary) Nicholas Stevenson c John Anderson and others for tithe of animals in Upton - full file.

12. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Churchwardens c Wm Garnull for non payment of assessments - responsions, sentence (repair).

13. MALPAS Margaret Eddon c Thomas Eddon for adultery - libel.

14. TARPORLEY Office c John Reade for marrying his niece after his wife's death without banns or licence - libel.

15. SEFTON Certificate that John Tarbocke and Anne Moreton were married by George Brooke without banns or licence.

16. PRESTBURY Thomas Leigh c Maria Hooley for tithes of wheat - libel, responsions.

17. ASTBURY Thomas Hutchinson c Wm Lees for tithes - libel.

18. UPHOLLAND John Halsall c Thurstan Eddleston for slander - libel.

19. PENWORTHAM Bishop of Chester c Edward Fleetwood for non payment of a pension of £4 plus £5 costs.

20. TATTENHALL Churchwardens c John Astbrooke for non payment of assessments - costs, sentence.

21. BOWDEN George Delamere c John Burgess for tithe of oats and barley - libel.

22. MOTTRAM Nathaniel Booth c John Massey for tithe of corn and hay - responsions.

23. MARBURY Wm Sudlow c John Pickering concerning his title to a seat awarded to his ancestor in 1635 when seats made uniform - libel, depositions.

24. BURSCOUGH Anne Barton c Emlina Kelshaw for slander - libel, depositions.

25. WAVERHAM Ellena Gill c Thomas Woodier for slander - libel, depositions.

26. CODDINGTON Edward Daxon rector c Henry Minshall for tithe hay from "great Hanocke meadow" - libel, responsions, depositions.

27. URSWICK George Inman clerk c Thomas Fell for tithe oats, wheat, barley, rye - libel.

28. URSWICK George Inman c Thomas Stenton for tithe animals - libel.

29. URSWICK George Inman c Wm Postlethwaite for tithe animals - libel.

30. BRINDLE Henry Pigot clerk c Thomas Walmesley for tithe hay - libel, responsions.

31. BRINDLE Henry Pigot S.T.B. c Thomas Bateson for tithe animals - libel.

32. BRINDLE Henry Pigot c Thomas Woodcock for tithe animals - libel.

33. STOKE Richard Breese c Richard Smith for adultery with Esther Perry - libel, interrogations, responsions, depositions.

34. STOKE Maria Hatton c Wm Lawrenson saying she went to bed with his sons Richard and Charles - interrogation, depositions, confession.

35. RUNCORN Ellen Harper c John Worrall for slander - libel, interrogation, depositions.

36. RUNCORN Maria Waine c Ann Challoner and Jane Robinson for slander - libel.

37. TILSTON Draft confession for Thomas Blankard concerning his solemnisation of matrimony between John Povey and Mary Darlington.

38. MACCLESFIELD Rebecca Blacklach c George Booth for slander in presence of the Mayor - full file (repair).

39/ ROCHDALE Thirty nine tithe disputes between Sir Richard

78. Byron and the parishioners of Rochdale, Castleton, Hundersford and Butterworth.

79. ROCHDALE File of libels in tithe causes with some stray - depositions.

80. ROCHDALE Copies of tithe causes for Rochdale bound up in files (repair).

81. MILNROW Matrimonial dispute between Thomas Dewhurst and Maria Hoult.

82. Bills of Costs (unidentified).

83. Responsions of William Boote, case unidentified.