1670

1. LEIGH Isabella Leckie c Ellen Gillibrand for slander - libel, depositions, sentence, bill of costs.

2. CROSTON James Pilkington S.T.B. rector c William Patten, Henry Howard et alia for attempting to arrest Pilkington in the churchyard and remove him so there was no divine service - libel, deposition, sentence, costs.

3. GREAT BUDWORTH Mary Hatton c Thomas Hatton et alia for saying she made a wassail and the company drank a gallon of ale. Three of party went to bed with Mary and committed adultery - libel, deposition, interrogation, letter, costs.

4. BROXTON Thomas Warde c Thomas Aldersey for breach of trust in administration - responsions, depositions.

5. BADDILEY Thomas Davenport c Thomas Wainwright saying owlers and ashes stolen from Grangefield and worked up at Davenports - libel, interrogation, depostions, absolution, costs.

6. BACKFORD Churchwardens c John Worrall for non payment of the assessment - libel, responsions.

7. BADDILEY William Warde c Margaret Coppock calling him a thief - libel, depositions.

8. MOBBERLEY Brian Coppock c William Coppock saying he had stolen hay - libel, depositions, sentence, costs.

9. PRESCOT (Farnworth) Churchwardens c Cuthbert Ogle for non payment of dues by agreement dated 1619. Copy produced - libel, responsions.

10. BOWDEN Edward Drinkwater son of John Drinkwater clerk c Elizabeth Paulden saying Edward had stolen money and she would call him at Altrincham cross - libel, deposition, interrogations.

11. CHESTER (St Oswald) William Selbye c Alderman John Poole calling him a lying idle rascal and his wife a drunken queane -libel, deposition, confession.

12. CASTLETON Richard Byron, Baron Rochdale, c Thomas Breary for tithe barley, wheat, oats, beans - libel, responsions, costs.

13. HUNDERSFORD (Rochdale) Richard Byron c Thomas Baskerville for tithe oats and barley - libel, responsions, costs.

14. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Robert Whitworth for tithe barley and oats - responsions, libel.

15. CASTLETON Richard Byron c James Whitworth for tithe oats and barley - libel, responsions, costs.

16. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Richard Whitworth for tithe, rye, oats, barley, beans - libel, responsions.

17. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Sam Milne for tithe of barley, oats, wheat, pease - libel, responsions, costs.

18. HUNDERSFIELD Richard Byron c James Stott for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

19. HUNDERSFIELD Richard Byron c John Chadwick for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions, costs.

20. BUTTERWORTH Richard Byron c Anna Brearley for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

21. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Robert Breaerley for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

22. ROCHDALE Richard Byron c Thomas Buckley for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions, costs.

23. BUTTERWORTH Richard Byron c Thomas Key for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions, costs.

24. BUTTERWORTH Richard Byron c James Geane for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions, costs.

25. CASTLETON Richard Byron c John Bamford for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

26. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Abraham Schofield for tithe of arable lands - libel, responsions.

27. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Alexander Wolstenholme for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

28. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Jonathon Wolfenden of tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

29. ROCHDALE Bundle of bills of costs. Richard Byron c James Stott (see no.18).

30. HUNDERSFIELD Bill of costs in tithe cause of Richard Byron c James Stott (see no.18).

31. BOWDEN Richard Venables c Thomas Brush for tithe hay and rent of £1.6.8d for half town of Agden - libel, responsions, depositions.

32. PRESTON Richard Houghton c William Morley for tithe on 300 cart loads of hay from 1664-69 - libel.

33. PRESTON Richard Houghton c William Haddocke for tithe on 300 cart loads of hay - libel.

34. PRESTON Richard Houghton c William Francis for tithe on 300 cart loads of hay - libel.

35. PRESTON Richard Houghton c Maria Higginson for tithe on 300 cart loads of hay - libel.

36. PRESTON Richard Houghton c John Milner for tithe on 300 cart loads of hay - libel.

37. PRESTON Richard Houghton c Thomas Baron for tithe on 300 cart loads of hay - libel.

38. TIVERTON Richard Hatton c Joan Travers for tithe hay from the Benbowe meadow

39. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Churchwardens c William Gammell owner of lands in parish but resident in St Oswald for non payment of assessment to repair of church - libel, responsions, depositions.

40. TATTENHALL Churchwardens c John Astbrooke concerning pew near south door. Astbrooke a friend to late Rebellion now owner of large estates - libel, responsions, depositions, petitions.

41. DEANE Office c John Angier vicar for solemnising clandestine marriages between William Horrocke and Alice his wife and 37 others without banns or licence - confession, sentence, suspension.

42. HALSALL Elizabeth Woosey c Margaret Fleetwood calling her Simpkin whore - libel.

43. BLAKELEY Elizabeth Costerdine c Jane Bowker of Crumpsall saying she was naughty with two men - sentence (see 1669 no.29).

44. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Sam Dewhirst for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

45. CASTLETON Richard Byron c James Worrall for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

46. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Charles Chadwick for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

47. BUTTERWORTH Richard Byron c Charles Belfield for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

48. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Francis Clegge for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

49. CASTLETON Richard Byron c John Smethurst for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

50. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Alexander Chadwick for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

51. MANCHESTER Robert Birch c Ralph Bibby for non payment of dues being 16d for four looms - sentence, legal opinion, costs, inhibition to York.

52. HAWARDEN Agreement with bond between Catherine Carter and Moses Tarleton for lease of messuage and lands with conditions. Receipts of payment and copy lease of 1658.

53. CHEADLE HEATH Thomas Walmisley c John Bate for saying he fornicated for 20 years and committed adultery with his wife - libel, depositions (see 1669 no.32).

54. BOLTON Responsions of James Bradshaw et alia to Robert Harper concerning non payment of £8 p.a. since 1667.

55. ECCLESTON William Bispham rector c Ithill Jones & Henry Bennet for tithe gorse - declaration.

56. CODDINGTON Richard Vaughan c Jane Orton concerning tithes, says Vaughan's lands sequestered at Civil War having lent Charles I over £200 - libel, depositions (see 1669 no.24) repair.

57. LOSTOCK John Anderson c James Leigh for tithe animals, geese, bees - responsions.

58. WARRINGTON Hugh Hickson of Dublin c Ellen Massey for saying he was a bastard - confession, libel, deposition, responsions (see 1669 no.37).

59. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Maria Mainwaringe c Jane Thompson for slander -libel, bill of costs (see 1669 no.28).

60. GREAT BUDWORTH Thomas Hatton et alia c Maria Hatton for non attendance at church for five years but taking others to drink at Jane Ingham's in Grappenhall - libel. (See 1670 no.3).

61. PRESTBURY Churchwardens c Sam Leigh inhibition and monition from York.

62. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Alice Gardner c Ellen Richardson saying her husband made her an honest woman. Arose from comments made on market day at High Cross - libel, confession, deposition.

63. HALSALL Margaret Goulborne c William Fazakerley calling her whore in Ormskirk market - libel, interrogation, deposition.

64. UPHOLLAND Thomas Aspinall c William Naylor concerning his title to a pew on south of middle alley - libel, confession, responsions.

65. WHALLEY John Omerod vicar of Burton Kendal c William Towneley saying he counterfeited the sheriff's seal. Arrested at Accrington and sent to the Assizes - libel, interrogation, deposition.

66. WEAVERHAM Alice Litler c Ursula Malpas calling her whore like her mother - libel, deposition.

67. TARVIN John Lascelles c Thomas Beckett calling him coward - libel, deposition.

68. TARVIN John Cowper c John Moysedale calling him cucklold - libel, deposition.

69. FULLWOOD Lawrence Charnley exor of Richard Charnley c Christopher & James Rogerson for tithes of barley, wheat, pease, rye - libel.

70. RIBCHESTER John Marish c Henry Higginson for tithe of two water mills, fitches, French wheat, malt - libel.

71. ACTON (Hurleston) Elizabeth Cholmondeley c Anna Bebbington for slander - confession, libel.

72. WIGAN Richard & John Brocke c Richard Hughes inhibition from York.

73. CHRISTLETON (Clotton) Bill of costs in case of Charles and Margaret Whalley (see 1669 no.3).

74. BUNBURY John Brock c William Brocke affidavit (case?)

75. LITTLE BUDWORTH Bagnall c Ralph Walker calling him long chapt fellow - confession.

76. ROCHDALE Richard Byron c Elizabeth Milne for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

77. Bill of costs for Carden c Lay; Whitby c Penketh; Woodhead c Cotton.

78. BOLTON Robert Harper vicar c William Crompton for tithe dues - libel.

79. BARROW Office c Stephen & James Hurlston for clandestine marriage in a private house - libel (repair).

80. CASTLETON Richard Byron c John Lord for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions, depositions, costs.

81. CASTLETON Richard Byron c William Buckley for tithe cereal crops - libel, responsions.

82. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Thomas Wolfenden for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

83. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Richard Chadwick for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

84. LITTLEBOROUGH Office c James Ashworth for disturbing service by reading a summons for tithe payers to pay their tithes next day - libel, depositions.

85. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Robert Buckley for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

86. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Robert Bath for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

87. BUTTERWORTH Richard Byron c James Milnes for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

88. CASTLETON Richard Byron c John Butterworth for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

89. CASTLETON Richard Byron c John Schofield for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

90. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Francis Milne for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

91. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Abraham Lees for tithe of arable crops - libel, responsions.

92. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Abraham Taylor for tithes of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

93. CASTLETON Richard Byron c John Adkinson for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

94. CASTLETON Richard Byron c James Ashworth for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

95. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Robert Loton for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

96. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Adam Taylor for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

97. CASTLETON Richard Byron c Arthur Schofield for tithe of cereal crops - libel, responsions.

98. ROCHDALE (Hills) Richard Byron c James Clegg for cereal crops - libel, responsions, depositions, citation, sentence, costs.

99. ROCHDALE (Coldclough) Richard Byron c John Brearley for tithes of cereal crops - full file.

100. ROCHDALE (Coldclough) Richard Byron c John Brearly for tithes - libel, responsions, depositions, citation, sentence, costs.

101. ROCHDALE (Toungend) Richard Byron c Edmund Hill senior for tithes of barley, oats, wheat, rye - file as above.

102. ROCHDALE (Toungend) Richard Byron c Abraham Brearley for tithes - full file as in 100.

103. ROCHDALE (Toungend) Richard Byron c Israel Clegge for tithes - full file as in 100.

104. ROCHDALE (Toungend) Richard Byron c James Clegge for tithes - full file as in 100.

105. ROCHDALE (Coldclough) Richard Byron c George Clegge for tithes - full file as in 100.

106. ROCHDALE (Longacres) Richard Byron c Francis Clegge for tithes - full files as above.

107. ROCHDALE (Hadeshills) Richard Byron c James Milnes for tithes - full file as in 100.

108. ROCHDALE (Toungend) Richard Byron c James Smith for tithes - full file as in 100.

109. ROCHDALE (Chapel) Richard Byron c Henry Clegge for tithes - full file as in 100.

110. ROCHDALE (Longacres) Richard Byron c James Greenwood for tothes - full file as in 100.

111. ROCHDALE (Coldclough) Richard Byron c John Lord for tithes - full file as in 100.

112. ROCHDALE (Longacres) Richard Byron c James Greenwood for tithes - full file as in 100.

113. ROCHDALE (Longacres) Richard Byron c James Ashworth for tithes - full file as in 100.

114. ROCHDALE (Toungend) Richard Byron c Abraham Tattenhall for tithes - full file as in 100.

115. ROCHDALE Orders in Parliament concerning tithe dispute between Lord Byron and Sir William Juxon.

116. ROCHDALE Sir William Juxon c Jeremiah Brerley & Matthew Hollis for tithes of barley, oats, wheat, rye, beans, pease - libel.

117. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c Anthony, Charles and Robert Crossley for tithe as above - libel.

118. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c John, James and Robert Stott for tithes as above - libel.

119. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c Charles, Edmund and William Hill for tithes as above - libel.

120. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c Richard, Joseph and Thomas Lord for tithes as above - libel.

121. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c Christopher and Ralph Harrison for tithes of wheat, rye, barley, oats, beans, pease -libel.

122. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c Adam, James, Abraham, Mary and Edward Scholefield for tithes as above - libel.

123. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c John and James Stocke for tithes as above - libel.

124. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c Ottiwell Woffinden, Edmund Turner and Timothy Jenkinson for tithes as above - libel.

125. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c Edmund Whitehead, Thomas Butterworth, Samuel Newbold for tithes as above -libel.

126. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c Thomas Heyre, Richard Ingham, George Travers and John Kenion for tithes as above - libel.

127. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c Robert Bolton, Thomas Lawton, Edmund Heywood and Thomas Shepherd for tithes as above - libel.

128. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c Mary Cheatha, George Buckley, Alexander Clegge, John Uttley, Charles Smith and Ann Sheare for tithes as above - libel.

129. ROCHDALE Sir Wm Juxon c Henry Dixon, George Hurst, James Sheare, John Lach and James Kershaw for tithes as above - libel.

130. ROCHDALE Bill of Costs for Edmund Milne and Anna Chadwick in tithe dispute.

131. ROCHDALE File of 30 prohibitions from York registry in above tithe disputes. These were found as a separate file and have been retained as such.

132. ROCHDALE Citations for Sir Byron et alia to appear at Chester in tithe disputes.

133. ROCHDALE Bill of costs Alice Hooley c John Bate.

134. CHESTER Robert Urnston c Thomas Davies saying he had stolen and eaten his cockeril - confession, decree.

135. WEAVERHAM Eaton & Crimes c Ralph Dove for tithe grain. Evidence on part of Dove.

136. BOWDEN Richard Venables c Thomas Bruck for tithe hay - responsions.

137. GRESFORD Certificate that Stephen and Frances Hurleston were married by licence issued at St Asaph in Gesford church.

138. WIGAN William Banks, lord of manor of Winstanley, c Nicholas Pennington et alia concerning his rights to seats and a burial place in Wigan church. Full file of which the depositions are important for any history of Wigan at this period.