1680

1. PRESCOT Henry Massie of Bold c Elizabeth Hall for slander - libel.

2. PRESCOT Faculty for a pew for Wm Chronchley of Eccleston with churchwardens' certificate.

3. PRESCOT Richard Lea c George Litherland concerning his title to a pew. Information concerning families - libel, responsions, depositions, costs.

4. THURSTASTON Office c John Groome rector concerning his irregularities - interrogations, responsions, depositions, citation. To be suspended from benefice for three years and the living sequestered (1678-14).

5. MAGHULL Margery Fleetwood c Margery Brynason saying she was drunk in the house of the parish clerk - interrogations, depositions, prohibition.

6. ASTBURY Bill of costs in case of Margery Malbone c Thomas Pincke - sentence (1679-1).

7. NORTHENDEN Prohibition in dispute between George Livesey, James Whitelegg and John Cooke (1674-3; 1675-2; 1676-15; 1678-14; 1679-15).

8. PULFORD Sentence in dispute between Maria Burgaine and George Guest with costs (1678-6).

9. CONGLETON Letticia Deane c Ralph Deane for slander - libel.

10. DODLESTON Anna Hewitt c Robert Jones for brawling over a seat in service time - libel, interrogations, responsions, depositions, citation.

11. FLIXTON Office c John Isherwood curate for solemnising a clandestine marriage between Edward Darbyshire and his wife, also between John Birch and his wife - libel (repair).

12. ORMSKIRK Ellen Spencer c Anna Bushell saying that James Carr had the use of her body on a malt sack and at the side of a table - libel.

13. GUILDEN SUTTON Sir Peter Stanley c George Booth for tithes - allegations, confession.

14. TARPORLEY Robert Barker c John and Eleanor Hambleton for slander - libel (repair).

15. WIGAN Elizabeth Naylor of Orrell c Edmund Bibbie for slander - confession.

16. TATTENHALL Richard Hutton c Thomas Bostock constable saying he committed adultery with Margaret Almond - confession.

17. STIDD (Ribchester) Catherine Nicholson c Richard Moody for nullity of a marriage contracted between them when Catherine was 11 but not yet 12 years of age - libel, responsions, sentence.

18. CROSTON James Pilkington S.T.B. rector c Hugh Tootill of Chorley for tithe cows, calves, colts, plow seat money - libel, interrogations, responsions.

19. CROSTON James Pilkington, rector, c Richard Dickenson of Chorley for tithe hay. Wm Eccleston schoolmaster was tithe collector - libel, responsions, depositions.

20. MALPAS Thomas Brereton c Richard Knevet concerning his title to a pew. References to three generations - libel, confirmation, depositions.

21. CHESTER Elizabeth Masey c Elizabeth Fearnall for slander -libel.

22. CHESTER Thomas Touchet c Maria Touchett concerning a disputed agreement over division of goods - responsions, depositions.

23. CHESTER (St Olave) Citation for Hugh Harvey (1681-23).

24. CHESTER (St Peter) Office c Sara Dod for non attendance at church - fragment (repair).

25. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Sentence in the case between churchwardens and William Ravenscroft (1679-12).

26. STRAYS Anna Harry c Jonathon Swire - bill of costs for John Wheelock. Confession of Alice Halliwell.