1602

1602

1. CHESTER (St Oswald) Anna Grimsdich c Edward Coventrie saying, "thou hast been taken up drunke in the streets" - libel.

2. CHESTER (St Peter) Letter from Thomas Hale, vicar to the Chancellor that Lucie wife of Ellis Jones has been absolved.

3. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Alexander Coats impropriator c Richard Taylor, stocking knitter and hosier for tithe on his profits and Easter dues - responsions, depositions.

4. CHESTER (St John Baptist) (?) Heworth c Churchwardens concerning payment of his assessments - responsions.

5. OVER Arthur Barker and Thomas Olton c Katherine and Margaret Sumner concerning title to a seat - responsions, depositions, sentence

6. CHURCH HULME Edward Colton c George Anson & Thomas Yarwood concerning a violent dispute over a pew - additional articles, depositions.

7. WINWICK Fragment of a cause concerning correction of John Gerrard.

8. LAWTON John Weverham c Anna Handley concerning compurgation after fornication.

9. CHORLEY William Farrington of Leyland c Robert Charnock of Astley in Chorley for tithes and dues - full file.

10. LEIGH Anna Starkie alias Ashton c George Starkie that between 1595 and 1602 he committed adultery with Katherine Parr and Elizabeth Platt who bore him bastards - libel.

11. BADDILEY Richard Shuttleworth c Isabella Woodruffe - sentence.

12. BADDILEY Churchwardens c Richard Vernon concerning money due to the church - responsions.

13. WARRINGTON Fragment of the divorce cause between Anna Hey and Thomas Sankie.

14. NANTWICH Elizabeth Tench c Henry & Elizabeth Jenon calling her whore - libel.

15. PRESCOT Robert Barlowe c Maria his wife for adultery with Edmund Barlow - libel.

16. EASTHAM Matilda Thompson c Anna Wade for defamation -fragment of libel.

17. EASTHAM Richard Stringer c Anne Stringer for adultery - libel.

18. AUGHTON Churchwardens c John Starkie - sentence.

19. FARNDON Maria Tomlinson c Hugh Massie as the father of her child - depositions.

20. NESTON Ralph Newam c Bridgett Parkinson in a matrimonial dispute - interrogations.

21. POULTON Peter White MA vicar c Thomas Dagger for tithe hay - libel.

22. POULTON Peter White c Edmund Bamber for dues and tithe animals - libel.

23. ROSTHERNE Churchwardens c Richard Massie of Bucklowe Hill for non payment of assessments - libel.

24. BLACKBURN Edmund Braddil impropriator c George and Marie Bolton for tithes - costs.

25. GUILDEN SUTTON Sir Peter Warburton impropriator c Henry ap Evans of St Michael Chester for tithes - sentence.

26. DUNHAM ON HILL John Done impropriator c Thomas Hanley for tithes - interrogations.

27. WALTON Alexander Mollineux rector c Katherine Smelt for tithe animals and fowls - libel.

28. WALTON Alexander Mollineux c James Wiswall for tithe oats in Toxteth - libel.

29. WALTON Alexander Mollineux c Richard Berry and Egidus Brook for tithe barley and oats - responsions.

30. BUNBURY John Aldersaye impropriator c Thomas Grymes for dues and tithe woold and cows - libel.

31. GAWSWORTH Marie Hammond c Jane Chorley for defamation -fragment.

32. PRESTBURY Margaret Clarke c Elena Mon for defamation - fragment.

33. AUDLEM Margaret Cardyc c Elena Brown - fragment of a sentence.

34. GREAT BUDWORTH Thomas Cowper STB c William Foxley and John Key for tithes - libel.

35. GREAT BUDWORTH Richard Eaton c George Puver for tithes - sentence.

36. WISTASTON Cause against Thomas Smith for tithes - very faded and in poor condition.

37. ST MICHAEL ON WYRE Thomas Dobson and Marjory Hardman for adultery - sentence.

38. SHOCKLACH Fragment of responsions in a tithe cause.

39. MARTHALL Grant by William and John Maire to William Burge for £100 the tithes of the Lordship.

40. HALSALL John Moore c Edmund Holte for Margaret's adultery with Edmund - responsions.

41. WHITEGATE Fragment of the depositions in an uncertain cause.

42. TATTENHALL John Fitton c William Mollineux for slander - depositions.

43. THORNTON William Seburie vicar c Richard Button for tithe animals - libel.

44. HOLT Depositions in a matrimonial cause.

45. HALSALL John Moore c Margaret Moore in a matrimonial dispute - libel.

46. Matrimonial cause concerning Ann Darbyshire - libel.

47. Bills of Costs in causes of William Tapley and John Hale.

48. SHOTWICK John Fitton c George Mainwaring for tithes of Woodbank - fragment.

49. Unidentified fragments.

50. MANCHESTER William Birch : excommunication.

51. EASTHAM Emma Massam c. John Hey, libel : schedule of expenses 1601-2.

52. Wm. Seaburie, Clerk : excommunication of (?)

53. Isabella Holcroft, widow : excommunication.

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