1622

1622

1. PRESTBURY Booth c Westerne saying he was the father of Isabel Sutton's child - fragment only.

2. PRESTBURY Maria Norbury c Edward Jackson for slander - depositions.

3. WINWICK Josiah Horne rector c John Culcheth for tithe animals responsions, depositions (fragile).

4. WINWICK Jacob Kenion c Richard Walton concerning title to a pew and burial place in the upper end of the north aisle - libel.

5. WINWICK Richard Fleetwood c Jacob Kenion concerning his title to a pew in the nave - libel.

6. PRESCOT Office c Thos Rabon and Anna Aires for being married without banns or licence - fragment.

7. OLDHAM Ralph Standish of Standish c Edmund Ashton of Chadderton for erecting seats and wainscott to the prejudice of the chapel in place of an ancient partition. Bishop questioned Ashton about the proposed wainscot and said if he brought it into the church he could not dispose of it without the Bishop's consent - full file.

8. BUNBURY Richard Egerton of Newhall c Wm Dodd of Tattenhall for tithe herbage and dues - libel, depositions.

9. WYBUNBURY Sentence in a tithe dispute between Thos Trevis and Richard Blackmor (fragile).

10. TARVIN John Ellam(?) c Henry Starky for tithe grain - libel, depositions.

11. WIGAN Margaret Charnock & Margaret Charnock jnr c John Tarleston saying he fornicated with both - depositions.

12. HOLLAND (Wigan) Sentence in a defamation cause between Henry & Ellen Gaskell c Wm Banckes of Winstanley.

13. HARTHILL Edward Bebington c Magaret Dodd for laying violent hands on Richard Harcourt son of Mr Harourte by pulling his ears until they bled - libel.

14. WYBUNBURY Chris Holland c Richard & Alice Perrins saying that his daughter Joan had a meeting house in Namptwich with Hugh Slade - libel.

15. LIVERPOOL John & Margaret Haughton c Edward Nicholas for defamation - libel.

16. CHILDWALL Office c Edward Barrow & Elizabeth Carter for being married without banns or licence in a house at Roby - responsions.

17. CHILDWALL Henry Orme c Anna Sephton alias Gleaste for defamation - depositions.

18. DARESBURY Richard Starkie c John Daniel, Kathleen Pickering and Thos Pickering in a violent dispute in church over a pew - libel, depositions.

19. ROCHDALE Ellen Holt c Alice Holt for defamation - penance to be performed.

20. CHESTER (St Oswald) Hannah Hancock c Ellen Croughton for calling her a wry faced whore and a Welsh whore - libel.

21. MIDDLEWICH John Reynolds c Elizabeth Horton widow concerning a breach of contract of marriage - responsions, depositions.

22. HALSALL Bridgett Halsall daughter of Sir Cuthbert Halsall c Thos Halsall saying Sir Cuthbert would make him his heir if he married Bridgett - libel (fragile). to handle).

23. DAVENHAM Richard Eaton c Ellen Vernon for breach of contract of marriage - responsions, libel, depositions.

24. MARBURY John Rawlinson rector c Robert Cholmondeley for tithe from land enclosed from Norbury Common -libel.

25. RUNCORN Magister Burroughs vicar c Thos Grimsditch for vicarage dilapidations requiring a new thatch, 13 score yards of Court yard wall, a wainhouse, stable, barn, new roof lats and 501 nails for the house, new door into yard, new door on great chamber, new kitchen door and street door - depositions.

26. PENWORTHAM Fragment of a sentence in an adultery cause concerning Anne Bickerstaffe.

27. MANCHESTER John Twyford of Didsbury c Churchwardens concerning non payment of assessments - depositions.

28. Decree from York in a cause between Alice Livesey alias Bridgman and Thos and Maria Parker.

29. ALTHAM Edward Tempest c Wm and Anna Kenyon saying he kept another woman in addition to his wife - libel.

30. WARMINGHAM Randle Philipson c Prudence his wife for adultery with Hugh Kusey - fragment.

31. PLEMONDSTALL Anne Williams c Elena Kelly for defamation - libel, depositions.

32. RADCLIFFE Robert Smethurst c Margaret Makant for defamation - libel.

33. ASHTON UNDER LYNE Henry Cock c Maria Hill of Stockport saying he used Lawton's daughters body - libel.

34. STOCKPORT Alice Rigmaiden c Thos Beeley saying she was John Coupes whore - libel.

35. ANDERLEY Jane Henshawe, Sybil Cliffe for defamation - libel.

36. WITTON Elizabeth Millington c Alice Rogerson for defamation, libel, (repair).

37. Alice crewe c Anna Wilkinson and others for defamation - libel (poor).

38. Booth c Warrene - fragment of articles.

39. John Forrest c John Southworth - interrogations.

40. Nicholas Rishton c John Ormerode - interrogations.

41. Two bills of costs.

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