1621

1621

1. CHESTER (St Oswald) Office c Thos Aldersey churchwarden for not kneeling at the Litany and prayers, going to other churches to hear sermons, not being a parishioner, refusing to obey the Chancellor's order to buy a velvet cushion for the communion table and to place it on the same, saying that Mr Picknes vicar procured the order, also for the refusing to attend prayers on Wednesdays and Fridays and neglecting his office - libel, responsions.

2. CHESTER (St Oswald) Wm & Ellen Croughton of Newton c Alice & Jacob Hancokc of Newton for calling his wife and daughter pockie whores - libel.

3. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Richard Hartley c Robert Whitby of St Michael, calling him a beggar, drunkard and usurer, also Whitby had gone to the Exchequer Court, fouled the table and called the defendant an old doting fool and he was thrown out of the Court - libel, (fragile).

4. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Helen Kelly spinster c Anna Williams for defamation - libel (repair).

5. CHESTER (St Peter) Margaret Hall c Jane Booth telling her to go indoors and take her bastard with her - libel.

6. CHESTER (St Peter) Margaret Grice c Margaret Gardner of St Marys saying she had three bastards by her father's ostler - libel.

7. GORTON (Manchester) Chapelwardens c Alice Wilding for creating a disturbance in divine service by trying to get into Geo Sydalls seat and then into Thos Picroft who pushed her with his foot so that her hat fell off her head and she fell on the floor - libel.

8. GORTON Office c Geo Stevenson curate for drunkeness, frequenting tippling houses, solemnising clandestine marriages and playing the fool at May games with a feather - depositions.

9. MANCHESTER Thos Smyth c Jane Ellenthorpe - bill of costs.

10. PRESTBURY Margaret Mottram c John Blagg saying she was Wm Sykes' whore - depositions.

11. PRESTBURY Office c Thos Dale and Margery Davenport for adultery - fragment of depositions, interrogations.

12. BOWDEN Sir Richard Vaudrey, impropriator c John Sanders for tithes - sentence, costs.

13. BOWDEN Elizabeth Worsley c Maria Poulden of Trimporley for defamation - libel.

14. WARFORD Margaret Hollinshead c Thos Orrell of Wilmslow for breach of matrimonial contract and offering her £10 not to bring a charge - libel.

15. CONGLETON John Carles c Elizabeth Carles his wife for bearing a child in adultery - depositions.

16. URSWICK Wm Gardner c Nicholas Marshall vicar and schoolmaster for neglect of school, keeping a youth to act as master being only fit to teach petties, not training scholars for the University according to founder's endowment of £10, playing at cards, also dice and losing heavily, being beastly drunk in Urswick, Hakeshead, Dalton and Harburroide and fighting - libel (fragile).

17. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood impropriator c John Crosse of Over Darwen for tithes - libel.

18. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood c Godfrey Lomas, Richard & Roger Hancocke of Over Darwen for tithes - libel.

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20. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood c John & Ralph Welch for tithes in Over Darwen - libel.

21. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood c Elizabeth Caterall for burial dues of 5d at Lowe Chapel - libel, allegations.

22. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood c Robert Waddington and others for tithes in Over Darwen - libel.

23. HALSALL Richard Vaudrey curate of Maghull c Thos Cowper saying he was the greatest whoremaster in England - libel.

24. WHALLEY Nicholas Rishton of Clayton le Moors c John Ormeroid of church saying he had got a child on Ormeroids wife - libel, depositions.

25. BEBINGTON Agnes Berry or Barnes c Robert Knight concerning tithe from newly cleared ground - depositions.

26. ASTBURY Ralph Egerton c John Halton for tithes - sentence.

27. BLACKROD Margaret Holme c Wm & Margaret Nuttall saying she committed adultery in house of Oliver Markland with Lawrence Sallome - libel, depositions.

28. CHIPPING Thos Richmond c Robert Swinglehirst for tithes from improved ground on barren heath of Chipping Moor - full file.

29. BUNBURY John Haughton c Geo. Spurstow for erecting seats or forms in St Katherine's Quire being the south side of Bunbury chapel and placing a lock on the door and also appropriating it to his own use without a licence from the bishop or consent of the minister and chapelwardens to the detriment of many parishioners who have contributed to repairs of the said Quire - libel.

30. WHITEGATE Edward Billing c Anne Billing for adultery in the Gorse Hallante - depositions.

31. WHITEGATE Cartwright c Darlington in an adultery case - depositions.

32. WHITEGATE Office c Ralph Austin - sentence.

33. WARRINGTON Inhibition from York in case between Richard Massie and Alice Hawarden concerning a pew.

34. ALDFORD Alice Haslewell c Elizabeth Booth - sentence.

35. ROCHDALE Jane Taylor c Joseph Whitworth saying that when her husband had gone to the dyehouse, John Briggs committed adultery with her - libel.

36. FRODSHAM Joan Taylor c Joseph Whitworth saying that when her husband had gone to the dyehouse, John Briggs committed adultery with her - libel.

37. WYBUNBURY Thos Trevis impropriator c Richard Blackmore for tithes of grain and pease - libel, responsions, interrogations.

38. WYBUNBURY Maurice Mollington & Thos Steele c Maurice Gwynn vicar for keeping a nurse and man servant who fornicated, promised to have them married by an Englishman which they did not understand being brought up in Wales, also churching two women who had born bastards, preaching that the walls of Jericho were encompassed seven years, preaching that there are dogs in heaven and that the Virgin Mary is the tree of life and baptising without water - libel, suspension.

39. INCE Thos Richardson & Arthur Higgins impropriators c Thos Hale for tithes - libel.

40. SHOTWICK Marie Brown of Capenhurst c Jacob Brown her husband for adultery with Margaret Travis and Katherine Trefford and having three children by them - libel, petition for divorce.

41. LAWTON Wm Lawton rector c John Buck churchwarden for his irregularity in attendance - responsions.

42. LANCASTER Wm Singleton c Elizabeth Singleton alias Shorrock of Blackburn in matrimonial dispute - libel.

43. AUDLEM Roger Horton c Anna Horton alias Brown in a matrimonial dispute - sentence.

44. MIDDLETON Ralph Ashton c Katherine Brerton in a matrimonial dispute - sentence.

45. MIDDLETON Churchwardens c Edward Heywood for non payment of his assessments to the repair of the church - libel.

46. NANTWICH Ellen Streets c John Kylner calling her a lying and runagate queane - libel, interrogations.

47. WIGAN Ellen Marsh c Hugh Adlington & Margaret Orrell in defamation - sentence.

48. WIGAN Wm Banckes of Winstanley c Ellen Gaskell of Holland saying in Holland Chapel during service that Henry Gaskell got Banckes wife with child - libel (repair).

49. GREAT BUDWORTH John Hulton c Richard Calchester for defamation - sentence.

50. GREAT BUDWORTH Alice Rogerson c Geo & John Broome calling her John Walton's whore - libel.

51. MOTTRAM Churchwardens c Henry Mellor for not paying his assessments to the repair of the church - libel.

52. OVER Margaret Kettle c Ralph Nickson for defamation -libel.

53. CHURCH HULME Thos Leadbeater c Hugh Proudlove clerk for loud words and uncivil behaviour in divine service - libel.

54. WINWICK Jacob Kenion c Richard Walton for a disturbance in church concerning a pew - libel.

55. LEIGH Anne Whittle c Ralph Cunliffe in a matrimonial dispute - depositions.

56. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood c Roger Kenyon for tithes - responsions.

57. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood c Richard Whitwham for tithes - responsions.

58. BROUGHTON Thos Santas c Wm Smalley & John Newsham for absenting themselves from divine service and sermons for several years and encouraging Andrew & Ellen Leslie to do the same being suspected popish recusants - libel.

59. PENWORTHAM Anna Bickerstaffe c Robert Bickerstaffe for restituting of conjugal rights - libel.

60. DODLESTON Thos Barlowe c Wm Duckworth for defamation - libel.

61. DAVENHAM Office c Roger Tovey curate for a common alehouse haunter, drunkeness, not observing the Royal Fast day nor reciting prayers for easing of the plague, drunk on Sundays and unable to read divine service and drunk at burials - libel, depositions (fragile).

62. Wm Beckensall c Katherine Hodgkinson for defamation interrogations.

63. Edward Gaudy c Anna Lea concerning breach of marriage contract - libel.

64. Henry & Robert King c Robert Berrie & John Barnes for tithe from new arable land cleared of water, bogs heath, moss and shrubs on land called Poole Heath - interrogations.

65. YORK Inhibition in a cause between Alice Holt and Helen Holte.

66. WINWICK Office c Edward Rothwell for exercising the office of an Apparitor under John Gee in Warrington Deanery without patent under seal and citing persons to appear before John Gee Dean Rural for clandestine marriages, adultery, recusancie and nonconformity - libel.

67. RURAL DEANS Bishop Bridgman's regulations concerning the powers and duties of Rural Deans within the Archdeaconry of Chester.

68. WITTON Katherine Broome & Elizabeth Billing & Alice Rogerson saying they were George Booth's whore - libel.

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