1594

1594

1. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Edward Haydock c Henry Annyon & William King concerning title to title lands - sentence, costs.

2. CHESTER (St Mary) Margaret Bell c Roger Bell in a matrimonial dispute concerning contract - libel.

3. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Alexander Coats impropriator c Alderman David Dymock for tithes - libel, depositions.

4. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Lynet c John Fazaker for calling him a bawd and curtal whore - libel.

5. CHESTER (St Oswald) Margaret Johnson c Margaret Williamson for slander confession, sentence.

6. ASTBURY Ellen Fynney c William Drakeford for bastardy - libel.

7. HANMER John Hanmer, Roger Brereton, Anthony Hanmer c Thomas Bedowe concerning disputed election of churchwardens - libel, depositions.

8. HANMER John Evans alias Moretob c Margaret Sherwood in a matrimonial dispute - libel.

9. TAXALL Dorothy Tatton widow of Northenden impropriator c Edmund Fawdrell of Taxall for tithes - libel.

10. TARVIN Margaret Seller c Gwen Seller wife of John accusing her of adultery and bastardy with a large company of men both married and single - libel.

11. TARVIN Judith Freer c Ralph Freer in a matrimonial dispute - libel.

12. BURY Peter Shawe B.Th. rector c John Ramsbotham for tithe lambs, sheep and wool - libel.

13. BURY Peter Shawe B.Th. rector c Anthony Key of Walmersley for tithe sheep and lambs - libel.

14. MOTTRAM Maria Egerton widow impropriator c Edward Mottershed for tithe horses and sheep, libel, responsions, depositions, sentence.

15. WARRINGTON Laura Powell c Ellen wife of John Burrell calling her whore who had a child by a priest a kinsman of hers - libel.

16. WARRINGTON Fulk Waters c George Wood for calling him cuckold - libel.

17. WIGAN Edward Fleetwood M.A. rector c Francis Sherington for tithes - libel.

18. WYBUNBURY Matthew Wood vicar c John Fletcher for tithes - libel.

19. RICHMOND (YORK) Anthony Johnson rector c John Morehouse - responsions that Morehouse has made satisfaction with H.M. Collector of Tenths. [For remainder of cause see Leeds District Archives Richmond Cause Papers RD/AC].

20. SANDBACH George Downham rector c William Liversedge for tithe hay, barley and wheat - responsions.

21. CARTMEL Margaret Edowe c Jane Pilling for bastardy and adultery - libel, depositions.

22. BOWDEN John Vaudrey impropriator c Ralph Norcrosse for tithes - libel (fragile).

23. BUDWORTH Simon Wynington c Jane Lawton in a dispute concerning a contract to marry and filiation - responsions.

24. OVER PEOVER Margaret Cragge c Richard Evans.

25. RUNCORN Thomas Thelwall of Lymm c Henry Leftwich - sentence.

26. WARRINGTON Alice Woodfall c Jane Bate accusing her of adultery - libel, responsions.

27. HOLT John Catherall c John Salesbury for defamation - sentence.

28. WITTON Richard Masterton c Anna Masterton for cursing him - libel, depositions.

29. WITTON Roger Eikon c John Hanmer in a cause involving the parishioners.

30. MALPAS Richard Eastwick c Thomas Yardley in a pew dispute - sentence.

31. BURY Ann Key c Isabella Nabbe saying she committed adultery with William Nabbe, father and Thomas Nabbe son - depositions.

32. WITTON Jacob Browne c Robert Bromfield and Margery Robinson in a pew dispute - sentence.

33. WYBUNBURY Maria Maddocke c Joanna Mollington for defamation - depositions.

34. Margaret Ascrofte c Anna Saye calling her whore - fragment.

35. LAWTON Margaret Hulste c William Rowley for defamation - libel (fragile).

36. HESWALL Margery Burrowes c Margery Howe saying she was Thomas Buckley's whore - libel, interrogations.

37. WINWICK Robert Fletcher c Elizabeth Hulme for defamation - articles (fragile).

38. MACCLESFIELD Jane Halliwell alias Barbon c John Stevenson for calling her whore - libel.

39. BUDWORTH Jane Lawton c Simon Wynington for bastardy - responsions.

40. STANDISH Isabella Marden widow c John Baron saying she was a whore - libel.

41. ASHTON Miles Andrew of Leese c Thomas Howard saying he would prove her adultery - libel, depositions.

42. MIDDLETON High Commission order to churchwardens to compel Thomas Battersbie to pay his lay towards the repair of the church - responsions.

43. Arthur Damport c Anna Bratchgirdle concerning her fornication and adultery. Objections to the women chosen as her compurgators.

44. ALDFORD Katherine Massey c Elena Harison widow saying she was a cuckoldy knave - libel.

45. CHESTER (St Oswald) Edmund Dutton impropriator c Jacob Kelye of St Martins for tithes - libel.

46. Roger Adlington c Alice Atherton in a matrimonial contract - sentence (torn).

47. WARRINGTON Fragment of depositions in a tithe cause.

48. ALDFORD Thomas Johnson in a tithe dispute - libel, faded.

49. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Anna Percyvall alias Bannester c Jacob Bannester in a matrimonial dispute - articles.

50. BACKFORD Bond and Obligation between Thomas Barloe of Mollington and Christopher Barlowe.

51. Joacob Fallowes c William Steele - citation to York.

52. BUNBURY Jane Feather c Anne Stanley - fragment of depositions.

53. ARCHDEACONRY OF RICHMOND 1594: 19 May Details of valuation of tithes in the following parishes in 1557. Gosforth; Hawkswell; Ayusgarthe, East Witton, Fletham, Pickhall; Downham; Windermere; Richmond; Easby; Stanwick St John; Morton; Brigham; Goldsborough; Millom; Farnham; East Cowton; Cundall; Ribchester; Chipping.

54. Four unidentified cause fragments.

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