1633

1. DENTON Inventory of the goods and chattels of John Smethurst, husbandman.

2. MELSONBY (Court of Audience) Disputed presentation by the University of Cambridge of Thomas Wilson M.A. to the living.

3. BRINDLE Churchwardens c James Gerrard for a loiterer and irregular attender at Church. Stated that Gerrard came to the Correction Court at Chorley and threatened judge with a bow - libel.

4. BRINDLE William Bispham rector c William Wilkinson for tithe crops - libel.

5. PRESTWICH Monition from Wm Easdall to transmit case between Wm Marshall MA, clerk, and Wm Gardner to York.

6. CLITHEROE Agnes Sheard alias Dugdale c Richard Dugdale in a case of divorce or separation - libel, depositions.

7. BLACKROD Jane Hurst c George Browne for saying she was naughty in a wood with Edward Dughtie - libel.

8. BURY Bill of Costs in case of Hammond c Vaden. 1632 - No.12.

9. BOLTON Richard Bradley c Ellen Pemberton & Jane Rothwell saying he committed adultery - libel.

10. ST MICHAEL ON WYRE Elizabeth Blackburne c Jane Wilson saying she was familiar with Henry Westby - libel.

11. PADIHAM Churchwardens c Richard Sagar for non payment of leys & cessments which he had collected, detaining 17/2 from the 43/3 he had collected. Sagar's accounts for 1629 - libel.

12. URSWICK Sentence in tithe appeal to York of Wm Gardner and Richard Marshall.

13. FARNWORTH Churchwardens c Wm Barne & Edward Moore for assessment towards repair of organs and bells. Dispute as to whether lands assessed are in Farnworth or Prescot - libels.

14. ROCHDALE (Whitworth) Sir John Byron c Robert Sheppard and others for tithe corn - libels.

15. ROCHDALE Office c Jane Lawton for adultery with John Haworth and Arthur Lort - libel, responsions.

16. ECCLES Elihu Hey of Munckshall c Roger Field & Wm Travis for tithe oats in Swinton - libel, responsions (fragile).

17. PRESCOT John Alden vicar c Humphrey Tarelton for tithe flax, hemp from 1621-32 - libel, responsions.

18. PRESCOT Elizabeth Hey c Thomas Hey for beating her with a cudgell turning her out all night and proclaiming her at the Town Cross - libel.

19. SEFTON Thomas Leigh rector c Edward Williamson and others for tithe sheep, lambs, wool - libel.

20. CODDINGTON Thomas Rycroft, rector, c Hugh Higginson and others for tithe - libel, responsions (fragile).

21. WINWICK Richard Molyneux impropriator c Robert Swynehead for tithe barley - libel.

22. DARESBURY Thomas & Mary Porter c Nicholas & Margaret Byrom concerning their right to a seat in church - libel, responsions (fragile).

23. WYBUNBURY Bridget Wood c Susanna Wright of Audlem for slander - libel.

24. WEST KIRBY Hugh Boardman clerk, Thomas Whittle & John Rathbone sequestrators c Wm Rathbone for tithes and dues - libel.

25. WARRINGTON Grace Holland c Margaret Penkethman for calling her "an arrant whore" - libel.

26. WARRINGTON Jane Mather c Elena Darron for living with a man not her husband and having a child (interesting detail of custom) - libel.

27. BRERETON Ann Stathorne spinster c Elena Fox saying she had a bastard child - libel.

28. BRERETON John Swaine c Wm Pierrpoint (testament case(?)) - responsions.

29. RUNCORN Hugh Barrow clerk c John Hall and others for tithe wool, lambs - libel.

30. STOKE Bill of Costs in case of Wm Maddocks c Jane Orrett.

31. SHOTWICK John & Margaret Carter c Lawrence Swettenham calling him "rogue and rascall and his wife a scurvie queane" - libel, depositions, interrogations (fragile).

32. CHESTER (St Oswald) Richard Wilson vicar c Wm Dove for tithe of lands in Blacon manor - responsions.

33. CHESTER (St Oswald) Thomas Deane c Richard Leicester for tithes of lands in Blacon - libel.

34. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Rector (name torn off) c executors of Sir Wm. Norris for tithe wool, lambs - depositions.

35. DAVENHAM Thomas Mallory dean of Chester and rector of Davenham c John Kinsy for tithes from Blacfield, Crossfield, Sherrifs Field, Marshfield, Newfield, Bradfield - libel.

36. WAVERTON Peter Dutton c John Barker for brawling in church concerning a seat - depositions, sentence.

37. WAVERTON Richard Dutton (St Oswald) c Margaret Mowson saying that Alderman Dutton was father of her child. Dispute with the apparitor concerning delivery of the citation - libel, responsions.

38. WAVERTON Peter Dutton of Halton c Anna Humston for adultery - penance commuted for £20.

39. FRODSHAM Churchwardens c Jane Turner refusing to pay her assessments - libel.

40. FRODSHAM Churchwardens c John Dutton for refusing to pay his assessments - libel.

41. FRODSHAM Robert Ellis c Ellena Ellis alias Slater in matrimonial dispute - sentence.

42. LYME Office c John Crosse alleging he had obtained a certificate of dismissal from the court on his fornication with Jane Mascrift - libel.

43. BACKFORD Wm Denson vicar c Richard Davies for tithe from pasture of animals - libel.

44. BACKFORD Churchwardens c Thomas Pearson for refusing to pay his assessments to repair of church - libel.

45. ROSTHERN Office c John & James Ingham for coursing hares with greyhounds on Sundays in service time - libel, depositions giving full details of the sport.

46. CODDINGTON Thomas Rycroft c Hugh Higginson and others for tithe corn and hay - libel.

47. BOWDEN Richard Vaudrey c George Smith for tithe calves, sheep, wool - libel, responsions, interrogations.

48. GRAPPENHALL Robert Massie of Warrington c Sam Eaton, rector saying "the curse of God light on thee and his wares", spoken in Massies shop - libel.

49. MALPAS Thomas Tomkins c Alice Boswell alias Brindley his sister in law, saying he was father to her two children - libel.

50. WREXHAM Office c Wm Jones for irregular marriage between Edward Conway and Dorothy Lloyd - fragment of libel.

51. BARROW Eleanor Booth c Thomas Hill saying they had committed adultery - libel.

52. CHEADLE Office c Thomas Marsland churchwarden for failing to provide a prayer book, neglecting to collect assessment from Handford and provide bread and wine for communion - libel.

53. MACCLESFIELD Ellen Fallows c Anna Bateman for slander - libel.

54. MACCLESFIELD Anna Hobbes for adultery with James Heys - libel, interrogations.

55. MANCHESTER George & Elizabeth Dawson c Ellen Chadwick for slander saying Ellen was caught in a barn with Wm Nicolson - libel.

56. MANCHESTER Office c Sam Wilson apparitor for supressing names of parties presented and compounding penances - libel, responsions.

57. CONGLETON Ellen Bowes c John Bowers for slander - libel.

58. ASTBURY Wm Oakes c Christopher Byron concerning disputed pew on north side of church in respect of a house in Sandford - libel, depositions, responsions.

59. ASTBURY Sentence in disputed pew between John Swaine and William Pierrpoint (1632 - No.37).

60. WIGAN Richard & Margaret Bradley c Ellen Pemberton saying Margaret should be "panned and they would kill her with a knife" - libel, responsions, exception, citation, interrogation, depositions, sentence, costs.

61. CHESTER (St Bridget) Elizabeth Case c Robert Evans for defamation - responsions, libel (1632 No.46).

62. CHESTER (St John) Richard Wayne c Margaret Greene for slander - libel, interrogations.

63. CHESTER (St Peter) Katherine Carter c Margaret Powell accusing her of bastardy - libel, interrogations, depositions (fragile), sentence. This is worth detailed study.

64. CHESTER (St Oswald) Alderman Thomas Deane c Richard Dutton for tithe barley in Harpers Hey - libel, responsions.

65. Edmund Jodrell c John Shalcrosse concerning a pew - sentence and summary of case.

66. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Richard Wilson c Wm Dove for tithes - depositions (fragile). (1632 No.39).

67. MIDDLEWICH Bill of costs in case of Mary Mosse c Ellen Worrall.

68. DAVENHAM Churchwardens c Thomas Cropton for non payment of his assessments - libel.

69. ASHTON UNDER LYNE Churchwardens c John Sounderforth of Audenshaw for non payment of assessments - libel, details of assessment, libel.

70. ASHTON UNDER LYNE Churchwardens c James Bold & John Garside for non payment of assessments - libel.

71. ASHTON UNDER LYNE Alice Hardy c Ann Gartside saying she committed adultery with her husband - libel.

72. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Anna Morgan c Alice Ruckhorne for slander - libel.

73. Bill of Costs in case of Peckett c booth - faded sentence for Wm Wilson.

74. CHESTER Certificate in case between Richard Lloyd and Ellis.

75. CHESTER (St Oswald) William Pase c Richard Croughton for tithes.