1664

1. WRENBURY Joseph Ottiwell vicar c Alice Edge for attempted adultery. Reference to a school taught by the vicar. Confession - depositions. (See also 1663 No. 55).

2. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Elizabeth Haliwell c Frances Leycester keeping a bawdy house - libel, confession.

3. CHURCH MINSHULL Hannah Dunning c Susanna Wilson "a false queane" - libel, depositions, interrogations, confession, sentence.

4. CLAYTON LE MOORS Henry Byare c Mary Darwin for adultery while her husband was sleeping off his drinking in an alehouse - depositions.

5. WIGAN Anne Bankes c Ann Barker calling her alehouse a bawdy house - depositions.

6. NANTWICH Ann Knutsford c Barbara Croxton for slander of Knutsford on birth of her child and advising her to get rid of it - depositions.

7. PRESTWICH Edward Kenion vicar c Robert Leaver for beating the vicar with a cudgell - interrogations, libel, responsions. (See also 1663 No. 56).

8. STOCKPORT Office c Robert Winterbottom for adultery over four years with Ellen Palden - libel.

9. WHALLEY Office c Margaret Cunliffe for incest with Richard Deane - libel.

10. PRESTBURY William and Elizabeth Jackson c Dorothy Lees - sentence. (See also 1663 No. 80).

11. MANCHESTER Edward Chantrell c William Halshall - sentence. (See also 1663 No. 68).

12. BEBINGTON Mary Langford c Anna Langford (belongs to 1669).

13A. MANCHESTER (Broughton) William and Jane Bowers c Thomas Barnes - sentence of absolution. (See 1663 No. 47).

13. WALLASEY William and Anna Welsh c William Rymner for adultery - libel.

14. CHESTER Ralph Almond c John Foster. Foster a journeyman employed by Almond. References to custom of employment in Chester - confession. (See also 1663 No. 95).

15. PRESCOT Sentence in matrimonial dispute between Margaret Lawrenson and John Carr.

16. CHURCH MINSHULL Office c Ann Jolly for incest with John Pownall her nephew; she had a child by him - libel, articles.

17. RUNCORN Mary Smith c Thomas Peacock for adultery - affidavit.

18. THORNTON LE MOORS Samuel and Joan Cooke c John Holland for slander - sentence.

19. WALTON (Liverpool) John Francis c Alice Chatterton accusing him of adultery with Elizabeth Jackson and others - libel.

20. CLITHEROE Office c John Webster for leaving his wife to commit adultery - libel.

21. CHESTER (St Mary on the Hill) Ellen Wilbraham c Hugh Hampson for slander (distance measured by bow shot) - libel, depositions.

22. ASTBURY John and Ann Eaton c Matthew Morse calling Ann a whore - libel, interrogations, depositions.

23. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Gamaliel Briscoe c Elizabeth Ridley and Maria Moore calling him a hangman like his father - libel, depositions, bill of costs.

24. CHESTER Peter Leigh c William Haliwell. Called Leigh a knave for making brass farthings in Dublin and using them in Chester. Only freemen, shopkeepers and tradesmen allowed to use brass farthings - libel, depositions, three letters from Dublin, sentence and appeal to York.

25. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Elizabeth Sutton c Maria Williams for saying Sutton was a rotten queane and her son a lousy bastard - libel, depositions, bill of costs, sentence.

26. MOBBERLEY John Blackburn c Thomas Hough calling him a cuckold and wife beater - depositions, interrogations, confession.

27. Francis Jackson c Alice Leonard for slander - confession.

28. EASTHAM Adriana Leigh c Richard Jones calling her an Irish bastard who spoke little English - libel, depositions.

29. LEYLAND Maria Darwin c William and Margaret Pincocke for adultery with Capt. Byard on a bed in the loft - libel, depositions.

30. PRESCOT (Knowsley) Elizabeth Widdons c Catherine Parks of Chester calling her queane and that she sold spirits to the parliament army - libel, confession.

31. MACCLESFIELD Ann Oldham c Anna Orme for adultery saying that she bated Francis "not a bristle breed" - depositions, interrogations.

32. WRENBURY Alice Edge c Joseph Ottiwell for slander - sentence, bill of costs.

33. WARRINGTON Anna Barney c Margaret Barrowe for adultery - libel.

34. BOLTON Sentence of excommunication against William Wales for convening and holding conventicles and absent from church.

35. CHESTER (St Martin) Jane Williams c Robert Williams for slander - sentence.

36. MACCLESFIELD Richard Mottershed c John Stubbs concerning a burial vault in church - sentence, bill of costs.

37. ROSTHERNE John Wheeler impropriator of tithe and Ralph Princeton collector c Jeffrey Aldcroft for tithe hay, corn, flax, pigs - libel, citations.

38. PRESTWICH Edward Kenion c Robert Leaver for tithes. Order from Duchy Court - depositions, responsions, interrogations (see also no.7 1664).

39. CHESTER Nicholas Stevenson, vicar of St Mary on Hill c John Anderson for tithe on 20 acres pasture - libel, attestations, depositions.

40. DODLESTON Charles Duckworth c William Crompton for tithe cattle at Bromley - libel, interrogations, depositions, articles, for defence, bill of costs, sentence.

41. MIDDLEWICH Thomas Holford c John Wilson for tithes from Peartree field and Great Brook flat - libel, responsions, interrogations.

42. WALTON John Heywood c Francis Green for tithe - sentence, absolution.

43. CONGLETON John Henshall c Margaret Henshall in quarrel over her dowry and disobedient to her husband - depositions, bill of costs, promise to obey.

44. CHESTER (St John Baptist) John Sparke c John Chaloner for tithe - sentence.

45. BOWDEN Thomas Weston c Edward Tipping for wool tithe -libel.

46. FRODSHAM John Davie c Thomas Cheshire for tithe herbage -libel.

47. MOBBERLEY John Blackburn c Thomas Hough for slander - libel (see also no.26).

48. BACKFORD William Anderson c Singleton refusing to pay his share to augment stipend of curate being £1 per annum - libel.

49. CHESTER (St Bridget) Office c William Harvey for adultery with Maria Edwards - libel.

50. BOLTON Robert Harper c Richard Goodwin, previous incumbent in 1662 for dilapidations, depositions, responsions, interrogations.

51. CROSTON James Urmston c Hester Griffin concerning breach of promise - responsions.

52. WEAVERHAM John Holland c Joseph Garrard for tithe cows, calves, hay for 1659, 1661 - confession of Gerrard.

53. CHESTER Disputed marriage of Margaret Naylor to John Lawrenson in St Mary, Fish St., London in 1639 by John Carr - depositions before Official Prncipal of London concerning marriage, very detailed accounts giving examples of life in London marriage certificate, citation. (See also 1663 no.15).

54. WALTON Office c Thomas Crompton for non subscription 1662, non attendance at church and holding conventicles for 36 persons and allowing John Alkar to preach - libel (repair, interrogations).

55. WEAVERHAM William Pownall c Richard Venables for brawling in church over a pew - libel for both parties.

56. CHRISTLETON Churchwardens c John Sellars for non payment of his assessments - libel, responsions.

57. WISTASTON Richard Walthall c Anna Knutsford for slander - sentence, bill of costs, confession, citation.

58. DODLESTON Sir Charles Duckworth c William Crompton for tithe of heifers pastured in Lower Bromley and Kasorton - interrogations, responsions, depositions, sentence. (See also 1664 no.40).

59. BARTHOMLEY Richard Birch c Elizabeth Butterton et alia concerning rights to a pew. Reference to eviction of vicar Mr Sawdrey during Civil War - libel, depositions, interrogations, responsions.

60. KIRKHAM Bishop of Chester c Thomas Clifton and William Walker for rent of £13.6.8d due from rectory lands - libel, allegations.

61. CHESTER (St Mary) Richard Booth c Elizabeth Gray calling him rogue - interrogations, bill of costs.

62. SHOTWICK Churchwardens c John Sefton refusing to pay two shillings towards repair of church, due from a "coate" built on Capenhurst waste. Sefton formerly a soldier in Ireland who had lost his estate fighting for Charles I in Ireland - libel, depositions, responsions.

63. MACCLESFIELD Sara Turton c Ellen Brundret for slander - libel, interrogations, depositions, articles of exception.

64. ECCLES William Alston parish clerk c Edward Cheetham for refusing to pay his salary. Cheetham says he redeemed the charge - responsions, citations. (See also 1663 no.15).

65. DAVENHAM Thomas Okes c Richard Wrench for disputing a pew - libel, responsions.

66. MACCLESFIELD Robert Sidebottom c William Brookshaw for tithe cows - attestations, depositions.

67. CHESTER (St Oswald) Churchwardens c William Nichoe for non payment of assessments to provide a surplice, font, King's Arms books - depositions, allegations. (See also 1710-1/11).

68. NANTWICH Anna Knutsford c Anna Blagge for slander over her rent - libel, citations, depositions, appeal, prohibition.

69. LEIGH Laurence Rawthorne guardian of Richard Atherton of Atherton Hall c Sir Henry Slater et alia for encroaching into Atherton chapel. Slater had quartered his soldiers there during the Civil War. Slater now claiming rights as lord of manor in Leigh to sit in the chapel. Depositions give information concerning the Athertons and the origin of their armorial bearings - libel, depositions.

70. WALTON Office c William Burgess for preaching and teaching at conventicles where 36 persons were present - libel.

71. WALTON Office c Robert Hitchen for three years kept a conventicle in the house of Thomas Crompton - libel. (See also no.54).

72. WALTON Office c Nathan Whitfield for holding conventicles in the house of Thomas Crompton - libel. (See also no.54).

73. MANCHESTER Petition for a licence to sell meat in Lent.

74. MALBON Petition for a licence to sell meat in Lent.

75. ROSTHERNE Office c Hugh Mainwaring for working on his dunghill, hedging and fencing and at his mill on Sundays - libel.

76. WITTON George Nelson notary public c John Maddocks for non payment of fees - libel.

77. CRUMPSALL James Hardman and Richard Lomax c executors of Maria Bowler deceased, executors' oath; citation; responsions, prohibition to York.

78. BANGOR Henry Bridgeman, rector c John Meire for tithe of animals on pasture - sentence.

79. WARRINGTON Office c Peter Worrell and Jane Radcliffe for fornicating in wheatcroft field on Christmas day morning - depositions, repair.

80. CHESTER (St Oswald) Pew dispute between John Hurleston and William Brock of St Mary's - responsions, sentence.

81. STOCKPORT Alexander Robinson c William Hulme of Broadstone concerning a pew in Stockport church - sentence.

82. CHESTER Robert Ridge vinter c Robert Livesey for slander -libel.

83. Bills of costs which need identification at a later stage.

84. FRODSHAM Certificate of payment of cash in lieu of tithe hay by Katherine Witter.

85. CHESTER Prohibition in case of Brown c Browne.

86. HOLFORD Disputed will of Robert, Lord Cholmondeley. Detailed inventory of household goods, contents of nursery, clothing of adults and children, jewellery, husbandry gear and crops - libel, citation, depositions, interrogations, responsions, inhibition. Papers are filed in order of court process and should be retained in this order.

87. Responsions in a disputed legacy between Mary Scarisbricke and Catherine Scarisbricke.

88. WARRINGTON Thomas Patten c Thomas Blackburne concerning a pew in right of Orford Hall - responsions.

89. Responsions of Mary Sutton in estate of Thomas Eaton - deceased.

90. Edward Warren c Francis Clayton for payment of oblation.

91. BRERETON Prohibition into Duchy Court of case between John Holland vicar and Richard Harefinch.

92. CHESTER Prohibition into Duchy Court of disputed will of Ann Ford - deceased.

93. CHESTER (St Mary on Hill) Prohibition into Duchy Court of case between Stephenson incumbent and John Anderson.

94. CONGLETON Prohibition into Duchy Court of disputed will of Mary Ford - deceased.

95. WYBUNBURY Prohibition into Duchy Court of case between Mainwaring and Smith.

96. Responsions of Robert Drinkwater.