1616

1616

1. CHESTER (St Peter) Alderman Edward Dutton c Churchwardens concerning a seat in church in right of his messuage 36 yds x 7 yds adjoining the church and Fulke Dutton had built a glazed window at the east end of the north aisle and had seats appropriated to him in right of his messauge - full file.

2. CHESTER (St Bridget) Office c Wm Nuttall and Alice Downe alias Nuttall alias Pennycocke for adultery - libel.

3. CHESTER Responsions of Jacob Hughs c Katherine Senior for bearing a child and handing it to John Butler in Chester. To produce a certificate that the child lives or is dead.

4. CHESTER (St Mary) Richard Brereton impropriator c Thos Fisher of Holy Trinity for tithe on hay and 100 ewes pasturing on Broad Hey - libel.

5. CHESTER (St Bridget) Christine Singleton c Jane Johnson & Katherine Wall for defamation - depositions, sentence.

6. CHESTER Office c Richard Davies and Anne Lloyd for adultery and bastardy - depositions.

7. CHESTER (St Peter) Peter Leigh c Katherine Leigh for adultery with Richard Wawarden - depositions.

8. HOLT John Rogerson c Wm Davie & Margaret Maddock - (fragile).

9. HOLT John Rogerson c Wm Davie & Margaret Maddock - (fragile).

10. CHESTER (St Oswald) John Livesley c Elizabeth Basford for defamation depositions, decree from York.

11. CHESTER (St Peter) Katherine Wall c Christine Singleton for defamation - depositions.

12. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Alderman Robert Ince c David & Elizabeth Rogers saying he was an ass, fool, base fellow and "God look upon this myne enemie and power they plague or vengeance on him" - libel, interrogations. 1616

13. CHESTER (St Peter) Elizabeth Healin c Thos Williams for breach of marriage contract - interrogations.

14. ROSTHERNE Jane Woreton alias Mosse c Thos Mosse for nullity of marriage on grounds that Jane is a minor - libel, responsions, depositions.

15. ROSTHERNE Isabella Leigh c Emma Dicconson saying Isabella had a bastard child - libel, depositions.

16. BARROW Churchwardens accounts with reference to rushes, repairing surplice, church clock, pulling down and rebuilding church.

17. SHOTWICK Office c Hugh Burrowes curate that in 1615 and 1616 he omitted the prayers appointed at morning and evening prayer, using the Litany contrary to form ordered in Book of Common Prayer, reading no service in passion week and only on the feast of the Annunciation which was in that week, on Good Friday did not read according to form set, refusing to administer Communion to parishioners of Shotwick on Maunday Thursday, administering Communion to non parishioners sitting not kneeling, refusing to bury a corpse, not reading burial office as set, refusing Communion to sick and impotent aged persons, saying it was unlawful to stand at reading the gospel, bow at the name of Jesus and Those who did so did bow the kneed to the devil - libel, responsions, depositions.

18. WEAVERHAM Richard Burrows c Margaret burrows for her adultery with Robert Millington - depositions.

19. GOOSTREY Office c John Bowen curate saying that Henry Mainwaring was neither a just nor honest man and as a magistrate encouraged wrong doers and trod Gods ministers under foot and that Richard Parker should have chains about his legs and a rope round his neck - libel, responsions, depositions.

20. MANCHESTER Henry Lathom impropriator c Wm Hulme of Stretford for tithe oats - libel, responsions.

21. GREAT BUDWORTH Matrimonial cause between Jacob Milner and Ann Pickering alias Milner - sentence.

22. GREAT BUDWORTH Ellen French c Ellen Worrall for defamation - sentence.

23. GREAT BUDWORTH Joan Eaton c Thos. Worrall for defamation - libel.

24. GREAT BUDWORTH Matilda Caldwell c Thos Shawe saying she committed adultery - depositions.

25. NANTWICH Elizabeth Bickerton c Gabriel Houghton saying she was drunk every day when she could get it - libel, depositions.

26. NANTWICH Wm Dale c Jane Goodiar in a matrimonial dispute - depositions.

27. WINWICK Thos Sergeant c Wm Breerton concerning his title to a burial place on the south side between the chapel of Sir Peter Leigh and that of Mr Kilshall -libel, depositions.

28. WINWICK Office c Jacob Martinfae curate for solemnising clandestine marriages - libel, depositions.

29. WINWICK Edward Wilkinson c Anna Becket for defamation -libel, responsions.

30. WINWICK Bridget Wood c Isabella Sackerston saying she would cause Bridget to die - interrogations, depositions.

31. WINWICK Thos Bold MA rector c John Ryder concerning the unlawful institution to the Benefice and Bold says he was presented by the Earl of Worcester - depositions.

32. PRESTBURY Ralph Smallwood c Elizabeth Haslehurst saying that he got her with child on Tuesday night before Shrovetide - libel, depositions.

33. PRESTBURY Elizabeth Keddyl c John Hollinsfield for defamation - libel

34. PRESTBURY Thos Oldfield c Ellen Oldfield alias Hooley in a matrimonial cause - libel, responsions, depositions.

35. RUNCORNE Robert Harvie c John & Jane Cheshire alias Drinkwater concerning their marriage contract - full file.

36. RUNCORNE Margaret Brooke c Maria Haughton saying she betwitched a churn of milk at John Pickarcer at Walford - libel.

37. WISTASTON John Ridley c Richard smith for defamation - libel, responsions.

38. LOWER PEOVER Margaret Holbrooke c Roger Holbrook - sentence.

39. LOWER PEOVER Margery Slathome c Matthew Jackson saying she was a carted whore - libel.

40. HUYTON Edward Tarbock rector c Richard Kenwrick concerning his title to the rectory. Tarbock says it was formerly part of the possessions of Burscough Priory and in 43 Elizabeth it was purchased under patent by Thos Casson of Middle Temple and Richard Burrell grocer of London for a competent sum of money - responsions.

41. HUYTON Elizabeth Thomas daughter c Wm Quicke concerning a breach of marriage contract - libel.

42. PRESTON Richard Blundell c Ann Addison for defamation, responsions, depositions.

43. WIGAN Ralph Gerrard c Maria Pilkington concerning title to a burial place in church in right of Bannister Hall in the market place and also a seat - libel, interrogations, responsions, depositions.

44. FRODSHAM Churchwardens c Ralph Birkenhead concerning his title to a seat - libel.

45. MOTTRAM John Braddill impropriator c Alexander Diddesburie & Wm Broadhead for tithe oats - libel.

46. MOTTRAM John Braddill impropriator c Jacob Marshall, Reg Slater for tithes - libel.

47. TARVIN John Hockenhull c Richard & Margaret Wright & Robert Read saying he had been a cuckold - libel.

48. TARVIN Office c John & Ralph Wright & John Huxley for following their secular work on Sundays and Festivals - libel, responsions.

49. HANLEY Geo Calverley c Gregory Turner concerning title to a seat on the north side of the church in right of Golborne Hall - libel, responsions.

50. HOLT Wm Davies' responsions on behalf of John Rogerson's claim to part of a pew erected sixty years before.

51. FARNDON Thos Barnston c Dorothy Deckar of Holt saying he got her with-child - libel.

52. MILLOM John Cowell c Isabella Besbrowne concerning a marriage contract which Isabella denies - sentence, declaration - unfit to issue.

53. CHILDWALL Gilbert Ireland c John Ireland for tithes from the hamlet of Halewood - libel, depositions.

54. WALTON Wm Wiswall c Margaret Ruston concerning their marriage in Childwall Church - depositions.

55. MIDDLEWICH Wm Becket jnr c Elizabeth Becket for saying his wife Ellen was a whipt, carted and stockt whore - libel.

56. AUGHTON Gabriel Hesketh c Nicholas Bannister rector (who replaced Samuel Homkinson convicted of simony) concerning his title to tithes - interrogations.

57. BEBINGTON Wm Langford c Elizabeth Langford for adultery with Thos Foxe - libel.

58. STOCKPORT Richard Fogge exor of Roger Kenyon late rector c Edmund Fodcell of Taxall for arrears of tithes - libel.

59. ACTON Thos Bostocke vicar c Thos Bebbington for tithe calves and lambs - interrogations, responsions.

60. PRESTWICH Thos Oldfield c Katherine & Laurence Hooley concerning a contract of marriage with Ellen Hooley and that Laurence Hooley should pay Thos Oldfield £100 bring £33 by St Barnabas day and the balance when Thomas attained 21 years of age - libel.

61. HEYWOOD Francis Holt c Sam Milnes, John Berrie, John Stott and Edmund Ashworth concerning title to a stall or seat in the chapel - libel, depositions, sentence.

62. DARESBURY Richard Sworton c Elizabeth Rawlinson saying that he committed adultery - libel.

63. ALDERLEY Margery Simpson c Margaret Swan, Maria Swan & Margaret Burges saying her daughter was by Randle Grastie - libel, repair.

64. BLACKBURN Thos Gellibrand & others c Rowland Houghton concerning his title to tithes - libel.

65. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood impropriator c Geo Whalley, Wm Berie, Thurston Hadocke for tithe on 500 wainloads of hay - libel, responsions.

66. MOBBERLEY Robert Eaton MA rector c Wm Burges for tithe oats from newly cleared ground consisting of 68 ryders and 10 sheaves to a ryder - libel, responsions.

67. THORNTON Office c Richard Whitbie for adultery with Alice Orme wife of Richard Orme - libel, responsions.

68. MALPAS Thos Dawson c Margaret Tomlin concerning her title to a seat in right of a messuage in Bradley - libel.

69. ROCHDALE John Shepheard c Jane Holt saying he was a common drunkard - libel.

70. WAVERTON Elizabeth Williams c Wm Rosangreave demanding money in church and theatening to draw his dagger - responsions.

71. WITTON Geo. Hanson c Anne Drackeford in a matrimonial dispute - libel.

72. WIGAN Ralph Gerrard of Newhall c Maria Pilkington concerning her title to a seat in church - libel. (See no. 43).

73. DAVENHAM Thos Mallorie STP Dean of chester and rector of Davenham c Eleanor & Peter Mynshall exors of Thos Mynshall for arrears of tithes - libel.

74. WEAVERHAM Interrogations concerning the title of Margaret Gorst to a seat on south side of middle alley after making seats uniform on order of the Bishop, being previously in disorder - repair.

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