1615

1615

1. CHESTER Christiana Singleton c Jane Johnson & Katherine Warl accusing her of adultery - interrogations, depositions.

2. CHESTER (St John Baptist) John & Anne Parke impropriators c John Golborne for tithe on a horse mill - responsions, costs.

3. CHESTER (St Bridgett) Margaret Bryce c Dorothy Harrison for defamation - depositions.

4. CHESTER (St Peter) Costs in a suit between Henry & Maria Crosby and Richard and Jane Ellam.

5. CHESTER (St Mary) John Taylor c Hugh Wickstead for defamation depositions.

6. CHESTER Roger King c Moses Powell saying he got his maid with child - libel.

7. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Wm Case vicar of St Mary c Morgan Warner saying he was a naughty and brazen faced fellow -libel.

8. CHESTER (St Oswald) Susanna Cotton c Roger & Katherine Syner - sentence.

9. CHESTER (St Oswald) Katherine Annion c Henry Hockenhull - sentence.

10. TILSTON Margaret Brown c Elizabeth Harvie for pushing her into the river and pulling her hair - libel, interrogations, depositions.

11. RUNCORN Robert Harvie c Jane Drinkwater alias Cheshire concerns a marriage contract - full file.

12. PRESCOT Fragment of a tithe cause involving the Earl of Denby.

13. BUNBURY Anna Rowbothame c Ralph Kerrey accusing her of adultery - libel.

14. PENWORTHAM Roger Dodsworth c John Mosse calling him a villain, base rogue and a slave - libel.

15. TATTENHALL Dorothy Wright c Ellen Huxley saying she had seen her and a man together and the man was deep into the woman - depositions, sentence.

16. MANCHESTER Margaret Ashton c Isabella Barnes for defamation - sentence, costs.

17. MANCHESTER Adam Byrom of Salford c Alice Bolton saying Adam was a bastard - libel.

18. THURSTASTON Christopher Laugsa c George Haithornethwaite calling him a base rascally fellow - libel.

19. GREAT BUDWORTH Ellen French c Ellen Worrall saying she had two bastards - libel, depositions.

20. GREAT BUDWORTH Ralph Purston c Anna Hunt in a matrimonial dispute - libel.

21. GREAT BUDWORTH Richard Eaton vicar c Richard Leicester for tithe of flax and cAnnabis - libel.

22. ECCLES Thomas Worrall c Laurence Cowper - costs.

23. WARRINGTON Alice Highfield c Henry Woodruff for assaulting her with intent to commit adultery - libel.

24. WIGAN Anne Barrow c Ellen Forth & Elizabeth Gregson saying she had a young man in bed who left his gloves behind - libel, sentence.

25. WIGAN Thomas & Elizabeth Molyneux c Ellen Higginson alias Pemberton saying Elizabeth was a harlot and Thomas a scurvie runnygate knave - libel.

26. HOLLAND CHAPEL Elizabeth Hey c Alice Lea saying James Hey was a cuckold and that Alexander Walker had been before the Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical - libel.

27. PRESTON Isabella Mason alias Walker of Lea c Robert Walker of Garstang saying that at the time of their marriage their ages were ten and eleven - libel, certificate of marriage 1590, sentence.

28. OVER Henry Starkie of Darley c John Dod of Barton for defamation - interrogation, sentence.

29. PLEMONDSTALL Thomas Case & Richard primate impropriators c Thomas Croughton for tithes in Mickle Trafford -libel, sentence.

30. HUNTINGTON Thomas Cotton c Roger Syner - costs.

31. AUDLEM John Meakin c Margaret Meaking alias Cardiff for adultery with Hugh Rylance - libel.

32. CLITHEROE Office c John Baldwin and Lawrence Robinson of the Castle chapel for adultery with Margaret Hartley - libel.

33. NANTWICH Anne Brassie c John Rydley saying she was bastard gotten and bastard born - interrogations, depositions, sentence.

34. WITTON John Horton c Elizabeth Brommall saying he committed adultery with Anne Kettle - libel.

35. PRESTON Richard Blundell c Anne Addison for defamation - libel.

36. SANDBACH John Lownes c Wm & Emma Lingam saying he committed adultery with Jane Goddart - libel.

37. SANDBACH Debora Woodcock of Church Hulme c John Reignald for defamation - libel, sentence.

38. WYBUNBURY Anne Peckett c Elizabeth Wilkinson calling her whore, jade, queane - libel, depositions.

39. WYBUNBURY Bridgett Woods c Ralph Sokerston for defamation - sentence.

40. WILMSLOW Thomas Wright rector c Thomas Pearson for tithe wool and animals - libel, depositions.

41. STOCKPORT Edward Doughtie MA c Sir Wm Davenport for tithe wheat, French wheat and hay - libel.

42. STOCKPORT Edward Doughtie c Francis Pereson & Edward Bennison for tithe wheat - libel.

43. STOCKPORT Edward Doughtie c Richard Siddall, Ralph Cooper Henry Daniell carpenter for tithe wheat - libel.

44. STOCKPORT Edward Doughtie c thomas Holt, Ralph Smith, Richard Tailer for tithe wheat - libel.

45. GLOSSOP Thomas Count of Arundel and Surrey and Lady Alathea his wife impropriators c Edmund Jodrell of Taxall for tithe - libel, costs.

46. GUILDEN SUTTON Peter Warburton impropriator c Thomas Hull of Ince for tithe sheep and lambs - libel.

47. BOLTON Office c Robert Norres & Elizabeth Barlow of Prestwich to prove their marriage - libel, sentence.

48. ORMSKIRK Anna Stanley c Henry Sanforth saying Roger Houghton the miller came to her when the wind as down and was the father of her child - libel.

49. MALPAS Office c Thomas Heath for correction - sentence.

50. PRESTBURY Jane Mottershead relict of Godfrey Mottershead impropriator c Thomas Pimlot for tithe of corn and hay - libel, interrogations, depositions.

51. HALSWALL Hugh Holland MA rector c Andrew Tailor saying he was a common drunkard - libel.

52. FRODSHAM Sir Thomas Savage impropriator c Ralph & Elizabeth Carver for tithe barley - libel.

53. PENWORTHAM Richard Fleetwood impropriator c Francis Orrell for tithes - sentence.

54. WHALLEY Fragment of depositions in the case of adultery of Lawrence Robinson.

55. BACKFORD Roger King c Moses Powell saying he got his servant with child - depositions.

56. NEWCHURCH Christopher Hartley c Margaret Hartley for adultery with Lawrence Robinson and John Baldwyne - libel, sentence.

57. MARBURY Jane Taylor alias Ryder c Hugh Wickstead saying she committed adultery in a house called The Road in the Watergate - libel.

58. TARPORLEY Katherine Summer c Anna Allin and JoAnna Summer saying she committed adultery with Jacob Hughson - libel.

59. PRESTBURY Thomas Dale c Ellen Shalcrosse for adultery with Wm Davenport. Certificate from the Rural Dean that the churchwardens and township men of Old Wythington presented Ellen Shalcrosse for fornication and that Wm Davenport was the father of her child.

60. CHURCH MINSHULL Marie Cholmondeley c Ralph Stockton for tithe of mill - depositions.

61. NEWCHURCH Depositions that George Vaudrey and Anne his wife were lawfully married in the chapel.

62. ARLEY Office c Edward Stanley & Isabella Warburton concerning their marriage - libel.

63. Two bills of costs.

64. FRODSHAM Appointment of Sequestrators by Bishop Lloyd and sequestrators' accounts for repairs to parsonage.

65. Certificate from the Registrar of London that from Bishop Aylmer 1578 to the election of Bishop Bancroft there is no evidence that Wm Hynde was ordained priest or deacon.

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