1635

1. Citations for persons from Burnley, Whalley, Downham Salmesbury, Blackrod and Blackburn to appear at Chester.

2. ST BEES Churchwardens c wardens of Ennerdale & Kinniside for refusing to pay their assessments to St Bees claiming Ennerdale is a parish in own right - full file (see 1634 No.101).

3. HEVERSHAM Miles Shaw c Thomas Pearson saying his bairns sat by other men's fires - depositions, libel, sentence, repair.

4. Bill of costs for Sir Edward Stanley c Thomas Martincroft.

5. WHALLEY Sir Ralph Assheton c John Robinson for tithes from the "ouldlaund within parish of St Michael in the Castle of Clitheroe" - libel, allegations, responsions.

6. KIRKHAM Richard Battie executor of Jacob Thompson deceased c John Gaunt in disputed will - libel, responsions, sentence.

7. PRESTON Order from Bp of Chester that on view taken of church some seats not uniform are to be made so. Presentment by two churchwardens they are prepared to replace seat but other four refused their consent saying, "they durst not medle with it". Order presentment.

8. ASHTON UNDER LYNE Office c Margaret Heywood for being drunk every week saying she committed adultery ten times and drinks so heavily she can neither stand nor speak -libel, interrogation, deposition.

9. RIPLEY Affidavit by Mrs Francis Vavasour that the pulpit and reading desk were moved to a new site 12 years before to provide her with a convenient seat she living in Ripley manor house.

10. WYBUNBURY Robert Corker c Hugh Slade saying he committed adultery with Elizabeth Corker - libel, sentence.

11. GRESFORD Thomas & Mary Crowe for having a child before marriage - libel.

12. ORMSKIRK Office c Peter Aspinwall, John Sowerbutt, Thos Moorcroft churchwardens for allowing divers recusants including Ottiwell Houghton to be buried in church including also a child of Peter Stanley. The ringers and some servants of Lord Strange rang a peal - libel, interrogation, responsions.

13. ORMSKIRK Edward Simkins c Elena Poole widow for cursing him and his family - libel, interrogations, depositions, costs.

14. ROCHDALE Thomas Healy c Jacob Collings for adultery at Heywood chapel - libel.

15. ROCHDALE John Milnes c Jane Kay for slander - interrogation, sentence.

16. ROCHDALE Sam Wilson c Emmanuel Tompson for adultery with Grace Ogden. Caught with Grace in bed and taken before Mr Fell J.P. and committed to the dungeon in Rochdale and bound over - libel, articles, exception.

17. TATTENHALL Dorothy Wright c Catherine Preece for slander - libel.

18. TATTENHALL Dorothy Wright c Hugh Dodd for slander - libel, depositions.

19. TATTENHALL Sentence in case of Jane Platt & Katherine Taylor c John Taylor.

20. STOCKPORT Prohibition in case of churchwardens c Lawrence Wright for refusing to pay towards uniformity of pews, paving church floor, inclosing and railing communion table and churchyard - libel.

21. STOCKPORT Joan Bane c Alice Greaves for slander - deposition, sent.

22. SHOTWICK Prohibition for Richard Chamberlain in a tithe dispute at Capenhurst.

23. HALSALL Elizabeth Fazakerly widow c Lawrence Mather for breach of promise - libel.

24. HALSALL Elizabeth Fazakerley widow c Lawrence Mathoer for breach of promise - libel.

25. HALSALL Churchwardens c Jacob Harker old churchwarden concerning his accounts for executing orders to unify pews, railing in and inclosing communion table, moving it to east wall and general repairs - libel, responsions, interrogations, accounts, depositions.

27. MANCHESTER Churchwardens c Lady Cecilia Trafford for non payment of assessments for manor of Trafford and half dues for township and Lordship of Stretford, to repair of Collegiate Church - libel, interrogation, exception, responsions, allegations, depositions and copy of lay book from 1617-1634.

28. MANCHESTER Churchwardens c Anne Mosley for non payment of the assessment on her house and property at Hoosend in Withington - libel, responsions, interrogations.

29. MANCHESTER Sam Tipping and others c John Hartley & Richard Lomax refusing oath of churchwardens and not serving their office and neglecting duties - libel.

30. DODLESTON Churchwardens c Charles Duckworth rector for an irregular levying of assessments to provide bell ropes from and other repairs - full file (fragile).

31. DODLESTON Churchwardens c Richard Brereton for non payment of the assessments on his house - responsions, libel.

32. DODLESTON Churchwardens c Thomas Cowley for non payment of assessments, disputes lawful election of wardens - libel, interrogations, responsions.

33. DODLESTON Churchwardens c Wm Burgary of Pulford for non payment of assessments - libel, exception.

34. DODLESTON John Barlow c Martha Clegg alias Barlow for divorce on grounds he was married before he was fourteen years of age - depositions, sentence.

35. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Richard Wilson c Wm Kinge for Easter dues from Blacon - libel, prohibition.

36. CHESTER (St Martin) Elizabeth Davies c Catherine Leonard for adultery with Richard Gaskell - libel.

37. HALSALL Sir Edward Stanley c Thomas Martincroft for cursing Sir Edward, Hugh Hesketh and Edward Dickenson bidding "the divell of hell take them", committing adultery and being drunk - libel, sentence.

38. CHESTER Sentence in defamation case of Elenora Taylor c Margaret Cotton.

39. CHESTER (St Oswald) Richard Vaudrey impropriatorriator c Catherine Hutchinson for tithes of Bruera - libel, interrogations, responsions, depositions.

40. CHESTER (St Oswald) Richard Vaudrey impropriatorriator c John Williamson for tithes - libel, interrogations.

41. CHESTER (St Oswald) Richard Vaudrey c Ralph Cotton for tithes in Bruera - libel, interrogations, depositions.

42. CHESTER Sentence in defamation case of George Manley c Elizabeth Halwood.

43. SAUGHALL Lady Mary Bentley c Edward Lee for tithes - interrogations for Dean and Chapter, Chester concerning leases.

44. CHESTER (St Oswald) Alice Evans c Jacob Dun for slander - libel, depositions.

45. SHOTWICK Elizabeth Knowles c Elizabeth Barlow saying she was her husband's whore - libel, depositions, interrogations.

46. OVERTON Edward Lloyd c Edward Phillips concerning right to a pew in the chancel - libel, responsions, depositions.

47. TILSTON Churchwardens c John Tudor for non payment of assessment to the repair of the church, also copy of resolution to levy the rate - libel, responsions, depositions.

48. TILSTON Essex Clarke curate c Edward Wright of Shotton for non payment to repairs of church - libel, responsions.

49. GREAT BUDWORTH Sentence in case concerning John Ridgway c Jacob Knott the curate.

50. GREAT BUDWORTH Sentence in case of John Dean c Edward Humphreys.

51. WISTASTON William Gilford c Thomas Moor concerning allocation of a seat after unifying of pews on order received - libel, interrogations, depositions, declaration.

52. WISTASTON Sir John Pearesall c Thomas Radcliffe concerning the allocation of seats after unifying them. Churchwardens accounts - responsions.

53. BOLTON John Taylor c Richard Meadowcroft & Richard Haslam for non payment of money due to him - articles, churchwardens accounts.

54. BLACKROD William Anderton c chapelwardens concerning his title to a burial place in south chancel for Anderton Hall - depositions.

55. WRENBURY William Cudworth c George Taylor concerning dispute over a pew - allegations, interrogations, depositions.

56. ECCLES Richard Barlow c John Knight & Richard Jones for tithes - libel.

57. TAXALL Anthony Elcock rector c Richard Bennett for tithes - libel, responsions, interrogations, depositions.

58. PRESTBURY Thomas Lawton clerk c Thomas Coughen in case of Mary Beech - libel, depositions, sentence (see 1634 No. 24).

59. PRESTBURY Thomas Lawton c John Blackshaw in case of Mary Beech and his adultery - libel, depositons, sentence (1634-25).

60. PRESTBURY Jacob Baxter c Nicholas Wilson & Thomas Legh for tithe corn. Details of alienation of tithes - libel, responsions, declaration.

61. PRESTBURY Thomas Legh c Thomas Pigott for tithe pigs and dues - libel, interrogations, depositions, prohibition (1634-21).

62. PRESTBURY William Pilsbury c Edward Hall of Bosley for slander - libel.

63. MACCLESFIELD Sentence and Bill of Costs in case of Ellen Fallowes c Mary Bateman (1634 No. 79).

64. PRESTBURY Excommunication for Nicholas Royley, John Bradburn and others for contumacy.

65. GARSTANG Christopher Saule c gavin Carter of Chipping for Easter dues - libel, depositions.

66. WHALLEY Sir Ralph Assheton c John Robinson for mortuary dues from his father's estate - libel, depositions, prohibition.

67. BLACKBURN Anna Marsden c Margaret Tomlinson for slander -libel.

68. BLACKBURN Richard Bradley c Henry Ashe of Ribchester saying that Rydding slept with Elizabeth Bradley -libel, depositions, sentence.

69. KENDAL John Dickinson c Stephen Whitrigge saying he committed adultery with Cicily Hodgkinson in a barn - libel, deposition. Case heard at Chester since Whitrigge did not clear himself at Richmond.

70. KIRKHAM Thomas Westby c Edward Fleetwood for tithes from the newly enclosed land called Mosse Shute. Waste full of stocks, gorse, holes, moss. Has now ditched, guttered, mucked and marled land and sown corn - libel, responsions, depositions.

71. RIBCHESTER Impropriators c John Ward for tithe corn - libel, responsions, depositions.

72. ROCHDALE Office c John Milnes for adultery with Alice Shaw a spinster, a lewd woman. Has followed her from alehouse to alehouse, spent time with her in a barn, spent money on her when big bellied - libel, responsions, deposition.

73. ROCHDALE William Crompton c Edward Hunt accusing Catherine Crompton of adultery - depositions.

74. ROCHDALE Sir John Byron c Robert Hamer of Lightowler for tithes - libel.

75. CHIPPING Robert Parkinson of Bleasedale c Henry Bourne & Tobias Roadie concerning right to a pew belonging to Bradley Hall - libel, responsions.

76. ASTBURY Thomas Dodd rector c George & Ralph Walley for tithe on animals - responsions, prohibition.

77. ROSTHERNE William Shenton vicar c Duke of Bridgwater & Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford for increased stipend, awarded by a Commission 1634. Vicarage founded 1507 with a stipend of £24;6;8d out of which the vicar to pay the curates of Knutsford and Peover Superior. Tithes worth £600 p.a. and original stipend now too low in value - libel, sentence.

78. STOKE William Seddon vicar c William Hoose & Sir Henry Bunbury for tithe of hay. Traces alienation of tithes from 27 Edward 3(1349) to 1635 - libel, interrogation, depositions.

79. STOKE William Seddon c Thomas Howard for tithe hay from the Marsh - interrogations, depositions.

80. STOKE Elizabeth Knowles c Dorothy Denson for defamation - interrogations.

81. BARTHOMLEY Richard Fowler rector c Thomas Sidway for tithe on 10 Cheshire acres of new ground called Bank Land covered with briers, blackthorn, brambles, owlers and a thicket of all kinds of wood so people unable to pass through. Land worth 12d an acre. Has cleared and marled land - libel, responsions, depositions.

82. TARPORLEY John Witter c Anna Fearnley for slander - sentence.

83. TARPORLEY Churchwardens c Ralph Smethurst refusing to pay his assessments to the unifying of pews as ordered by the Archbishop of York - full file (fragile).

84. FRODSHAM Mary, widow of Sir John Dove, of the Peel House c Gilbert Gerrard of Crewood Hall for appropriating her pew and moving reading desk to new place - full file (fragile).

85. MIDDLEWICH Anna Wilks c Thomas Harrison for slander - libel, depositions.

86. MIDDLEWICH Impropriators c Christopher Shalcross for tithes - fragment only.

87. MIDDLEWICH Elizabeth Colly c Thomas Dikes saying she kept scandalous company with Thomas Wilding, drinking, betting and attending cockfights - libel.

88. NESTON Impropriators c George Gosney for tithes - libel, depositions.

89. CROSTON James Lyett c Richard Ashton for tithe - libel, costs. The depositions appear to relate to another Neston tithe cause.

90. PRESCOT Sir Henry Ogle c churchwardens for taking up grave stones and selling them for building material. Allowing two pews belonging to recusants to remain unaltered and using timber from pews for themselves during unifying of seats - full file.

91. PRESCOT Lord Strange c John Booth for tithe of rye, hay, oats - libel, exceptions.

92. PRESCOT John Buckley c Ellen Chawner for breach of promise - libel.

93. WALTON Richard Adams c John Spark for tithes - responsions (fragile).

94. LIVERPOOL Sarah Melling c Margaret Griffiths & Elizabeth Lorting for striking her servant, sitting in the aisle, Sarah's child and also Sarah Melling in church during brawl - libel.

95. WHITEGATE Robert Mainwaring c Abraham Darlington for tithe grain - libel, depositions (fragile).

96. PRESTBURY Sir Thomas Legh c Jacob Baxter for tithes - libel.

97. WAVERTON George Snell S.T.P. rector c Thomas Wilbraham for tithe wood cut in parish. Says bowes, strippings cut into quarter wood used as firewood in making salt at Nantwich and not used for Waverton buildings - libel, responsions.

98. WIGAN Bishop of Chester as rector of Wigan c Chris Banks for tithes - libel.

99. WIGAN Edward Bradshaw of Bradshaw Hall c Gilbert Barrow concerning the family pew arising from unifying of pews and removal of pulpit - libel.

100. GUILDEN SUTTON Churchwardens c John Dutton for refusing to contribute to paving the church and unifying of seats - libel (fragile).

101. DAVENHAM Thomas Mallory dean of Chester and rector c William Antrobus for tithe cattle - libel, responsions.

102. WARRINGTON Humphrey Dowler c Alice Dowler for adultery since 1627 - libel, sentence.

103. BOLD Impropriators c John Booth for tithe beans - depositions (fragile).

104. FARNWORTH Excommunication order for Percival Slack and John Cryre.

105. MALPAS Sentence in defamation of Laura Shaw c Richard Coughen.

106. GUILDEN SUTTON Sir Thomas Stanley c John Legh for tithe cattle - libel, responsions.

107. STANDISH Thomas Heaton c Ellen Heaton for adultery and bastardy with James Low - full file including penance certification.

108. BROUGHTON Churchwardens c warden and inhabitants of (Kirby Ireleth) Broughton for refusing to contribute to paving church floor, railing communion table, making seats uniform in height, length, width as ordered in all churches - libel.

109 NEWCHURCH (PENDLE) Churchwardens c Robert Bulcock for detaining money due to church - libel.

110. MARPLE Office c Robert Booth for adultery with Catherine Walworth in her house - libel.

111. STOCKPORT Office c Samuel Pickforth saying to Mr Hormasall he did preach false doctrine in saying a man must restore things unjustly gotten - libel.

112. CHILDWALL William Lewis vicar c William Cockett of Speke Hall and Robert Williamson for tithes - libel, responsions.

113. WYBUNBURY Absolution in case of Sir Thomas Snell c Edward Mainwaring.

114. WYBUNBURY Hugh Slade c Robert & Ellen Littoe saying he committed adultery with Ellen in Widow Gilford's alehouse in Wistaston.

115. BUNBURY Richard Hatton c Richard Bruce for tithes - libel.

116. CODDINGTON Thomas Rycroft rector c Hugh Higginson and others for tithes - libel (fragile).

117. WEAVERHAM Peter Warburton c John & William Pickton for tithe barley from improved land - libel.

118. WOODCHURCH Richard Sherlock rector c Thomas Hikcock for tithe grain from improved land - libel.

119. MOTTRAM John Booth c John Hollinworth for tithes - libel.

120. LAWTON William Lawton rector c Thomas Booth tailor for intruding himself into the office of churchwarden not being chosen - libel.

121. ASHTON ON MERSEY Ralph Stirrop rector c Sir James and May Massie creating a disturbance concerning a pew in the chancel after church was paved and pews placed chancel wise. Says no woman ever allowed to sit in a chancel. Massie pew moved during unifying of church - libel.

122. DARESBURY William Burtonwood c Margaret Burtonwood for breaking barn doors, selling his corn and other goods, refusing him food - libel.

123. MOBBERLEY Fragment of an adultery case of William Booth c Margaret Robinson - repair.

124. OLDHAM John Mellor of Crompton c Susanna Wrigley for slander - libel.

125. KERSLEY Absolution for Anna Hulme c George Crompton.

126. CHRISTLETON Office c churchwardens for not paving church and unifying pews - libel.

127. NANTWICH Disputed will of William Reynolds.

128. LYMM William Lether c John Wright concerning ownership of pew belonging to Percival Tenements - libel.

129. MAGHULL Churchwardens c William Whitehead and Richard Watkinson for non payment of assessments - libel.

130. CHESTER (St Oswald) Richard Vaudrey c John Wilson for tithes in Bruera - libel.

131. CHESTER (St Oswald) Ann Watmough c Jane Bennett for slander - libel.

132. CHESTER James Dunn c Alice Shaw for slander - depositions.

133. CHESTER (St Oswald) Richard Vaudrey c John Hogkinson for tithe - responsions.

134. CHESTER (St Oswald) Thomas Dean c Richard Leicester for tithes at Blacon - libel, articles.

135. CHESTER (St John) William Maxie c Thomas King saying he caught him with Hester Jacke at midnight suspiciously in a Rowe. Taking hold of them he said if Hester had not been a puritan he would not have said so much.

136. CHESTER Excommunication for William Moreton glover and others of St Olaves for contumacy.

137. CHESTER Absolution for Richard Grantham c William Vaudrey.

138. PLEMONDSTALL Prohibition in case of Sephton c Bridgman.

139. TARLETON Prohibition in case of rector c parishioners about election of churchwardens.

140. BEBINGTON Inhibition to York of case between Ellen Warmingham and Ann Lynaker.

141. WHITEGATE Responsions in tithe cause of Mainwaring c Wilcockson.

142. CHESTER Fragment of a case between Evans and Pye - fragile.

143. GREAT BUDWORTH Slander case of Deane c Frodsham - depositions. (WITTON)

144. Myles Shaw c Ellen Peasron for adultery - interrogations.