1682

1. AUDLEM Churchwardens c Nathaniel Wettenhall concerning the inaccuracy of their accounts - libel, detailed accounts for 1680 repair.

2. UPHOLLAND John Parr c Margaret Robie concerning breach of matrimonial contract - interrogations, depositions, sentence, costs (repair).

3. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Elizabeth Sutton c Mary Seale for slander. Penance for Seale with costs.

4. CHESTER (St Peter) Office c Sara Dod for non attendance at church sentence (1680-24).

5. CHESTER (St Oswald) Thomas Bailey c Edward Moreton for slander in Corbishalls shop in Forrest Street - libel, depositions.

6. CHESTER (St Bridgett) Office c Anthony Henthorne of White Fryers sugarbaker for non attendance at church - libel, responsions, depositions.

7. CHESTER (St Peter) Office c Anna Pickering for non attendance at church for seven years. Evidence by Wm Thompson rector from Watergate Street - depositions (repair).

8. CHESTER (St Peter) Office c Ralph & Anna Dickenson for non attendance at church - depositions, costs (repair).

9. CHESTER (St Peter) Office c Thomas & Anna Fearnihough for non attendance at church - depositions, confession.

10. CHESTER (St Peter) Office c Nathaniel Basnett apothecary for non attendance at church - depositions, costs, (repair).

11. ROSTHERNE Edward Massie et alia c Richard Hewitt for tithes at High Leigh - responsions, depositions.

12. PRESCOT Elizabeth Lancaster c Margery Pennington and Ellen Ashton concerning her title to a pew belonging to Rainhill Hall. Reference to visit of Bp. Bridgman 1635 and order to unify seats - libel, depositions.

13. THURSTASTON (1681-17) Sequestrators accounts giving sales of glebe produce, dues from parishioners, repairs to parsonage, hearth tax, costs.

14. CHURCH HULME Peter Yates c Peter Yates of Middlewich concerning his title to a seat in church by right of his house in Dog lane. Names of previous tenants and owners given - libel, certificate, responsions, depositions.

15. FRODSHAM John Antrobus of Mickledale c Alice Blenston and Wm Woodward for reducing his seat from 6 persons to 4 (15" cut away) - libel.

16. FRODSHAM John Davie, vicar c Richard Rutter of Kingsley for tithe hay, corn, barley animals - libel.

17. WEAVERHAM Churchwardens c Thomas Basnett for non payment of assessments on Browneheaths Tenement (top of steeple ruinous) - libel, allegations, responsions, depositions.

18. ROCHDALE Prohibition in a cause between Richard Crosley c Ralph Webbe for Easter dues.

19. WARMINGHAM Daniel Apelford, rector, c John Kent & Ralph Furnival for not providing bread and wine for communion - libel, responsions, allegations.

20. LEIGH Churchwardens c Ralph Lee of Atherton for not paying his assessments to repair of the church - libel, responsions, prohibition.

21. CODDINGTON John Mottershead c Jonas Mottershead calling him a burnt rogue and a mangy rogue - libel.

22. PULFORD Jane Price c Thomas Halliwell for slander in the house of Hugh Banister - depositions.

23. ASHTON UNDER LYNE Certificate from the vicar and churchwardens that Sir Robert Dukinfield of Duckinfield is a regular attendant and worships at Ashton being nearer than Stockport.

24. KNUTSFORD Certificate that Thomas & Mary Faulkner were married in a private house in Knutsford by Mr Lomax former curate of Northenden.

25. NORTHENDEN Francis Wood rector c John Eccles for tithe wheat, barley, oats - libel, responsions.

26. NORTHENDEN Francis Wood c Robert Garnett et alia for predial tithes - libel.

27. WYBUNBURY Churchwardens c Anna Clayton for not paying 8 church lays for her pew in right of Brineshill Hall in Bridgemeire - depositions.

28. TAXAL Thomas Higginbotham rector accepted a groat - libel, interrogations, responsions, depositions.

29. TAXAL Office c Hugh Davenport for adultery with Elizabeth Beard - libel.

30. ROCHDALE Prohibition in tithe cause of George Hansfield c Ralph Webb for Easter dues.

31. GREAT HARWOOD (Blackburn) Sir Edward Osbaldeston c Wm Duckworth concerning the election of a churchwarden to represent the chapel in Blackburn church - libel, petition.

32. WHALLEY Sir Edmund Ashton c Wm Walmisley for tithes of Caldcott in Little Mitton formerly property of Whalley Abbey - libel, oath, responsions, recital of covenants, letter to Henry Prescott.

33. WHALLEY Sir Edmund Ashton c Wm Shuttleworth for tithes in Asterley formerly property of Whalley Abbey - libel, prohibition.

34. WHALLEY Sir Edmund Ashton c William Shuttleworth for tithes in Asterley formerly property of Whalley Abbey - libel, prohibition.

34. Bill of costs re Barton c Farrar.

35. CHESTER (1681 no.21) Prohibition in cause of Sara Gibbons c Richard Tottie.

36. ROCHDALE Copies of three bargains and sales of lands between Robert Holt of Stubley and Antony Watson of Standenhey. 8 April 1542, 8 May 1543 and 21 March 1542.

37. LIVERPOOL Significavit; Bonds and absolution for Richard Cleveland and Daniel Dawson sugarbakers in surety of £20 each to conform and attend church. Security given by Michael Johnson, soapboiler and Thomas Buck grocer both of Chester.

38. PRESTON Prohibition in cause between Richard and Elizabeth Massie c Thomas Potter.

39. TATTENHALL Jane Hignett c Thomas Hignett for cruelty by throwing a three legged stool at her, locking her out, not eating nor sleeping in the same room - interrogations, responsions, depositions, costs.

40. Unidentified testamentary cause.