1641

1. CHESTER (St Martin) Sentence in dispute between William Clarke rector and Sylvanus Witter (see No. 16).

2. CHESTER (St Peter) Certificate that Margaret Dodd wife of Edward Dodd had attended church on 9 May.

3. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Smith, impropriatorriator of tithes of Boughton c John Gregory for tithes of "cabbachi, carretts, parsneps, heartichocks, raddices, cuccumbers, onyons, garlike and other herbs and roots" - libel (fragile).

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5. CHESTER (St Mary) Ellen Hanmowe c Catherine Ince for slander - libel, sentence.

6. CHESTER (St Michael) Sentence in cause between Henry Harper and James Lingley.

7. CHESTER (St John Baptist) John Powell c Richard Anyon for slander - exception, sentence.

8. CHESTER (St Peter) Margaret Williamson c Ralph Davies saying she kept lewd company in Thomas Hawkeshaws alehouse in St Michaels - libel, allegation, deposition.

9. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Richard Broster c John Edwards saying he had drunk a health to the devil of Beelzebub on his knees and that Edwards had presented a bill against him in Star Chamber. Broster said that "Starr Chamber be avoyded and put down by Act of Parliament - libel, depositions, sentence.

10. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Joanna Clubb c Anna Cooke for slander - libel.

11. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Elenora Waine c Richard Totty for slander - libel, depositions, sentence (fragile).

12. CHESTER (St John) Thomas Savage c Jane Batterick for slander - deposition (fragile).

13. CHEADLE Radcliffe Kelsall c Catherine Fallows in a case of matrimony and breach of contract. A very full file containing material on the social life in the parish. The contract was made by breaking a groat into two pieces.

14. BRINDLE Churchwardens c Thomas Duxon for presenting a false account of work done in the repairs to the church windows. Gives details of repairs to windows and roof - full file.

15. TARVIN Anna Leadbeater c Elizabeth Sutton accusing her of adultery calling her witch and her mother an old witch - libel, depositions, sentence (fragile).

16. TARVIN Wm Clarke rector c Silvanus Witter for tithe of pigs and sows sold in St Martin's parish, Chester -responsions (fragile).

17. TARVIN Proof of marriage between John Risingreave late of Hargreave Stubbs deceased and Dorothy Hamston of Holt.

18. FRODSHAM Margaret Griffiths c Anna Hincks for slander - libel, depositions.

19. CLITHEROE Ralph Clough c Agnes Tomlinson concerning tithe to a pew after the seats were made uniform. Prior to 1633 the seats were out of order in every way. Details on the interior arrangement of the pews - libel, allegations, depositions.

20. ECCLES Anna Darbyshire c Giles Lomax calling her a busy devile who poked her nose into other folks matter - libel, interrogations, depositions (condition extremely poor).

21. PRESTON Churchwardens c Richard Goodshaw refusing to contribute to the repairs of the church and contesting legality of churchwardens to levy a special rate - a very large detailed file (fragile).

22. PRESTON Churchwardens c Edmund Worden for refusing to pay his gold to repair of the church of £3;15s in 1639 and £7;10s in 1640 for his lands in Tulketh. 1641

23. GRAPPENHALL Sentence in case of Maria Caldwell c John Middlehurst.

24. MALPAS Certificate of marriage between Francis Stokes and Ann Bleck.

25. HASLINGDEN Churchwardens c John Omerode and Richard Whittaker concerning payment of dues to repair of chapel and the curate's salary. Say the chapel is in two parts, Haslingden and chase of Rossendale (Goodshaw Booth, Low Booth, Clough Booth, Gambleside, Crawshay Booth, Newhall Hey, Oken in the Wood). Say that Oken and Goodshaw are in the castle parish of Clitheroe - very detailed file - libel, responsions, deposition, report of Commission concerning chapelry Edward VI, sentence (fragile).

26. HASLINGDEN Robert Dewhurst clerk, curate c Sir Ralph Assheton saying he had two wives - libel, sentence.

27. PULFORD Jonathon Colly rector c Robert Gaunt and Roger Griffiths exors of will of Roger Terry rector for dilapidation in the parsonage house - description of rectory - libel, interrogations, deposition, sentence.

28. WINWICK Jane Heapey c Anna Rothwell for slander - libel, sentence.

29. PEOVER Wm Ainsworth, rector of Great Budworth c Richard Bennett saying he had made his servant pregnant - libel.

30. ORMSKIRK Thomas Hawitt c James Smith concerning his right to a burial place in the church - libel, interrogation, depositions.

31. ORMSKIRK James, Lord Strange, c Richard Shaw of Burscough for tithe from Marton Hall - libel.

32. LIVERPOOL Thomas Edwards c Thomas Farlong saying he committed adultery with Jane Alcock - libel (fragile).

33. LIVERPOOL Admiralty Court; Robert Lurtinge c Richard Fallows & Thomas Kirk of Manchester heard in domo solita of Francis Dyson in Warrington concerning danger to the ship St Michael of Wyre in a storm outside Dublin when her anchor was lost and some cargo thrown overboard including 3 barrels of herrings property of Robert Lurting worth £3. The ship split and sank - full file.

34. WYBUNBURY Sentence in adultery case of James Bruen c Elizabeth Bruen.

35. OVER Thomas Baker c Ralph and Alice Whittingham for causing his wife Dorothy to desert him - libel, sentence (fragile).

36. GRAPPENHALL John Middlehurst c Maria Caldwell for slander - fragment only.

37. LAWTON John Lawton patron c William Lawton rector for negligence in his duty. He is 80 years of age, his mind weak and voice feeble - libel, depositions.

38. MINSHALL John Minshal c Robert Brereton of Whitegate for tithes - responsions, sentence (fragile).

39. WESTHOUGHTON Agreement between impropriators and tithe payers not to receive tithes without consent of all.

40. DAVENHAM Thomas Mallory rector c Thomas Chantler for tithe lambs - responsions, sentence.

41. THORNTON Sentence in tithe dispute between George Byrom S.T.P. and John Troutbeck.

42. COPPENHALL Francis Rowley rector c Wm Shenton and John Meredith for arrears of dues and tithes - libel, depositions, prohibition (fragile).

43. GREAT BUDWORTH Depositions of Thomas Chantler concerning tithe of sheep.

44. STANDISH John Chadwick rector c John Dickinson for tithe oats - libel.

45. FRODSHAM Wm Stockton c John Fletcher for slander - libel.

46. NORTHENDEN Thomas Mallory rector c Oliver Hulme for mortuary dues - libel.

47. PRESTBURY Office c Edward Warren for not communicating - libel, certificate.

48. BUNBURY Joanna Haynes c Gualther Cantwell, an Irishman and Ellen Millington concerning the legality of her birth since her parents lived together for two years before marriage - libel - certificate that the marriage took place at Harthill in 1584 - depositions, sentence.

49. MIDDLEWICH Sentence in tithe dispute of Sir Wm Brereton c John Trevet.

50. WARMINGHAM Prohibition in tithe cause of Andrew Wood rector.

51. HAIGHTON Remission to York of the tithe dispute between Ralph Houghton and Richard Molyneux.

52. ASTBURY Church wardens c Edmund Swettenham for non payment of assessments - libel.

53. EXCOMMUNICATIONS For persons from Astbury, Cheadle, Halsall, Nantwich, Davenham, Chester.

54. MANCHESTER Accounts of fees and profits to the Rural Dean of Manchester for 1641.

55. BRIEF 12 August 1641 for relief of the distressed ministers and schoolmasters in the Palatinate of the Rhine. Details of subscriptions from every parish in the diocese.

56. Fragments of Bills of Costs, Peter Brooke and Birch c Worrall.