1629

1. CHESTER Clandestine marriage between Richard Cookson and Margaret Fletcher by Richard Witharley at Rossets Green Chapel - responsions.

2. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Churchwardens c John Barnes for non payment of assessments - depositions.

3. CHESTER (St Oswald) Churchwardens c Wm Ridley. Miles Cook and John Wild for non payment of assessments - libel.

4. CHESTER (St Oswald) Wm Selbie c John Linge for defamation - depositions.

5. OLD HUTTON Wm Whitwell curate, who had an agreed stipend of £20 fixed in 1579, c Wm Walker, Reader for not paying his contribution of 2/8d towards the stipend - libel.

6. WIGAN Gilbert Pennington and Thos Fairbrother c Wm Heald concerning his life with Ann Partington - libel.

7. LITTLEBOROUGH Frances Warburton c Jacob Halliwell concerning their title to seats in the south chancel - depositions.

8. LITTLEBOROUGH Jane Schofield c Grace Lightowler concerning a brawl in church. She beat Samuel Wilson with a book and her arms creating uproar - depositions.

9. GREAT BUDWORTH Hugh Crosbie c George Massey concerning a disputed seat near the pulpit - depositions.

10. GREAT BUDWORTH Humphrey Massey c Richard Massey concerning their title to a seat - depositions.

11. BUNBURY Eliazbeth Alcock c Margery Wilson for defamation - depositions.

12. PRESCOT Wm Lewes c John Barnes accusing him of being a usurer so Barnes accused Lewes of drinking all night at Peggy Warburton's - depositions.

13. LIVERPOOL Elizabeth Bridge c Margaret Slater saying she had been naughty with Robert Melling in the premises of Mr Walker, mayor of Liverpool - depositions.

14. PRESTBURY Thos Leigh c Jacob Baxter concerning tithe of sheep and wool - depositions.

15. HOLT Office c Wm Davies for interrupting the burial office for Richard Vernon - depositions.

16. ELSMERE Certificate of a clandestine marriage in a private house by night between John Doncaster and Jane his wife by Edward Nott.

17. ASTBURY Wm Lee c Wm Stoner for adultery with Margaret Beever - libel, responsions, penance.

18. BUNBURY Alexander Davenport c Ellen Garratt for adultery - libel, depositions.

19. BUNBURY Office c Margaret Hynd widow for non payment of mortuary dues for Wm Hynde clerk - responsions.

20. SHOTWICK Churchwardens c Thos Hesketh for not making his accounts correctly by not accounting for 32lbs bell metal and 200lbs of lead - full file.

21. FRODSHAM Office c Richard Smith for adultery with Elizabeth Bate - depositions.

22. ASHTON UNDER LYNE Anna Clarke c Wm Walker for saying she was not the daughter of Sir Arthur Ashton - depositions.

23. LEIGH Richard Urmston c Richard Bucke for non payment of mortuary dues - libel, responsions.

24. PRESTON Wm Fleetwood c Radcliffe Ashton concerning fishing in the Ribble - depositions.

25. WEAVERHAM Peter Warburton c Thos Burnet for non payment of barley tithe - depositions.

26. BLACKBURN Wm Laud, Bishop of London c Wm Fleetwood for non payment of corn and grazing tithe - libel, responsions, citation.

27. Bill of Costs for Edward Nuttall guardian of Roger Nuttall c Edward Hamer.

28. KNUTSFORD Peter Huett c Wm Leighe for adultery with Anne Mosse - interrogations, responsions, depositions, sentence.

29. CHESTER (St Michael) Fragment of churchwardens' responsions concerning pew rents.

30. HOLT Wm Davies c Richard Vernon for encroaching upon the family burial place in church - depositions. (See No.15).

31 WRENBURY Office c John Cartwright for adultery - libel.

32. GREAT BUDWORTH Hugh Crosbie c Elizabeth Booth concerning title to a seat - responsions.

33. BOLTON Oliver Denny c Francis Greenbank of breach of promise - libel.

34. BOLTON Office c Roger Leaver for adultery - libel.

35. BOLTON Fragment concerning a clandestine marriage by John Booth between John Downward and Jane his wife.

36. WARBURTON Peter Warburton c Thos Basnett concerning non payment of tithes - responsions.

37. ALTRINCHAM Anne Litherland c Margaret Moores for slander - depositions.

38. THELWALL Ellen Heape c John Thomasson for defamation - depositions.

39. ROCHDALE Jane Scholefield c Richard Lightowler for adultery and not keeping his promise to marry her - responsions.

40. BARROW John Hough c Thos Birkett for adultery - depositions.

41. BURY John Croston c Thomas Hammond for being drunk - depositions.

42. WIGAN Arbitration between John Francis and Thos Bird, Richard Bird and Catherine Spence - award with depositions.

43. LITTLEBOROUGH Citation for Jacob Halliwell of Pikehouse to appear at Chester concerning a disturbance between Arthur Whitehead, Francis Warburton and othersia, also decree from York Chancery.

44. GREAT BUDWORTH John Eaton c Ellen Worrall for defamation - depositions.

45. MACCLESFIELD Clandestine marriage between John Higginbotham and Margaret his wife by Edward Birtler.

46. ECCLES (?) Hey c Lawrence Bent and Thos Greenes concerning tithes - responsions.

47. LAWTON Wm Lawton of Greene c John Brock - fragment of interrogations.

48. Margaret Cumberbach c John Haslehurst for defamation - interrogations.

49. Office c Wm Greenhalgh for adultery - responsions.

50. Fragment of Barlowe's responsions.

51. Miscellanea