1681

1. DODLESTON Thomas & Anna Hewitt c Henry & Anna Davies concerning their title to a pew in the chancel - full file with documents numbered in order.

2. CHURCH HULME Wm Harrison c Wm Cotton concerning the ownership of the chancel and pews in right of Cranage Hall. Details of erection of chapel by Viscount Kilmorey and Robert Needham. Four letters from Bishop Pearson to Sir Robert Needham and Sir Robert's reply. Full file in two folders. Avery detailed case and of value to the local historian.

3. ROSSENDALE Thomas Whitaker c Wm Tarleton - cause uncertain - depositions.

4. MALPAS Thomas Brereton c Richard Knevet concerning his title to a pew - depositions, confirmation (1680-20).

5. FARNWORTH Alice Mosse c Elizabeth Hall accusing her of bastardy on Bold Heath - deposition, sentence.

6. MOBBERLEY Lawrence Wright c Thomas Huxley & Robert Grasty concerning the election of churchwarden - libel.

7. BUNBURY Office c Thomas Huxley and Robert Brassey concerning election of churchwardens - libel.

8. WYBUNBURY Churchwardens c Anna Clayton for non payment of assessments to repair of church costing £38 - libel (repair).

9. WHALLEY Sir Edmund Ashton c Robert Walmisley for tithe barley, oats, sheep, geese - libel, responsions, depositions.

10. WHALLEY Sir Edmund Ashton c Wm Crombach for tithe wheat beans, calves, sheep barley - libel, responsions, depositions, interrogations. (Very poor condition).

11. WHALLEY Sir Edmund Ashton c Wm Shuttleworth for tithe wheat, oats, beans, barley, animals - libel, responsions, depositions (repair).

12. CROSTON James Pilkington S.T.B. c Hugh Tootill of Chorley for tithes - reponsions, prohibition (1680-19).

13. UPHOLLAND Henry Robie c Robert Hellewell for violating the chastity of his daughter before marriage and she is pregnant - libel, interrogation, depositions (repair).

14. TATTENHALL Fragment of a tithe dispute concerning Edward Gregory for dues 1664, 1665.

15. TARPORLEY Bill of costs for Margaret Brassie c Catherine Betteley.

16. TARPORLEY Robert Barker c John & Eleanora Hambleton - depositions (repair) (1680-14).

17. THURSTASTON Office c John Groome rector for irregularities - petition from parishioners against Groome, Letters Compulsory for witnesses (6), - depositions, sentence, sequestration order, sequestrators accounts (repair), public notice for his suspension ab beneficio suo for three years (1678-14).

18. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Swift c Hanna Griffiths of Abbey Court saying she stole a dog - libel, depositions, sentence, absolution.

19. CHESTER Thomas Touchet c Maria Touchet concerning a separation a mensa et thoro - libel, depositions, costs - repair.

20. CHESTER (St Mary on Hill) Anna Parry c Jonathon Prire of Handbridge saying she had intercourse between Prercers and Baxter's house - libel, depositions.

21. CHESTER Richard Totty, tobacconist for slander by Sara Gibbons saying he employed rogues to make up his tobacco - libel, allegations, responsions, depositions.

22. CHESTER (St Peter) Office c Thomas & Sara Fearnihough for non attendance at church - libel, responsions, repair.

23. CHESTER (St Olave) Churchwardens c Hugh Harvey - appeal to York and prohibition.

24. FRODSHAM John Davie, vicar, c John Hilton of Bowden - fragment.

25. LIVERPOOL Wm Heyes of Sutton c Martha Winstanley for begging alms from her mother - libel, interrogation, deposition.

26. CODDINGTON Ralph Bolton c Elizabeth Smith saying he was an old cankard harlot who stole bottoms of yard - libel.

27. ASTBURY Bill of costs for John Malbone.

28. ASTBURY Fragment of a case concerning Maria Harker.

29. DODLESTON Henry Davie c Thomas & Anna Hewitt - sentence, costs (1681-1).

30. DODLESTON Robert Jones c Anna Hewitt for brawling over a seat in church. "She pulled him by the hair of his head" - depositions, sentence, costs, appeal.

31. STRAYS Shuttleworth c Dewhirst; Selsbye c Dudley; Sutton c Sale.