Short title: Attorney General v Molyneux. Plaintiff(s): Sir Edward Ward, kt (Attorney...

Short title: Attorney General v Molyneux.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Edward Ward, kt (Attorney General).

Defendant(s): Sir Caryl Molyneux, bart Viscount Maryburgh in the kingdom of Ireland, Sir William Gerard, bart Sir Nicholas Sherburne, bart Thomas Gerard, William Standish, Thomas Eccleston, William Dickonson.

Subject of depositions: Manor of Euxton,and the lands of the defendant Molyneux therein; the hall and demesne of Garswood, and the manor of Ashton in Makerfield, in possession of defendant Gerard; lands, in Laund alias Launs in the possession of defendant Sherburne. Was Ann Sherburne (widow and relict of Richard Sherburne) "dowable of said lands, etc." and how long did she receive said dower? The Hall of Ince, near Wigan, belonging to defendant Thomas Gerard; the sum of £300 said to have been paid said Thomas by one Mr, Fortescue to build a convent at Wigan; Edward Standish and his wife Dame Elizabeth Standish (father and mother of defendant William), and their lands of Woolston, in the parish of Warrington; Sir Roger Bradshaigh, of Haigh; lands in Eccleston belonging to defendant Eccleston; Hugh Dickonson), and their lands in Wrightington and Shevington; Juliana wife of defendant Dickonson, and daughter of Richard Walmsley, late of Dunkenhalgh (Lancashire). Whether "the sum of £300 per annum payable or any wayes secured by the defendant Dickonson out of his estate in Lancashire to John Laban or any other person for the support of the secular priests of the Church of Rome or maintenance of the Romish religion, or any such uses?" Survey of said lands. Recusants' lands. Lands, given for superstitious uses.

County/place: Lancashire.

Date of commission: 12 February 1694.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 14 May 1694 at Ormeskirk.

Deponent(s): Edward Stockley; Richard Abbot; William Fazakerley; William Blacoe; William Jackson; Robert Webster; John Hawarden; Thurstan Heskin (3); Thomas Thirlwind; John Gerard; Edward Low; Thomas Eccleston; Thomas Gerard; William Poole; John Holme; John Stockley; William Gerard; John Barton; Robert Holden; Thomas Tindall; Robert Rauthmell; John Dalton; John Laban; Richard Gerard; Henry Low; Robert Roper; John Wilme; Oliver Mee; Edward Standish; John Thornton; Thomas Hatton; Eleanor Eccleston; Jane Molyneux; Anne Dauson; John Yates; Peter Denton; William Rigby; Mathew Bushell; Edmund Taylor; Henry Barrow; Agnes Dicconson; Agnes Farington; Edward Herle; Edward Holt; William Robinson; Robert Bradshaw.