1686

1. LOWER PEOVER Robert Cholmondeley c Godfrey Shackerley concerning title to a pew and burial rights in chancel. East window had Cholmondeley, Holford and Leicester arms (described in great detail) but removed in Civil War - interrogations, depositions, commission.

2. WRENBURY Robert Taylor c John Barrow concerning his title to a seat by right of his house brought from Sir Richard Wilbraham - confession (1685-1).

3. WRENBURY James Starkey of Eagle Hall c Margaret Beckett for slander - sentence.

4. NESTON James Pool c Thomas Mostyn, Philip Egerton, Thomas Potter and others concerning title to a pew - details of pews, depositions.

5. SEFTON Sir Wm Blundell c Churchwardens for demanding rates to build a road to Lord Molyneux's mills - depositions, sentence, appeal (1684-12).

6. AUDLEM Churchwardens c Leonard Gamull for arrears of assessments. Poor rate and church lay at 12/6 in £. Says he paid 6/3d to Rural Dean - libel, depositions, sentence, libel.

7. CHESTER (St Oswald) Maria Touchett c Margaret Goulden calling her a tilling. Prescott defines a Tilling as a whore and grandmother of whores - libel, depositions.

8. CHESTER (St Oswald) Jane Roberts c Margaret Goulden for slander - libel, exception.

9. BLACKBURN Sentence in dispute between Sir Edward Osbaldeston and Wm Duckworth concerning Harwood chapel wardens.

10. NANTWICH Anna Woods c Robert Lownds for slander - libel, depositions.

11. NANTWICH Sentence in dispute between Roger Wright and Francis Cholmondeley concerning pews (1685-10).

12. WARMINGHAM Prohibition in case between Daniel Apelford rector and John Kent and Ralph Furnival.

13. Report of a commission on a Writ de Lunatica re Jane Monesey.

14. Appointment of Rural Deans in Chester Archdeaconry.

15. Bill of costs in Turner c Taylor.