1668

1. BURTON John Litherland vicar c William Jones for non payment of dues - libel, monition.

2. PLEMONDSTALL Charles Baker c Sir Charles Hotham for tithe of hay from three acres of moor - depositions, interrogations.

3. WIGAN Churchwardens c John Seddon for refusing to pay four layes towards the repair of Wigan church - libel, depositions, responsions, articles of exception, interrogation, sentence.

4. ALDERLEY John & Ellen Deane c Margaret Foster saying Ellen committed adultery with John Tomlinson - libel, depositions, sentence, bill of costs.

5. NESTON John Bridge c Margaret Lownds saying Alice Bridge was a Billingsgate scold and an oyster carrier who had bewitched a mare and a child - libel, interrogations, depositions.

6. TIVERTON Thomasine Hatton c Matthew Travis & Roger Griffiths for detaining tithes on pretence of a mortgage of £100 - libel, responsions, depositions, allegations.

7. BOUGHTON Sir William Daniel c Robert Highfield for tithe corn. References to lease of estate by Dean and Chapter to Edward Russell for three lives - libel, responsions, depositions, sentence, bill of costs.

8. BOUGHTON Sir William Daniel c Isabella Anion for tithes connected with 7 above - libel, responsions, depositions, sentence, bill of costs.

9. BOUGHTON Sir William Daniel c Richard Thomason for tithes connected with 7 and 8 above - allegations, responsions, depositions, prohibitions costs.

10. NANTWICH Elizabeth Wilkinson c Thomas Knutsford for fees due to her late husband - allegations, responsions, depositions.

11. ROSTHERNE Thomas Daniel c Sir Peter Leycester concerning the right to nominate churchwardens. Certificate of wardens oath taken at the Wolf's Head in Northgate (repair).

12. CHESTER Office c John Henthorne for having his child baptised by Colly a dissenter not using office in Prayer Book administering Holy Communion and expounding scripture not being in orders. Case arose from Archbishop's visitation - libel.

13. BOWDEN Susanna Clarke c Margaret Frith for slander - libel, depositions.

14. MIDDLEWICH Hugh Beckett c John Worrall for all tithes - libel.

15. TARVIN William Biggs c John Harvey for saying that he stole a hen with Sara Harvey - libel.

16. CHESTER (St Oswald) George Manby c Alderman John Polle for tithes on pasture lands - libel, responsions.

17. CHESTER (St Oswald) George Manby c John Poole alderman for tithes on pasture land - responsions, libel.

17. PRESTON Margaret Beesley c Hugh Barrow clerk and Thomas Jepson parish clerk concerning an irregular marriage licence. Says Barrow & Jepson framed her in adultery and sentences her to penance at Preston, Garstang and Lancaster. Barrow was Rural Dean of Amounderness on letters from Joseph Craddock.

18. CHESTER (St Peter) Thomas Billington c churchwardens over a disputed seat on the east next to the Aldermen's pews - libel, responsions, depositions.

19. CHESTER (St Martin) Elizabeth Wright c Sara Crichley calling her whore and queane. Arose from dispute over ownership of a top by their children - libel, confession.

20. CHESTER Thomas Ashton, Lievelooker, c Sara Hulton for slander - libel, depositions, costs.

21. ALDFORD Wm Richardson c Manasseh Meacocke and Eleanor concerning a pew 2½ yds x 1½ yds which Richardson says his father had in 1635/6 when pews made uniform. John Haswell & Thos Johnson, churchwardens, John Bradwell parson - libel, allegations, responsions, depositions.

22. CHESTER (St Peter) Churchwardens c Thomas Billington concerning disputed pew. Billington has moved to Neston in St Oswald parish - interrogations, depositions (see no.18).

23. CHESTER John Knight c Margaret Bunnell of Martins Ash calling him rogue, thief, pulling his hair in the street. Has had two bastards and never been punished - depositions, interrogations, confession.

24. ALDERLEY John & Eleanor Deane c Maria Tomlinson of Sandbach saying John had committed adultery with her - libel, examination, costs.

25. KNUTSFORD Churchwardens c George Leycester owner of messuage and horse mill joining main street in Nether Knutsford refusing to pay lay of 3d in pound for church repairs - libel, citation.

26. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Ellen Pennington c Catherine Davenport calling her brazen faced queane - libel, depositions.

27. WOODCHURCH Churchwardens c Edward Glegge of Heswall for non payment of assessments on lordship of Pensby - libel.

28. WYBUNBURY Sir Thomas Delves c Laurence Bressey for non payment of tithe - libel.

29. PRESCOTT Sir Cuthbert Ogles c Henry Marshall for tithe - libel.

30. EASTHAM George Beckett c Ralph Bradshaw for tithe hay, geese and dues - libel.

31. BIDSTON Edward Glegge c Robert Wilson for tithes of animals - libel.

32. TARVIN Office c Ellie Rycroft of Hargreave for teaching school without rejecting Solemn League and Covenant, non subscription, teaching grammar, reading, learning, being drunk in school, vomiting on pupils and abusing them - libel, petition for removal of licence.

33. FRODSHAM Richard Rutter c John Sudlowe calling him a stinking rogue - libel.

34. TATTENHALL Dorothy Hobson c Anna Harrison for slander saying she was perjured at Hundred Court - depositions, libel.

35. CHESTER (St Martin) Thomas Kettle c Penelope Croughton calling him false thief - libel.

36. BUNBURY John Mason c John Booth calling him rogue - libel.

37. CHESTER (St John) Office c Isabella Anyon for clandestine marriage with Peter Barker - libel.

38. ASTBURY Office c Robert Wright for adultery with Ursula Davenport for several years - libel.

39. WEAVERHAM Maria Williamson c Jonathan Wilcoxon saying she had a bastard - libel, allegations (see 1667 no.20).

40. NESTON John Hughes c Rose Mason saying she had sworn the deaths of six persons - libel.

41. TARVIN Office c Wm Venables and Elizabeth Venables for marriage in a private house by Ellie Rycroft (see no.32).

42. CHESTER (St Michael) Margaret Greene c Robert Greene for cruelty beating her when pregnant, threatening to kill her - libel.

43. BACKFORD John Houghton vicar c Singleton Birkenhead & Henry Garratt for tithe hay - libel.

44. PENWORTHAM Bishop Hall c Edward Fleetwood for rents due for lease of rectory at Penwortham - libel.

45. COPPENHALL Robert Gilford c John Steel for slander - libel.

46. ECCLESTON Wm Bispham c Wm Selbie for tithe animals - libel.

47. TARPORLEY John Withers c David Hinton for saying he would flee the country before the Assizes - depositions.

48. BANGOR Henry Bridgeman c Maria Randall for tithe in Worthenbury.

49. CHESTER Jane Jones c Jane Ball for slander - depositions.

50. George Deane c John Hayfield for slander - loose sheets.

51. Unrelated fragments concerning George Goolden, Richard Eddow and John Heapey, Michael Leach, Robert Moulson, Elizabeth Sutton.

52. Office c Richard Piggott for performing a marriage outside the church - confession.