1613

1613

1. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Churchwardens c Margaret Salisbury for non payment of assessments - libel.

2. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Richard Hale c Henry Anion for saying that Edward Haddock and he went to church to pray for his dog - libel.

3. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Churchwardens c John Francis for making an attempt to prevent a collection being taken in church for the relief of the inhabitants of East Bedford (Middlesex) - libel.

4. CHESTER (St Oswald) Office c Ferdinand Taylor and ten others for making malt, brewing and carrying ale on the feast days of the Ascension, St John Baptist, St Peter, St James, St Bartholomew, St Matthew, St Luke, Sts Simon & Jude, and All Saints and not attending church on those days - libel, depositions.

5. CHESTER (St John) Ellen Holbrook widow c John Francis for saying she kept a bawdy house - libel

6. CHESTER (St Mary) Margaret Barkham c Anna Wright for defamation - sentence

7. CHESTER Edward Davies c John Williams for defamation - sentence

8. CHESTER (St Oswald) Dean & Chapter c Richard Godson for saying that the dean and canons of the town and all the devils were gathered together meaning Magister Ravenscroft and Magister Case prebendaries - libel

9. CHESTER (St Mary) Richard Brereton impropriator c Peter Bennett, Jacob Burges and Wm Skellington for tithes - sentence

10. WHITEGATE Churchwardens c John Lindopp & Richard Poole concerning a disputed church rate - libel, depositions

11. SWETTENHAM Office c Robert Clayton saying that Mr Davenport said that Isabel Newall is a loose and lewd woman keeping company with lewd men - depositions

12. WORTHENBURY Philip Rases c Edward Griffiths - sentence

13. MOTTRAM Churchwardens c John Chadwick, Wm Swindles and Cecilia Stanley for non payment of assessments to the repair of the church - depositions

14. TAXALL Edmund Jodrell c Reginald Downes, Richard Nickson, Ralph Cook concerning their title to a pew; responsions

15. PRESTBURY Thomas Leigh impropriator c John Young for tithe corn from Kettleholm - libel, responsions

16. PRESTBURY Joseph Higginbotham c Wm Brodhurst of Macclesfield for defamation - fragment

17. PRESTBURY Susanna Wyatt c John Shore of Macclesfield saying that she had a bastard child - libel

18. PRESTBURY John Booth vicar c Francis Jepson for non payment of mortuary dues on £100 estate of Ralph Jepson - libel, responsions

19. WILMSLOW Thomas Wright rector c Roger Worthington for tithes of barley - full file

20. SANDBACH John Shaw vicar c Richard Kettle for tithe lambs and ewes - responsions, sentence

21. WALTON Alexander Molyneux rector c Richard Greaves for tithe on French wheat - libel, interrogations, responsions

22. ACTON Thomas Bostock MA vicar c Thomas Hale for tithe cattle, and calves - full file

23. COPPENHALL Ralph Shenton rector c Thomas Ley for tithe cattle - libel

24. WINWICK John Ryder, Bishop of Laonensis (Killaloe) rector c John Birchall & Alice Mason for tithe geese and pigs - libel, interrogations, depositions

25. RUNCORN Sir Richard Brook impropriator c John Bolton for tithe of French wheat - libel, responsions, sentence

26. PENWORTHAM Richard Fleetwood impropriator c Francis Orrell for tithe hay - libel, interrogations, responsions, sentence, costs

27. LAWTON Wm Lawton MA rector c Wm Rowley & John Ollcott for tithe wool - libel, responsions

28. HALSALL Richard Halsall rector c Wm Stopforth & Richard Lea for tithe hay & cattle - libel, responsions

29. PRESCOT Wm Earl of Derby impropriator c Gerrard Potter for tithe oats in Windle - libel

30. WARRINGTON Jane Bell c Jacob Eaton calling her whore & charming witch - libel, depositions, sentence, costs

31. WIGAN Katherine Leigh & Richard Ashton c Jane Jollie saying they made game and were merry in Katherine's house at night - libel Also fragment of a cause Banks c Anderton

32. NANTWICH Ralph Wilbraham impropriator of one third tithes in Wolstanwood c Robert Wright for tithe wood, excommunication of Wright also copy of an Indenture between Francis Newport of High Arcoll (Salop) and Richard Wilbraham concerning hospital and lands 30 Eliz. 1 and also an Indenture 40 Eliz. 1 between Ralph Wilbraham and Richard Wilbraham concerning the above property - libel, depositions

33. MANCHESTER Oswald Moseley c Adam Smith for tithe from the new developed land called Alport Park - libel

34. DIDSBURY Thos Ricrofte clerk, minister of God's Word c John Twiford & Robert Brook chapelwardens for not paying their share of his stipend - libel, responsions

35. MANCHESTER Jane & Thos Nicholson c Susanna Nicholson for defamation - libel, responsions, sentence

36. ROCHDALE Alice Chadwick c Henry Law calling her Rochdale common whore - libel

37. DAVENHAM Thos Mallorie STB rector c George Holland for tithe cattle - libel

38. DAVENHAM Katherine Painter c George Walley saying he was father of her child, responsions, baptism certificate of Wm Davenport alias Painter 1613, depositions

39. GREAT BUDWORTH Anne Shaw c Peter Forrest for defamation - libel

40. GREAT BUDWORTH Office c John Barlow of Antrobus for adultery with Alice Bebbeley - libel

41. LEIGH Thos Grundie c John Alred for disturbing the grave of John Chowe in the churchyard - depositions

42. CONGLETON Ralph Pointon c Elizabeth Pointon alias Moreton his wife for adultery with John Davenport - libel

43. GOOSENARGH John Clitherowe c Lawrence Simpson for a clandestine marriage with Elizabeth Burgess - libel

44. POULTON Peter White vicar c John Kirkham for tithe of mill - libel

45. MACCLESFIELD Anthony Gaskell, George Lowe, High Clacton c church wardens concerning church rates in Kettlehulme - depositions Also costs in cause between Susanna Wiatt and John Shore

46. MACCLESFIELD Edward Birtles c Maria Birtles alias Jackson in a matrimonial dispute being married in the house of George Shrigley by High Shaw minister - depositions

47. BURTON Thos Percival impropriator c John Robinson for tithe barley - libel

48. MARBURY Elizabeth Stockton c Jacob Dunn saying she had a child by John Stockton and was his concubine for 16 years - libel

49. WAVERTON Wm Parks c Richard Bruin concerning tithe cattle depositions

50. WEAVERHAM Ellen Cook c Maria Pickton saying Ellen Cook was her husband's whore - libel

51. THORNTON John Cocke c Ralph Taylor calling him beggerley rascal, lowsy rascal, lowsy rogue - libel

52. DODDLESTON Office c Thos Newbold for disturbing the congregation and vicar Peter Sparpeth during the psalm by calling out - "Unless we will be his swyneherds we cannot live by him" - libel

53. CHRISTLETON Richard Hughes rector c Henry Hammett saying Mr Litler favoured a paltrie priest against him - libel, letter Hughes to Litler, responsions

54. ALDFORD John Johnson old churchwarden c new churchwardens concerning their accounts - libel, accounts for 1608

55. ALDERLEY Office c Thos & Isabella Norbury - sentence

56. LEYLAND Richard Fleetwood c Hugh Cliffe & John Blackburn for tithes - sentence

57. STRETTON Thos Starkie c Alice Starkie in a disputed betrothal - libel

58. HUNTINGTON Letters Patent 19 Dec 22 Eliza 1 to Sir George Calverley, Geo Cotton, Hugh Cholmley and others of the manor of Huntington, Sutton in Wirral, Upton, Bromborough, Ireby, Ince, Salghton, Barneshaw and Fernell all property formerly in the possession of the dissolved Abbey of St Werbergh

59. TATTENHALL Ralph Downes c John & Alice Hanley concerning the marriage between Philip Downes junior and Margaret Gilbert daughter of Elena Hanley - libel

60. PLEMONDSTALL Appeal cause in tithe dispute Robert Davies impropriator c John Higgins - decree from York

61. WEST DERBY Alexander Molyneux rector concerning lease of tithe of grain for three years from Richard Greaves to Valentine Richardson and others - responsions

62. TILSTON Robert Kinge STB c John Maddock for tithe sheep - libel

63. AUGHTON Nicholas Bannister MA rector c Samuel Hankinson concerning the legality of his presentation to the benefice by Cuthbert Halsall & Gabriel Hesketh - libel

64. NORTHENDEN Rabert Talton c Rogert Worthanton - sentence

65. WHITEGATE Arthur Bowker c Peter Dutton for defamation - libel

66. NEWCHURCH John Ramsden c Thomas Lowe, Laurence Kershaw, Edward Bulcoke saying he was a witch and "did witch my cow to death" - libel

67. ORMSKIRK Adam Chaddock c Edward Stanley saying that Roger Wallwork and Richard Houghton were unreliable as witnesses - libel

68. WINWICK Ellen Kenyon c Anne Holland saying that Ellen was not lawfully married by Mr Sidebotham preacher - responsions

69. PRESTON Elizabeth Bushell c Jane Hodgkinson saying she was a drab and whore - libel

70. TARVIN Henry Ricroft c John Rogerson c Richard Leadbeater saying he stole another man's sheep - libel

71. STOCKPORT Isabella Thompson c Alexander Fallows saying he had occupied her as oft as he liked - libel, interrogations, depositions

72. WYBUNBURY Marie & Joan Holland c Christopher Holland saying they were whores who knew not their father - libel, deposition

73. OVER Anne Ratcliffe c Ralph Nixon alias Buckley for defamation - libel

74. CROSTON Jane Hesketh c Margaret Nellson - sentence

75. DARESBURY John Twyford c Robert Brook - fragment of sentence

76. Fragment of a pew cause

77. CLOTTON John Hickson c John Eastham & Ralph O'Kell - responsions, costs

78. Five unconnected bills of costs

79. Robert Whitbie c John Williams - responsions

80. CONGLETON Grant by James I to Thomas Hollinshed and William Holinshed of a burgage house

81. Citation.

82. Miscellanea.

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