1620

1620

1. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Cowper c Wm Healde of St Mary's for defamation - sentence.

2. CHESTER (St Mary) Ralph Davies affirmation that on the order of Ralph Higginson churchwarden did pull down a pew.

3. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Marie (Stones) c Edward Stones for wife beating -depositions (repair).

4. WALLASEY Geo Snell STP rector c John Fletcher concerning the ruinous condition of the chancel and rectory - depositions, libel.

5. PRESTBURY Constance Dale c Margery Davenport for defamation - libel, interrogations.

6. PRESTBURY Robert Green c Katherine Wadsworth in nullity of marriage - depositions.

7. THURSTASTON John Whitmore c Richard Burches and Anne his wife, the former for assaulting Thos Whittle and the latter for defaming his wife Lurie - libel.

8. MALPAS Robert Gittens rector of one moiety c Thos Bramley for defauding the rector of profits - responsions.

9. CHILDWALL Office c Henry Taylor vicar - sentence.

10. MANCHESTER Alice Whittaker c John Holme & Maria Holme for defamation - depositions.

11. MANCHESTER Thos & Anne Smythe of Hulme c Jane Ellenthorpe for defamation - depositions.

12. CONGLETON (?) Wood c Maria Buckley for saying she kept a bawdy house - libel.

13. ASTBURY Elizabeth Adams c Margaret Rylance saying she was Hugh Rylance whore - libel.

14. ROCHDALE Alice Holt c Ellen Holt - decree from York.

15. ROCHDALE (Whitworth Chapel) Laurence Ambler curate c Francis Holy for non payment of dues - libel.

16. OVER Joanne Stockton c Robert Whittingham saying he committed adultery - depositions.

17. BOWDEN Richard Vaudrey c George Pearson & John Saunders for tithes - libel, responsions, depositions.

18. EASTHAM Richard Vaudrey c Robert Barrie & John Barnes for tithe wheat from St Ellens Hey and Milne Hey - responsions.

19. RAINHILL Office c Richard Wilcock & Alice Stringfellow for a clandestine marriage by Tovey curate of Prescott in house of Henry Sutton - responsions.

20. WARRINGTON Margery Brock c John & Ralph Mather for calling her a whore with whom they had dealings - libel, depositions.

21. WARRINGTON Alice Hawarden c Richard Massey concerning their title to a seat in church being recently repewed - responsions, depositions.

22. TARVIN Edward Bagshawe vicar c Peter Lightfoot for tithes from Park Moor - libel.

23. TARVIN Jane Leadbeater c Elizabeth Sutton for defamation - libel, depositions.

24. BUNBURY John Kettel c Richard Bird senior and Richard Bird jnr concerning a violent dispute over a pew, names of pew owners listed - depositions, sentence, costs.

25. FRODSHAM Thos Sarrat minister c Jules Sarrat for non payment of dues - depositions.

26. NANTWICH Anne Lewis c Anne Lea for calling her a brazen faced whore in the churchyard - libel.

27. NANTWICH Office c Thos Wilbram and Rachell Cleve concerning their marriage - allegations.

28. WINWICK Master Culcheth c Edmund Hardy, clerk, saying Culcheth had two wives being divorced from one by the Bishop of Canterbury - depositions.

29. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood impropriator c Roger Kenion of Whalley & Richard Whitenham of Billington for tithe animals and wool - libel.

30. DODLESTON Alice Grosvenor c Jane Kerrison for defamation - libel (fragile).

31. ALDFORD Churchwardens c Wm Harrison concerning payment for repair of great bell broken during an extraordinary ringing - responsions.

32. DARESBURY Churchwardens c Richard Ryder, John Grimsditch, John Thompson for non payment of layes to repair of church - libel.

33. LEYLAND Jacob Anderton c John Rowe, Wm Eccleston, Wm Edmundson for non payment of tithes - libel.

34. WYBUNBURY Laurence Bressie c Magister Shipton concerning a disputed payment of tithe dues - depositions.

35. RUNCORN Office c Robert Saule for adultery with strange women - fragment.

36. HOLMES CHAPEL Office c Jacob Deane concerning the removal of a pew - libel.

37. DUTTON PARK Office c Katherine Wadsworth & Robert Green for marriage in an old chapel by one Kay - responsions.

38. Ellen Marsh c Hugh Adlington for breach of marriage contract - fragment.

39. Olive Smith c George Baguley for breach of marriage contract - depositions.

40. Two unidentified fragments.

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