1669

1. BEBINGTON Maria Langford c Anna Langford for slander - libel.

2. ROCHDALE Office c John Chadwick for a clandestine marriage with Anna Chadwick - citation, sentence.

3. CHRISTLETON Office c Charles Whalley for marriage to Margaret Partington in a private house - libel, confession, sentence.

4. BURY Office c Roger Holt in testamentary case - sentence (see 1667 no.5).

5. CHESTER (St Mary) Office c Anna Clarke in revocation of the nuncupative will of Mary Lewis.

6. TARVIN John Millington c Elizabeth Rutter for saying he was the father of her child - libel.

7. CHRISTLETON Thomas Dutton c Edward Johnson of Manley for slander - libel.

8. MANCHESTER Anna Mosley c John Boardman & Edward Moseley concerning title to a seat in the north gallery of the church - allegation, deposition, faculty issued at York.

9. Anne Worthington widow c Nathaniel Worthington a school master in Yorkshire & Oxford for disposing of more than one-third of the estate of Robert Worthington. Details of the York provincial custom of probate - interrogations.

10. ROSTHERNE Sir Peter Leycester c Thomas Daniels concerning his right to appoint churchwardens and elect sidesmen for Over Tabley chapel - deposition, responsions (see 1667 no.11).

11. RUNCORN (Aston Chapel) Willoughbie Aston c Randle Burton & John Cartwright for erecting a new pulpit and intruding John Witter a dissenter to be minister not communicating - libel.

12. WIGAN Office c John Dwyght intruding into vicarage without canonical institution - libel (repair).

13. BOLTON Feoffees of charity of Francis Goswell c Robert Harper claiming to be the stipendiary Monday lecturer and also vicar of Bolton when the charity has separated the two offices - responsions.

14. PRESCOT Churchwardens c Cuthbert Ogle for assessments. Ogle says the glebe land is not taxable and he repairs the chancel in lieu of assessments - responsions, oaths of witnesses.

15. LIVERPOOL Wm Strangeways et alia c John Leigh minister for postponing morning prayer until noon because of election of Mayor Bicksteth. Moor his rival saying Bicksteth had not communicated for a year so Leigh administered the sacrament at 4.00pm privately to qualify Bicksteth for office - confession, depositions, libel (repair).

16. LEIGH Lawrence Rawsthorne c Henry Slater & Richard & Francis Bradshaw concerning their right to a pew in Atherton chapel - responsions.

17. KNUTSFORD Office c John Acton & Sarah Bostock for adultery - bill of costs, sentence, depositions.

18. MINSHULL Wm Darlington c Dorothy Darlington for adultery and bastardy with John Evans a carrier. She gave Evans £20 to be true and tried to poison William -depositions, responsions, libel.

19. BUNBURY Roger Griffiths c Thomasine Hatton and Matthew Davies for tithes (see 1667 no.51) - sentence, depositions.

20. CHESTER (St Mary) Nicholas Stevenson rector c Hugh Barkley for tithe on 40 acres of pasture - libel, declaration.

21. ECCLESTON William Bispham clerk c William Selbye of St Oswwald, Chester for tithe - sentence, confession, bill of costs.

22. CODDINGTON Richard Vaughan rector c George Lewis for tithe on 60 barren cattle - libel.

23. CODDINGTON Richard Vaughan c Laurence Heaward for tithe cows now pasturing in Highfield rented from Lady Wilbraham - responsions, depositions, libel (repair).

24. CODDINGTON Richard Vaughan c John Chubb for tithe on cattle now pasturing - libel.

26. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Ursula Morgan c Alice Clarke who has been whoring in Ireland for seven weeks - libel, sentence, costs.

27. WINWICK Margaret Lyon c James Watmough saying that she fornicated with Henry Biram - libel, depositions, sentence.

28. CHESTER (St Olave) Maria Mainwaring c Jane Thompson a base housewife and a drunkard - libel, depositions, sentence.

29. MANCHESTER (Blakeley) Elizabeth Costerdine c Jane Bowker for making her husband a cuckold with two persons in one night - libel, depositions.

30. MOTTRAM Reginald Britland & William Hyde impropriators c Wm Turner for tithe on sheep - libel.

31. MANCHESTER (Rusholme) Citation for John Dawson to appear for correction.

32. CHEADLE Citation for Alice Hooley to appear for correction.

33. CHRISTLETON Jane Grymes c Thomas Brooke for saying that she was his whore - depositions, confession, libel.

34. WIGAN Bill of costs in case of Churchwardens c John Seddon (see 1668 no.3).

35. MINSHULL Eleanor Newton c Daniel Truby for tithe animals -libel, confession, deposition, responsions.

36. CHESTER (St Oswald) John Carden c Maria Simons for saying he stole her chickens and roasted them - libel, depositions.

37. WARRINGTON Hugh Higson of Dublin c Robert Massey for calling him a bastard - libel, confession.

38. CHESTER William Throppe c Richard Burd for calling him a cheat and knave - libel, depositions.

39. PLEMONDSTALL Maria Jones c John Davies saying she was a whore and thief - libel, deposition.

40. CHESTER Richard Watson c Hugh Roberts for saying that his father had two wives and he was a bastard and beggars brat - libel, depositions, bill of costs.

41. INCE Mary Johnson c Elizabeth Whitby saying that Mary had eight children and three were bastards -libel, deposition.

42. INCE Elizabeth Whitby c John and Margery Banks for saying she was naughty several times with Thomas Hughes - libel, depositions.

43. MOTTRAM Impropriators c Elizabeth Fryer for tithe animals -libel.

44. MOTTRAM Impropriators c Elizabeth Fryer for tithe animals -libel.

45. PLEMONDSTALL Charles Hotham rector c Robert Lyvesley for tithe on animals - libel.

46. LACHE Copy leases by Dean and Chapter of Chester of tithes of Lache to George Manley 13 October, 30 James I.

47. SUTTON Henry Woodcock c Edward Hinks for tithes - libel.

48. SUTTON Henry Woodcock c Richard Price for tithe on four acres of pasture - libel.

49. HEAPEY CHAPEL Responsions of Jacob Armetriding exor of Ann Chisnall concerning a legacy.

50. MANCHESTER Responsions on behalf of Robert Birch for tithe on 4 cows, 3 calves, 5 loads of hay, 12 geese and 4 hens.

51. Bill of costs in case of Alice Guddicar c John Hughes.

52. AUDLEM Responsions of Robert Wilson for John Podmore c Churchwardens.

53. KNUTSFORD Rough notes of a Court session held in the chapel.

54. TRANMERE Mary Langford c Anna Langford for slander - depostions.

55. CHESTER Ursula Morgan c Alice Clarke saying she would cut her into small flesh to pot - depositions.

56. Two unrelated bills of costs.

57. EATON Allegations of Richard Butler & John Broadhurst c Matt Bailey of Tarporley.

58. MIDDLEWICH Prohibition in tithe dispute of Wm Hughson promoted by Edmund Antrobus. To Duchy Court (1667 no.55).

59. Responsions of Henry Bancroft to allegation of William Daniell.

60. Frances Cotton al. Annyon c Margaret Woodward re wills of Raphe and Peter Woodward - responsions etc.

61. Responsions of Humphrey Caltwell and John Barker to allegation of Ann Mideley and Elizabeth Wilding.