1618

1618

1. CHESTER (St Oswald) Parnella Taylor of Chester c Ralph Slathom of Prestbury for attempting to enter her bedroom but was thrown out by Parnell, Locket and others - libel.

2. CHESTER (St Oswald) John Burton c Matilda Robinson widow of St Mary calling him knave - libel.

3. CHESTER (St Oswald) Margaret Peckett c Ellen Johns calling her arrant whore - libel.

4. CHESTER (St Oswald) John Barnes of St John Baptist c Edward Brooke & Anna Ashton of St Oswald concerning his title to a seat next the Mayor and Aldermen in right of his house in St Werbergh's Lane leading from the Cathedral to Eastgate Street - libel.

5. CHESTER (St Olave) Churchwardens c John Williams concerning his tithes or seat cessment - libel, interrogations, responsions, depositions.

6. (Not allocated).

7. CHESTER (St Mary) Peter Crosse c Jane Crosse for adultery with Geo. Manley - libel.

8. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Henry Hocknell c Alexander Hynde for calling him cuckold bird - libel.

9. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Thos Lynaker c Elizabeth c Margaret Lynaker calling Elizabeth a drunken jade - libel, exceptions.

10. CHESTER (St John) Alice Parre widow c Richard Hartford saying she deserved a whip and cart for an old bawd - depositions.

11. CHESTER (St John) Jane Broster c Edward Broster in a matrimonial dispute - libel (too fragile to handle).

12. CHESTER (St Peter) Churchwardens c John Bavand for not paying five shillings to repair of nave - libel.

13. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Bill of Costs in cause between Katherine Modewsley and Wm Younge.

14. WHITEGATE Hamonis Percyvall vicar c Eliza Entwistle for non payment of tithe and Easter dues - libel.

15. WITTON Elizabeth Tarbocke c Margery Wilbram saying she was naughty with a father and two sons - libel.

16. WITTON Elizabeth Tarbocke c Ellen Massie, Mary Massie and Ann Shaw for saying she fonicated before marriage - libel.

17. WITTON Randle Farrar of Acton c Thos Sudlowe for slander - responsions, depositions.

18. ACTON Churchwardens c Maria Cholmondeley of Vale Roayl for non payment of dues to repair of church - libel.

19. MANCHESTER Adam Smith impropriator c Oswald Mosley for tithes from Salford and Chetham - libel, responsions.

20. MANCHESTER Wm Hall c Ellen Hall in a divorce suite - sentence, costs.

21. MANCHESTER Adam Smith c Thos Masey for tithes - sentence.

22. MANCHESTER Gerard Heys of Stockport c Alice Holm of Manchester in a matrimonial dispute - sentence of absolution.

23. MOTTRAM Churchwardens c Ralph Somester, Robert Wild and John Depledge for non payment of assessments to repair of church - libel, depositions.

24. MOTTRAM Churchwardens c Edmund Beeley, Edward Chadwick, Wm. Chadwick, Alexander Rodes, Cicely Chadwick for non payment of assessments -libel.

25. MOTTRAM Churchwardens c Nicholas Heaward, Geo. Turner, John Newton, John Ashton for the same - libel.

26. MOTTRAM Churchwardens c Lawrence Wyld, Thos Harrison, Thos Bibbie for the same - libel, responsions, depositions.

27. THORNTON Wm Saburne rector c Robert Hatton woolmerchant of Chester for tithes from pasture on Smiths Hey, Elton, libel.

28. THORNTON Office c Alice Whitbie wife of Richard Whitbie for adultery - depositions.

29. STOCKPORT Alice Hulme c Gerard Leys in a matrimonial cause - interrogations, depositions.

30. HANLEY Geo Turner rector of Sephton c Geo Calverley for 6 seats belonging to the Barony of Kinderton on south side of church are a different breadth and length by 3ft to other seats. Case had been before the High Commission at Lambeth. Additional Articles, responsions, depositions.

31. STALMINE John Greenhalgh impropriator c Richard Smith, Dorothy Pike, Jacob Dawson for tithe barley - libel, responsions.

32. STALMINE John Greenhalgh c John Smith, Allan Auckilby, Henry Robinson for tithe barley - libel, responsions (repair).

33. WEAVERHAM Ellen Grantham c Geo Underwood for defamation - sentence.

34. ASTBURY Elizabeth Morton widow of John Morton c Edward Drakeford mayor of Congleton & others concerning her title to a seat in the church - libel.

35. ASTBURY Katherine Burges & Ellene Leicester c Maria Burges for defamation - libel (fragile).

36. WHALLEY Office c Christopher Harrison for lending John Kenyon £5 and charging 16/- interest for one year - libel.

37. WHALLEY Ralph Ashton c Henry Richmond for tithe grain from Castle Clitheroe - responsions.

38. GREAT BUDWORTH John Hall c Margaret Hall in a matrimonial cause libel.

39. GREAT BUDWORTH Mr Eaton vicar c Richard Leicester for tithes - depositions.

40. DAVENHAM Thos Mallories, Dean of Chester and rector of Davenham c Wm Oldfield for tithes - libel.

41. DAVENHAM Thos Mallorie c Richard Patrick of Budworth for tithes - libel.

42. WILMSLOW Thos Wright rector c Roger Worthington for tithe oats and pease - responsions.

43. MALPAS Margaret Hopley c John Bettiley for breach of marriage contract and having made her pregnant -articles, interrogations, responsions.

44. MALPAS Wm Blethine c Roger Hodgkin saying he was the spawn of an old pockie whore - libel (repair).

45. ROSTHERNE Elizabeth Bounde c Joan Swann calling her thief whore, and witch - libel.

46. BLANK

47. MOBBERLEY Katherine Bow c Wm Bow for not co-habiting with her - libel, responsions.

48. SADDLEWORTH Edward Percevall curate c Richard Wrigley, Robert Whewall, John Harrop for bringing a non-conformable minister into the chapel when Percivall was reading Evening prayer at the chancel door and Wrigley said "Shrd Shrd come this way we will have a sermon of our own" and took him to preach in the churchyard causing a disturbance - libel.

49. SANDBACH Laurence Wood MA vicar c Katherine Sutton for tithe - sentence.

50. BUNBURY John Egerton c Wm Dodd for tithes - sentence, costs.

51. WINWICK Elizabeth Taylor c Elizabeth Gorforth saying she got her goods falsely - libel.

52. WINWICK Jane Gaskell c Jacob Kenion for cutting away part of the inscription on her husbands gravestone without the authority of Bishop or Chancellor - responsions.

53. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood impropriator c Richard Parker for tithes - libel (repair).

54. PRESTBURY Elizabeth Shirt c Margaret Horderne saying John Lathom was father of her child - libel.

55. PRESTBURY Thos Leigh c Christopher Byron & Warren for tithes - libel and sentence.

56. PRESTBURY Maria Tongue c Ralph Smith for defamation - libel.

57. LAWCHURCH Margaret Procter wife of John Procter c John Woodcock for calling her children bastards - libel, interrogations.

58. OLDHAM Edmund Ashton impropriator c Hugh Pollett, Ralphy Whittaker, Robert Winterbotham for tithe barley - libel.

59. CROSTON Robert Charnocke impropriator by purchase from Thos Bond vicar who obtained tithes from Agnes abbess of Syon nunnery c (?) Tatchell for tithes - libel (fragile).

60. GARSTANG Geo Mitton vicar c John Crougley for tithe from newly cleared ground in Claughton - libel.

61. MACCLESFIELD Anna Jackson c Ellen Jackson saying when Edward was absent John Pott came by night to her bed and had his pleasure - libel.

62. SHOTWICK Richard Briscowe c JoAnna Hitchens calling him a "lowsy thief" - libel.

63. ECCLES Inhibition of cause between Jane Ekersall and Wm Cook from York.

64. NESTON John Eaton c JoAnna Forshaw saying he committed adultery with Margaret Amsdal - libel.

65. COLNE Anna Hargreaves c Dorothy Roycrofte for defamation - libel.

66. LEIGH Robert Blundell curator of Thos Tyldesley minor c Isabella Byrom concerning the Tyldesley burial place in church - libel, responsions.

67. WARRINGTON Jacob Richardson al Williamson c Jenet Jameson alias Williamson c John Wright for adultery - libel.

68. STANDISH Office c John Halsworth and his wife concerning their marriage - libel.

69. DEAN Margaret Maband c Richard Pendlebury for breach of marriage contract made by verba de presenti - libel.

70. MIDDLETON Ellen Heald c Geo Smyth calling her a bastard - libel.

71. ROCHDALE Ottiwell Wylde c Charles Holland and Margaret Wylde for adultery - libel.

72. MILLOM John Cowell of Dingley, Northampton c Isabel Besbrowne in a matrimonial cause - libel.

73. KNUTSFORD Richard Warburton of Budworth c Katherine Wotton alias Sergeant alias Warburton of Knutsford in a matrimonial cause - libel, responsions, commission for evidence.

74. PRESTWICH Anne Ashton c Ralph Whittaker for tithes - libel.

75. BLACKLEY CHAPEL Office c Wm and Ellen Hall concerning their marriage - depositions (see No.20).

76. Edward Stanley c Adam Charnocke concerning a fraudulent handling of debts - libel.

77. Richard Tue c Jane Hurleston in a matrimonial cause - responsions.

78. STOCKPORT Wm Daniell c Joanna Ridgway in a matrimonial cause - responsions.

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