1678-9

1. BURY Bill of costs in case of Thomas Gipps c Roger Holt (1677-10).

2. INCE Richard Hinde c William Adamson concerning his pew affected by alterations to seats - responsions, depositions, sentence (1675-21; 1677-8).

3. SEFTON Margaret Wilson c Margery Bryanson for ante nuptial fornication with her husband - libel, deposition, interrogations.

4. SEFTON Margery Bryanson c Margery Fleetwood saying she was drunk at Bessy Clark's house at the church yard side - libel, interrogations, depositions.

5. MANCHESTER Sara Bordman c Eliza Kennyon for slander - libel, confessions, depositions.

6. PULFORD Maria Burganie c George Guest saying she and William Burganie went to the Ship in Northgate, Chester, slept together and were married next day - libel, depositions, interrogations.

7. WILMSLOW Ralph Bradford c Hugh & Ellen Davenport saying he was married in a private house - libel.

8. WINWICK Anna Newton c Margaret Baker saying she was naughty under the stairs the night the burgessess were chosen at Newton - libel, interrogations, depositions.

9. ORMSKIRK Sir John Hurleston c Peter Rigbie concerning a pew belonging to Hurleston House. Reference to pews before uniformity of 1635 and to one dated 1618. "There are so many people in the parish the churchwardens say they must sit where they can".

10. ORMSKIRK Sir John Entwistle c Jane Laithwaite concerning a pew - depositions (1677-9).

11. TARPORLEY Margaret Brassie c John Hussie for slander - libel, depositions, appeal.

12. TEARTON Richard Halton c John Read for tithe hay - allegations, responsions.

13. FARNDON John Massie c Thomas Bowers concerning repair of chancel or oratory - fragment only.

14. THURSTASTON Office c John Groome rector for not observing Common Prayer, accepting secular work and taking part in indecorous acts - libel.