1592

1592

1. CHESTER (St Mary) Katherine Brereton widow impropriator c Philip Kelly of St Martins for tithes - sentence.

2. CHESTER Elizabeth Shaw c Hugh Shaw for adultery - depositions.

3. CHESTER (St Peter) Wm Pixley and Dorothy Pixley for refusing to make provision for her after marriage - libel.

4. ROSTHERN Margaret Sproston c Elizabeth Barlow saying she was her husbands whore - libel, depositions.

5. GAWSWORTH Churchwardens c Thos Walker, Edward Fytton, John Chorley refusing to pay church lays - libel.

6. GAWSWORTH Churchwardens c Wm Okes, Edward Stubbs, Richard Hammond for refusing to pay church lays - libel.

7. TILSTON Ludovic Raylie c Wm and Jane Pova calling him rascal, villain, cuckold - libel, depositions - libel, depositions.

8. PRESCOT Divorce cause of John Plumton and Maria Plumton alias Harison sentence fragment.

9. PRESCOT Philip Layton impropriator c Matthew Yarley and Wm Richardson for tithes - libel.

10. OLDHAM Alice Taylor wife of James c Francis Travesse saying she was a lewd and naughty woman and he had carnal knowledge of her many times - libel.

11. OLDHAM Henry Buckley c Jane Kershaw saying he was a drunkard - libel, depositions.

12. HOLT Ellen Fallowes c David ap Williams alias Laborer saying she was a carted whore - libel.

13. WITTON alice Hulse c Katherine Holes wife of Ralph calling her a bastard - libel.

14. MANCHESTER John Richardson c Isabella Morse alias Richardson in a divorce cause - libel.

15. MANCHESTER George Travis and Gilbert Severolde c Marjery Pendleton concerning an attempt to steal money from Edward Massie which if she would do this they would give her £40 in cash and a good horse to escape 40/50 miles to London or Cambridge which she refused so they defamed her - libel sentence.

16. MANCHESTER Jacob Radcliffe c Ellen Hughes in a cause of bastardy - libel, depositions, sentence.

17. MANCHESTER Ambrose Robinson c Edward Torkington of Stockport for defamation - libel, depositions.

18. MANCHESTER Thomas Asmall c Robert Barbar accusing him of bastardy depositions.

19. WIGAN Alice Rigbie wife of Roger c Maria Fairehurst saying Alice was a cruel woman - libel.

20. MIDDLEWICH Richard Partington c John Rowlands calling him a bastard - libel.

21. WIGAN Edward Fleetwood rector c Francis Shevington for tithes - libel.

22. GREAT BUDWORTH Elizabeth Holford widow impropriator c Ellen Crosby for tithes - sentence, costs.

23. FLIXTON Chris Anderton and Laurence Chorley impropriators c Margaret Hide for tithe - libel, excommunication for Hide.

24. HALSALL Thos Molyneux impropriator c Cuthbert Halsal for tithes - libel.

25. ORMSKIRK Hugh Shaw c Elizabeth Shaw alias Ashton alias Hopwood for divorce - libel, sentence.

26. BLACKBURN Anna Dewhurst alias Boyes c John Boyes in a divorce cause - libel, depositions.

27. KIRKHAM John Rogerson of Chester c George Burfield alias Bushell, alias Barrett and Anne Clifton daughter of Cuthbert Clifton deceased concerning a matrimonial contract - libel.

28. PRESTON Philip Layton c Jane Salisburie alias Layton in matrimonial dispute - libel.

29. NEWCHURCH Cause against Henry Morely for bastardy - fragment.

30. SEFTON John Robinson c Richard Blundell cause unknown.

31. CHILDWALL Richard Cooke c Margaret Cooke - sentence.

32. KNUTSFORD Ellen Howarth c Jacob Rawcliffe for bastardy - depositions.

33. CHESTER Ellen Wright c Jane Smyth fragment of sentence.

34. BUGLAWTON John Burgess c Alice Burgess for adultery - libel.

35. PRESTBURY Cecily wife of Arthur Colleigne c Francis Travisse of Oldham saying she was a lewd and naughty woman - libel.

36. PRESTBURY John Wakefield c Elizabeth Ashe in a matrimonial dispute - sentence.

37. NANTWICH Margaret Dodd c Ralph Craket and Roger Acock saying she played the whore with John Smith of Congleton - libel.

38. THURSTASTON Elizabeth Tyrer c Marjery Whitmore widow of William saying she whored with John Coventree - libel.

39. BARTHOMLEY Thos Elcock rector c Hugh Whiclock of Sandbach for tithe herbage - libel.

40. STOCKPORT Churchwardens c Ralph Oats for non payment of his assessment to the repair of the church - depositions.

41. WIGAN Costs in cause of Jane Browneley c Margaret Pollard - letter.

42. STOCKPORT Churchwardens c Ralph Winnington for non payment of assessment to the repair of the church - depositions.

43. STOCKPORT Churchwardens c Edmind Torkington for non payment of his assessments to the repair of the church - libel.

44. PENWORTHAM Elizabeth Wignall widow c Robert Askon calling her arrant whore with Evan Taskar - libel.

45. BEBINGTON Elizabeth Smalshawe c Marjery Smalshawe widow saying she was a rotten whore - libel.

46. Sentence in a cause between John Golborne and Anne Cotes.

47. Lawrence Swetenam c Robert Bamford in pew dispute - responsions.

48. Objections to witnesses in cause Osbaldeston c Massie.

49. Margaret Charnock c Robert Charnock in matrimonial contract.

50. CHESTER Wm Helson c Wm Sherlocke - depositions.

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