1672

1. HOLT Anna Hurst c Henry Birch saying she committed adultery with Robert Holdsworth.

2. NANTWICH Maria & Susanna Wright c Thomas Wright concerning title to a pew in the cross alley on the south side awarded to Antony Wright when pews made uniform 1633 - libel, depositions, responsions.

3. PRESTBURY Martha Haigh c Hugh Davenport for assaulting her at Chapel en le Frith fair in an alehouse. She was 15 years of age - libel, depositions.

4. PRESTBURY Mary Higgenbotham c John Cottrell for attempting to compel her to marry him - libel.

5. GREAT BUDWORTH Mary Hatton c Richard Lawrenson for adultery - libel, sentence (repair).

6. RATCLIFFE Bill of costs for Charles Beswick, rector c Jacob Mather and nine others.

7. PRESTON Sir Richard Houghton c Wm Charnocke for non payment of modus for hay tithe in demesne of Tulketh - libel, deposition.

8. PRESTON Sir Richard Houghton c Richard Melling for non payment of hay tithe modus - libel, responsions.

9. PRESTON Charles Wilson exor of Geo. Wilson not publ. deceased c Sir Richard Houghton for non payment of fees.

10. ROCHDALE Bills of costs for Sir Richard Byron c George Clegg and seventeen others.

11. BOWDEN Churchwardens c Margaret Johnson for non payment of assessments to repair bells and erect a churchwardens' pew - libel (repair).

12. BOWDEN Elizabeth Ward c Maria Parrin for slander - libel, deposition.

13. CROSTON Thomas Whittle et alia c Thomas Eccles for tithe corn, rye, oats, beans, pease - full file including testimonials.

14. WRENBURY Office c John Savage for adultery with Joyce Bramhall in a field of broom - libel, depositions, interrogations (repair).

15. NANTWICH Office c Thomas Tench for adultery with Margaret Burscoe.

16. ACTON John Swanne clerk of Baddiley c George Huxley of Acton for tithes - libel, responsions.

17. ACTON John Brooke, tithe collector for Christ Church, Oxford c John O'Kell for tithe hay - depositions (repair).

18. WOODCHURCH Richard Watt c George Cottingham & Thomas Goldson saying, "hee was soe far in debt and owd for the very clothes on his back" - libel.

19. BOWDON Isaac Simpson vicar c John Anderton concerning dilapidation in the parsonage house.

20. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Smith c John Gregory for tithe pease, onions, radices, cucumbers and garden produce - libel (repair).

21. CHESTER (St Oswald) John Barker c Thomas Green saying he had taken Spencers tenement over his head. Incident took place on "windmill hill without the Northgate" - libel, deposition.

22. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Maria Roberts c Francis Swettenham for slander -libel, confession.

23. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Smith c John Egerton for tithe animals in Boughton - libel.

24. CHESTER (St Mary) Nicholas Stevenson c Wm Wilbraham for tithe corn - libel, responsions.

25. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Churchwardens c Giles Vanbrugh for non-payment of assessments - libel.

26. CHESTER Robert Shaw c Margaret Burrows calling hima "stinking knave and a bafflehead". Shaw was a tallow chandler in Bridge Street - depositions.

27. RUNCORN Richard Heath c Elizabeth Heath widow saying he bought poison to kill her - libel.

28. HALSALL Elizabeth Sutton c Nicholas Livesay of Downholland saying she committed adultery - libel.

29. ORMSKIRK Churchwardens c Sir John Hurlston asking to enclose a common seat for a private pew. Parish repewed church in 1634 at own cost. Petition signed by 47 parishioners opposing the appropriation of pews on the grounds that there are insufficient seats and private pews not wanted - libel, depositions.

30. SANDBACH John Halsall c John Furnival concerning his title to a pew - libel, responsions (repair).

31. STOKE Robert Breeze c Richard Smith for slander - sentence, costs.

32. STOCKPORT Frances Heawood c Eleanora Hewood et alia for gross slander - depositions, sentence, costs.

33. THORNTON James Gerrard c Joseph and Maria Lawrenson concerning title to am pew - libel.

34. ASHTON Churchwardens c Richard Siddall concerning a pew - libel (repair).

35. BUNBURY George Davenport c Miles Threlfra for tithes - responsions, costs.

36. SNELSON Fragment of a deposition in slander case between Elizabeth Furnival and Mr Fallowes (repair).

37. FRODSHAM Ellen Bushell c Joseph Cooke saying she committed fornication before marriage - libel.

38. MORETON (Bidston) Roger Glegg c Thomas Davies for slander ending in a fight with the shedding of blood - depositions.

39. LEIGH Henry Smith c Wm Wood for slander - libel.

40. HANKELOWE John Wybunbury c Ralph Vernon & his wife for cursing his family - libel.

41. BURNE IN HOLME (Burnley) Thomas Westby c Maria Fitzwilliam concerning tithe of grain - libel (repair).

42. Fragment of a tithe cause between Wm Crosse and Cordelia Fleetwood.

43. Very fragile fragment of a slander case concerning Sara Gibbons - not to be issued until repaired.

44. BREDBURY Wm Henshaw c Anna Wettenhall of Nantwich concerning their marriage in a private house and her adultery with Richard Fogg. Ann taught school in Stockport - full file with documents in correct order.

45. CHESTER (St Oswald) Remission of tithe cause between Elizabeth Smith and Robert Gardner to York.

46. ROCHDALE Prohibition in tithe cause of Richard Byron.

47. LANCASTER Prohibition in tithe cause of Butler c Greenhalgh.

48. LANCASTER Prohibition in tithe cause of Robinson c Greenhalgh.

49. STOKE Prohibition in matrimonial cause of Maria Hatton and Wm Lawrenson (1671 - no.34).

50. Bills of costs for Thomas Hall c Ralph Pownall.

51. BANGOR DEANERY Excommunications (repair).

52. STOCKPORT Excommunications (repair).

53. ROCHDALE Lord Byrom c William Tuxon re tithes - libel, depositions etc.