1593

1593

1. CHESTER (St Oswald) Margery Johnson c Margaret Williamson for calling her strumpet; libel, depositions.

2. CHESTER (St Mary) Thos & Anne Bickley c Richard Key calling her a burned whore - libel.

3. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Edward Brocdocke an inhabitant c Churchwardens concerning repairs to the church and sending of the assessment raised; libel, petition by 16 inhabitants.

4. CHESTER (St Mary) Catherine Olerhead c Robert Foxhole for defamation - depositions.

5. CHESTER (St Mary) Alderman Robert Brerewood c Marie Weston for cursing him - depositions.

6. CHESTER Emma Ruttur c Thos Mattershead for bastardy - depositions.

7. CODDINGTON Evan Ricroft rector c Ralph Finchet of St Johns for tithes from the Hall Field and hamlet of Midle Aldersley - libel.

8. WAVERTON Wm Wright rector c Peter Rei for non payment of mortuary dues - allegations.

9. OVER PEOVER Margery Crag wife of Richard Crag c Richard Crag for divorce for her adultery with Randle Kell - libel depositions.

10. PRESCOTT Richard Cooke c Ellen Cooke for adultery with Edward Eaton - libel.

11. BROMBROUGH Churchwardens c John Pillington concerning tithes on newly enclosed ground at Hargreave and portion of the common called the Wood-full file.

12. HOLT John Catherall c John Salisbury calling him a cuckold knave libel - depositions.

13. CARTMEL John Baghe and Katherine his wife c Richard Forshall calling her whore - libel.

14. MALPAS Richard Estwick c Thos Croley concerning title to a pew - libel.

15. BUDWORTH Robert Brownfield & Margery Robinson c Thos Stubbes and 6 others concerning titles to seats after reseating the church - libel, depositions.

16. BUDWORTH Churchwardens of Weaverham c Lawrence Marling for non payment of assessment to the repair of the church - libel, responsions.

17. HALE Wm Platte and churchwardens c Edward Molyneux, John Norris John Brookes and John Thomasson concerning repairs to the chapel. Claim it is a church in its own right and not dependent on Childwall - libel.

18. WARMINGHAM Ellen Haslehurst c John Goldsmith of Rosthern in a matrimonial dispute - sentence.

19. BOSLEY Ellen Morris c Ralph Morris in matrimonial dispute - sentence.

20. TURTON CHAPEL Office c Elizabeth Ridley for adultery in 1591, 92, 93 with Henry Marsden - libel.

21. DEAN Margaret Farreclough c Thos Marsh for affiliation for her bastard child - allegations, depositions.

22. PRESTON Wm Garstang junior c Grace Longton in neglect of compurgation. Alleged that Wm Wall curate of Walton, Blackburn did not call Grace to come forward with 6 honest neighbours nor administer the oath concerning an affiliation order. Wm Garstang elder came forward and said he would reclaim - libel, depositions.

23. WRENBURY Margaret Hannet c Thos Norstall calling her whore - libel.

24. NANTWICH Jane Olton c John & Elizabeth Wood calling her married man's whore - libel.

25. ORMSKIRK Eleanor Butler c John Butler calling her arrant whore - libel.

26. WINWICK Sir Edmund Reyton c Henry Barrowe and others for tithes libel depositions.

27. RIPLEY (Yorks) Edmund Parkinson commissary c Edward Rudd of Killinghall yeoman for tithe oats - libel.

28. WIGAN Edward Fleetwood rector c Francis Shevington for tithes responsions, depositions.

29. WIGAN Roger Adlington c Alice Atharton saying he was a poxy knave - libel, depositions.

30. ACTON Sir John Dutton impropriator c Richard Carter for tithe hemp - libel.

31. GRAPPENHALL Robert Eaton rector c John Hatton & Thos Bindlose for tithes - libel, allegations.

32. BLACKBURN Dorothy Holden c Thos. Woodcock and others for calling her whore and incontinent whore - libel.

33. BLACKBURN John Rogers c Wm Holden and Margaret Bolton saying that she committed adultery with Holden and had a child - libel.

34. ALDFORD S. Hockenhall wife of John Hockenhall son and heir apparent of John Hockenhall c John Dutton of Dutton in a matrimonial dispute - libel, sentence.

35. HALSALL Henry Esteem c Elizbath Platt alias Hesteem for adultery - libel.

36. WARTON Robert Bindlose c Alice Bindlose of Kendal for adultery. Interrogations, depositions sentence.

37. Bill of Costs in Emma Rutter c Thos Mottershead.

38. BURY Peter Shawe rector c Arthur Key (damaged) - sentence.

39. GAWSWORTH Edward Fitton c John Halcroft for tithes - responsions.

40. AUDLEM Ellen Odes c Henry Murray concerning their marriage in the Alefield - libel.

41. LONGTON Richard Churchman vicar concerning disputed ordination of John Churchman and Richard Blakey in 1584 - depositions.

42. Bundle of unidentifiable causes; fragments only.

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