1617

1617

1. CHESTER Ralph Aldersey of Chester c Cecilia Aldersey his wife of Nantwich for adultery with Toby Tench - libel, depositions, sentence.

2. CHESTER Katherine Modesley wife of John of St John Baptist c Wm Yonge for calling her arrant whore -libel.

3. CHESTER (St Oswald) Margaret Cotton c Eleanor Taylor calling her jade and piper's whore - libel.

4. CHESTER (St Oswald) Gregory Turner clerk c Geo Calverley concerning his title to a pew - fragment of libel.

5. CHESTER (St Mary) Winefrida Meacock wife of Robert c Ellen Croughton saying she had a child in fornication before marriage - depositions.

6. CHESTER (St Mary) Margaret Barkham c Anna Wright for slander - depositions.

7. CHESTER (St Mary) Anna Edwards c Richard & Katherine Annion calling her a shaven tailed whore - libel.

8. CHESTER (St Peter) Churchwardens c Edward Dutton - sentence.

9. CHESTER (St Peter) Henry Eyton c Maria Dod - sentence.

10. KIRBY Isabella Brombile alias Houghton c John Bromvile for beating her, locking her out and sending her back to her father without maintenance - libel, responsions.

11. GREAT BUDWORTH Margate Hall c John Hall for restoration of conjugal rights - libel.

12. MOBBERLEY Robert Eaton MA rector c Robert Robinson for tithe cattle sheep and black horses - libel.

13. MOBBERLEY Robert Eaton rector c Wm Burges for tithes - sentence.

14. WRENBURY Thos Bebbington c Thos Bostocke vicar concerning his claim to vicarial tithes - exceptions.

15. MALPAS Robert Gilling & Thos Coller rectors of both medieties c Ralph Maddocks for tithe sheep - libel.

16. MANCHESTER Henry Lathome impropriator c Richard Arderne for tithes in Stretford - sentence.

17. MANCHESTER Elizabeth Kay c Ralph & Roger Bamford saying she had been naughty with six several men in one hour - libel.

18. MANCHESTER Office c Wm Tailer of Chollerton saying that John Hale, Jacob Williamson and Alexander Barlowe were drunkards and murderers - libel.

19. MANCHESTER Henry Lathome impropriator c Wm Hulme of Stretford for tithes - sentence.

20. MANCHESTER Alice Holme c Ralph Seddon for fraud, staying with his wife during time of birth of child and Edward Booth and Thomas Briggs and others for aiding and abetting Seddon - libel.

21. SANDBACH Laurence Wood vicar c Edward Cotton, Hugh Annion and Isabella Walley for tithe on cattle and sheep - libel, responsions.

22. SANDBACH Laurence Wood vicar c Oliver Locket, Ralph Furnival & Kathleen Sutton for vicarial tithes - libel.

23. SANDBACH Margaret Forster c Laurence Forster for cruelty, beating her, hitting her with his fist so her eyes were black and blue - libel.

24. SANDBACH Nathaniel Bannister c Elizabeth Bannister for adultery with Sam Milnes, bearing his child and baptising it at Buxton - responsions.

25. PRESCOT John Alden vicar c Henry Lathom for tithes - libel.

26. PRESCOT John Alden STB vicar c Gilbert Strange for tithe hay - libel.

27. PRESCOT John Alden STB vicar c Henry Smyth for vicarial tithes - libel.

28. CHILDWALL Henry Taylor vicar c Elizabeth Lathom widow for vicaraial tithes - libel.

29. CHILDWALL Henry Taylor vicar c John Linaker, Richard Annott & Thos Miller for tithes on 50 thraves of canabis and 40 of flax - libel, responsions.

30. PRESTWICH John Langley MA rector c Jacob Wylde, Jacob Whitworth Jacob Taylor for tithes from hamlet of Linewood in Oldham - libel.

31. PRESTWICH John Langley MA c Edmund Whitehead, Robert Taylor, Geo Clough for tithes from Linewood - libel, (fragile).

32. HANLEY George Turner clerk c George Calverley for erecting a pew in a "void place" without consent and knowledge of the Bishop who had given a charge against innovation or alteration of pews - depositions.

33. PRESTBURY Thos. Leigh impropriator c Wm Warren for tithe oats from enclosed waste - responsions.

34. PRESTBURY (Alderley Chapel) Margaret Bucke c Ralph Norburie in a pew dispute with violence - depositions.

35. PRESTBURY Fragment of a sentence in a cause between Ralph Smallwood and Elizabeth Haslehurst.

36. STOCKPORT Wm Daniell c Joanna Ridgway for breach of matrimonial contract - libel.

37. STOCKPORT Henry Daniell c Wm & Margery Daniell alias Mosse in a business of proving lawful marriage between them - libel, interrogations.

38. STOCKPORT Ellen Daniell c John Daniell saying she was bought and sold like a beast in the market and has the whore's mark - libel.

39. BRINDLE Alice Shaw c Miles Sommer of Walton for breach of marriage contract - libel, depositions (fragile).

40. COLNE Thos Gunting vicar of Bracewell (York) c Daniell Barnard of Colne for tithe of barren cattle - libel.

41. NANTWICH Thos & Elizabeth Bickerton c Gabriel Houghton for cursing them - responsions, depositions, sentence.

42. NANTWICH The presentment to the Bishop that Thos Whitehead did not communicate at Easter and did not attend church was an error since he is a prisoner in his house these six years and request absolution.

43. TARPORLEY Anne Barnely c John Witter saying she was Wm Sunier's whore - depositions.

44. WINWICKE Jacob Kennion c Jane Gaskell for placing a gravestone on her husband's grave 1½ yds x 1½ yds being larger than permitted and taking up more grave space than is available - libel.

45. WINWICKE Sentence in a cause between Wm Bretherton and Thos sergeant.

46. HALE Gilbert Ireland c Henry Wainwright and ten others concerning his chapel in the chancel 36ft x 18ft the seats in the chapel and his title to them. Quotes an inscription of Richard II - "Hic iacet Mgr John Leyot rector of Malpas & Bangor who first acquired a free burial place by decree of Pope Urban VI and also to the east window with the inscription "Orate pro animabus Adae de Ireland armigeri primi fundatores istius Capellae et Avena eius uxoris" and that Hale chapel was free and parochial - libel, interrogation, responsions.

47. BUNBURY Claim by John Egerton to tithes of Tarnton and Rectory of Beenley by purchase from the Crown after the College was dissolved - interrogation, responsions.

48. ACTON Thos Bostock vicar c Thos Bebbington concerning the tithes of Wrenbury. Bebbington declares that Wrenbury is a parish not a chapel - interrogations, depositions.

49. MOBBERLEY Robert Eaton rector c Francis Newton of Wilmslow for tithe animals and pasture - libel.

50. GOOSTREY Roger Smethley churchwarden c John Booth, Thos Baskerville, Margaret Cotton concerning title to a burial place in the chancel. Chapel built by Elizabeth Knutsford great aunt to Margaret Cotton; churchwardens accounts for building costs - libel, responsions.

51. AUGHTON Nicholas Ramester rector c Chris Waring of Ormskirk for tithe wheat - libel.

52. AUDLEM Jane Hurleston c Richard Tue for breach of marriage contract - libel.

53. THORNTON Richard Orme of Dunham on Hill c Alice Orme of Tarvin for adultery with Richard Whitbie - libel.

54. WEAVERHAM Sentence in a divorce case between Richard and Margaret Burrowes.

55. GLOSSOP Nicholas Shirte c Elizabeth Hayward of Saddleworth for breach of marriage contract made at All Saints 1615 - libel, sentence.

56. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood c Edward Carter & Richard Talbot for tithes - libel (unfit to issue).

57. CHURCH LAWTON Petition by John Lawton that Elizabeth Wetherby was pregnant by her employer.

58. LAWTON Joanna Newton c Wm Johnson saying she was a whore - libel.

59. TURTON CHAPEL Gilbert Astley curate c Wm Consrey for non payment of 12d annually to the curate - depositions.

60. ROCHDALE Jacob Grime c Isaac Smith saying he stole his sheets - libel.

61. LITTLEBOROUGH Joseph Marcroft curate c Edmund Whitehead for not contributing his share of £10 stipend due to curate - libel.

62. HASLINGDEN Robert Gregory c Christobella and Susanna Ratcliffe concerning their title to three forms in the chapel - libel.

63. BOLTON John Green apparitor general c Geo Croston of Standish Thos Shaw, Richard Brownelow, Robert Ainsworth of Bolton concerning their mismanagement of Rivington Grammar School as governors and not following the statutes which James Pilkington Bishop of Durham approved for the school.

64. COPPENHALL Churchwardens c Wm Shaw of Sandbach for not paying his dues to repair of Coppenhall Church - libel.

65. SPEKE Edward Stanley c Adam Chaddock for defamation - depositions.

66. TILSTON Thos Huett c Wm Browne for defamation - fragment.

67. KNUTSFORD John Bentley c John Leigh of Norbury - sentence.

68. WARRINGTON Jane Bell c Wm Fletcher of Prescot for defamation - libel.

69. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Robert Ince c David & Elizabeth Rogers for slander - responsions.

70. COLNE Decree from York in a cause between Janet Robinson and Barbara Emotte.

71. Jane Eckersell c Robert Cooke concerning affiliation of her child - libel, repair.

72. ALDERLEY Fragment of a pew dispute between Randle Newton and Margaret Barber - unfit to issue.

73. BUNBURY Suspension from office of Wm Hyne clerk vicar for contempt of the rites and ceremonies and celebration of divine service according to the prayer book as authorised by parliament.

74. HANLEY Responsions of Geo Hitchin in a unidentified cause.

75. WILMSLOW Costs in cause of Thos Wright clerk and Thos Pownall.

76. COCKERHAM Fragment of a cause concerning the maintenance of a child.

77. Responsions in a matrimonial cause between Peter and Katherine Leigh.

78. GOOSTREY Margaret Cotton c Ellen Taylor for defamation at Shrovetide 1616 but were made friends on Palm Sunday to receive the sacrament at Easter articles exception.

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