1666

1. GREAT BUDWORTH Elizabeth & Thomas Starkey c James Hogkinson et alia for tithes as lords of Stretton Hall and owners of tithes - libel, responsions, depositions.

2. CHESTER (St Martin) Isabella Wade c George Harvey for slander. Harvey had been in Northgate prison by order of the mayor - libel, responsions, depositions, bill of costs.

3. WARRINGTON Alice Johnson c Catherine Fairclough saying she was drunk in Jeremy Smethurst Lane - libel, depositions, repair.

4. CHESTER (St Olave) Hugh Harvey c Samuel Davies for saying that in erecting steps from street to churchyard in 1660 Haryvey had abused corpses of recently buried as well as bones of dead by throwing them into a cart with the rubbish - interrogation, depositions.

5. CHESTER Bridget Carrington c John Baxter for saying she was drunk in Eastgate and she struck him - interrogation, confession, deposition, libel.

6. CONGLETON Richard Podmore c Richard Spencer for slander -libel, depositions.

7. TATTENHALL Elizabeth Banyan c John Bannister for calling his sister in law a whore - confession, deposition.

8. CHESTER (St Olave) John Craddock and William Spencer c Edward Dannatt for selling a silver bowl left to the church. It was hidden during Civil War and Commonwealth in a damp place and when recovered was broken and decayed - interrogation, libel, confession, depositions, interrogations. Information on duties of churchwardens in 1664 valuable.

9. ORMSKIRK Anna and Wrightington Senhouse of Seascales c exors of Mary Sharples - citation, deposition, interrogation, allegations, sentence, inventory.

10. GREAT BUDWORTH Elizabeth and Thomas Starkey c Maria Hill et alia for tithes in Stretton - libel, depositions, articles of exception.

11. TARPORLEY Edward and Catherine Owen c Robert Fryer for slander - depositions, confession, sentence, bill of costs.

12. FRODSHAM Alice Heath c Edward Johnson for slander - libel, confessions, bill of costs.

13. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Robert Ridge c John Foster for slander - sentence, bill of costs, depositions.

14. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Robert Ridge c Henry & Elizabeth Hulton for slander - sentence, depositions.

15. BOWDEN William Holland c William Leather calling him a "bankrupt rascall" - depositions, libel.

16. FRODSHAM Margaret Potts c Ellen Roberts for slander - libel. 16a. MALPAS Thomas & Henry Dimcocke c Leche Lloyd for slander. Dispute arose when playing bowls at Hanmer Green - depositions.

17. BARROW Impropriators c Maria Sefton for tithe barley - libel.

18. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Ralph and Ellen Wynnington c Maria Lightfoot for slander - depositions, bill of costs.

19. DODLESTON Leticia Wade c John Lache calling her an old whore - depositions, interrogations, libel.

20. BOOTLE Elena Worsley c William Johnson saying she had a bastard in Ireland - libel, repair.

21. BARROW William Davenport et alia c Maria Sefton for tithes - responsions, confession, sentence (see no.17) repair.

22. CHESTER (St Bridgett) Thomas Swan rector c William Dycoe for tithes - sentence.

23. PENWORTHAM Edward Fleetwood c Evan Proctor for tithe wheat, beans, oats, prices given - libel.

24. CHESTER (St John) Margaret Burgess c Elizabeth Hutton for slander -depositions, bill of costs.

25. ACTON John Faulkner & Margaret Faulkner c George Beeston for slander - libel.

26. MIDDLEWICH William Hughson c Edmund Antrobus for tithe of grazing animals - libel.

27. CHESTER (St John) Margaret Burgess c John Foster for slander - sentence, depositions, bill of costs (see also no.25).

28. CONGLETON Margaret Henshall c John Henshall for wife beating and cruelty - libel, responsions.

29. CHESTER Jane Blackburn c Richard Blackburn for refusing to co-habit - libel, responsions, depositions.

30. NORTH MEOLS Ann Starkey c Alice Corles for slander - libel, sentence, depositions, (repair).

31. PLEMONDSTALL Charles Hotham c Thomas Baker for tithe of animals - libel.

32. BEBINGTON Richard Stones rector c Gaven Hudson for tithe herbage from Greenhey and Oldhey - libel.

33. CHURCH MINSHULL John Wilson c Thomas Holford for tithe mares and foals - responsions, depositions.

34. BEBINGTON Office c John Lasenby for skinning a pig on Sunday - libel.

35. GREAT BUDWORTH Office c Robinson for refusing to communicate, not standing or kneeling as appointed - libel.

36. WITTON CHAPEL Mandate to collect £10.15s.9d due to George Wilson being his expenses in suits to collect arrears of the minister's stipend from disaffected persons.

37. WIGAN William & Elizabeth Linney c Eleanor Murry for playing the whore with William Banks in Taggylane for two loads of malt - libel.

38. EUXTON Edward & Alice Oldfield c John Robinson for slander - libel.

39. BURY Affidavit of Mary Smethurst in disputed will of Mary Holt - libel. Important for details of rural deans' jurisdiction.

40. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Richard & Maria Francis c Maria Hall for slander - libel.

41. BUNBURY John Brook c James Booth for slander - fragment of libel.

42. CHURCH MINSHULL Impropriators c John Wilson for tithe mares and foals - depositions, responsions. (See also no.33).

43. CHESTER Fragment of sentence and responsions on part of Anna Hutchinson. (See 1665 no.30).

44. CHESTER (St Oswald) Office c Edward Hincks for slander of Bishop Hall. "He is no Lord and I care not for bawdy court" - libel.

45. WOOLTON Catherine Lyon c Elizabeth Bushell for slander - libel.

46. Henry Cropper c Richard Hyde in disputed will - bill of costs, responsions.

47. BUNBURY Thomas Aldersey c Thomas Eaton for tithe barley - responsions.

48. HALE Thomas Rowlinson c Isaac Walton concerning bargain about a horse - confession of Walton.

49. WEST KIRBY Fragment of a tithe dispute concerning Johnsons field - responsions.

50. OVER Bill of costs in Totty c Ashbrooke.

51. GRESFORD (Holt Chapel) Thomas Bowrey c Margaret Royden in breach of promise - responsions. (See also 1667).

52. Fragment of a libel in case of Nash c Noden.

53. Unidentified bills of costs - headings torn away.

54. CHESTER Bill of costs in Smalley c Robinson.

55. FRODSHAM Inhibition of tithe cause Lord Rivers c Richard Pengreave for land called Woodhouses.

56. BARROW Bill of costs in case of Mary Sephton c Margery Betteridge.

57. Bill of costs in Maudesley c Edward Lathom.

58. Oath of Margaret Barker contra Daniel Potter.

59. Articles of defence in William Anderson c Robert Hickocke.

60. Confession of Ann Harding in case of Mason c Harding.

61. Miscellanea.