1677

1. INCE Confession of Richard Hynde c John Wright. Forms in church demolished by the soldiers in the Civil War and replaced by the parish (1675-21).

2. DENTON Thomas Hide c Anthony Booth for creating a disturbance in the church - penance, costs.

3. BOWDEN Churchwardens c Richard Alcocke for church lays unpaid - sentence (1676-9).

4. OVER Philip Johnson of Whitegate c Ralph Maddocks saying he committed ante nuptial fornication - libel, interrogations, depositions.

5. OVER John Neild c Elizabeth Capper accusing him of bastardy - depositions.

6. OVER Richard Hoghton c Alice Starkey - sentence (1676-23).

7. OVER Samuel Ravenscroft c Thomas Heaward for slander - depositions.

8. INCE William Adamson c Richard Hynde concerning a seat in church - confession.

9. ORMSKIRK Sir John Entwistle c Jane Laithwaite concerning claim to a seat. Information on the Laithwaite family and arrangement of pews before 1635. Reference to a house at the corner of Aughton street and More street and also the Little Mass House in Burscough - libel, responsions, depositions.

10. BURY Thomas Gipps clerk c Roger Holt for tithe lambs -depositions.

11. AUGHTON Jane Widling c John Spencer saying she was a whore - interrogations, depositions.

12. MELLING Churchwardens c John Carr vicar for absence from church from 1 May until 21 December and when divine service and sermon were read in either Melling church or Hornby chapel John Carr never appeared - depositions.

13. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) Catherine Wright c Margaret Standish calling her queane, baggage and drunken jade in Gray Fryers Lane - libel, depositions (repair).

14. CHESTER (St Mary) Susanna Cowley & Elizabeth Davies c Margaret Davies for slander - depositions (1676-13).

15. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Hester Street c Martha Woodward saying she was drunk every Sunday morning with brandy, strong ale, sleeps all afternoon and never goes to church - libel, depositions.

16. CHESTER (Holy Trinity) George Wright c Francis Standish saying he was a cheating rogue, haunter of bawdy houses in Chester and disposed of a young man to have him sold in the Barbadoes - libel.

17. BUNBURY Henry Har c Anna Brooke threatening her ruin and life and force her from her land. Hare kept an inn in a house of Mrs Ann Brocke - libel, interrogations, depositions, sentence.

18. MACCLESFIELD Prudence Hollinshead c Ellena Watson for slander; she knocked her down causing a miscarriage - libel, depositions, interrogations.

19. PLEMONDSTALL William Hand c John Bridgman for tithe cattle - responsions.

20. ALTRINCHAM William Lupton c Elizabeth Ashton for slander concerning bonds and leases - depositions.

21. ALTRINCHAM William Lupton c Richard Bruck for slander - libel, confession.

22. WINNINGTON Thomas Dodd c Sara Dodd now living in London for a separation a thoro et mensa on grounds of adultery with Edward Gibbons.

23. KIRKHAM Richard Clegg, vicar, c Cuthbert Harrison of Singleton, John Hail and Thomas Haile of Warton for tithes. Documents are not in Court order but as listed on a foolscap sheet found in the file. See also Act Books EDC1/78 and 79 for further information on this case. (Repair).

24. FRAGMENTS James Wolstenholme c John Bennett. Thomas Cragg c Richard Deane.

25. REGISTRY Citations for visitation for Deanery of Macclesfield. Citation for number of persons to appear for correction. Order to churchwardens of West Kirby to enforce canons on matrimony. Citation for episcopal visitation of Macclesfield deanery. Citation for visitation of Chester deanery with register of those who attended. Citations for correction of Hale and Altrincham.