Catalogue description 1636

1. ALDFORD Churchwardens c John Massie for non payment of his assessments - libel.

2. ALDFORD Impropriators c Wm Dodd and others for tithe of lambs, sheep and wool at Farndon - libel, responsions, depositions (fragile).

3. LAWTON Bill of costs in case of John Mitchell c Thomas Humphreys.

4. LAWTON Churchwardens c Wm Lawson for non payment of his assessments to repair of the church - depositions.

5. WIGAN Christine Wakefield c Alice Ireland for calling her, "a woodman's whore" - libel.

6. WIGAN Elizabeth Naylor c Ralph Walker saying she was pregnant by Robert Hay - libel.

7. WIGAN Bishop of Chester c Richard Leigh & Geoffrie Birchall for tithes - libel.

8. WOODCHURCH Office c Elizabeth Caskin for consorting with John Corbett of St Mary on the Hill in secret places and with wanton carriage - libel.

9. NANTWICH Hugh Slade c Robert Corker for saying he committed adultery with Elizabeth Chandler - libel, depositions, interrogations.

10. NANTWICH Ellen Martin c Robert Martin for cruelty forcing her to sleep naked on a brick floor - libel.

11. NANTWICH Laurence Chilton of Welsh Row and others being churchwardens c Henry Wixted for disputing about a pew arising from the unifying of seats. He said his pew now held 3 persons or 4 at most. Depositions give great detail about the interior arrangement of the church.

12. WYBUNBURY Wm Ganwell of Audlem c Wm Reeve for striking him on the cheek and boxing his ears during service and sermon - libel.

13. WYBUNBURY Isabella Seckerton c Thomas Seckerton for calling her, "a whore of the hedge" - libel, sentence (fragile).

14. BUNBURY Fragment of depositions in slander case of Mary Powell c Margaret Griffiths (fragile).

15. WYBUNBURY John Wilkinson c Richard Heathcote saying he occupied Scraggs wife at Withington - libel.

16. WYBUNBURY George Gwyn vicar c Ralph Wilkinson for tithes on cattle including "four twinter bullocks" - responsions.

17. WYBUNBURY Thomas Slade c Robert Corker saying he was a drunken fellow with a bastard - libel.

18. PLEMONDSTALL Orlando Bridgman c Richard Broster of Chester for tithe due on herbage - libel.

19. WHITEGATE Robert Mainwaring c Abraham Darlington for tithes. Recital of title to church at gates of Vale Royal, created a vicarage by Henry VIII. Claims lands are tithe free - libel, allegations, interrogations, responsions, copy lease of tithe 18 James I. (1635, No 95).

20. WHITWORTH Chapelwardens c Alexandra Kirshaw refusing to pay 4/8d to paving of chapel floor, unifying of pews and repair of chancel as ordered by the Archbishop of York - libel.

21. WRENBURY Wm Cudworth of Newhall c George Taylor concerning title to a pew near the pulpit (1635 No. 55) - libel, depositions, responsions, exception, sentence (fragile).

22. ACTON Richard Hunt S.T.B. vicar c Arthur Stanley of Wrenbury for tithes - libel, repair.

23. ACTON Richard Hunt c Hugh Whitney for tithe of whitewood cut in parish - libel, responsions.

24. ACTON Anna Hatton c Ellen Pollet for slander. Pollet tore up the citation to appear - libel, depositions, interrogations.

25. LEYLAND Affidavit by Hugh Anderton & Margaret Kirkby that they were married at Standish 11 July 1636.

26. PLEMONDSTALL Excommunication for Edward Beby and David Eddow.

27. PRESCOT Excommunication for Percival Slacke and Anna Rigbie.

28. PRESTBURY Catherine Thornicroft c Jane Cadman saying her husband had been naughty with her - libel, interrogations.

29. PRESTBURY Susan Burges c Elizabeth Bradborne saying she was Jeffrey Mottersheds whore four times weekly for a groat - depositions (fragile).

30. PRESTBURY Ruth Hall c Frances Dea of Bosely for slander - libel.

31. PRESTBURY Thomas Legh of Adlington c Francis & Peter Legh for tithe animals and herbage - libel.

32. PRESTBURY Susanna Clark c Thomas Jackson for adultery. Jackson also involved at Quarter Sessions - depositions, interrogations.

33. PRESTBURY Office c Susanna Clark & Thomas Crowther for adultery in a hay loft - depositions

. 34. PRESTBURY Office c Richard Barlowe & Judith Higham for adultery. Barlowe had also appeared before the Rural Dean - libel.

35. GREAT BUDWORTH Thomas Janion of Whitley c Thomas Vernon concerning title to a pew which had been moved during unifying to another rank lower down the church - full file.

36. GREAT BUDWORTH Elizabeth Booth of Warrington c Alice Knott concerning her title to the above pew also - libel.

37. GREAT BUDWORTH Susanna Hankinson c Margaret Newall for slander - libel.

38. GREAT BUDWORTH Peter & Anne Laurenson c Thomas Kitchen saying, "ware hornes, ware hornes, thou cuckoldy knave" - libel.

39. COLNE Thomas Robinson c churchwardens for moving his pew when making pews uniform lower down to make room for new pulpit and reading desk. Also that soletrees were only 2 ins. thick instead of 5 ins. made of rotten timber full of mortice holes - libel, responsions, depositions, accounts.

40. LYMM John Wright c Wm Leather concerning title to fourth seat above the font - interrogation, responsions, depositions.

41. ASHTON UNDER LYNE Henry Fairfax c John Ashton for tithe sheep, lambs, colts and horses - libel.

42. ASHTON ON MERSEY Sir James Massie c Ralph Stirrop concerning title to a pew for Sale Hall on north chancel, "near to the crosse marked on the wall" - libel (1635 No. 121).

43. MANCHESTER Elizabeth Massie c Anna Roscoe taken naughty with James Hibbard at midnight in Market Sted Lane - libel.

44. MANCHESTER Guardian of Mary Leigh c Edmund Butterly a married man of Deansgate saying he had intercourse with her - libel.

45. MANCHESTER Matrimonial dispute Ellen Martin c Robert Martin for cruelty - libel.

46. MANCHESTER Humphrey Aldington merchant of London impropriatorriator c Ralph Sharples for tithes - libel.

47. MANCHESTER Sentence in matrimonial dispute between Wm Crompton and Catherine Crompton (fragile).

48. MANCHESTER Lady Ann Moseley c churchwardens concerning seats for subscribers in the new South Gallery; mentions 30,000 communicants - libel.

49. MANCHESTER Sentence in dispute concerning assessments between the churchwardens and Cecily Trafford (1635 No. 27).

50. WHALLEY Isabella Green c Nicholas Stevenson of Pendle for adultery and bastardy; claims she has a child to him - libel, interrogations, responsions, depositions.

51. WHALLEY Churchwardens c Robert Sherburne for refusing to pay his assessments - libel.

52. WHALLEY Thomas Warriner c John Swinglehurst for intruding into school to teach Latin grammar (fragile).

53. WHALLEY Inhibition in case of Mrs Barnes c Hugh Hargreaves.

54. ST BEES Churchwardens c wardens of Ennerdale who claim their chapel is a parish church and are not liable for dues to St Bees - libel, responsions, depositions. (1635 No. 2).

55. LANGSLEDDALE George Shepperd c Henry Ducket pretended churchwarden for removing bible from the church - responsions.

56. BOLTON Churchwardens c Richard Brownlow and Robert Ainsworth wardens of Rivington concerning assessments due for repair of Bolton church as ordered at the visitation - full file including copy of presentments.

57. BOLTON Office c Thomas Leigh for adultery with Isabella Kirkham and Alice Worthington was seen in act by John Fisher - libel.

58. THORNTON LE MOORS John Soothill curate c Richard Smith ludimagister of free school lately built and endowed with salary of £14 p.a. (An interesting light is thrown on education in the parish but the document is fragile).

59. TILSTON Churchwardens c Edward Wright of Stretton for non payment of assessments - sentence, costs.

60. DARWEN Churchwardens of Blackburn c James Livesey for refusing to pay 2/- p.a. to maintain James Walton the curate - libel, responsions.

61. DARWEN Churchwardens c Thurstan Walsh for refusing to pay 2/- p.a. to maintain a curate - libel.

62. BLACKBURN Office c Wm Berry, Wm Ellison, John Harwood for keeping conventicles in private houses, preaching singing psalms and other duties without a minister in holy orders assisting - libel, responsions.

63. BURY Churchwardens c Robert Houlden of Blackburn for non payment of assessments on lands in Bury -fragment.

64. BURNLEY Margaret Shackleton c Isabella Askeroide for slander - sentence, libel.

65. CHORLEY Thomas Lacie churchwarden c John Upton saying he falsified accounts to make money from alterations - libel, detailed accounts of cost of implementing Arminian policies.

66. URSWICK Responsions in an unidentifed tithe of lambs.

67. THORNTON (LONSDALE) Dean & Chapter of Worcester c John Causfield & Robert Hall of Tatham for tithes - libel.

68. PRESCOT Churchwardens c John Pemberton for non payment of his assessments of six layes to unifying of pews - libel, responsions, depositions, vestry resolution, sentence.

69. DODLESTON Churchwardens c Wm Burgen for non payment of assessment - libel, sentence.

70. DODLESTON Churchwardens c Charles & Catherine Duckworth for non payment of assessments - libel (fragile).

71. DODLESTON Churchwardens c Thomas Cowley for non payment of his assessments - libel, sentence.

72. KENDAL Absolution for John Dickinson and Stephen Whiterigge. 1636

73. BURTON (Kendal) Impropriators c Thomas Smith for tithes of barley - libel, responsions, sentence (fragile).

74. WORTHENBURY John Bridgman rector of Bangor c Edward Shore for tithe hay in Llanverred - libel, responsions, declaration.

75. BANGOR Canon John Maddocks c Roland Roe saying he would cite him at Malpas court and make him an example - libel.

76. BANGOR Prohibition in tithe cause of John Bridgman c Michael Jones (fragile).

77. NETHER PEOVER Churchwardens c Roger Wilkinson & Ellen Brown for adultery - libel, responsions, depositions.

78. NETHER PEOVER Office c Peter Stubbs for drinking and tippling in Margaret Bradshawe's alehouse and not attending church - libel.

79. NETHER PEOVER Office c Philip Prichard of Peovor and Maria Mainwaring concerning their legal marriage - libel.

80. ASTBURY Thomas Dod rector c Wm Smallwood and John Davenport for tithe corn, calves, wool - libel.

81. ASTBURY Churchwardens c Edward Drakeford refusing to subscribe to repewing and beautifying of church as ordered being 28/-. "The pews were some high, some low, some wider, some longer and some of one manor and fashion and some of another - libel.

82. ASTBURY Bill of costs and prohibition in disputed assessment of churchwardens c Wm Furnival.

83. LIVERPOOL Margaret Griffiths & Elizabeth Larting c Sarah Melling for brawling violently over a seat following repewing of chapel - libel, depositions. (1635 No. 94).

84. WEST KIRBY Margaret Quiggin c Alice Urmeston for slander - libel.

85. WHITEGATE Office c Joseph Smithson for acting as curate and schoolmaster unlicenced, solemnising marriages, not wearing surplice, refusing to baptise, scoffing at church courts and sowing dissension - libel.

86. HALSALL Peter Travers rector c Thomas Halsal for tithe corn from 2 acres of improved ground - libel, depositions, interrogations, responsions.

87. HALSALL Peter Travers c Thomas Simpkins for tithe crops -responsions, sentence.

88. HALSALL Churchwardens c James Harker old warden for incorrect accounts and repaying 58/9 to parishioners - full file (fragile).

89. LANCASTER Report on the custom of tithing water mills in the parish as recorded in the Richmond Court and elsewhere.

90. GUILDEN SUTTON John Dutton c John Woodcock for tithe of crops -depositions, libel, responsions.

91. GUILDEN SUTTON John Dutton & Thomas Whitehead c Edward Warren for tithe - libel.

92. ROCHDALE Excommunications for person from Goosetree, Runcorn Coddington, Waverton, Deane, Great Budworth, Bruera, Bolton.

93. ROCHDALE Alice Pollit c Wm Buckley of Castleton saying she committed adultery with Wm Butterworth - libel (fragile).

94. ROCHDALE (Healey) Impropriators c Edmund Ramsbotham for tithe - libel.

95. ROCHDALE (Hundersfield) Case concerning the guardian for the children of Jane Byrom widow by John Fielden.

96. ROCHDALE (Milnrow) Richard Wild curate c James Taylor and others for non payment of their portion of his stipend - libel, responsions.

97. BURY John Travers rector c John Chadwick of Rochdale for tithe wool - libel.

98. RIPLEY (YORKS) Mrs Frances Vavasour c Leonard Campleshon vicar concerning her title to a pew - libel, responsions, allegations (1635 No. 9).

99. WINWICK Edmund Molineux of Wigan c James Ashton saying he committed adultery with Elizabeth Greenhalgh - libel, costs.

100. WINWICK John Lea c John Brascoe of Haydock for adultery with Ann Litherland in her house - libel, depositions, costs.

101. WINWICK John Massie c John Culcheth for tithe corn and oats - libel, depositions.

102. MALPAS Joan Maddock c Roland Roe calling her foresworn woman in Coldcastle field - responsions, sentence.

103. MALPAS Thomas Morris c Roger Wakefield schoolmaster for beating his child wrong fully and dismembered him - libel, responsions (fragile).

104. DAVENHAM Office c Wm Currie for fornication with Catherine Broome - responsions.

105. DAVENHAM Prohibition in tithe dispute Thomas Mallory rector & Dean of Chester c Richard Antrobus (1635 No. 10).

106. KIRKHAM Robert Fleetwood c Thomas Westby of Clifton for tithe hay and flax - libel, responsions, depositions.

107. LANCASTER Sentence in slander case of Margaret Firth c Dorothy Tompson.

108. BOWDEN Cecily Lingard c Sybil Eaton for slander - libel, interrogations, depositions.

109. ECCLESTON Richard Wallell c Wm Hornby for adultery with Elizabeth Pemberton - libel, interrogations.

110. PRESCOT Churchwardens accounts showing cost of implementing Arminian policies; spent in 1635 £251;2s, received in leys £250;6;4d so churchwardens had to find balance.

111. SHOTWICK Elizabeth Knowles c Maria Bentley for tithe hay from Little Saughall - responsions, depositions.

112. MIDDLEWICH Sir Wm Brereton of Laughlin c Wm Warrell for tithe salt. Details of salt producing methods - libel, responsions, interrogations.

113. BACKFORD John ap Evan c Richard Davies for bastardy - libel (No. 147).

114 STRETTON Prohibition in tithe cause of Edward Speght c Andrew Prestland.

115. STRETTON Prohibition in tithe cause of Thomas Sudway.

116. WEAVERHAM Churchwardens c Margaret Gorst refusing to sit in a seat allocated to her after repewing of church - libel, declaration.

117. STOKE Wm Seddon clerk c Wm Hoose - Sentence and prohibition. (1635 No. 38). (Fragile).

118. NESTON Office c Thomas Burscough (Thornton) and Elizabeth Warrington for adultery - libel, sentence.

119. NESTON Henry & Elizabeth Hunt c Richard Ainsdale slander - libel, confession.

120. WARTON Ellena Dyson c Margaret Mowson for slander - libel.

121. DARESBURY Thomas Marbury c Thomas Massie for tithe flax - libel, responsions.

122. ROCHDALE Sir John Byrom c David Hoult for tithe wool - libel, responsions.

123. CROSTON James Lyett vicar c Hugh Watkinson for tithe barley - libel.

124. ORMSKIRK Anne Sankey c Maria Hervit for slander - libel.

125. COPPENHALL Sentence in case of Francis Rowley rector c Richard Mynshall.

126. MAGULL Churchwardens of Halsall c Chapelwardens of Magull for non payment towards repairs of Halsall church - responsions. (1635 No. 129).

127. OVERTON Humphrey Jones c George & Morvitha Lach saying he had but 2/- and sent for great store of ale, behaving in a riotous manner and left Roger Edwards to pay for it - libel, depositions.

128. WARRINGTON Thomas Hilton c Grace Holland for saying it was a good deed to have the house burnt over her head - libel.

129. PULFORD Elizabeth Howell c Richard Bowker apprentice for saying Thomas Barker was father of her child - depositions.

130. CHILDWALL Churchwardens c chapelwardens of Hale concerning money for repair of church - responsions.

131. BEBINGTON John Hoole c Thomas Coulton concerning tithe to a pew for Hoole House - libel, depositions.

132. STOCKPORT Prohibition in case of churchwardens c Henry Speight.

133. MACCLESFIELD Thomas Berry c Wm Fell saying he was naughty in a cellar with Ann Bancroft - libel, (fragile).

134. MOBBERLEY Office c John Davenport for adultery with Joan Foster of Nether Peover - libel.

135. HALTON Fragments of depositions in an unidentified tithe -cause.

136. WYBUNBURY Margaret Greene c Henry Wood of Audlem saying she was Broughtons whore - libel.

137. OLDHAM Excommunication for Nathan Hallowes for contumacy.

138. LEIGH Fragment of libel in slander case of Margaret Hilton c Robert Fielding.

139. GRAPPENHALL Henry Rycroft c John Haslehurst for tithe wool & sheep - libel.

140. HOLT Office c George Bostock for bastardy - depositions.

141. GRESFORD John Duke of Bridgwater & Samuel Lloyd vicar c Richard Morris for tithes - libel.

142. MOSSLEY Impropriators c Elizabeth Webster for tithe cattle and corn from ground improved by burning - libel.

143. SWETTENHAM John Dudley & Thomas Dudley c Dorothy Hough concerning title to a pew - sentence.

144. WOODCHURCH Richard Sherwin rector c Thomas Hickcock for tithe from improved ground now in "butts, ridges, furrows and rowes" - libel (fragile).

145. CHESTER (St Oswald) Wm Mosse and Robert Dennison, "two single young men" c W- Hoole concerning the robbing of his orchard of pears and crabbs - full file.

146. CHESTER (St Oswald) Wm Mosse and Robert Dennison c Ellena Hignet saying they robbed Hoole's orchard and should be "stockt, whipt and sent to the Northgate" - libel, depositions.

147. CHESTER (St Oswald) Interrogations in case of Richard Davies c John ap Evan for adultery with Catherine Lloyd. (No. 113).

148. CHESTER (St Mary) Office c John Corbet & Elizabeth Sarrat for adultery - libel.

149. CHESTER (St Peter) Alice Crosby c Maria Hale for slander - libel.

150. CHESTER (St John) Dorothy Joynson c Ellena Whittle for slander - libel.

151. CHESTER (St John) Catherine Adams c Alice Yewlow for slander - libel.

152. Unidentified bills of costs.

153. ROSSET (St Asaph) Office c John Manifield & Elizabeth Joynson for adultery - libel.

154. MANCHESTER Thomas Williams c Wm Newsome calling him a bankrupt rogue - libel.

155. Sentence in case of Ralph Higginson c John Deane.

156. Fragments too fragile to identify correctly.

157. 5 unidentified items (fragile).