Catalogue description 1584

1. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Grace Turner daughter of Henry Turner c Richard Bavand of St Oswalds in a matrimonial dispute - libel, depositions.

2. CHESTER (St Oswald) Arthur Benit and Elizabeth his wife c Alice Smyther calling him a cuckold knave and his wife a whore - libel.

3. STANDISH Margret Crompton alias Stancliffe alias Cowdall wife of Alexander Crompton c Margaret Atherton alias Stancliffe alias Maghall wife of George Atherton in a matrimonial cause - sentence.

4. STANDISH David Eccles c Gilbert Langtree for non payment of dues - sentence.

5. STANDISH Churchwardens c Gilbert Langtree concerning non payment of 6s.2d towards improvements in the church - responsions.

6. MOTTRAM Reginald Tatlow c Katherine Tatlow for adultery with John Jackson - libel, sentence, costs.

7. WYBUNBURY Thomas Smythe impropriator c Ralph Woonet for tithe - libel.

8. ALDFORD Eleanor Barrow wife of Richard c Thomas and Alice Wright calling Eleanor whore and arrant whore - libel.

9. MIDDLEWICH Margery Mainwaring c Anna Redisshe for calling her whore - sentence.

10. TARPORLEY Robert Commander rector c John Witter for non payment of tithes since 1573 - libel.

11. HANMER Jane Salisbury c Richard Salisbury for divorce - sentence.

12. BOWDEN Margaret Wigge c John Basnet saying he would cut the nose off her face - libel.

13. SWETTENHAM Elizabeth Bollington c Robert Scraggs for adultery - libel.

14. THORNTON Desiderata Bennet of Bidston c Elizabeth Ley and Margaret Lether for defamation - sentence.

15. GREAT BUDWORTH Margaret Clare c Cecily Burley saying she was an arrant whore - libel.

16. GREAT BUDWORTH Elizabeth Venables c William Raydale for defamation - sentence.

17. WEAVERHAM Ellen Shalcrosse c Katherine Dulby for defamation - sentence.

18. WYBUNBURY Matthew Wood c Anthony Iveson clerk citation for the parties to appear at York on appear - decree.

19. MANCHESTER Isabella Bryshawe c John and Katherine Wadoc - sentence, fragment.

20. ORMSKIRK Anne Gerard c Elizabeth Lathwayt saying she was a drunkard, scold and too bad to be kept - libel.

21. ORMSKIRK Margaret Blundell c Elizabeth Laythwayt for calling her a whore - libel.

22. ORMSKIRK George Hesketh rector of Halsall c William and Margaret Wainwright saying he had carnal knowledge of Margaret Shruparte in the house of Thomas Laythwayt - libel.

23. MACCLESFIELD Elizabeth Lathom alias Harding c Roger Harding for an annulment of their marriage she being aminor - libel.

24. CHIPPING John Swinglehurst impropriator c Richard Houghton for tithe hay and barley from improved ground - libel.

25. CHIPPING John Swinglehurst c Richard Marsden for tithe hay and barley from newly enclosed land - libel.

26. CHIPPING John Swinglehurst c Ralph Bland for tithe hay and barley - libel.

27. CHIPPING John Swinglehurst c George Cromheiling for tithe barley and hay from newly enclosed ground - libel.

28. CHIPPING Jon Swinglehurst c Thomas Dilworth for tithe hay and barley - libel.

29. CHIPPING John Swinglehurst c John Walker for tithe hay and barley - libel.

30. HALSALL George Hesketh clark c Richard Wolsall saying Hesketh corrupts all the women in the county - libel.

31. CAPENHURST David Dimcocke c John Cottingham for tithe oats - libel, depositions, costs.

32. CAPENHURST David Dimcocke c Richard Catley for tithes - libel.

33. LAWTON Margery Stoner c Richard Fenton saying she was an arrant whore and strumpet and he had laid with her forty nights - libel.

34. WRENBURY James Twishop c Margaret Wheatley saying Turner was an incontinent person who had got a putative child on Margaret Wheatley in adultery - libel.

35. PRESCOT Hammet Ditchfield c William Robertson for tithes of Ditton - libel.

36. WYBUNBURY Joan Lathom c John and Thomas Collie saying that she has been often suspected of bawdrie and incontinence with sundry persons before and since her marriage - libel.

37. BOWDEN Joan Nawton c Beatrice Goodier widow and Roger Goodier saying she was a priests whore - libel.

38. HALSALL Decree concerning the guardians of William and Alexander Smyth by Marie Rowe alias Smyth.

39. BIDSTON Alice Bammet c Elizabeth Ley and Margaret Leather for defamation - sentence.

40. WYBUNBURY Matthew Wood vicar c Charles Fletcher for tithe lambs - libel.

41. AUGHTON George Hesketh c Giles Rossington saying he was taken with a whore whom he occupied and she occupied him - libel.

42. AUGHTON William Malbon c Jane Eccleston in a matrimonial dispute - fragment.

43. AUGHTON Margaret Hodgson c John Hodgson in a divorce cause interogations - costs.

44. CHESTER (St Mary) Richard Brewer c Anthony Bennet for tithes - libel.

45. CHESTER (St Mary) George Barker for tithes - bill of costs.

46. TARPORLEY Margaret Marsh c Thomas Huxleys for maintenance of a bastard child - depositions.

47. Elizabeth Bollington c Robert Scargges in a disputed matrimonial contract.

48. Jane Wildewod c Alice Orton for deffamation - libel.

49. Unidentifiable fragments of bills of costs.