Catalogue description 1629
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Title: | 1629 |
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1. CHESTER Clandestine marriage between Richard Cookson and Margaret Fletcher by Richard Witharley at Rossets Green Chapel - responsions. 2. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Churchwardens c John Barnes for non payment of assessments - depositions. 3. CHESTER (St Oswald) Churchwardens c Wm Ridley. Miles Cook and John Wild for non payment of assessments - libel. 4. CHESTER (St Oswald) Wm Selbie c John Linge for defamation - depositions. 5. OLD HUTTON Wm Whitwell curate, who had an agreed stipend of £20 fixed in 1579, c Wm Walker, Reader for not paying his contribution of 2/8d towards the stipend - libel. 6. WIGAN Gilbert Pennington and Thos Fairbrother c Wm Heald concerning his life with Ann Partington - libel. 7. LITTLEBOROUGH Frances Warburton c Jacob Halliwell concerning their title to seats in the south chancel - depositions. 8. LITTLEBOROUGH Jane Schofield c Grace Lightowler concerning a brawl in church. She beat Samuel Wilson with a book and her arms creating uproar - depositions. 9. GREAT BUDWORTH Hugh Crosbie c George Massey concerning a disputed seat near the pulpit - depositions. 10. GREAT BUDWORTH Humphrey Massey c Richard Massey concerning their title to a seat - depositions. 11. BUNBURY Eliazbeth Alcock c Margery Wilson for defamation - depositions. 12. PRESCOT Wm Lewes c John Barnes accusing him of being a usurer so Barnes accused Lewes of drinking all night at Peggy Warburton's - depositions. 13. LIVERPOOL Elizabeth Bridge c Margaret Slater saying she had been naughty with Robert Melling in the premises of Mr Walker, mayor of Liverpool - depositions. 14. PRESTBURY Thos Leigh c Jacob Baxter concerning tithe of sheep and wool - depositions. 15. HOLT Office c Wm Davies for interrupting the burial office for Richard Vernon - depositions. 16. ELSMERE Certificate of a clandestine marriage in a private house by night between John Doncaster and Jane his wife by Edward Nott. 17. ASTBURY Wm Lee c Wm Stoner for adultery with Margaret Beever - libel, responsions, penance. 18. BUNBURY Alexander Davenport c Ellen Garratt for adultery - libel, depositions. 19. BUNBURY Office c Margaret Hynd widow for non payment of mortuary dues for Wm Hynde clerk - responsions. 20. SHOTWICK Churchwardens c Thos Hesketh for not making his accounts correctly by not accounting for 32lbs bell metal and 200lbs of lead - full file. 21. FRODSHAM Office c Richard Smith for adultery with Elizabeth Bate - depositions. 22. ASHTON UNDER LYNE Anna Clarke c Wm Walker for saying she was not the daughter of Sir Arthur Ashton - depositions. 23. LEIGH Richard Urmston c Richard Bucke for non payment of mortuary dues - libel, responsions. 24. PRESTON Wm Fleetwood c Radcliffe Ashton concerning fishing in the Ribble - depositions. 25. WEAVERHAM Peter Warburton c Thos Burnet for non payment of barley tithe - depositions. 26. BLACKBURN Wm Laud, Bishop of London c Wm Fleetwood for non payment of corn and grazing tithe - libel, responsions, citation. 27. Bill of Costs for Edward Nuttall guardian of Roger Nuttall c Edward Hamer. 28. KNUTSFORD Peter Huett c Wm Leighe for adultery with Anne Mosse - interrogations, responsions, depositions, sentence. 29. CHESTER (St Michael) Fragment of churchwardens' responsions concerning pew rents. 30. HOLT Wm Davies c Richard Vernon for encroaching upon the family burial place in church - depositions. (See No.15). 31 WRENBURY Office c John Cartwright for adultery - libel. 32. GREAT BUDWORTH Hugh Crosbie c Elizabeth Booth concerning title to a seat - responsions. 33. BOLTON Oliver Denny c Francis Greenbank of breach of promise - libel. 34. BOLTON Office c Roger Leaver for adultery - libel. 35. BOLTON Fragment concerning a clandestine marriage by John Booth between John Downward and Jane his wife. 36. WARBURTON Peter Warburton c Thos Basnett concerning non payment of tithes - responsions. 37. ALTRINCHAM Anne Litherland c Margaret Moores for slander - depositions. 38. THELWALL Ellen Heape c John Thomasson for defamation - depositions. 39. ROCHDALE Jane Scholefield c Richard Lightowler for adultery and not keeping his promise to marry her - responsions. 40. BARROW John Hough c Thos Birkett for adultery - depositions. 41. BURY John Croston c Thomas Hammond for being drunk - depositions. 42. WIGAN Arbitration between John Francis and Thos Bird, Richard Bird and Catherine Spence - award with depositions. 43. LITTLEBOROUGH Citation for Jacob Halliwell of Pikehouse to appear at Chester concerning a disturbance between Arthur Whitehead, Francis Warburton and othersia, also decree from York Chancery. 44. GREAT BUDWORTH John Eaton c Ellen Worrall for defamation - depositions. 45. MACCLESFIELD Clandestine marriage between John Higginbotham and Margaret his wife by Edward Birtler. 46. ECCLES (?) Hey c Lawrence Bent and Thos Greenes concerning tithes - responsions. 47. LAWTON Wm Lawton of Greene c John Brock - fragment of interrogations. 48. Margaret Cumberbach c John Haslehurst for defamation - interrogations. 49. Office c Wm Greenhalgh for adultery - responsions. 50. Fragment of Barlowe's responsions. 51. Miscellanea |
Held by: | Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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