Catalogue description 1661

1. CHESTER Petition from William (torn) butcher to be allowed to sell meat in Lent. He has seventeen children.

2. WARRINGTON Petition from Richard Mollineux for a licence to sell meat in Lent at Warrington.

3. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Churchwardens c Thomas Ashton for refusing to pay his assessments.

4. Sentence in the matrimonial case of Margaret Ogden c Edmund Massey.

5. CHESTER (St Oswald) Thomas Trafford clerk, c William Kenion for tithes of St Oswald - libel.

6. Bill of costs. Thomas Blackburn c John Barrett.

7. WITTON Office c George Pownall for absence from church and non payment of dues - libel.

8. CHESTER (St Olaves) Office c Hugh Harvey for removing part of the churchyard wall, disturbing graves and removing remains of dead and converting stone to his own use.

9. HOLT Janet Gerrad c John Gerard in matrimonial dispute - libel.

10. HESWALL Office c Thomas Trafford for intruding as a pretended minister to the damage of William Key the lawful curate - allegations.

11. NANTWICH John Minshall clerk c Thomas Wright in pew dispute - libel.

12. HARGREAVE Responsions of Samuel Slater proving his title as curate of the chapel.

13. MARPLE Office c Ottiwell & Oliver Higginbotham for bolting and locking the church doors to prevent the service being held to observe the 29 May and fastening the church doors with staples to prevent entry - full case.

14. WALTON John Heywood vicar c Henry Finch for refusing to pay tithes - libel.

15. WIGAN Fragment of a petition for a pew.

16. WARRINGTON Thomas Blackburne c Thomas Patten in a pew dispute - libel, depositions, allegations, interrogations, responsions.

17. OLDHAM Office c churchwardens of Oldham allowing Robert Constantine to officiate not being in orders. Also against Constantine for not using the prayer book, despising the same and the sacraments - libel, depositions, interrogations.

18. ALTHAM William More clerk c Thomas Jolly acting as the minister at Altham being in Presbyterian orders only - depositions.

19. SANDBACH Rector c William Raven for refusing to pay his church lays (dues) - libel.

20. Decree for administration of goods of Margaret Finch.

21. WYBUNBURY Mary Poole c Richard Sherwin for slander - libel.

22. CONGLETON John Waring c Thomas Parse for calling him a thief and a leather stealer - libel, attestations.

23. STOCKPORT John Palden c Robert Winterbottom for open adultery with Ellen Palden - libel.

24. PRESTBURY William Jackson and his wife c Wm Assinare saying she had bastards by a Lancashire collier.

25. MALPAS Ralph Meredith c Thomas Pulford for slander - libel.

26. CHESTER Mary Hatton c Wm Lawrence and Thomas Hough saying she slept in a room with twelve young people at a party - libel.

27. PRESTWICH Joshua Whittaker c Edward Rosthorne for slander - libel.

28. WARRINGTON Elizabeth Trevis c Robert Trevis for cruelty and wife beating - libel, depositions.

29. CHESTER (St Oswald) Margaret Pownall c Elizabeth Wotton for bastardy - libel.

30. CHESTER Thomas Pulford & Henry Arkerley interrogations on part of Mary Davis for slander.

31. MALPAS Office c John Cartwright for adultery - libel.

32. ASHTON ON MERSEY John Barret c Thomas Hesketh for slander - libel, deposition.

33. LEIGH John Bradshaw c Mary Meadows for bastardy - libel, depositions.

34. MALBON Catherine Bickerton c Thomas Mainwaring for slander - libel.

35. LEIGH Anne Gerard c Richard & John Hickson for slander - libel, depositions from farmers and weavers, attestations.

36. ROCHDALE James Cheetham c Joshua Chadwick & Thomas Southworth saying he had bastards in Edenfield - libel, interrogations, depositions.

37. BLACKBURN Janet Heath c Wm Barker of Tockholes for fornication - interrogations and depositions.

38. WETTENHALL Jane Olton c Jane Eyre for witchcraft - attestations, depositions.

39. WEST KIRBY Wm & Charlotte Coventry c Catherine Urmeston for slander - libel, interrogations.

40. CHESTER Richard Tomlinson c Richard Crane accusing him of adultery with Sarah Joanes offering her forty shillings to quit him of bastard pay so he could go to Ireland - depositions.

41. BOLTON Isabel Whittle and Mary Leigh - fragments only of a drinking case.

42. CHEADLE HULME Richard Small c John Palden for slander - depositions.

43. NANTWICH Inventory of goods of William Shaw.

44. Letter from Tim Baldwin to Deputy Registrar stating that Lady Frances Venables is next of kin to Lord Cholmondeley.

45. NANTWICH Thomas Sare c Richard Sare for slander of their wives.

46. MARPLE Curate c Joanna Higginbotham for her deceased husband's tithes - libel, responsions.

47. BURY William Langley c Thomas Hall et alia for tithes -libel.

48. CHESTER (St Oswald) Thomas Trafford & John Case c Thomas Hall et alia for tithes - responsions, libel, depositions.

49. FRODSHAM James Cockey vicar c John Wilkinson for tithe - libel.

50. TATTENHALL Ralph Rawson curate c John Bostock for tithes - libel and responsions.

51. HALE Impropriators c Richard Grantham for tithes - libel.

52. CHESTER (St Mary) Tithe dispute for lands which were formerly part of the nunnery of Chester - fragments of depositions.

53. THURSTASTON John Watts rector c Elizabeth Whitmore for tithes - libel.

54. BURY Robert Lightfoot vicar c Robert Duckworth et alia for vicarial tithes - complete file of case.

55. COPPENHALL William Anderton c Thomas Wettenhal for tithes -libel.

56. WALTON John Heywood c Henry Finch for tithe corn - libel.

57. COPPENHALL William Anderton c Thomas: alms for tithes - libel.

58. FRODSHAM Theophilus Cooke c James Brown for tithes - libel.

59. BARROW Thomas Crosse c Peter Wood for tithes - libel, attestation.

60. WOODCHURCH Sir William Stanley c Cuthbert Hand for tithes - libel, depositions, responsions.

61. WISTASTON Andrew Downes c William Boote for tithes - libel and responsions.

62. WALTON John Heywood c Cecily Plumbe for tithe corn - libel, responsions.

63. RUNCORN William Fenmore c Thomas Sutton for tithes - complete case file.

64. Dickinson c Taylor.