Catalogue description 1597

1. CHESTER (ST PETER) Sentence in a cause between Godfrey Cook and William Hicock, rector - fragment only.

2. CHESTER John Seale c Richard Woodwarte saying, "thou art a knave or els thou could never have bosted a house in the Northgate Street" libel.

3. CHESTER Portion of a cause between Roger Puleston and John Lloyd heard in London.

4. TARVIN Edwin Babbington impropriator c John Downes for tithes - libel.

5. TARVIN Edward Babbington c Richard Litler concerning the collection of tithes - libel.

6. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Thomas Sympson for tithes - libel.

7. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Thomas Bennett for tithes - libel.

8. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Robert Culton for tithes - deposition.

9. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Edward Savage for tithes - articles certificate.

10. TARVIN Robert Massie c Margery Massie for playing the whore and making him cuckold - libel.

11. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c William Neelde for tithes - libel.

12. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c John Bennet for tithes of Clutton - depositions.

13. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Henry Hardware for tithes - libel.

14. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Hugh Rise for tithes - libel depositions, allegations.

15. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Henry Lightfoot for tithe grain - libel.

16. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Anna Neelde widow for tithes - libel, depositions.

17. TARVIN Award of tithes of Tarvin to Kevin Babbington by decree in Chancery, London.

18. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Hugh Stiles for tithes - responsions.

19. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Robert Copley for tithes - allegations.

20. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Richard Haxley for tithes - interrogations, depositions.

21. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Robert Johnson alias Hugheson for tithes - allegations.

22. TARVIN Edwin Babbington c Richard Raphson for tithes - allegations.

23. ROSTHERNE Anna Millington widow c John and Hugh Meire for tithe lambs - depositions.

24. ROSTHERNE Isabel Person c Anna Wife of James Pereval for calling her whore - depositions.

25. WALTON Alexander Molyneux rector c Hugh Rosse for tithes from Boltom Hole and Bolters House in West Derby libel, interrogations, depositions.

26. GREAT BUDWORTH Richard Eaton vicar c George Power of Streeton for tithes - libel.

27. GREAT BUDWORTH Richard Eaton c Thomas Grynsdich for tithes from Stretton - libel.

28. MALPAS Thomas Collen rector c Hugh Rowe for tithes of beans - libel, exceptions, responsions.

29. MALPAS Thomas Coller c Roger Burrows for tithes - libel, responsions.

30. MALPAS Thomas Coller c Thomas Burrows for tithes - libel.

31. MALPAS Thomas Coller c Richard Wetles for tithes - libel, responsions.

32. MALPAS Thomas Coller c Thomas Johnson for tithes - libel.

33. MALPAS Thomas Coller c John Rowe for tithes of Byckley -libel.

34. MANCHESTER Ellen Rigby c Henry Rigby for restitution of conjugal rights - articles.

35. MANCHESTER John Dee warden of Collegiate Church c Roger Sowle for tithes of hay - libel.

36. MANCHESTER John Dee warden c John Booth for tithes from Reddish.

37. MANCHESTER John Dee c Thomas Goodyere for tithe hay - libel.

38. MANCHESTER John Dee c Robert Bourdman for tithe hay in Reddish - libel.

39. MANCHESTER John Dee c Robert Brooke for tithes in Reddish -libel.

40. MANCHESTER Thomas Goodyeare c Henry Partington for tithes of Heaton Norris - libel.

41. MANCHESTER John Dee c George Birch for tithe hay - libel.

42. MANCHESTER John Dee c Hugh Travers for tithe hay from Ancoats - libel.

43. MANCHESTER Isabel Holland c Adam Holland for restitution of conjugal rights - libel, depositions.

44. MANCHESTER Richard Travers c James Butterworth and Elizabeth Worsfeild alias Butterworth in a divorce cause for adultery - libel. Depositions, sentence.

45. BOWDEN Robert Tatton impropriator c Richard Mollineux of the oats - libel.

46. NANTWICH Katherine Griffith wife of John c Roger and Richard Goldsmith for defamation - sentence.

47. FLIXTON Churchwardens c Geoffrey Sharples, Ralph Perrin, Thomas Brook, Thomas Darbyshire, John Carrington, Henry Abbot - bill of costs.

48. FLIXTON Churchwardens c Henry Abboy and Alexander Peerson - sentence.

49. Not used.

50. HANMER Thomas Randall alias Lloyd c Susan Hanmer alias Lloyd concerning title to a seat in the south side of the church - libel, responsions.

51. HANMER Maurice Lloyd vicar c William Care of tithes - sentence.

52. FLIXTON Churchwardens c Thomas Darbyshire, John Carrington, Elizabeth Asshaw, Thomas Brook, Henry Abbot, Godfrey Sharples, John Shalcrosse - sentence.

53. BUNBURY Ellen Arrowsmith c Elizabeth Syme wife of Edward calling her an arrant whore - libel.

54. BUNBURY John Aldersey c Richard Brooke and John Tompkins for dues - libel.

55. PRESTBURY Margaret Crowther c Katherine Finlowe calling her arrant whore and Raffe Crowther's whore - libel.

56. THORNTON LE MOORES Robert Minshall curate a William Seborne rector for non subscription to the Articles of Religion - allegation - deposition.

57. WITTON Richard Bromfield c Emma and Margaret Pavor for calling him wisterlie, cuckoldy bole and his wife as John Wynington's whore - libel.

58. STOCKPORT Robert Hardman c Margaret Hall saying that Arthur Storer vicar would not receive Margaret Hall's compurgation until he was ready and gave her no admonition - libel.

59. STOCKPORT Edward Doughtie rector c Sir William Davenport for dues and tithes - responsions.

60. CONGLETON Margaret Oake c Ann Creswall calling her arrant whore, strong whore, burnt arse whore and my husband whore - libel, costs.

61. SAUGHTON ON HILL Anthony Hodgkiss c Thomas Hayward and Jane Hodgkiss for defamation - sentence.

62. HAIGH Roger Bradshaigh c Agnes Urmston, Margaret Man, Ellen Turner for keeping women who had bastards and keeping a lewd house - libel.

63. BOWDEN Robert Tatton c Sir Richard Molyneux concerning tithes due to rectory of Bowden - depositions.

64. BOWDEN Roger Leigh c Robert Tatton concerning tithe crops - libel.

65. BOWDEN Robert Tatton c Edward Vaudrey for tithe corn - libel depositions.

66. CODDINGTON Thomas Pulford c Evan Ricrofte concerning tithes - libel.

67. PRESTBURY Margaret Crowther c Katherine Finloe for calling her whore - depositions.

68. PRESTBURY William Johnson c Elizabeth Johnson in a divorce cause - sentence.

69. PRESTBURY John Davenport c Matthew Pashe for tithe corn, libel depositions.

70. PRESTBURY William Burges c George Lawe, George Fallows, Ralph Duncalfe, Henry Fallows of Chelford for tithe on French wheat, barley - libel, depositions.

71. TARVIN John Towers c Margaret Towers in a divorce cause for adultery - libel.

72. TARVIN Rector c Thomas Becket for non payment of dues. Argues that his property is not in the parish - interrogations.

73. TILSTON John Caterall c Ursula Leeche concerning Racley demaine. The two are sworn enemies - additional articles, depositions.

74. WIGAN Robert Winstanley c Edward Fleetwood concerning tithes of oats and barley - responsions.

75. WIGAN Edward Fleetwood c John Seyton concerning patronage of the rectory - responsions.

76. NANTWICH Joan Anneson c Randle Harrison's wife for calling her whore and burnt arsed whore - depositions.

77. WINWICK Office c Churchwarden for allowing Henry Hammond clerk to serve as curate while excommunicate and solemnising marriages without licence - libel.

78. WINWICK Edward Fitton c John Culceth for tithe crops - libel depositions.

79. AUDLEM Richard Brown impropriator cThomas Dykes for tithe hay - libel sentence.

80. ASTBURY Anne Mitchell c John Stubbes in a divorce cause. She is of Lichfield Diocese - libel, sentence.

81. ASTBURY Anna Heswall c George and Margaret Okes for defamation - sentence.

82. SHOTWICK Office c James Morey, John Gregory, Anne his wife and Thomas Barlow for not attending church on Sundays and Holydays, on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays in Lent, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday in permabulation week. Barlow for having two children in adultery and keeping company with Jane Carter. John Gregory beating the communion table with his fist saying he would be churchwarden in defiance of the curate. John and Anne Gregory winnowing corn in the churchyard, allowing pigs to root in same, tethering horses in the chancel wall and leaving the area filthy - libel.

83. ECCLESTON Elizabeth Gaskell daughter of Reginald Gaskell of Prestbury c Richard Cowoppe of Eccleston in a matrimonial dispute - libel, sentence.

84. WALLASEY Elena Lytherland c John Lytherland in a divorce cause - libel, decree from York.

85. ROCHDALE Dionysius Smith c Anna Smith relict of (?) Ratcliffe of Todmorden in a matrimonial dispute - libel, sentence.

86. LEIGH Barbara Flitcroft alias Bellamie c Godfrey Flitcoft for clandestine marriage by verba de presenti. She is accused of adultery - libel.

87. ACTON Frances Tirrell and his wife Bridget c Richard Wilbraham for tithes - libel.

88. WARMINGHAM Ellen Warton c Edward Moor for attempting adultery depositions.

89. OVER John Starkey c Margaret Mainwaring widow impropriator of rectory concerning tithes - Decree of Judges Delegate.

90. WRENBURY Thomas Massie and George Oatley c Alice Massie, Ellen Pemberton, James Lamb, John Bramwall, Robert Lambe for tithes - libel, depositions.

91. CODDINGTON John Catherod c Evan Ricroft rector for tithe wool libel.

92. BOWDEN Elena Pereson c William Perryn - decree from York.

93. WISTASTON Alice Perryn c Anna Boote calling her Henry Heies whore - libel.

94. RUNCORN Impropriator of rectory c William Millington for tithes - interrogation.

95. CONGLETON James Broster curate presenting John Stubbes and Ann Mitchell minors for divorce - libel (see 80).

96. FRODSHAM Thomas Holecroft impropriator c William Hatton for tithes - responsions, sentence.

97. BOLTON Christopher Anderton of Lostock c Leonard Shorley for tithes - depositions.

98. SANDBACH John Shawe vicar c William Jackson of Churchulme for tithe wool - libel.

99. WEAVERHAM Anna Deille c Ann Hale saying she had the pox depositions.

100. TARPORLEY Ann Bostock c John Basnett for defamation - depositions (poor).

101. MOBBERLEY Office (High Commission) c Thomas Bracegirdle for playing his pipes on the Sabbath and caused a piper to play in John Baxters barn near the church and parsonage in defiance of the parson Mr Eaton and not coming to be catechised.

102 Office c Giles Spakman and Elizabeth his wife for co-habiting together - allegations.

103. Sentence in tithe cause Roger Browne c Thomas Wood.

104. Office c Owen Higginbotham for living with divers women having 2 children in fornication.

105. John Johnson c Geoffrey Bower for fathering her child.

106. WIGAN James Leigh c Henry Wood for tithes libel.

107. John Hatton c Edward More sentence.