Catalogue description 1623

1. CHESTER (St Oswald) Elizabeth Cowper c Margaret Huntington for defamation - fragment (fragile).

2. CHESTER (St Mary) John Tyrer c Margaret Tyrer alias Fowler of Flookersbrook in matrimonial dispute. They were married 7 Feb 1623 but she was suspected of having a pre-contract - libel.

3. CHESTER (St Bridget) Wm Blanchard & Anna his wife c John & Margaret Blanchard for defamation - libel.

4. CHESTER (St John Baptist) Joanna Mason c Wm Mason saying she had born six bastards - libel, responsions (fragile).

5. CHESTER (St Peter) John Dutton c R Whytehead alderman for tithes from Singleton Hey - depositions.

6. THORNTON Thos Worrall c Samuel Clerke curate for refusing to precede the corpse of Richard Grenge into church and not reading the burial office. Refusing to say or sing the burial office for Marie Worrall. Refusing to read or sing at the perambulation at accustomed places in Rogation week and at Poole Lane he stood on a bridge - libel.

7. HORSLEY (Denbigh) Office c David Speed of Holt and Lidea Powell of Horsley for marriage without licence. Present proof of marriage at Horsley - (frgaile).

8. CROSTON Richard Houghton of Houghton Towers c Thos Otye for calling Jane Houghton a disguised whore - libel.

9. WILMSLOW Thos Wright rector c Edward Acton for tithe on French wheat and Easter dues unpaid - libel.

10. WILMSLOW Matthew Moreton c Ralph Grastie saying he committed adultery with Ann Cock - libel.

11. ALDERLEY Thos Westerne clerk c Ralph Grastie for defamation - interrogations.

12. TARPORLEY Robert Whittle rector c Thos Robins of Bunbury for tithes due from Malkins Park - libel.

13. SHOTWICK Anne Lloyd impropriator Richard Chamberlayne of Saughall Magna for tithes from the Middle Hey - libel.

14. MANCHESTER Dorothy Nuttall c Charles Nuttall of Bury in a matrimonial dispute. "So soon as Dorothy shall contain with child I will make her my lawfull wife, public marriage is but a ceremony of the church - details of ideas on matrimony - libel.

15. MANCHESTER Anne Lyllie c Francis Lloyd saying she was Mr Sagar's whore - depositions.

16. DODLESTON John Glyn c Anna Glyn for divorce on the grounds of her adultery with John Archer and bearing his child - depositions, sentence.

17. WOODCHURCH Richard Sherlock clerk c Thos Adams for tithe of rye and barley. Details of alienation of tithes to Richard Adams deceased and Sherlock after his induction had granted lease of tithes to Thos Adams - libel, declaration.

18. WEAVERHAM Joanna Billing c Ralph Billing of Acton in a cause of matrimony - libel.

19. WEAVERHAM George Brock c Elena Vernon for defamation - sentence.

20. FRODSHAM Elizabeth Helsbie c Thos Middleton saying she had burned her husband to death - libel.

21. ASTBURY Wm Elena and Humphrey Moores c Alice Moores widow of Richard Moores concerning money advanced to Henry Baron to pursue a cause to recover 27/4d from John Crompton for manure - libel (some documents missing).

22. ASTBURY Churchwardens c Richard Brown for not handing over 12/8d collected for repairs to the church - libel, responsions.

23. PRESTON John Inskipp clerk c Jacob Martin clerk vicar concerning his title as vicar of the benefice of Preston - libel, decree citation, sentence (fragile).

24. WHALLEY Richard Starkie of Huntrod, heir of John Starkie c Nicholas Starkie and Katherine Tildisley concerning their marriage by John Nowell at Whalley - allegations.

25. WIGAN John Bradshaw c Margaret Banckes concerning their marriage contract - libel, interrogations, costs.

26. WIGAN Bishop of Chester as rector c Humphrey Orrell for non payment of dues - libel, responsions.

27. THORNTON Clark c Thos Worrall concerning irregularities in the conduct of services - part of depositions see no. 6.

28. GREAT BUDWORTH Office c Thos Rowe of Hartford and Alice Hughson alias Rowe for an irregular marriage - libel.

29. NEWTON Office c Mr Gee for reading prayers on the 11th after Trinity. Churchwardens found him at prayers and asked if he was restored again and if not would stay him from reading - fragment (fragile).

30. WYBUNBURY Thos Wright rector c Roger Worthington for tithe barley - responsions.

31. OLDHAM Edward Ashton c Ralph Standish concerning title to a seat in church - depositions (see 1622 no.7).

32. OLDHAM Isaac Allen clerk, Rafe Tetlowe and others c Thos Miller & Edmund Taylor concerning the execution of a Commission to allocate seats in church.

33. PRESTWICH Edmund Ashton impropriator c Robert Taylor, Jacob Wylie and John Whittaker for tithe wheat and line - libel.

34. ULVERSTON John Ambrose c Wm Gardner of Urswick for tithe corn malt and toll of mill - libel.

35. TILSTON Robert Kinge STP rector c Sir Richard Grosvenor of Eccleston for tithe wheat, barley, hemp, oats, flax, pease and hay - libel.

36. TILSTON Hugh Lea c Edward Wright concerning title to a seat on the north side of nave - libel, interrogations.

37. PRESCOT John Alden clerk c Lawrence Sixsmith for tithe animals and poultry - libel.

38. PRESCOT John Alden vicar c John Wright and others for non payment of 6/8d for a cowgrasse or cowgate in common pasture belonging the vicar - libel.

39. HANMER Roger Ellis improprietor c Margaret Dymocke of Willington concerning ownership of tithes - libel, depositions (fragile).

40. WALTON Elizabeth Fox c Edward Fox for divorce on the grounds of his adultery with Margaret Wright - libel, depositions, excommunications.

41. WARTON Affidavit by Margaret Dodd that Hugh Smith had slandered her name.

42. BUNBURY Richard Egerton c Wm Dodd for tithe herbage - libel, interrogations (fragile).

43. STOCKPORT Cicily Chorleton alias Pointer c Ralph Chorleton alias Pointer for threatening to shorten her days and did beat her - petition for divorce - libel.

44. STOCKPORT Isabel Birch of Bramall c John Pierce in a matrimonial dispute - fragments only.

45. STOCKPORT Churchwardens c Alice Ridgeway for adultery - costs.

46. MALPAS Elizabeth Minshall c Edward Weaver for slander -libel.

47. WINWICK Wm and Ann Ford c Anna Winstanley calling him a cuckold bird - libel, sentence.

48. WINWICK Fragment of a case against John Gee MA curate of Newton chapel for irregularities in divine service - excommunication (see also No. 29).

49. ROCHDALE Joseph Radcliffe c Edmund Butterworth saying he was a beggar and could not pay his rent - libel, responsions, depositions.

50. ROCHDALE Churchwardens c Edward Pulgell for erecting seats in the chancel without the authority of the Bishop to the disgrace of the church and request an order from the Bishop for their removal - fragment.

51. TARVIN Fragment of depositions in the matrimonial cause of Rafe Holland.

52. HAWKSHEAD Francis Magson clerk c Alexander Tomlinson saying he was a cosenor - libel (fragile).

53. BUNBURY Margaret Dodd c Hugh Smith saying she committed adultery - libel, depositions, interrogations (fragile).

54. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood impropriator c Robert Yate & Lawrence Harwood for tithe animals - libel (fragile).

55. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood c Thos Fish and others for tithes, house debts, smoake penny or a wax halfpenny and a hoolibreade halfpenny, plow penny and animals - libel.

56. BLACKBURN Wm Machan c Jacob Duckworth saying he had committed adultery - libel.

57. BLACKBURN Wm Fleetwood c Nicholas Grimshaw of Whalley & John Piccop of Echell for tithe animals - libel (fragile).

58. LEA Order for Thos Humphreys curator of Richard Calverley to appear at York to answer plea by Lydia Calverley widow.

59. Fragment of a decree from York for Jacob Kenyon.

60. MITTON Fragment of a statement that Cicely Tarbock alias Pickmore was baptised on 18 Jan 1622.