Catalogue description 1601

1. CHESTER (St Bridget) Margaret Ireland widow c Thos Cowper for calling her scurvie whore, arrant whore, ridden whore and ridden Jade - libel.

2. CHESTER Katherine Dod c Cicilia ap Ievan calling her a sowe a whore, a drunken jade, a drunken pispot, a drunken sockett, a drunken sowe - libel.

3. CHESTER (St Oswald) Geo. Manley impropriator c Henry Hammett for tithes, costs.

4. CHESTER (St Mary) William Robinson c Elena Bushell calling her arrant whore and a salt bitch - libel.

5. CHESTER Katherine Percival c Simon Smith calling her fowle whore - libel.

6. MANCHESTER William Birche c Richard Ogden - decree on appeal to York.

7. MANCHESTER Christopher Prestwick c Margaret Chetham saying he had sold his soul to the fairies and was father of Sam Chetham - libel.

8. MANCHESTER Thos. Williamson c Nicholas Hulme concerning tithes of wood and canabis - libel.

9. MANCHESTER Alice Thorpe c Anna Heape calling her a married man's whore - libel.

10. MANCHESTER Anne Holland c Elizabeth Sagar calling her arrant whore - libel.

11. MANCHESTER Richard Swinglehurst c Isabella Burke saying her had a whore - libel.

12. WALTON Alexander Molineux rector c Bryan Smith for tithes in Toxteth - depositions.

13. WALTON Alexander Molineux c Jacob Wiswall for tithes of Toxteth - cause brief.

14. WALTON Alexander Molineux c Egidus Brooke for tithes of toxteth - libel, depositions, brief.

15. WALTON Alexander Molineux c Robert Rise for tithes of Toxteth - cause brief.

16. WHITEGATE Thos Holcrofte impropriator c Robert & Richard Hankie for tithes - libel.

17. WHITEGATE Hammet Percival vicar c Robert & Richard Hankie for tithe hemp. flax, and pigs - libel.

18. LITTLE BUDWORTH Office c Edward Jackson for harbouring Margaret Rile a woman with child. Who was the father and where registered - interrogations.

19. LITTLE BUDWORTH John Holland c Thomas Billington for refusing to pay his assessments and John Billington calling churchwardens knaves, rascals and churles during divine service - libel.

20. FRODSHAM Thomas Dutton vicar c Thomas Sarratt for tithe animals - libel.

21. FRODSHAM Margaret Cook c Edward Hignett saying Thos Savage had a child by Margaret and "they murdered it and laid it in clay" - libel, interrogations, responsions, sentence.

22. FRODSHAM Katherine Bradford wife of John Bradford c John Helsby and John Johnson saying she was a whore who committed adultery behind Johnson's house -libel.

23. CROSTON Edward Huddleston c Edmund Pathericke, Roabert Mawdesley and Richard Nelson for tithe hay - libel.

24. CROSTON Edmund Huddleston c William Crooke for tithe hay - libel.

25. OVER Katherine, Elizabeth and Margaret Summers c Arthur Barber and Thomas Oulton concerning title to a seat - libel, articles of exception.

26. WIGAN Nicholas Worthington c George Harrison for adultery with Anna Pilkington living in adultery and married in private house in Rivington - libel.

27. WYBUNBURY John Gibbons impropriator c John Fletcher for tithes - libel.

28. TATTENHALL John Filkins c William Mollineaux for fisting his hands and upon his knees saying, "A vengeance might light upon John Filkins, his wife and children with sudden death" - libel.

29. BLACKBURN William Fleetwood impropriator c Edward Osbaldeston and Thomas Jackson for tithe smoke penny, wax halfpenny, holibred halfpenny and halfpenny the plow penny and houseling half penny - libel.

30. BLACKBURN Edward Braddil c George and Maria Boulton for tithes - sentence.

31. BLACKBURN Dorothy Dawson widow c Thomas Frodsham alias Dawson for separation - libel.

32. BLACKBURN Peter Haworth c Mary Holden alias Haworth for divorce - sentence.

33. WILMSLOW Roger Worthington c William Massey clerk for tithes from hamlet of Moreton - exceptions.

34. WINWICK Edward Phyton c Isabella Holcroft for tithes of barley - libel.

35. WINWICK George Poole gent c Cicilia Unsworth in a cause of defamation - sentence.

36. PRESTBURY Thomas Duncalf c Edmund Brook alias Duncalf for tithes - libel.

37. MIDDLETON Jacob Traves c Anna Baguley for proof that he was her natural son - libel.

38. BURNLEY Richard Shuttleworth c Isabella Woodroofe to prove he was son and heir of Thomas Shuttleworth - sentence.

39. THORNTON William Seeburie rector c Thomas and Elena Houlbrooke for tithes - libel.

40. NANTWICH Edward Diall c Robert and Mary Goldsmith and Ann their daughter for defamation - sentence.

41. BARROW Robert Whitby c Peter Lightfoot for tithes - sentence. 1601

42. ASHTON George Abbott c Thomas Darbyshire saying he "was like a devil" - allegations.

43. NORTHENDEN John Barret clerk c John Poulton & Anna Rode for tithe from 200 acres and cattle - libel.

44. POULTON Peter White vicar c John Sanderson for tithe eggs, milk, calves, bees and garden produce - libel.

45. POULTON Peter White c John Rowe and John Silcock for dues and tithes - libel.

46. CHRISTLETON Robert Williamson alias Sharples c Lucy Hughes for defamation - sentence.

47. BRINDLE Peter Haworth c Maria Holden alias Haworth daughter of Wm. Holden in matrimonial dispute, includes baptism and marriage certificates - libel.

48. CLITHEROE William Nowell c Tempest Parker concerning a marriage contract - libel, sentence.

49. ASTBURY John Greene and Ellen Greene alias Prestbury in a case of disputed marriage ceremony - articles.

50. ASTBURY Ralph Rode c Thomas Ouldham, Jabe Ouldham and Margaret Winke in a pew dispute - sentence.

51. TARPORLEY Janes Stanton wife of Richard Stanton c Edward ap Hugh saying, "she was contracted to me and is my wife" - libel.

52. ROSTHERN Hugh Gandie c Alice Allen for defamation - sentence.

53. HOLT Katherine Taylor c John Newall calling her curtall queane - libel.

54. MIDDLEWICH Michael Oldfield & Ellen Oldfield c Ralph Mainwaring concerning title to a pew - libel.

55. MIDDLEWICH Ralph Mynshall c Ellen Mynshall wife of James Mynshall saying she committed adultery with one Barrett under a crabtree - libel.

56. MALPAS John Vaughan impropriator c Thomas Aldersey for tithes on crops - libel.

57. MALPAS Jane Aldersey c Thomas Griffiths concerning a contract of matrimony - articles.

58. HOOLE John Newall c Katherine Tailor - sentence.

59. WITTON Edward Bodens c Margaret Anderton saying he was, "a whoremaster and that no woman escaped his hands for he kept a woman until she was distracted of her witts" - libel.

60. LAWTON John Lawton & John Lawton c William Lawton clerk rector concerning his reading prayers in the chancel and not in body of the church - interrogations.

61. WEAVERHAM Richard Barker c Anna Barker for adultery and asks for divorce - libel, sentence.

62. ALDFORD Elizabeth Prince c William, Richard alias Johnson in a matrimonial dispute concerning marriage by verbi presenti and she had a child saying it was William's - libel.

63. HALSALL Richard Halsall rector c Richard Wolfall for tithes cattle - libel.

64. HALSALL John Moore c Margaret Moore for adultery with Edward Holt and William Copull, libel interrogations.

65. WARRINGTON Anna Hey daughter of Peter Hey c Thomas Sankie son of Edward Sankie in a divorce cause - sentence.

66. EASTHAM Ann Wade c Matilda Thompson saying she was a whore who had a child and buried it under a bush - libel, depositions.

67. TARVIN Edwain Bebbington impropriator c Humphrey Walley for tithes - sentence.

68. EASTHAM Edward Poole impropriator c John Denson of Stoake for tithe of pease from 2 acres of enclosed waste - libel.

69. TATTENHALL John Tilston c Katherine Taylor and Joanna Platt saying he was naughty with Marjory Downes - libel.

70. CHESTER Marjory Smith c Lucy Jones for defamation, libel sentence.

71. Sentence in a dispute between Margaret Hughes and Alice Wright.

72. Rebecca Eaton c William Shayne in a breach of marriage contract - articles of exception.

73. John Harrison c William Hodgson in a pew dispute - responsions.

74. Unidentified bill of costs.

75. CHESTER (St Michael) Sir George Coney, curate, c Randal Dod, clerk; articles.

76. THORNTON William Seborie, rector, c Robert Hatton : excommunication.

77. Michael and Ellen Oldfield c Randle Mainwaring, pew dispute : allegations.

78. MANCHESTER Office c. Eliz. Holland, wife of William Holland for adultery with John Flecher of Bury : responsions.

79. Rich. Massey c Robert Eaton: excommunication.