Catalogue description 1572

1. CHESTER (St Peter) Robert Parr c William Griffiths alias Denys Butcher for saying that Robert Parr had committed whoredom with Ellen Bromsbrough of Backford and when he had gotten to her bellie he married her - libel.

2. PRESTBURY Margaret Damport c John Ward in a defamation cause - sentence.

3. DEAN Alice Grundy widow c Oliver Seddon, Jennet Crompton and Thomas Dodson for defamation - sentence.

4. DEAN Alice Grundy widow c Thomas Balford, Francis Grundy and Alice Howell for defamation - sentence.

5. NANTWICH Anne Holland wife of Thomas Holland c Anne Harris wife of Reginald Harries for defamation - libel.

6. ORMSKIRK Robert Margerson curate c John Westhead for defamation - decree.

7. CHESTER (St Oswald) Alice Gryce c Elizabeth Ball alias Spone and Joanne Dodd of the same defamation - sentence.

8. ORMSKIRK Jane Swift c Philip Swift in a petition for restitution of conjugal rights having been separated after lawful marriage - libel.

9. WEAVERHAM Francis Fletcher vicar c Ralph Merrick, John Walker, Robert Robinson for tithe flax and hemp - libel.

10. WEAVERHAM John Fletcher vicar c John Gerard, Thomas Sale and Richard Eaton for tithe cannabis and line - articles.

11. ECCLESTON Edward Halsall and Henry Eccleston impropriators of tithe in Halewood c Thomas Waynewright of Childwall for tithe oats and barley - libel.

12. CROSTON John Charnock impropriator of tithes c Thomas Glasborowe, Thomas Whitehead, Thomas Slayne for tithes of Little Wood Hall, Bluewalton for hay tithe; a good deal of family history and land boundaries - libel.

13. HESWALL Thomas Street rector c John Robinson, William Black and John Prenton for non payment of 26/- each for tithe dues - libel.

14. HESWALL Thomas Streete rector c William Anion and Henry Howe for non-payment of tithe lambs. Anion claimed to have letters of sequestration for the rectory.

15. HESWALL Thomas Streete rector c William Beck, Thomas Glegg, Richard Kychen for tithes and oblations of 4/8d each - sentence.

16. BLACKBURN Christopher Benson c Jane Benson alias Cowburn in a divorce suit. Jane Benson committed adultery with Thomas Holden and Christopher Whaley in 1570-72 - libel.

17. MALPAS Jane Taylor daughter of William Taylor of Tilston c Thomas Johnson of Malpas in a divorce suit. She was aged 11 at the time of the marriage - decree.

18. FRODSHAM Thomas Witter c Margery Witter in a divorce suit. She originally married John Witter now dead and then married her brother-in-law Thomas Witter decree.

19. DAVENHAM Ann Manwearing of (missing) c Ralph Nickson of Davenham in a disputed marriage contract by verba de presenti - libel.

20. DAVENHAM Ellen Sutton c Thomas Wrench in a disputed marriage contract agreed by verba de futuro confessed to churchwardens and Archbishop Grindal's visitor that they would regularise the marriage - libel.

21. MANCHESTER Katherine Strete and Nicholas Jepson in a disputed matrimonial contract - decree.

22. Gilbert Prescote c Anna Hinde in a disputed matrimonial contract - sentence.

23. CHILDWALL John Walles and Thomas Kenion c Robert Ireland senior Robert Ireland junior, Robert Chaddock and Hugh Stringer for tithes - draft articles badly damaged and unfit for use