| Description | Aldridge (Co.Staffs.)(R):Case (25 Nov. 1777) and two letters (8 Nov.1777 and 8 Dec 1778) concerning the presentation to the Rectory, 1777-78; Avon Dasset (Co.Warwicks.) (R): extract from the Churchwardens and other Inhabitants against shortening and pulling down part of the chancel, 5 May 1752; Calton (Co.Staffs.) (chapel:now V): letter to the Bishop from Sampson Wheildon concerning funds fraudulently obtained by Rev.Maysmoor, supposedly raised for rebuilding the chapel: also re Mr.Maysmoor's resignation from Cauldon and Waterfall, 5 Feb.1800; Cauldon and Waterfall (Co.Staffs.): two petitions, in support (23 Dec.) and against (29 Dec.) licencing Rev.James Doubleday to the curacies [see also entry above], December 1800; Charlesworth chapel (Co.Derbs.): letter to the Bishop from Ralph Wardleworth concerning the possibility that Charlesworth is a consecrated chapel of the Church of England (illustrated), 4 Mar.1763; Chilvers Coton (Co.Warwicks.) (V): Churchwardens' accounts (between 1546 and 1576); damaged sections of a disintegrated volume, incomplete: list of "harness" in the constable's hands (No date similar memoranda included with churchwardens' accounts), list of outstanding debts to the town (No date)., levy list (No date), all possibly part of the volume of accounts: four bounds for payment of lewnes (3 dated 1554, one dated 1555), 1546-1576; Clive chapel, with Sansaw (Co.Salop) (now V) Case of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Salop Respondents to the appeal of Daniel Wycherley, Esq., and other Appellants, from a Decree of Dismission in the High Court of Chancery 21st Nov.1691 in a cause there depending concerning the augmentation of the stipend to the curate; certificate to the Privy Council from the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London (7th July 1692) with memorandum of subsequent Order in Council appended, 1691-92; Coventry (Co.Warwicks.) : Petition from the Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty of the City of Coventry on behalf of Rev.Richard Marsden, 1717; Coventry (Co.Warwicks.): papers relating to dispute concerning Coventry Grammar School, also to proposals to make Bablake in the City of Coventry a parish church: papers include letters, petition and Act [see also Fillongley, charges against the Vicar], 1732-34; Coventry (Co.Warwicks.): papers relating to the payment of tithes in the parishes of St.Michael and Holy Trinity, Coventry, and re provision for the maintenance of the Vicar of Holy Trinity: including Acts, and the Case of the Revd.Mr.Joseph Rann, Vicar of Holy Trinity, 1776-79; [cf.Coventry Holy Trinity B/A/13]
Croxton parish of Eccleshall,Co.Staffs: papers concerning repair of roads in the vicinity of Tatnall's House: two letters to the Bishop from Henry Jervis (19th July 1726) and from William Jervis (20th July 1726); depositions (No date 5 docs.), 1726; Curdworth (Co.Warwicks.) (v): papers relating to a dispute over the right of presentation to the living, comprising five letters (March-April 1766), case (1766) and three opinions (No date), 1766; Derby St.Alkmund (V): papers concerning unauthorised building on the site of the vicarage house comprising: a letter (22 July 1730) to the Bishop requesting intervention by him and by the consistory court; copy (27 Nov 1728) petition from the Mayor and Corporation for the building of a vicarage (original 18 May 1711/12), 1728 and 1730; Derby Archdeaconry: certified extract from the record of first fruits and tenths listing synodals, procurations and pensions belonging to the Archdeacon of Derby in the deaneries of Derby, Repton, Castillar, Ashbourne and Chesterfield: ex parte Overton contra Sacheverell (10 May 1608), 15 Feb. 1613; Deritend (Co.Warwicks.) (now V): papers relating to a dispute between the Feoffees and Mr. Hanstead chaplain of Deritend: concerning a faculty to build a pulpit and other furnishings and to erect seats in the chapel, and especially concerning the income from the seats, which the feoffees wish to apply to the cost of rebuilding and adorning the chapel (6 documents), c.1737; Eccleshall (Co.Staffs.): Brief in the Bishop's suit against Doxey and others for cutting down his woods, 18 Aug.1681; Eccleshall (Co.Staffs.): papers relating to dispute between the Bishop and Sir Thomas Peshall concerning the Bishop's woods at Blore Pipe and Blore Park, including case and opinion (4 items), 1693/94; Eccleshall (Co.Staffs.)(V): list of persons cited to appear at the Bishop's Visitation of the Peculiar of Eccleshall 20 August 1747, as witnesses of the Bishop's right to a contested seat in Eccleshall Church: interrogatories and answers (Bishop v. Bettison), 1747; Edale chapel parish of Castleton, (Co.Derby) (P.C.): letter to the Bishop from William Street, petitioning his assistance re a legacy and in procuring Queen Anne's Bounty and re the Communion Table, repairing the seats and enlarging the Chancel (1 Feb.1721/22); letter to the Bishop from the same concerning the same matters and particularly re the allotment of seats (25 July 1722); petition from John Mellor concerning his right to seats (No date c1722), 1722; Elmdon (Co.Warwicks.) (R): bond to indemnify the Bishop in respect of a suit depending between the King and William Mayne, esq., concerning right of presentation, 24 Feb.1719/20; Fillongley (Co.Warwicks.) (V): papers concerning charges against the Revd John Rushworth,Vicar of Fillongley: references to occurrences at Kenilworth, Church Lawford, Wappenbury and Coventry including dispute re appointment of Usher at Coventry Grammar School: papers include letters, affidavits, petition [see Coventry, re Bablake church and Coventry grammar school], 1728/29-1733; Hognaston (Co, Derby.) (V): petition to the Bishop re lack of an incumbent and disrepair of the church, 11 Aug.1762; Ingestre (Co.Staffs.) (R): Case for the augmentation of the rectory, submitted to the Bishop for judgment, No date [? 18th cent.]; Ipstones (Co.Staffs.) (V): papers relating to Stephen Clifford alias Gill claimant to the curacy of Ipstones: including licence to preach, licence to practic physic, licence to the cures of Denby and Wormhill (Co.Derby), petition and letters and testimonials.
He claims to have been persecuted for twenty years. The authenticity of his credentials is suspect, 1671-1694; Lichfield (Co.Staffs.): A copy of Bishop Wood's Act of dismission on payment of £2600 Dilapidations: (Court of Arches), 1684; Lichfield (Co.Staffs.): papers relating to dispute concerning a prebendal house (Kinnersley lessee in ejectment of Comins v Webster) removed from the Assizes to a higher [? Exchequer] court, the Bishops' right to collate being called in question: brief and correspondence, 1676-77; Lichfield (Co.Staffs.) :petition to the Bishop from the Vicars Choral of Lichfield Cathedral concerning the augmentation of reserved rents, 1720; Lichfield (Co.Staffs.) : statement of the case (draft) between Dean Addison, Dean of Lichfield and the Canons, referring to a petition presented to the Bishop by the Chapter [cf papers re 1693 Visitation at B/V/3 in documents from Cathedral Library], No date c.1693; Newcastle (Co.Staffs.): Writ for execution of Chancery Court order against Henry Hatrell and others, to pay the salary of the schoolmaster of Newcastle, 19 Dec.1728; Osmaston-by-Ashbourne (Co.Derby) (chapel, now V): petition from the inhabitants regarding neglect of duty by their minister the Rector of Brailsford (No date); memorandum of agreement and order for the rector's curate at Shirley to serve also the cure of Osmaston (31 May 1726), 1726; [Oswestry see Whitchurch]
Parwich (Co.Derby) (V): petition to the Bishop from the Minister, churchwardens and inhabitants regarding the stipend for the living, No date; Rocester (Co.Staffs.) (V): petition on behalf of the Vicar Mr. Sherwin (12 Feb.1757: in letter form); two others letters (12 Nov.1756) and No date? 1756) concerning provision for serving the cure during Mr. Sherwin's confinement in gaol, 1756-57; Ryton on Dunsmore (Co.Warwicks.)(V): submission of Richard Rothwell in order that he may be restored to serve the cure, 18 May 1723; Salop, Archdeaconry of: Articles setting out the case for the defendant in reply to a charge of refusing to preach at the Archdeacon's Visitation (Vaughan v Evans), No date not before 1683; Stafford, St.Marys (R): papers relating to dispute over the possessions and revenue of the rectory, between the Rector and the Corporation: including correspondence, statement of the case and copy of grant by Queen Elizabeth I: one letter (10 Feb.1724/25) relates to the misapplication of benefactions to the church and school, 1717-1724 [some No date]; Stafford St.Marys (R) and Grammar School: papers concerning disputes over seats in St.Mary's Church, one of which concerns seats allotted to the headmaster of the Free Grammar School: including statement of case, depositions and copy of Stafford School Orders (1709). The suits were transferred to the Court of Arches, 1709-1756 [some No date]; Tideswell (Co.Derby) (V): Bond for performance of office of schoolmaster at Tideswell Grammar School by Thomas Browne with covering letter, following a dispute in Chancery over the mastership, 1797; Tixall (Co.Staffs.) (R) : Case and Opinion concerning the right of presentation to the living, 1719; Warslow (Co.Staffs.) (chapel now V): petition for raising a sufficient maintenance for a minister to reside at Warslow, 24 Feb.1760; Whitchurch, Ellesmere, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Co.Salop
Case and opinion re a charity for the maintenance of lectures in the parish churches of these places and for gifts to the poor, under the will of James Phillipps (1661), 1695; opinion concerning right to a seat in a church unspecified (Mellors v. Cresswell), 7 Nov.1718; case and opinion in a hypothetical case concerning a lease, No date [18th cent.?] |