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ED - Diocese of Chester - 16th century-21st century

A - Administration

B - Bishop's Transcripts - 16th century-20th century

C - Consistory Court records - 16th century-20th century

E - Bishopric of Chester estate records - 18th century-19th century

M - Diocesan administrative organisations

P - Parish bundles and Faculty papers - 16th-21st century

R - Diocesan Registrar

T - Tithe documents

V - Visitations

X - Chester Diocese: miscellaneous papers

1 - Appointments etc of Diocesan officials

3 - Probate records

1 - "Libellus Test'mor' probatorum...." - 1707-1710

2 - Probate entry books - Apr, Oct 1774, May 1783

3 - Index to grants of probate - 1826

4 - Accounts of probate fees etc - 18th cent

5 - Fragment of probate inventory - 16th cent

6 - Fragment of will of ---- Butterworth of Birchamley - nd, 16th cent

7 - Probate inventory of William Brereton of Handforth - 1601

9 - Papers re vacancies of the See - 1777 - 1889

12 - Church of England Incorporated Society for providing Homes for Waifs and Strays: Diocese of Chester Committee annual report - 1920

14 - "Index to Tithe Plans" - nd, 19th cent

20 - Lists of District Churches - 1861

21 - Conveyance of plot of land in Shavington cum Gresty - 1883

22 - Memorandum of agreement by legatees of Mrs Mary Dwyer of Much Woolton - 1840

23 - Archiepiscopal faculty appointing William Nicholls a Public Notary - 1782

24 - Association of Liverpool Notaries table of fees - 1823

25 - Settlement of lands in Northamptonshire, Cheshire and Lancashire - 1894

26 - List of contributions for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts - nd, ?late 18th century

27 - Chester Diocesan Sunday School Association statement of accounts - 1897 - 1898

28 - Papers re site for new church in Stayley - 1836

30 - Letters re population - 1781

32 - Copy act for transferring Diocese of Chester from Province of Canterbury to Province of York - [1541 - 1542]

33 - Commission to administer oath to church warden of Prenton - 1942

34 - Account of Thomas Dootson with W H Price - 1927

39 - Papers re Bishop's rents, pensions and synodals - 1785 - 1786

40 - Accounts re synodals of Archdeaconry of Richmond - 1782 1787

42 - Seal matrices - 1848 - 1955

44 - Chester Diocesan Board of Finance memorandum and articles of association - 1873

45 - Order of service for enthronement of Bishop Gerald Ellison - 1955

46 - Absolution of sentence of excommunication - 26 Feb 1759

47 - Mersey Mission to Seamen Society annual report - 1920

48 - Writ re legal dispute - nd, temp Elizabeth 1

49 - Papers relating to address to the King from the Diocese - 1760

50 - Letter from Wiliam Falconer, Chester, to the Bishop - 20 Mar 1720/1

51 - Volume of topographical and historical notes - nd, early 19th cent.

52 - Papers re Ecclesiastical Commission of Enquiry into conduct of Rev R Shuttleworth Barton, Rector of Heysham, at suit of Thomas J Knowlys - 1841

53 - Bond entered into by Rev Isaac Antrobus on presentation to parsonage of Egremont, Cumberland - 1628

55 - Report of the Bishop's Commission on Crewe - 1970

56 - Letters from J Topping to William Ward - 1832

57 - Papers re York Provincial Convocations - 1685-1689

58 - Note of church wardens of various Wirral parishes - c1590

59 - Account of expenses and fees - 1646

60 - Accounts of commutations - 1698-1738

61 - Draft presentations - c1618-1737

62 - Printed diocesan leaflets - 1935-c1970

63 - List of "old presentations" - nd, 19th century

64 - Probate inventory of Richard Yates of Chester, slater - 1690

65 - Licence for non-residence - 1831

66 - Draft petition for arrest of excommunicate by the secular power ("significavit") - 1744

67 - Bond for good behaviour - 9 May 1683

68 - Citations re probate of wills of mariners - 1801, 1803

70 - Mandate to present to prebend in Chester Cathedral - 10 Apr 1554

71 - Presentation to vicarage of Rostherne - 1557

72 - Consistory court inhibition - 1599

73 - Bond given by William Sawrey on admission to parish of Preston, Lancashire - 1592

74 - Consistory court allegation - nd, 16th cent

75 - Copy inhibition, Diocese of St Asaph - nd, c1700

76 - Deacon's licence, Baslow, Derbyshire - 20 Apr 1723

78 - Miscellaneous fragments - 17th-18th cent

79 - Presentation to vicarage of St Michael on Wyre - 27 Jun 1577

80 - Account of sums collected in Deaneries of Copeland, Lonsdale, Furness and Kendal for the relief of French Protestants - 1694

81 - Letter re behaviour of minister of Tintwistle - 14 Feb 1758

82 - Original exhibits in the suit in Chancery Whitaker v Lee - 1759

83 - Renunciation of claim to fees attached to office of Chancellor of the Diocese - 23 Feb 1749

84 - Legal opinions re claim of Chancellor of the Diocese against Rev Charles Buck re the former's claim to concurrent jurisdiction in Archdeaconry of Richmond - 1760

85 - Letters from Thomas Porter, Northen, to Hugh Speed at the Diocesan Registry - 11 Jun 1753 and nd

86 - Chancellor's vouchers for visitation and surrogates' expenses and fees - 1751-1764

87 - Bastardy order - 1615

88 - List of Mr Hanforth's "crimes" - nd, 17th cent.

89 - Curate's licence of Rev Edward Jackson as curate in Chapel of Hugil [Hugill] in Ings, in the parish of Kendal, Westmorland - 19 Mar 1761

90 - Nomination and testimonial of Rev Francis Burton to chapel of Ings [Hugill], in the parish of Kendal, Westmorland - 3 Mar 1763

91 - "A protocoll of appeal from a sentence" - 1622

92 - Draft circular letter about arrangements for confirmations - 2 May 1760

93 - Bond - 28 Aug 1624

94 - Copy licence of parish clerk - 8 Sep 1691

95 - Copy letter re alleged rape - nd, 17th cent

96 - Draft document re appointment of procurator on behalf of Thomas Mallorie, Dean of Chester, to attend provincial convocation in York - nd, c1621

97 - Leaf of illuminated manuscript of part of Book of Exodus - nd, 15th cent

98 - Fragment of mediaeval service book - nd, ?15th cent

99 - Account of poor rate in Aldford - 1694-1696

101 - MS transcript of Bishop's transcript of parish register of St Peter's, Chester - [1600, 1604

102 - Letter re counsel's opinion - 22 Feb 1722 NS

103 - Appeal and protestation re parish church of Kemmes [Cemmaes] Montgomeryshire - 1716

104 - Letter re advowson of Aughton, Lancashire - 14 Mar 1721 NS

105 - Commissions to administer oaths of office to churchwardens - Mar 1671 NS

106 - Part of deed re creation of new parish of Orrell St Luke in the Diocese of Liverpool - 1919

107 - Miscellaneous notes and memoranda - 1671-1718

108 - Petition of Simon Conyers of Danby on Ure re parish of Langton super Swale - 1559(?)

109 - Copy letters re history of Yorkshire religious houses - nd, 18th cent

110 - Papers re contributions to war against Scots - Mar 1639

111 - "An account of the names of all the inhabitants within the Burrough of Holt" - nd, c1700

112 - Copy order re re apointment of curate to serve Ingleton Fell Chapel - 12 May 1698

113 - Papers re Kirby Ravensworth Hospital and School - 1696-1723

114 - Papers re election of school master at Wath School - 1720

115 - Certificates of delivery of sermons by the King's Preachers in the County of Lancaster - 1725

116 - Nomination of curate of Preston Chapel - 11 Oct 1725

117 - Open letters of the Bishop of Chester to the clergy of the Diocese re their parochial responsibilities and arrangements for confirmation - My, Jun 1690

118 - Diocese of Chester regulations and information - nd, c1970-1984

119 - Papers re celebration of 450th anniversary of Diocese of Chester - 1990-1991

120 - "List of changes in the Diocese" - 1936-1939

121 - Geographia Plan of Birkenhead and Wallasey with area around St Bede's Church highlighted - nd, 20th cent