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ZCR 63 - J P Earwaker Collection and Manuscripts - c 1191-1908

1 - Group 1 - J P Earwaker Collection and Manuscripts

1 - Places: Cheshire

2 - Families

3 - Subjects

1 - Acts of Parliament and other Printed Material'

1 - Acts of Parliament. Cheshire. Printed'

1 - An Act to Enable the Mayor and Citizens of the City of Chester, to Recover and Preserve the Navigation upon the River Dee' (11 & 12 William III c.24) - 1699-1700

2 - An Act for Repairing the Highways between Barnhill and Hatton-Heath in the County of Chester' (4 & 5 Anne c.9) - 1706

3 - An Act to Enable Trustees to perform the Marriage Articles of Sir Richard Grosvenor, Baronet, and Dame Jane his Wife; notwithstanding the Lunacy of Dame Mary Grosvenor, and the Infancy of her younger Children; and for Settling the Estate in the Family, and making Building Leases as Effectually as if the said Dame Mary was of sound Mind, and her Children of full Age, and All had Joyned in Levying Fines' (9 Anne c.22) - c.1710

4 - Heads of a Charter, for Re-incorporating the Town of Macclesfield, in the County of Chester' - c.1721

5 - An Act for Sale of Part of the Estate of Thomas Puleston, Esq; for Discharging Debts and Incumbrances affecting the same' (11 George I c.10) - 1725

6 - Case in the House of Lords between John Crewe, Esq Executor of Anne Crewe, Widow deceased, Appellant, Samuel Acton, Gent Respondent relating to Easter dues, tithes and salt rights in Nantwich - 1728

7 - Case in the House of Lords between William Sparrow and others, Plaintiffs in Error and William Shaw, Lessee of Ravenscroft Gifford, Esq; and of David Parry, a Trustee,Defendant in Error, relating to lands in Ewloe, Shotton, Mancot and Aston, county of Flint - 1729

8 - An Act for repairing the Roads leading from the most Southern part of Butt Lane in the Parish of Lawton, in the County Palatine of Chester, to Lawton, and from thence to Henshall's Smithy upon Cranage Green in the said County' (4 George.II c.3). - 1731

9 - Case of the House of Lords between George Legh, Esq., Appellant, and the Right Honourable George [Booth], Earl of Warrington, Henry Legh, gentleman and Sir Henry Mainwaring, Bart. relating to the manor of Thornton - 1733

10 - Case in the House of Lords between Thomas Glaseour Esq., Appellant, and Henry Bennett, Esq., Edward Mainwaring Esq., and Dame Martha his Wife, Respondents, relating to property in Whitby - 1735

11 - An Act for Making the Exemplification of the Will of Thomas King, Esquire, deceased, [late of Combermere, then of East Side, county of Bedfordshire] Evidence in all courts of Law and Equity in Great Britain and Ireland.' - c.1740

12 - Case in the House of Lords between Sir Thomas Broughton Baronet, and Delves Broughton Esquire his son, an Infant, by Charlotte Wicker his Grandmother and Guardian, Appellants, and Henry Errington Esquire, and Mary his Wife, late Dame Mary Broughton Delves Widow, and Thomas Hill Esquire, Respondents, relating to lands in Cheshire etc. - 1773

13 - An Act for Vesting the Settled Estate of John Bullock, Esquire and Elizabeth his Wife, in the County of Chester, in Trustees, to be sold, for raising money to discharge an Incumbrance thereon; and laying out the Surplus in the Purchase of Lands and Hereditaments, to be settled to the Uses limited of the said Settled Estate' (18 George III c.59). - 1778

14 - An Act to Enable the Honourable Wilbraham Tollemache, and the several other Persons therein mentioned, to grant Leases of certain Parts of Lands Hereditaments in the County of Chester, (devised by the Will of the Right Honourable Lionel late Earl of Dysart) upon the Terms and Restrictions therein mentioned (25 George III c.42). - 1785

15 - An Act for Vesting Part of the Estates late of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Derby deceased, in the several Counties of Warwick, Chester and Cambridge, in the Right Honourable Edward the present Earl of Derby, in Fee-simple; and for settling an Estate of the said present Earl of Derby in the county of Lancaster, of greater Value, in Lieu thereof, and in Exchange for the same' (24 George III c.1). - 1784

16 - An Act to Enable James Lever, of Hindley, in the County of Lancaster, Esquire, to make Grants in Fee and also to grant Building Leases of certain Estates in the Township of Bolton le Moors, in the said County ' (33 George III c.82) - 1793

17 - An Act for Dividing, Allotting, and Inclosing the Commons and Waste Grounds, within the Manor and Borough of Macclesfield, in the County of Chester' (36 George III c.37) - 1796

18 - An Act for Inclosing Lands in the Townships of Tarporley, Eaton, Utkinton, and Rushton, in the Parish of Tarporley, in the County Palatine of Chester' (46 George III c.57). - 1806

19 - An Act for Inclosing Lands in the Township of Kelsal, in the Parish of Tarvin, in the County Palatine of Chester' (49 George III c.60) - 1809

20 - An Act for Inclosing the the Forest of Delamere, in the County of Chester' (52 George III c.136) - 1812

21 - An Act to amend Two Acts in the 52d and 54th years of His Present Majesty, for inclosing the Forest of Delamere, in the County of Chester' (58 George III c.47) - 1818

22 - Report on the suggested division of Cheshire for elections of Members of Parliament, and on the City of Chester and Boroughs of Macclesfield and Stockport. - 1831

2 - Bibliography

3 - Child Marriages

4 - Churches

5 - Notes on Macclesfield, Astbury and Gawsworth churches

6 - Civil War

7 - Heraldry

8 - Proof Sheets Visitation 1580'

9 - Calendars of Cheshire inquisitions post mortem

10 - Diocese of Chester

11 - Cheshire Clergy. Lists, etc'

12 - Chester Consistory Court Papers (Miscellaneous)'

13 - Chester Consistory Court Records. Bishop Gastrell's Papers & Returns 1704, 1705, 171[8]'.

14 - Returns of Papists 1706, 1717, 1767

15 - Lists and Abstracts of Cheshire Wills', mainly 17th cent.

16 - Extracts from indexes to wills proved at Chester , for the names Standish, Swettenham, Booth, Fitton,Kelsall, Starkey, Mather, Makant alias Meakin, Speakman, Byrom, Boardman, Holcroft, Herle alias Hearle, Clayton, Winstanley, Walmsley, Worsley, Warburton, Molyneux, Glazebrook, Cudworth, Astley, Brooke, Nichols, Rode, Wilme, Marsden, Livesey, Ward, Danson alias Denson, Stopford alias Stockport.

17 - Parish Records

2 - Group 2 - J P Earwaker Collection and Manuscripts

3 - Group 3 - J P Earwaker Collection and Manuscripts