It was possible to appeal against a sentence passed by the Consistory Court of Chester. Shortly after the foundation of the diocese of Chester in 1541, the see was added to the province of York and thereafter appeals lay to York in the first instance.

Joyce M Horn, David M Smith and Patrick Mussett, ‘CHESTER: Introduction’, in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 11, Carlisle, Chester, Durham, Manchester, Ripon, and Sodor and Man Dioceses (London, 2004), pp. 33-34. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol11/pp33-34 [accessed 26 November 2022].

Although north-west England is often considered to have been backward and out of touch with fashionable trends in the sixteenth century, there is evidence that people from the area spent time in London and then returned to the north-west.