Sex

Male

Marital Status

At Issue

Spouse Name

Elizabeth

Causes

EDC 5/14/1 – defendant

Sex

Female

Marital Status

At Issue

Spouse Name

Giles

Causes

EDC 5/14/1 – plaintiff

Sex

Male

Approx Year of Birth

1498

Marital Status

Unknown

Occupation Status

Clerk; curate of St Oswald's, Chester and later of St Mary's, Chester

Remarks

CCEd person ID 31663

Career: in 1548 he was aged about 50, so was born in about 1498. In 1548 he had been a curate at St Oswald’s for about five years.

Further notes: At the time of the Royal Visitation of 1559, as curate of St Mary’s on the Hill, he was said to be ‘a commen haunter of alehouses and besides verye necgligente in readinge of the sarvice’. In 1562 he was again in trouble for frequenting ‘Alehouses and Tavernes inordinatly’ and was also required to read a declaration for his ‘shaven Crowne’; it seems that after the Elizabethan Settlement of religion he continued to be tonsured as Catholic priests would have been.

However, in 1563 he signed the Three Articles with other Cheshire clergy.

Sources:

C. J. Kitching (ed.), ‘The Royal Visitation of 1559; Act Book for the Northern Province’, Surtees Society, 197 (1975 for 1972), p. 85

Cheshire Sheaf, 3rd Series, i, p. 34

CALS EDC 2/4, f. 23
CALS EDA 12/2, f. 81 (Ecclesiastical Commission)

Causes

EDC 5/13/6 – witness to the sentence, although the witness is not described as curate at St Oswald’s it has been assumed that this is who he was

Sex

Male

Parish

Bunbury

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Katherine

Occupation Status

Gentleman

Causes

EDC 5/13/6  – plaintiff

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Unknown

Causes

EDC 5/12/2 – Thomas Cuverden contra Richard Sherley

Sex

Male

Parish

Irton

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

The Sherwen family were long established in the area of Irton, although belonging to Gosforth and Wasdale rather than Irton according to Rev. C. Moor, ‘The Old Statesman Families of Irton, Cumberland’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, series 2, vol. 10 (1910), p. 187.

Causes

EDC 5/10/2 – defendant

Sex

Male

Parish

Irton

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

The Sherwen family were long established in the area of Irton, although belonging to Gosforth and Wasdale rather than Irton according to Rev. C. Moor, ‘The Old Statesman Families of Irton, Cumberland’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, series 2, vol. 10 (1910), p. 187.

Causes

EDC 5/10/2 – defendant

Sex

Female

Parish

Alderley

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

Was found to have committed adultery with Thomas Stapultun, the father of her child.

Causes

EDC 5/9/2 – committed adultery with the defendant

Sex

Male

Parish

Alderley

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Elizabeth Stapultun

Remarks

Was found to have committed adultery with Elizabeth Shae, by whom he had a child.

Causes

EDC 5/9/2 – defendant

Sex

Female

Parish

Alderley

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Thomas Stapultun

Causes

EDC 5/9/2 – plaintiff