Ref: EDC 5/1580/7
Catalogue Entry:
EDC 5 1580. 7. CHESTER (St Bridget) Alice Bostock c Roger Chauntrell of St Oswald for breach of contract – sentence.
Summary:
Alice Bostocke contra Roger Chauntrell
There is no note on the sentence that it has been read and issued, so it may be draft only. However, it does carry notes in the handwriting of Robert Leche, indicating that he had read it.
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Translation
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In the name of God, Amen: the merits and circumstances of a certain pretended cause of matrimonial contract which was disputed for some time and is as yet disputed and pending undecided before us having been heard, seen, understood and fully investigated by us, Robert Leche, Doctor of Laws, lawfully deputed official principal of the Chester consistory court, rightly and lawfully proceeding, between Alice Bostocke of the parish of Saint Bridget in the city of Chester, the party plaintiff and complainant on the one part, and Roger Chauntrell of the parish of Saint Oswald of the city aforesaid, […] party on the other part; and the parties aforesaid appearing rightly and lawfully before us namely the party of the said Alice Bostocke through Henry Pennant, notary public, her proctor according to the acts of the court, likewise the party of Roger Chauntrell appearing in person and through James Banester, his proctor previously lawfully appointed according to the acts of the court and not […] revoked; with the party of the said Roger Chauntrell praying that sentence is passed for him and that justice may be done to him, while the party of the said Alice also praying with no little urgency that justice may be done to her.
The whole and entire proceedings had and done in this cause having first been examined and diligently considered by us, and matters which according to law should be observed in this respect having been observed by us, we have thus thought fit to proceed to making the pronouncement of our definitive sentence or final decree in the said cause, and we do proceed in this manner which follows:
Forasmuch as we know and clearly find by the acts enacted, set forth, alleged and likewise proved in the cause aforesaid that the claim of the said Alice Bostocke in a certain pretended libel of hers or a certain pretended allegation of hers previously given and offered before us (the tenor of which libel or allegation, indeed, follows and is thus; In the name of God, Amen; before you, worshipful master Robert Leche, Doctor of Laws, lawfully deputed official principal of the Chester consistory court etc., which libel we hold and we wish to be held as here read and inserted) was wrongly and invalidly founded and has not been sufficiently proved at all but has completely failed in its proof of this.
Therefore we, Robert Leche, official aforesaid, having first called on the name of Christ, and setting and having God only before our eyes, and from and with the advice of the learned in the law with whom we have maturely
[In a different hand on a separate paper pinned to the sentence]
Matrimonial Cont Alice Bostocke
(Bostock) of the Parish of St Bridget Chester
v. Roger Chauntrell of the Parish of St
Oswald Chester
1580
Transcript
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In dei nomine amen Auditis Visis intellectis plenarieque discussis
per nos Robertum Leche Legum doctorem Curie Consistorialis
Cestrensis officialem principalem Legitime deputatum meritis
et circumstancijs cuiusdam pretense Cause Contractis matri-
monialis que coram nobis inter Aliciam Bostocke
parochie sancte Brigitte <in> Ciuitatis Cestrie partem Actricem et
querelantem ex vna et Rogerum Chavntrell parochie Sancti
oswaldi Ciuitatis predicte <[…]> partibus ex altera aliquandiu
vertebatur vertiturque adhuc et pendet indecise
rite et legitime procedentes partibus predictis coram nobis
rite et legitime videlicet parte dicte Alicie Bostocke
per Henricum Pennant notarium publicum eius apud
acta procuratorem parte vero Rogeri Chavntrell
personaliter et per Jacobum
Banister eius apud acta procuratorem <alias constitutum necnon […] revocatum> legitime com-
perentibus parte dicti Rogeri Chavntrell Sententiam pro se
ferri et Justiciam fieri parte vero dicte Alicie
Bostocke <sententiam etiam ferri> cum Instancia non
modica postulantibus
Rimato primitus per nos
toto et Integro processu in
huiusmodi Causa habita et facta ac diligenter recensito
seruatisque per nos in hac parte de Jure Servandis ad
nostre Sententie diffinitiue siue finalis decreti prolacionem in
dicta Causa <ferendam> sic duximus procedendum et procedimus
in hunc qui sequitur modum
Quia per acta
Inactita deducta allegata pariter et probata in Causa
predicta comperimus et luculenter Inuenimus
dictam Aliciam Bostocke Intencionem suam in quodam suo
pretenso Libello <seu quadam sua pretensa allegacione alias> coram nobis dato et oblato cuius qui-
dem libelli <seu allegacionis> tenor sequitur et est talis, In dei
nomine Amen coram vobis venerabili viro magistro
Roberto Leche Legum doctore Curie Consistorialis Cestrensis
officiali principali legitime deputato et cetera quem libellum
pro hic lectum et insertum habemus et habere volumus
nulliter et Inutiliter fundasse nullatenusque pro-
basse sed in probacione sua huiusmodi omnino defecisse
Idcirco nos Robertus Leche officialis antedictus
christi nomine primitus invocato ac illum solum deum
oculis nostris preponentes et prehabentes de et cum Con-
silio Jurisperitorum quibuscum in hac parte mature
[In a different hand on a separate paper pinned to the sentence]
Matrimonial Cont Alice Bostocke
(Bostock) of the Parish of St Bridget Chester
v. Roger Chauntrell of the Parish of St
Oswald Chester
1580
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Translation
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consulted in this behalf, dismiss, absolve and release the aforesaid Roger Chauntrell from the suit and instance, vexation and controversy in law by the said Alice Bostocke touching the matters set forth in the said libel or allegation and we pronounce and decree […] that the same is free, quit and discharged in that behalf by this our definitive sentence or this our final decree which we pass and publish in these writings.
Transcript
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communicauimus prefatum Rogerum Chavntrell ab
Instancia et impeticione vexacione et in Jure
controuersia dicte Alicie Bostocke <quoad deducta in dicto libello seu allegacione> dimittimus
absoluimus et relaxamus ac <eundem in ea parte> liberum quietum et
solutum esse <[…]> pronunciamus <et decernimus>
per hanc
nostram Sententiam diffinitivam siue hoc nostrum finale decretum
quam siue quod ferimus et promulgamus in hijs
scriptis
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Translation
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[Endorsement]
Sentence of Roger Chauntrell against Alice Bostock, 1580.
[in pencil in a different hand]
Chester
[Produced with the permission of the Chester Diocesan Board of Finance.]
Translation copyright ©2022 P J Cox All Rights Reserved
Transcript
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[Endorsement]
Sententia Rogeri
Chavntrell contra
Aliciam bostocke
1580
[in pencil in a different hand]
Chester
[Produced with the permission of the Chester Diocesan Board of Finance.]
Transcript copyright ©2022 P J Cox All Rights Reserved