Church Courts
The following extracts are from the University of York's Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York, 1300-1858. This online database was consulted on the 26 Nov 2011, and the following references to Bubwith were found:
Reference | Case | Date | Participants |
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DC.CP.1540/11 | Matrimonial (validity of marriage) | 1538 - 23/6/1540 | John Walker of Bubwith, plaintiff, |
CP.G.316 | Defamation (sexual slander) | 24/9/1543 | Gerard Storr of Bubwith, plaintiff |
John Pultrosse of Bubwith, defendant | |||
CP.G.320 | Matrimonial (validity of marriage) | 17/7/1544 | Hawk v Lutton |
Robert Blanchard of Brighton, witness | |||
CP.G.357 | Tithe (shhep, wool) | 1547 | Nicholas Gridlington of Aughton v. John Aske of Bubwith |
CP.G.546 | Matrimonial (validity of marriage) | 21/10/1552 - 17/3/1552 | John Gower of Spaldington, 60, witness |
Robert Gower of Spaldington, witness | |||
CP.G.739 | Matrimonial (validity of marriage) | 4/11/1555 - 11/6/1558 | Robert Young of Harlthorpe, 24, labourer, witness |
William Smith of Harlthorpe, 24, labourer, witness | |||
CP.G.785 | Testamentary (disputed legacy) | 25/5/1560 | Rothery and Betson v. Langdale, Bubwith mentioned |
CP.G.1007 | Testamentary (validity of will) | 3/3/1568 - 23/6/1569 | John Aske of Bubwith, testator |
Christopher Jewetson of Bubwith, defendant | |||
CP.G.2709 | Matrimonial (validity of marriage) | 5/5/1593 | John Pocklington of Bubwith, defendent |
CP.G.2780 | Testamentary (disputed legacy) | 13/6/1594 - 26/9/1594 | Home v. Blacklock, Bubwith mentioned |
CP.G.3213 | Defamation (sexual slander) | 16/1/1597 - 16/1/1597 | Richard Ramsay of Bubwith, 30, grassman, witness |
Richard Fawcett of Foggathorpe, 22, yeoman, witness | |||
CP.G.3028 | Defamation (sexual slander) | 26/1/1597 - 27/7/1598 | Thomas Cecil of Spawdington, 23, yeoman, witness |
Edward Lonsdale of Spawdington, 25, labourer, witness | |||
CP.G.3067 | Defamation (sexual slander) | 27/5/1598 | Francis Lambard of Spaldington (Aughton), 23, yeoman, witness |
Thomas Smith of Gribthorpe, 26, husbandman, witness | |||
John Hotham of Harlthorpe, 30, yeoman, witness | |||
CP.G.3071 | Defamation | 1/7/1598 | John Garrad of Spaldington, 68, husbandman, witness |
Robert Garrad of Spaldington, 30, husbandman, witness | |||
John Cote of Spaldington, 38, husbandman, witness | |||
Robert White of Spaldington, 33, husbandman, witness | |||
Robert Blanchard of Spaldington, 21, husbandman, witness | |||
CP.H.5307 | Testamentary (disputed legacy) | 2/4/1600 - 8/7/1605 | Teal als Constable v. Hungate, Bubwith mentioned |
CP.H.67 | Tithe (hay, flax and hemp) | 21/11/1601 - 29/7/1602 | William Hawley of Bubwith, 62, labourer, witness |
CP.H.1156 | Tithe (wheat, rye, barley, oats, beans & peas, cattle, horses, sheep, lambs, wool, multure) | 27/1/1616 | Marmeduke Dollman, plaintiff, farmer of the rectory of Bubwith |
Elizabeth Esrigg, defendant, widow of Bubwith | |||
HC.CP.1624/26 | Violation of church rights (heresy - recusancy) | 18/1/1624 | Elizabeth Barker, defendant, widow of Bubwith |
HC.CP.1624/21 | Violation of church rights (heresy - recusancy / excommunication) | 8/12/1624 | Sithe Blanchard wife of Robert Blanchard of Bubwith |
The office accused Sithe of refusing to receive the Holy Communion, and refusing to attend her parish church or any other place of worship to hear services or sermons. The office claimed that Sithe had been persecuted as a recusant and non-communicant for many years and had been cited to appear before the courts on several occasions but had been excommunicated for her contempt following her repeated refusals to appear. Sithe was finally accused of failing to seek absolution from her excommunication. Sithe admitted the charges against her, but claimed that her religious non-conformity was for conscience’s sake not for any contempt of the laws of the realm. | |||
CP.H.2196 | Tithe (rye, maslin, oats) | 14/1/1636 - 15/7/1637 | Marmeduke Dollman, plaintiff, farmer of the rectory of Bubwith |
Peter Gunby of Spaldington, defendant | |||
John Bail, vicar of a moiety of the vicarage of the parish church of Bubwith, 41, clerk, witness | |||
Michael Hawood, 56, glover, of Bubwith, witness | |||
George Smith of Bubwith, 74, husbandman, witness | |||
Robert White of Spaldington, 70, husbandman, witness | |||
Denis Smith of Breighton, 75, husbandman, witness | |||
Anthony Kemp of Spaldington, 52, husbandman, witness | |||
John Battle of Spaldington, 50, husbandman, witness | |||
Henry Hotham of Bubwith, 35, yeoman, witness | |||
Peter Vavasour of Bubwith, 40, gent, witness | |||
Peter Pocklington of Spaldington, 54, husbandman, witness | |||
William White of Spaldington, 33, husbandman, witness | |||
Valentine Clark of Spaldington, 28, yeoman, witness | |||
HC.CP.1637/3 | Immorality (adultery / failure to attend church / non-communication) | 3/5/1637 | Office v. Peter Vavasour of Bubwith, esq, defendant |
The office accused Peter of committing fornication and adultery with one Ruth Richardson. The office claimed that Peter had behaved very suspiciously and offensively with Ruth, had been found lying on a bed with her, had kept her in his house, and had continued to visit her for days at a time when she returned to her father’s house. The office further claimed that Peter had publicly boasted about his sexual relations with Ruth and with other women since his marriage, and had denied the claims of others that Ruth was a ‘comon strumpett or a whore.’ Peter was also accused of not attending his parish church to hear services, or receiving the Holy Communion three times each year, and of holding heretical religious opinions. The office alleged that Peter considered the resurrection of Christ to be ‘but a tricke of the clergye to cause the people to beleeve that to get money and to catch fooles.’ Peter agreed that Ruth had been a servant in his household, but denied that he had ever had sexual relations with her. He admitted that he had visited her father’s house since her return there, but claimed it was to do business with her father. Peter denied the other accusations made against him, but did admit that he was sometimes absent from church. | |||
CP.H.2712 | Matrimonial (annulment: affinity) | 28/4/1665 - 26/10/1667 | Valentine Clark of Spaldington, 60, yeoman, witness |
Isabel Clark wife of Valentine Clark, witness | |||
CP.H.5588 | Tithe (hemp, flax,) | 1668 | Edward Barrat vicar of Bubwith, clerk, plaintiff |
Richard Sutton of Bubwith, defendant | |||
CP.H.5958A | Tithe (rape seed,) | 18/3/1684 - 25/11/1686 | Henry Edmond proprietor of Bubwith, armiger, plaintiff |
Philip Featherston of Breighton, 57, gent, witness | |||
William Binks of Breighton, 57, farmer, witness | |||
George Scott of Gribthorpe, 60, farmer, witness | |||
James Bird of Bubwith, 35, farmer, witness | |||
Thomas Smith of Bubwith, 54, farmer, witness | |||
CP.H.4345 | Violation of church rights (assessment) | 6/2/1693 - 1/12/1694 | George Hailey, churchwarden of Bubwith, plaintiff |
Thomas Smith, churchwarden of Bubwith, plaintiff | |||
William Skipwith of Bubwith, 35, farmer, witness | |||
Timothy Johnson, clerk, vicar of Bubwith | |||
CP.I.157 | Defamation (character) | 1700 - 1701 | Nicholas Buttle of Bubwith, 30, farmer, witness |
Henry Brabbs of Bubwith, 26, yeoman, witness | |||
George Hailey of Bubwith, 30, witness | |||
CP.I.112 | Tithe (hemp) | 1704 | Timothy Johnson, clerk, vicar of Bubwith, plaintiff |
Thomas Granger of Bubwith, defendant | |||
CP.I.590 | Defamation (sexual slander) | 1719 | Matthew Westoby of Bubwith, 35, yeoman, witness |
Edward Barrat of Bubwith, 38, yeoman, witness | |||
DC.CP.1747/2 | Violation of church rights (unlicensed clergy) | 1747 | Office v. William Jackson, curate of Bubwith, defendant |
Thomas Weddell of Bubwith, 41, corn factor, witness | |||
John Maynard of Bubwith, 46, parish clerk, witness | |||
William Grasby of Bubwith, 48, joiner, witness | |||
Richard Moor of Bubwith, 53, churchwarden, witness | |||
Christopher Richardson of Bubwith, 42, yeoman, witness | |||
William Hutton of Bubwith, 32, yeoman, witness | |||
CONS.CP.1810/5 | Violation of church rights (Assessment) | 1810 | Churchwardens of Aughton v. Thomas Carr. Mentions Bubwith |
CONS.CP.1820/5 | Matrimonial (annulment: minor) | 2/10/1820 - 3/5/1821 | Elizabeth Nutbrown als Barker, 80; Wife of William Nutbrown, Yeoman of Bubwith; Mother of the defendant (Robert Barker); formerly married to William Barker, witness John Barker of Spaldington, 53, farmer, brother of the defendant, witness |
CONS.CP.1828/2 | Violation of church rights (Assessment) | 1828 | Churchwardens of Aughton v. Robert Cook of Seaton Ross, Mentions Bubwith |
TEST.CP.1830/10 | Testamentary (failure to render account) | 1830 | Anne Barker wife of John Barker, farmer of Spaldington (Aughton); Relict and Administrator of John Reader. John Barker, farmer of Spaldington (Aughton) |