| Description | Court sitting in Buckden, in Godmanchester and St. Neots. Assignations in office causes; many prosecutions for absence from church, refusal of communion etc., refusal of church rate and clerical stipend, clandestine marriage, bastardy, failure to provide church Furniture, abuse of clergy, failures to get faculties for enlarging churchyard and taking down seats, violence in the churchyard. Instance causes: testaments, seat provision, defamation, recovery of fees, church rate, burial charges, tithe. Includes: 13 Feb 1683/4 sister and administratrix of Dorothea Elsam 'nuper de Nova Anglia in partibus transmarinis', a beneficiary under will of Susanna King v. the executor 10 Sept. 1684 Off. dom. v. John Stevenson of Godmanchester, yeoman, for unlicensed practice of surgery. Ditto, v. Nicholas Onslow of St. Ives. |