Cheshire Sufferings

Surname	Name	Description	Location	Dy	Mo	Year	Event/Charge	Nature of Suffering
Adgate	Sarah					1656	Testifying against the vices and corruptions of those times	Imprisoned for four weeks
Akerly	Henry					1686	Release from prison by King Charles’ pardon
Allcock	Edward					1653	Going two miles from their habitation to a Meeting	Distress of goods to the value of £11 10s
Alcock	Edward					1665	Taken at a Meeting	Re-Imprisoned for four months
Asbrook	Richard					1678	Attending Meeting	With one other, goods taken worth £6
Baddely	John					1663	No examination or charge nor did it appear any legal cause.	Taken from his house to prison, detained for several months with no examination or charge against him.
Badely	John					1656	Testifying against the vices and corruptions of those times	Imprisoned for twenty-four weeks
Baker	Jeremiah Owen	Of Stockport				1683	Absence from parish worship	Had bread taken from him and given to the poor, who refused it so it was returned.
Bancroft	John	Of Etchels in Netherden Parish				1683		Suffered by the statute made against Popist Recusants. Fined £15
Bangs	Benjamin			26	5	1685	Preaching in a Meeting	Bedding and other goods carted away to the value of £20.
Bangs	Mary					1683	Attending Meeting, non-payment of fines	Re-committed to Chester goal for some months because of mistaken identity
Biggs	Margaret					1667	Sued for Tithes before her marriage to Thomas	Excommunicated, imprisoned in Chester prison for five years and three months after marrying Thomas
Boulton	Thomas	Of Norton				1679	For attending Meeting	Had taken a mare worth £1
Briggs	Thomas	Of Newton				1679	Being at Meeting	Had taken a horse sold for £2
Bolton	Benjamin					1656	Reading a paper in the grave yard	Distress of good to the value of £2 5s and eight weeks imprisoned
Braffey	Thomas		Willison			1674	For preaching at religious Assemblies	Goods taken worth £26
Braffey	Thomas					1675	Requested repayment of a loan of £40 from John Widdowbury	Widdowbury revived an excommunication against Braffery and had him sent to prison
Braffey	Thomas					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Bretton	Thomas		Pawnal-See			1666	Been at a Meeting in house of Thomas Janney	Imprisoned in Common Goal in Chester for three months
Briggs	Thomas					1667	Refusing to pay Tithes	Distressed of corn, cattle and other things
Briggs	Thomas					1675		Goods taken by distress including kine and horses
Briggs	Margaret					1675	A Meeting at her house	For a fine of £5 were taken three milch cows worth £10
Brock	Ralph					1685	A claim of 6s 8d for church-rates	Had a cow worth £3 6s 8d taken.
Brown	James					1658	Non-payment of demands of £4 17s 5d for repairing public worship-houses and wages of Parish Clerk to the value of £14 17s 10d	Distress of good to the value of 2s and 50s
Brown	John					1678	Attending Meeting	Four cows and two young beasts taken worth £15
Brown	John	Of Kinsley				1683		Suffered by the statute made against Popist Recusants. Fined £8
Brown	John					1684	Constancy in attending religious Meetings	Goods taken
Buckley	Thomas				11	1663	for Tithes	Imprisoned by Ecclesiastical Court
Buckley	Thomas					1685	A demand for 10s for Church-rate	Had his corn and horse taken away worth £5
Burgess	Hugh		Wimslow		6	1684	For a Meeting at his house	Fined £20 and a further £20 for his wife speaking. All goods in the house taken away by the constables.
Burgess	Richard					1653	Going two miles from their habitation to a Meeting	Distress of goods to the value of £11, 10s
Burgess	William					1664	Refusing to pay Tithes	Imprisoned
Burgess	Jeffrey					1665	Taken at a Meeting	Re-Imprisoned for four months
Bushel	Deborah	Of Alvandly, Widow with five children				1678	Holding a Meeting at her house	Taken from her five cows worth £17
Bushell	Deborah	Of Alvandly, Widow				1683	Absence from Parish worship	Imprisoned for four days having previously lost all her goods by distress
Burtonwood	William				11	1663	for Tithes	Imprisoned by Ecclesiastical Court
Cheshire	John	Of Overton				1678	Attending Meeting	Corn, hay and other things taken worth £9
Clayton	James					1682	Attending Meeting?	Broke open his doors and took away most of his goods amounting to £3
Clerk	John	Of Frodsham		31	1	1683	Found at prayer	Distressed of cloth worth £5
Cotton	John	Of Frodsham				1681	Absence from national worship	No goods to seize so sent to prison
Cotton	John					1686	Release from prison by King Charles’ pardon
Cotton	John					1684	Absence from public worship	For fine of 4s was committed to prison
Crosby	Hugh					1660		One John Turpin caused him to be hurried by rude and wicked fellows from Barterton to Chester and back and afterward to Nantwich in a very hot summer’s day as if to afflict and tire them
Crosby	Hugh					1677	Attending Meeting	Distressed of goods and cattle
Cubham	Richard					1656	Reading a paper in the grave yard	Distress of good to the value of £2 5s and eight weeks imprisoned
Cusb	Elizabeth					1684	Her constancy in attending religious Meeting	Goods taken
Deane	Dorothy				11	1663	for Tithes	Imprisoned by Ecclesiastical Court
Dickes	Roger	Of Occleston				1678		They took two mares worth £6
Dix	James					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Dix	James	Nantwich				1682		Imprisoned for three months
Dix	Joseph	Nantwich				1682		Imprisoned for three months
Dix	Joseph			24	2	1683	Attending Meeting	Fined for a second offence
Dix	Peter					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Dix	Robert					1682	Attending Meeting?	Goods taken
Docwra	Thomas					1677	Preaching in Meeting	Fined £20
Dutton	John	Of Overton				1681	Absence from national worship	Fined 7s. Paid by a kinswoman
Dutton	Peter					1685	Refusing to take oath of allegiance	Suffered about a year’s imprisonment
Dutton	Peter					1686	Release from prison by King Charles’ pardon
Eaton	John jnr					1677	Attending Meeting	Took away goods and cattle
Eaton	John snr					1682	Holding a Meeting at his house	He and other distressed of goods worth £70 10s 11d
Eaton	Thomas					1660		One John Turpin caused him to be hurried by rude and wicked fellows from Barterton to Chester and back and afterward to Nantwich in a very hot summer’s day as if to afflict and tire them
Edge	Mary					1686	Release from prison by King Charles’ pardon
Elliot	Randal					1674	For preaching at religious Assemblies	Goods taken worth £20
Elliot	Randall					1675		They took the bed he lay on and also the dung hill from his yard.
Endon	Mary					1654	Presuming to discourse, after sermon, with a publick preacher, concerning his doctrine	Four days imprisoned
Falkner	John		Pawnal-See			1666	Been at a Meeting in house of Thomas Janney	Imprisoned in Common Goal in Chester for Six months
Fanney	Thomas					1653	Going two miles from their habitation to a Meeting	Distress of goods to the value of £11 10s
Fara	Anne					1653	Uttering Christian Exhortations to the people	Abused by the people and imprisoned
Fletcher	Henry					1674	Preaching at religious Assemblies	Goods taken worth £16 3s 4d
Fletcher	Henry					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Fox	Margaret					1677	Preaching at Meeting	Fined £20
Frier	Thomas	Of Kingsley				1681	Absence from national worship	No goods to seize so sent to prison
Furnival	John					1682		Committed
Furnival	John			24	2	1683	Attending Meeting	Fined for a second offence
Gandy	John	Of Over-Whitley			9	1683		Imprisoned several times awaiting charging and court appearance
		A weakly man
Gibson	William					1660		One John Turpin caused him to be hurried by rude and wicked fellows from Barterton to Chester and back and afterward to Nantwich in a very hot summer’s day as if to afflict and tire them
Glent	Samuel	A poor boy				1674		Took his wearing apparel worth 12s 4d
Gorst	Phoebe					1682		Committed to the house of correction for six months
Gorste	Phoebe			24	2	1683	Attending Meeting	Fined for a second offence
Gregg	Richard	Of Overton				1678	Attending Meeting	A mare and six yearlings taken worth £13
Griffith	Thomas				11	1682	Attending Meeting	Goods distrained and imprisoned
Griffith	Thomas						Refusing to take oath of allegiance	Sentence of Premunire passed upon him.
Griffith	Thomas					1686	Release from prison by King Charles’ pardon
Hall	John					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Hall	William	Of Congelton					A Meeting at his house	Fined £20. His house broken open and goods worth £40 carried away and a mare of his.
Harrison	James					1663	for Tithes	£7 4s 10d demanded for tithes, Goods were taken by distress to value of £28 18s together with Anne and Thomas Janney
Harrison	James		Pawnal-See			1666	Been at a Meeting in house of Thomas Janney	Imprisoned in Common Goal in Chester for Six months
Hathurst	Jphn					1677	Attending Meeting	Distressed of good and cattle
Hatton	John			31	1	1683	Found at prayer	Distressed of goods worth 15s
Hatton	Peter					1678	Attending Meeting	A share of goods taken worth £6
Hatton	Peter			31	1	1683	Found at prayer	Distressed of goods worth 15s
Helsby	Ralph jnr					1683	Attending Meeting, non-payment of fines	Re-committed to Chester goal
Helsby	John					1684	Absence from public worship	Fined 8s. No goods to be distressed he was thrust into a nasty place of confinement
Hignell	Alice	Very aged woman	Newton			1683	Attending Meeting	Carried to prison in a cart
Hill	Thomas		Tarvin			1656	Reading a declaration against tithes in the town	Stoned and barbarously abused by a rabble animated by the parish priest
Hill	Thomas					1658	Non-payment of tithes	Imprisoned for seven weeks and goods taken from him
Hitchcock	Richard		Chester			1653	Being at the same meeting as Holme	Imprison for 15 weeks
Hitchcock	Richard		Chester			1653	Uttering Christian Exhortations to the people	In irons imprisoned, in the ‘Dead Mans room’ for 13 weeks
Hodgskin	John					1678	Preventing a butcher buying distrained cattle	Imprisoned
Hodgskin	John					1678	Attending Meeting	Four cows taken worth £13
Holme	Thomas		Chester			1653	Preaching at a meeting	Imprisoned for six weeks. Grievously abused and beaten
Hubberthorn	Richard					1653	Visiting John Lawson then in prison	Imprisoned eight days
Hutchins	Anthony		Chester			1657	Sent a copy of his account of the Sufferings of the people called Quakers in Chester to the Mayor	Sent to Little Ease.* After examination by the Mayor and Recorder he was imprisoned to await the Quarter Sessions from where he was set free
Jackson	Alice					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Jackson	John					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Janney	Anne	Of Hereford				1663	for Tithes	£7 4s 10d demanded for tithes, Goods were taken by distress to value of £28 18s together with Thomas Hanney and James Harrison
Janney	Thomas, jnr					1663	for Tithes	£7 4s 10d demanded for tithes, Goods were taken by distress to value of £28 18s together with Anne Janney and James Harrison
Janney	Thomas					1664	Refusing to pay Tithes	Imprisoned
Janney	Thomas					1665	Taken at a Meeting	Re-Imprisoned for four months
Janney	William		Pawnal-See			1666	Been at a Meeting in house of Thomas Janney	Imprisoned in Common Goal in Chester for Six months
Janney	Thomas					1671		Fined £1 6s 8d. Goods taken worth £3 10s
Janney	Thomas					1673	Non-payment of Tithes	Value of Tithes claimed of £2 14s. Goods taken to value of £10 10s
Janney	William	Of Hanford				1683		Suffered by the statute made against Popist Recusants. Fined £16 5s
Kent	William					1682	Attending Meeting?	Goods taken
Kent	William		Middlewich	24	2	1683	Attending Meeting at Middlewich. Convicted of third offence	Order of Banishment. Imprisoned
Kent	William					1686	Release from prison by King Charles’ pardon
Kinnerly	John					1682	For being at several Meetings	Goods taken to the value of £60
Kinnerly	John					1682	For their religious assemblies	Convicted, fined, had good distrained and committed to house of correction
Knevett	Edward					1665	Taken in a Meeting in the house of Edward Alcock of Moberly	Imprisoned in Middlewich House of Correction, fell ill and died
Lamb	John		Pawnal-See			1666	Been at a Meeting in house of Thomas Janney	Imprisoned in Common Goal in Chester for three months
Lamb	John					1682		Committed to house of correction for six months. Died in prison near two years after
Lamb	John			24	2	1683	Attending Meeting at Middlewich. Convicted of third offence	Order of Banishment. Imprisoned
Lawrence	Alexander					1682	Attending Meeting?	Goods taken
Lawson	John					1656	Testifying against the vices and corruptions of those times	Imprisoned for twenty-four weeks
Lethard	Peter					1656	Reading a paper in the grave yard	Distress of good to the value of £2 5s and eight weeks imprisoned
Levens	Elizabeth					1653	Passing the street toward the Prison with an intention to visit their Friends there	Imprisoned, where they lay in a nasty, stinking place for five weeks
Livesey	Thomas					1653	Refusing to swear	Suffered six weeks and five days imprisoned and distress of 50s
Low	Mary					1683		Should have been re-committed to goal but see Mary Bangs
Lownes	Jane					1678	Attending Meeting	Goods taken worth 12s
Madocks	Deborah					1656	Carrying a letter to the Mayor from Edward Morgan. She came in a manner the Mayor called irreverent	Placed in Little Ease* for four hours.
Maddock	John					1682		Committed
Malin	Randal					1678	Reproved a priest who was promoting the sale of distressed goods, and trying to prevent a butcher buying the cattle.	The priest obtained a warrant for his imprisonment.
Malin	Randal					1678	Praying in Meeting	Fined £20 6s for which distress was made of his household goods, corn and hay.
Milner	John		Tarvin			1656	Reading a declaration against tithes in the town	Stoned and barbarously abused by a rabble animated by the parish priest
Milner	John		Pawnal-See			1666	Been at a Meeting in house of Thomas Janney	Imprisoned in Common Goal in Chester for three months
Milner	John		Wimslow		6	1684	Attending Meeting	Fined. Had already passed his stock to a creditor so all that was in his house was seized.
Milner	Mary					1658	Non-payment of tithes	Imprisoned for seven weeks and goods taken from them
Milner	Richard					1670	Holding Meeting at his house	Fined £20, goods taken worth £37
Milner	Robert					1653	Going two miles from their habitation to a Meeting	Distress of goods to the value of £11 10s
Morgan	Edward		Chester			1653	Being at the same meeting as Holme	Imprisoned for nine weeks
Morgan	Edward					1656	Complained to the Mayor against a servant who had robbed him but, refusing to swear, the Mayor discharged the thief and sent Edward to prison	Imprisoned for eleven weeks and then privately released.
Morgan	Edward					1657	Complained to the Mayor against a drunken fellow, who grossly abused him	Sent to Little Ease* for not pulling his hat off when he made that complaint
Morgan	Edward		Chester			1670	Attending Meeting	Suffered greatly. Distressed of goods five or six times the value of fines
Morgan	Francis					1686	Release from prison by King Charles’ pardon
Murray	Henry					1656	Testifying against the vices and corruptions of those times	Imprisoned for twenty-four weeks
Nixon	John		Pawnal-See			1666	Been at a Meeting in house of Thomas Janney	Imprisoned in Common Goal in Chester for Six months
Nixon	Mathew	Of Keaquick				1679	For a Meeting at his house	Had taken three cows, hemp and household goods to the value of £14 17s
Norcott	Mary					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Norcott	Thomas					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Ogden	Edward					1654	Presuming to discourse, after sermon, with a publick preacher, concerning his doctrine	Pulled out by his hair, imprisoned for nine weeks
Ogden	Edward				11	1682	Attending Meeting	Goods distrained and imprisoned
Ogden	Edmund					1682	Attending Meeting?	Goods taken
Orme	Richard					1678	Attending Meeting	Goods taken worth £10 13s
Parr	Richard					1667	Attending Meeting	Took away goods and cattle
Pearson	Robert					1672	Non-payment of Tithes	For a demand of £1 16s for Tithes had goods taken to the value of £3 6s
Pearson	Robert					1673	Non-payment of Tithes	Value of Tithes claimed of £2 14s. Goods taken to value of £10 10s
Peckow	Helen					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Peckow	John					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Peckow	Thomas	Of Stanthorpe				1678		They took a mare
Peckow	Thomas					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Pickering	Peter					1677	Attending Meeting	Took away goods and cattle
Pickering	Charles					1682	Attending Meeting?	Goods taken
Picton	Richard					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Pott	Thomas					1665	Taken at a Meeting	Re-Imprisoned for four months
Pott	Thomas					1671		Fined 20s. Goods taken worth £3 10s
Pott	Thomas					1673	Non-payment of Tithes	Value of Tithes claimed of £2 14s. Goods taken to value of £10 10s
Potts	Thomas					1653	Going two miles from their habitation to a Meeting	Distress of goods to the value of £11 10s
Potts	Thomas		Pawnal-See			1666	Been at a Meeting in house of Thomas Janney	Imprisoned in Common Goal in Chester for Six months
Pott	Thomas	Of Wimslow				1684	Holding a Meeting at his house	Fined £20. He being poor had his house raided but only goods to the value of £2 0s 6d could be found to be distressed.
Powell	Judith					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Powell	Thomas					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Roland	Thomas	Of Weaverham				1683		Suffered by the statute made against Popist Recusants. Fined £31 6s 2d
Roland	Thomas	Of Acton		31	1	1683	Found at prayer	Fined 5s but a neighbor paid as all his goods had been previously seized for his absence from parish church
Rylance	Anne					1682	For their religious assemblies	Committed to house of correction for six months
Rylance	William			24	2	1683	Attending Meeting at Middlewich. Convicted of third offence	Order of Banishment. Imprisoned
Rylance	William					1686	Release from prison by King Charles’ pardon
Sale	Richard					1656	Testifying against the vices and corruptions of those times	Imprisoned for thirty-three weeks in an unheated open room
Sale	Richard					1657	An undaunted reprover of Vice without respect to persons	Several times into Little Ease* for three, four, five and eight hours together. Being corpulent he suffered greatly. He died in August 1657
Sarrat	Elizabeth	Of Woodhouse		31	1	1683	Found at prayer	Distressed of goods worth 15s
Sarrat	Elizabeth	Of Woodhouse				1684	Absence from national worship	Distressed of corn, cattle and other goods worth £11 10s
Sarrat	Richard					1678	Attending Meeting	Five cows taken worth £16
Sarrat	Richard					1678	Attending Meeting	Two horses and a mare taken worth £16
Sarrat	Richard			31	1	1683	Found at prayer	Distressed of a mare worth £8
Sarrat	Richard	Of Croton				1683		Suffered by the statute made against Popist Recusants. Fined £23
Scostroph	Richard					1654	Preaching repentance in the streets	Put into Little Ease* till next day and then sent to Bridewell.
Scrivener	Jane					1683	Absence from parish worship	Had cheese taken from her and given to the poor several of whom brought is back.
Sharplace	John					1674	For preaching at religious Assemblies	Goods taken worth £9 6s
Sharples	John					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Shawcross	John					1683	Conscientious absence from National Worship	For lack of distress was sent to prison
Simcock	John		Ridley			1676	Second offence in preaching at Meeting	Goods taken away to the value of £41
Simcock	John					1678	Fined for preaching	Had taken eight cows and eleven heifers worth £90
Simcock	John					1679	Speaking some words of exhortation at a funeral	Had goods taken away to the value of £100
Simcock	John	Of Stoak				1681	By the stature made against Pacifist Recusants	Had goods taken worth £40
Simpson	William					1654	Attempted to exhort the people after their public preacher had ended his sermon	Put into the stocks and afterward kept in Little Ease* for nine hours. When he complained to the Mayor of his cruel usage he was sent again to the same place after being struck in the face by the sheriff.
Smith	Richard	Practitioner of physick and Chirurgery	Chester			1663	Practicing without a license.	Imprisoned in City prison, detained under close confinement for more than five years, illegally as the lawyers informed him.
							Contempt of court
Smith	Richard		Chester			1670	Holding Meetings at his house	Usually fined £20 for each Meeting but goods seized several times that amount.
Snead	William					1682	Attending Meeting?	Goods taken
Stretch	Mary					1665	To visit their brethren in Middlewich in House of Correction	Imprisoned
Stretch	Mary					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Stretch	Thomas	Of Overton				1678	Attending Meeting	Goods taken worth £1
Stretch	Thomas	Of Overton				1681	Absence from national worship	No goods to seize so sent to prison
Taylor	Eleazar					1677	Attending Meeting	Took away goods and cattle
Taylor	Robert		Chester		1	1662	29 of this people Unlawfully meeting together in house of John Dove on pretense of joining together in religious worship of God	Fined £2 10s. If not paid or equivalent value of property collected within six days to be sent to the House of Correction for three months
Taylor	William	Of Newton				1679	For attending Meeting	Had taken a hog worth £1
Taylor	William					1682	Attending Meeting?	Goods taken
Titley	Thomas	Of Helsby				1678	Holding a Meeting at his house	Fined £20, suffered the loss of nine cows worth £27. Also other goods worth £7 and a cart and wheels worth 50s
Tovey	Samuel					1682		Imprisoned for three months
Tovie	Samuel					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Towers	Daniel			24	2	1683	Attending Meeting at Middlewich. Convicted of third offence	Order of Banishment. Imprisoned
Towers	Daniel					1686	Release from prison by King Charles’ pardon
Trafford	Mary					1678	Holding a Meeting at his house	Cart and wheels taken worth £2 10s
Trafford	Mary	Widow				1684	Her constancy in attending religious Meetings	Cattle taken worth £11 10s
Vernon	Thomas	Of Stanborne				1678		For a fine of 10s they took three cows and two young beasts. To prevent this the neighbours paid the fine.
Vernon	Thomas					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Waite	Elizabeth					1683	Attending Meeting, non-payment of fines	Re-committed to Chester gaol
Walley	Shaddrach					1682	For being at several Meetings	Fined £20
Walworth	John	Of Frodsham				1683		Suffered by the statute made against Popist Recusants. Fined £12
Walworth	John					1684	Constancy in attending religious Meetings	Goods taken
Waugh	John					1653	Passing the street toward the Prison with an intention to visit their Friends there	Imprisoned where they lay in a nasty, stinking place for five weeks
Wilcoxon	Arthur					1678		Had taken a nag, a mare and two heifers worth £11
Wilcoxon	Arthur					1678		Had distrained a bull and fifteen cows, a yoke of oxen, a nag and a mare worth £70
Wilcoxon	Arthur					1683		Suffered by the statute made against Popist Recusants. Fined £30
Williamson	Ellen				11	1663	for Tithes	Imprisoned by Ecclesiastical Court
Williamson	John	Of Creewood-hall		31	1	1683	Found at prayer	Distressed of a mare worth £8
Williamson	Thomas					1683	Attending Meeting, non-payment of fines	Re-committed to Chester goal
Wood	Margaret					1656	Testifying against the vices and corruptions of those times	Imprisoned for four weeks
Woodcock	William					1665	To visit their brethren in Middlewich House of Correction	Imprisoned
Woodcock	William					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Woodcock	William					1682	For their religious assemblies	Convicted, fined, had good distrained and committed to house of correction
Woodcock	William	Of Church-holm				1683		Suffered by the statute made against Popist Recusants. Fined £11
Woodward	Jonathon					1686	Release from prison by King Charles’ pardon
Woolam	Gilbert					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Worrell	John					1664	Refusing to pay Tithes	Imprisoned
Worthington	John					1653	Going two miles from their habitation to a Meeting	Distress of goods to the value of £11 10s
Wrench	Anne					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Wrench	John					1679	One Month’s absence from Parish Church	Fined £20 and declared a delinquent.
Yarewood	Thomas					1653	Uttering Christian Exhortations to the people	Imprisoned
Yarwood	Thomas					1654	Remonstrated with the Mayor and Aldermen on their way to a feast and reminded them where real Christianity stood: true holiness and fear of the Lord	Sent to Little Ease* for five hours. He, being a weak and sickly man, was much bruised and hurt

*Little Ease – Besse gives the following description: “There was at this time in Chester, a Place called Little Ease, devised for Torture, of which we find the following Description: ‘It was an Hole hewed out of rock, the Breadth and Cross from Side to Side was seventeen Inches, from the Back to the Inside of the great Door at the Top, seven Inches, at the Shoulders eight Inches, at the Breast nine Inches and an Half; from the Top to the Bottom one Yard and an Half, with a Device to lessen the height, as they are minded to torment the Person put in, by Drawboards, which shoot iver the two Sides to a Yard Heighth, or thereabout.’ In this Place they tormented many of those who were induced with Christian Courage to reprove the Vices either of Ministers, Magistrates, or People, […]”