Catalogue description DEPOSITION BOOKS

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Details of EDC 2
Reference: EDC 2
Title: DEPOSITION BOOKS
Description:

These contain the evidence given by witnesses under examination in court. The entries from 1529 - July 1541 relate to the court of the archdeacon of Chester; thereafter to the consistory court of the newly-founded diocese. Entries relate to the usual causes - matrimonial, defamation, probate and tithe etc and the court's language is in Latin with the witnesses actual evidence usually given in English. Volumes for 1561-1566 (EDC 2/7) and 1570-1573/4 (EDC 2/9) have 18th and 19th century indexes.
Related material:

Entries from EDC 2/7 were published in F J Furnivall's Child Marriages, Divorces and Ratifications etc in the Diocese of Chester by the Early English Text Society 1897.
Held by: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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