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Document Contents

• Cheshire Record Office, Chester
• Lancashire Record Office, Preston
• West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds
• The National Archives, Kew
• Printed sources

Cheshire Record Office, Chester

EDA 2	Register 1660–1704 Extracted: f. 9: letters of orders 1654 f. 19: collation f. 52: election of schoolmaster ff. 54–5: order of committee of plundered ministers to officiate at Cheadle, followed by institution f. 184: list of clergy of Manchester collegiate church f. 196: institution f. 236: list of clergy of Chester cathedral 1698 f. 253v: revocation of licence of curate.
EDA 1/4	Act book 1579–1686 Extracted ff. 137–70, covering the period 1660–86. For this period, the volume is essentially an institution act book.
EDA 1/6	Act book 1752–60
EDV 2/8	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1674
EDV 2/9	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1677
EDV 2/10	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1686 Covers the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Amounderness.
EDV 2/10A	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1691
EDV 2/12	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1701 Covers the archdeaconry of Chester, excluding the deaneries of Leyland and Blackburn.
EDV 2/15	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1712 Covers the archdeaconry of Chester.
EDV 2/16	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1716
EDV 2/21	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1725 Covers the archdeaconry of Chester.
EDV 2/24	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1728 Covers the archdeaconry of Chester.
EDV 2/27	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1733 Covers the archdeaconry of Chester.
EDV 2/28	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1738 Covers the archdeaconry of Chester.
EDV 2/31	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1742 Covers the archdeaconry of Chester.
EDV 2/33	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1747 Covers the archdeaconry of Chester.
EDV 2/34	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1754 Covers the archdeaconry of Chester.
EDA 5/5–62	Ordination papers 1690–1756.

Lancashire Record Office, Preston

DRCh/6	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1701 Covers the archdeaconry of Richmond.
DRCh/8	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1712 Covers the archdeaconry of Richmond.
DRCh/9	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1716 Covers the archdeaconry of Richmond.
DRCh/10	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1725 Covers the archdeaconry of Richmond.
DRCh/12	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1733 Covers the archdeaconry of Richmond.
DRCh/14	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1741 and 1743 Covers the archdeaconry of Richmond: 1741: deaneries of Boroughbridge, Catterick and Richmond. 1743: deaneries of Amounderness, Lonsdale, Kendal, Furness and Copeland.
DRCh/18	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1749 Covers the archdeaconry of Richmond.

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds

RD/CB 4a	Visitation call books, Richmond and Catterick deaneries, 1711, 1714 and 1721.
RD/CB 4a	Visitation call books, Amounderness deanery, 1713, 1714 and 1721.
RD/CB 4a	Visitation call books, Richmond and Catterick deaneries, 1682, 1689 and 1702.
RD/CB 4a	Visitation call books, Boroughbridge deanery, 1681.
RD/CB 4a	Exhibit book, episcopal visitation, 1745 Covers the Boroughbridge, Catterick and Richmond deaneries of the archdeaconry of Richmond.

The National Archives, Kew

PRO, E179/61/85	Free and Voluntary Present, 1661. List of clergy assessed for tax under the Free and Voluntary Present of 1661.
PRO, E179/61/86	Free and Voluntary Present, 1661, list of arrears.
PRO, E213/428	Association oath roll, archdeaconry of Chester, 1696.
PRO, E213/429	Association oath roll, archdeaconry of Richmond, 1696.

Printed sources

EDA 2

The diary of Dr Thomas Cartwright, bishop of Chester, ed. Jospeh Hunter (Camden Society, 22, 1843) Information about ordinations and institutions have been extracted.