Elizabethan Life: Morals & the Church Courts : Mainly from Essex Archidiaconal Records

abuse accused act books adultery alleged answer apparitor appear Archdeacon Archdeacon of Essex attend Aveley Bawdy Court bell Bishop chancel chapel charge child Church courts churchwardens churchyard cited clergy clerics Coggeshall Colchester Colne communion cup compurgators confess court books curate decay declared Dedham defamation Disorder divers divine service doth drunkenness East Horndon East Mersea East Tilbury Easter Edward Elizabethan entries excommunicated four Hanningfield hath High Ongar Hornchurch Horndon husband incontinence Joan John judge ordered Kelvedon knave later licence living Lord Maldon marriage married minister neighbours Nicholas offence Ongar parish church parishioners parsonage penance persons poor prayer preach presented prosecuted purgation purge puritan Quarter Sessions received records rector recusants refused repair reported Richard Robert Romford Salcott sermon servant slander South Benfleet South Ockendon South Weald steeple Sunday surplice suspected Thomas vicar wardens West Ham West Hanningfield wife William woman words