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

absent 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 Colne Engaine communion compurgators confess constable court books curate declared defamation discharged Disorder divers divine service doth drunkenness East Hanningfield East Horndon East Mersea East Tilbury Easter Edward Elizabethan entries excommunicated Hanningfield hath Hornchurch Horndon husband incontinence Ingatestone Joan John judge ordered Kelvedon knave later licence Little living Lord Maldon marriage married minister neighbours Nicholas offence parish church parishioners penance persons poor prayer presented prosecuted punishment purgation purge puritan Quarter Sessions received records rector recusants refused repair reported Richard Robert Romford sermon servant slander South Fambridge South Ockendon South Weald steeple Sunday suspected Thomas vicar wardens Wenden West Ham widow wife William Witham woman words