Chester sources extracted for CCEd

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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