Two papers relating to very serious accusations - plots, practices, embracery of jurors, giving and taking of rewards for ulterior purposes brought by Dame Mary Bulkeley, widow of Sir Richard Bulkeley [third] against Dr. Nicholls, parson of Cheadle, and a large number of other "confederates", some of them among the most important people in Cheshire. No facts whatsoever can be elicited from the documents - the demurrer of Dr. Nicholls and other defendants, the replication of Dame Mary - but it can pretty safely be deduced that she accused them of detaining the rents and profits of her jointure-lands, they doing this (if they did it) out of sympathy with the descendants of Sir Richard by his first wife. One of the papers is dated 10 May, 1627 c.1627