Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes letter to magistrate from Sheriff James Urmston of Chigwell on urgent need for better accommodation for Assize judges in Chelmsford and copy of reply (Q/SBb 405/15); list of names of those to be nominated as Commissioners of Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation (Q/SBb 405/16); printed extract from Act 46 George III c. 138 on exemptions from duty on tiles for land drains (Q/SBb 405/19); letter from John Silvester, Recorder of London, accepting offer to take Chair at Quarter Sessions once a year (Q/SBb 405/22); letter from magistrate, Lewis Majendie, to clerk of the peace on conduct of County Surveyor, John Johnson, and unspecified incident in court when parties were 'heated with wine' (Q/SBb 405/23); footpath diversion order, Hatfield Peverel and Terling, with plan (Q/SBb 405/36); footpath diversion order, Chelmsford, with plan (Q/SBb 405/37); request by Barrack Office at Colchester for clearance of ditches by road leading to Barracks at Chelmsford, in consequence of report made by Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, nuisance occupation of huts by civilians nearby, and draft reply (Q/SBb 405/37); refusal of relief to a woman, Ramsey, after order by justice (Q/SBB 405/38)