Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes Grand Jury presentment that Arbors [foot] Bridge, Elsenham, erected by former owner of Elsenham Hall 'carried away' (Q/SBb 484/1); Sudbury contractors' correspondence conceming difficulty in obtaining slate for 'building at Springfield' (Q/SBb 484/8/1-2); Committee notes re new gaol, change of site for outhouses, recommendation for chaise-house and two stalled stables, 'Drop' [? for gallows) at Horsemanger Lane to inspected with view to adoption of similar plan (Q/SBb 484/9); Gaol surgeon reports that prisoners on tread wheel complained of diet (Q/SBb 484/12/2); Committee report on site for new House of Correction for Becontree Hundred at Ilford to incorporate existing house and buildings (Q/SBb 484/17); Committee report and decision on amounts of compensation £90 in total, to be paid for damages during rebuilding of bridge as Loughton (Q/SBb 484/18/2); Visitors' reports for Dr Allen's Lunatic Asylum at Leopard's Hill Lodge, Loughton (Q/SBb 484/20); Stansted Street Bridge in need of 'immediate repair,' Stansted Mountfitchet (Q/SBb 484/21). bill for carpenter's work on Kelvedon Bridge (Q/SBb 484/25); notes re expenditure on convict Gaol and other prisons (Q/SBb 484/68/1-2); Chelmsford Chronicle, 4,18 August 1826, County Chronicle, 8 August 1826 (Q/SBb 484/72-74)