Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes report on responsibility for repair of Long Bridge, Little Coggeshall (Q/SBb 479/16); circular letter from Whitehall to Clerk of Peace re new Act concerning jurors and juries (Q/SBb 479/8); Committee report that appointment of Keeper of additional Gaol is vested in Sheriff (Q/SBb 479/9); Visitors' and Keeper's Reports for Gaol and Chelmsford House of Correction (prisoners employed in tread-wheel, picking oakum, shoe-making, labour on additional gaol), account of prison clothing (Q/SBb 479/5,10); Visitors' Report for Halstead House of Correction [escape of 2 prisoners - day and night watch begun] (Q/SBb 479/11); County Surveyor's Report on cost of repairs necessary to Rod Bridge, Catawade Bridge and Upminster Bridge, Upminster (Q/SBb 479/15); request from Chelmsford and West Essex Auxiliary Bible Society for use of County Room for 13th Anniversary Meeting (Q/SBb 479/20); copy of Rules (1821) governing Friendly Societies (Q/SBb 479/23); papers concerning repairs to Bridge (parish) to be consulted as liable for Horse Bridge), Upminster (Q/SBb 479/29, 37); rough note that one of the yards at Halstead House of Correction can be secured for less than £20 (Q/SBb 479/29); rough notes concerning Long Bridge, Little Coggeshall (one written on paper which mentions (printed) Report from Board of Vaccine Establishment 12th February 1825 (Q/SBb 479/29, 32, 95); rough orders re bills concerning building of addtional gaol (Q/SBb 479/33); note that case re shoal in river at Chelmsford Bridge be subjected to Mr. Tindal and further relative papers, (Q/SBb 479/36, 95-96,99); Treasurer's printed account of County Money (West Essex Division) at Michaelmas 1824 (Q/SBb 479/37); rough notes (with legal precedents) reappointment of overseers (Q/SBb 479/40); notes on dispute over payment to hired lad (orginally engaged at 3s. 6d. per week), Hadleigh (Q/SBb 479/43); 2 cases of theft at Masons' Arms, Moulsham, Chelmsford (Q/SBb 479/65-66); jacket lost in disturbance at Theobald Arms, Grays Thurrock, suspect put in cage (Q/SBb 479/74); brass weight stolen by dealer in metal from shop in Brook Street, South Weald, man apprehended with help of horsekeeper to Shannon Stage Coach at Fleece Inn (Q/SBb 479/76, 89); pair of steelyards missed from basket of woman at Two Brewers and Castle Inn, Woodford (Q/SBb 479/83); counterfeit coins uttered for goods, silversmith's evidence, Chelmsford and Great Baddow (Q/SBb 479/84, 85); information that two men with donkeys and cart stole quantity of wrought and cast iron from wheelwright's yard, Earls Colne (Q/SBb 479/91); Chelmsford Chronicle, 29 April 1825 and Colchester Gazette, 30 April 1825 (Q/SBb 479/93-94); report re occupation of new prison and surgeon's approval (Q/SBb 479/97)