Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes visitors' report on Chelmsford House of Correction and Gaol, mentions treadwheel (Q/SBb 469/5, 18); report by committee on charges against William Cauthem, Keeper of Chelmsford House of Correction (Q/SBb 469/17); report by committee and County Surveyor on newly-erected treadwheel; report of Committee on conversion of Ordnance Depot (Armoury) into proposed County Gaol, Springfield (Q/SBb 469/21); Visitors' report on Thomas Tomkins Lunatic Asylum at Witham; County Surveyor's report and letter concerning necessary repairs to Harlow Mill Bridge (Q/SBb 469/24); depositions concerning large quantity of counterfeit coin and hiding of over 800 coins still hidden on people in Halstead (Q/SBb 469/70); case of men passing coin in public house in Earls Colne and then refusing change later because of counterfeit money (Q/SBb 469/71); depositions of several witnesses that large crowd of men gathered to break up threshing machine in Weeley (Q/SBb 469/74); papers including note directing Thomas Hopper to meet Hertfordshire surveyor; theft of umbrella from pew at Meeting House in Great Baddow by woman called 'Old Mally' (Q/SBb 469/61)