Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes note of enquiry from 'Mr Hansard, printer to the House of Commons' of details of Petty Sessions courts and number of acting magistrates, printed circular with draft reply, delivery note of poor return abstracts sent to county (Q/SBb 399/56); bill of legal expenses relating to purchase of buildings in Moulsham near new House of Correction (Q/SBb 399/58); County Surveyor's report on repairs needed for various bridges and Colchester House of Correction (Q/SBb 399/16); statement of accounts for work done by prisoners at County Gaol, Chelmsford (Q/SBb 399/15); printed letter from Home Secretary Lord Hawkesbury asking for calendars of prisoners convected at Quarter Sessions of felony (Q/SBb 399/57); printed schedules prisoners committed to Newgate from London and Middlesex, 1803-1804 and numbers committed for trial on charges of felony and misdemeanour in England and Wales, 1804, includes details of crime and sentence (Q/SBb 399/57); letter from 'Council Office, Whitehall' asking for list of Roman Catholics registered at Quarter Sessions (Q/SBb 399/59); theft of beer from cash into which 'spile' was driven Thorpe-le-Soken (Q/SBb 399/96); note of registration of a Friendly Society meeting in the 'vestry of Fordham Chaple'