Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes papers relating to improvements to Gaol and rebuilding of Barking House of Correction (Q/SBb 467/14,16); explanation of absence of Harwich witness being due to his being freight of furniture by sea to Lymington then held up by bad weather; Committee report on application by visitors to County Gaol for Matron to supervise female prisoners, wives of Gaolers authorised to keep close watch, Committee report on Gaol and Chelmsford House of Correction fixing allowances of bread and beer per prisoner, with directions for baking and brewing inside Gaol, detailed calculations about amount of flour, malt etc. (Q/SBb 467/19-20, 24-25); trustees of Hobstevens Farm, Layer Breton recommending rent reduction from 24 to 18 per annum (Q/SBb 467/52); report of visitors to Gaol giving account of shoemaking, detailed examimnations on birth of child to prisoner, appoinment of Matron, keeping of Journal or Registry Book by medical attendants, Journal 'still less intelligible if possible than before'; profits and losses in various industries of Chelmsford House of Correction; petition from inhabitants of Stanford le-Hope, Horndon-on-the-Hill and Mucking for bridge at Stanford-le-Hope to be adopted by county for repair, includes signature of Philip Benton (Q/SBb 467/29); notice of appeal by Borough of Sudbury against rate levied on them for Portmans Croft in Ballingdon claim granted for pasturing cattle in 1250, confirmed by Charles II; copy of appeal by Gibson family against rating assessment on brewhouse in Saffron Walden (Q/SBb 467/51); overseer of West Ham at assault by two paupers whom he set to dig gravel, and who set on him when he criticised retuming late from lunch (Q/SB 467/89); complaint by churchwarden of East Ham that several men made such a disturbance throughout a funeral that parson left churchyard whereupon buried corpse in another grave dug by them