Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes presentment by Grand Jury of constable of Leyton for omitting to make returns to justices for offences committed (Q/SBb 418/1); need of Governor for Chelmsford House of Correction (Q/SBb 418/7); request by malt- manufacturer that customs duty of £156 be returned as 90 quarters lost by sinking of barge 'William and Elizabeth' off Hole Haven, Great Oakley (Q/SBb 418/19); medical report on Chelmsford Gaol states need for boarded floors to keep place dry (Q/SBb 418/43); joint report of County Surveyors of Essex and Hertfordshire that small Lea Bridge totally decayed (Q/SBb 418/75); printed paper giving resolution at meeting of proprietors and lessess of coal estates in South Wales about transport, sale of coal and duty (Q/SBb 418/27); report that public houses opening in opposition to Army canteen are having detrimental effect on canteen (Q/SBb 418/26); bill for candlesticks etc. in Ball Room of Shire Hall, Chelmsford (Q/SBb 418/24); three labourers found with pollard beech trees in unlawful possession, Theydon Bois (Q/SBb 418/20-22); informations against pedlars of rabbit skins that they have counterfeit coin, forged 7s. piece given as payment to shopkeeper, Halstead (Q/SBb 418/10-12); detailed information about field of onion-seed from which some stolen, Braintree (Q/SBb 418/37-40); person charged with stealing holly sticks in Waltham Forest and threatening with bill-hook (Q/SBb 418/46); witness of theft of coal by servant from master's coal-house, Ballingdon (Q/SBb 418/47); report of weighing machine out of order, Chelmsford (Q/SBb 418/66)