Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes decision to sell by public auction house adjoining Chelmsford Bridge 'now used as clerk of peace Office' (Q/SBb 489/20); Grand Jury presentment Longford Bridge, Kelvedon Hatch ruinous and impassable, responsibility for repairs rests with county (Q/SBb 489/1); letter from White Hart Inn, Great Bardfield to clerk of Peace requesting set of standard weights and measures for Freshwell Hundred (Q/SBb 489/6); minister's request for registration of Wesleyan Methodists' Meeting House, Newport (Q/SBb 489/9); Visitors' and Keeper's Reports for Chelmsford Gaol, House of Correction and additional Convict Gaol including change in prisoner's diet (Q/SBb 489/1); Chaplain's report that 273 taught to read, 17 instructed in writing (Q/SBb 489/2); lists of clothing in use (Q/SBb/4, 5); returns of prisoners, giving sentences and mode of employment (Q/SBb 489/9, 11); Thomas Hopper's report on means of improving House of Correction, Halstead (Q/SBb 489/13); satisfactory Visitors' Report for Thomas Tomkin's Lunatic Asylum, Witham (Q/SBb 489/21); assessment for Poor Relief Rate (lists names and some properties), Great Baddow (Q/SBb 489/29); notes and queries concerning number and cost of bricks suppled since 1825 to County by Messrs. Burne (Q/SBb 489/46); Committee to reconsider plan for erection of House of Correction, Ilford (Q/SBb 489/53); Committee to consider who is liable for repair of middle bridge adjoining Hatfield Mill, Hatfield Peverel (Q/SBb 489/53); rough notes re works necessary for completion of prison (including note of cost of bricks from Mrs. Burne), Chelmsford (Q/SBb 489/54/1-2); copy, Chelmsford Chronicle, Friday Nov.2 copies, Colchester Gazette, Stats. 3 Jan.5 (Q/SBb 489/56-58)