Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes Visitors' report for Halstead House at Correction mentions prisoners picking oakum, structural alterations, awaiting tread wheels (Q/SBb 473/22-23); draft letter to Superintendent of Bridges for Harlow Hundred re Stone Bridge, Hatfield Broad Oak (Q/SBb 473/13); Visitors' report for Gaol and Chelmsford House of Correction, lists of clothing and bedding required, details of temporary placing of prisoners according to crime until new prison completed, prisoners not sentenced to hard labour to be paid small sum for picking 'Junk' into oakum, duties of chaplain defined and salary increased (Q/SBb 473/21); Visitors' report for Barking House at Correction, building dilapidated, keeper's salary recommended to be raised to £100 p.a. plus allowance, Irish vagrant woman prisoner in Plaistow Lunatic Asylum attended by prison doctor (Q/SBb 473/26); report of Committee concerning rate for conveyance of prisoners from district Houses of Correction (Q/SBb 473/27); counterfeit shillings passed at 'Three Tuns' and 'Cock' public houses, Waltham Holy Cross (Q/SBb 473/48, 64A); looking glass and cheese stolen during auction of some of proprietor's goods at 'King's Head', Ridgewell (Q/SBb 473/51); information of one of 'Bow Street Patrole' stationed on Lea Bridge Road, Leyton concerning theft of goose from Wanstead (Q/SBb 473/54); corn ears cut from wheatsheaves identified later in possession of suspect because special sample 'Duke William Red Wheat', Ingatestone (Q/SBb 473/66); four heifers 'rescued' from pound at manor of Cook's Hall, West Bergholt (Q/SBb 473/73); Visitors' report for Thomas Tomkin's Lunatic Asylum, Witham (Q/SBb 473/29); pocket of hops lost off carrier's wagon on Halstead to Braintree turnpike road near brick kiln, High Garrett (Q/SBb 473/74); wheat taken from granary by boring hole in floor with an auger, Belchamp Walter (Q/SBb 473/75); stolen hay identified because particular sort from 'Cinque Foil' grass, Broomfield (Q/SBb 473/85); minute resolving not to proceed with establishing county lunatic asylum, land and building already acquired to be disposed of (Q/SBb 473/97)