Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes Visitors' and keeper's reports for Barking House at Correction, prison in state at considerable dilapidation and insecure for safe custody of prisoners (Q/SBb 475/11); Visitors' and keeper's reports for Gaol and Chelmsford House of Correction, recommendation of salaries for Matron/School mistress and female turnkey, abstracts of shoemaking, weaving and mill accounts, 1823 (Q/SBb 475/7); Visitors' report that Colchester House of Correction in Castle in inefficient state causing necessity of sending prisoners to Chelmsford (Q/SBb 475/10); report of Committee concerning staff and salaries of Goal and Houses of Correction at Chelmsford, Barking, Halstead, Newport and Colchester, Barking keeper's petition for increased salary, Chelmsford medical attendants' request for more salary and room at prison fitted out for use (Q/SBb 475/12); reports of Committees charges for depositions, recognizances, number of printed statutes received from H.M. Printers (Q/SBb 475/13-15); County Surveyor's reports and costs of repairs needed to bridges at Kelvedon and Roxwell (Q/SBb 475/16-17); watchmaker's evidence in case at theft of hunting watch, St. Peter, Maldon (Q/SBb 475/55); schoolmaster's complaint of riot and affray by group of labourers, Great Dunmow (Q/SBb 475/74); proprietor's letter to Essex magistrates re vacant places for pauper lunatics of 9s. per week bill head at Sir J. Miles' Asylum, Hoxton House, near Shoreditch Church (Q/SBb 475/88); application for post at surgeon to Chelmsford prison, details at statutary condition of appointment (Q/SBb 475/89-90); extracts from Order Book re examination of irregular charges in Constables' bills with magistrates' replies and Clerk of Peace draft correspondence (Q/SBb 475/114/1-6); state of Colchester House at Correction to be referred to General Purposes Committee (Q/SBb 475/114/1); constable's return that [Long] bridge in Little Coggeshall awaiting repair, Grand Jury presentment that bridges of Roxwell and Kelvedon are 'ruinous, broken, dangerous and in great decay', with County Surveyor's reports and costs of repairs needed (Q/SBb 475/1, 16-17)