Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes petition of former occupier of house on site of new Chelmsford House of Correction to be recognized as heir of owner who lived in America and whose death he wishes to have presumed (Q/SBb 396/6); bill of expenses, including attendance of 16 constables at execution of woman prisoner (Q/SBb 396/17); printed circular from Society for carrying into effect ... the Proclamation against Vice and Immorality, and the Society for the Suppression of Vice, on the prevalance of illegal gaming, particularly at race courses (Q/SBb 396/23); conveyance of dumb man who had left House of Industry, Ellesmere, Shropshire, to Ellesmere by Halstead constable by the 'outside of the Stage Coaches', correspondence on payment of expenses (Q/SBb 396/27); theft of rope from Colchester ship the Venus at Wivenhoe by two riggers, letter laying information against receiver (Q/SBb 396/55); information on killing of horse belonging to coach master of Sudbury stage coach by horse dresser at Bocking (Q/SBb 396/57); printed summary of county totals of returns relative to maintenance of poor (Q/SBb 396/58-59)