Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes note of Burnham Fishermen's defence against complaint of unlawful dredging of Dunhope Oyster Laying, Barking (Q/SBb 478/85/16); Visitors' and Keeper's Reports for Gaol and Chelmsford House of Correction, description and prices of new prison clothing and list of clothing in use, cells still in damp state, mill accounts, 1823-1824, surgeon reports two cases of typhus fever which 'terminated fatally' (Q/SBb 478/6/1-6); Visitors' reports that Newport and Barking Houses of Correction in bad state of repair (Q/SBb 478/8,10); Committee to seek Counsel's Opinion re Bridge House or Lower Bridge, Upminster (Q/SBb 478/11); Committee recommends appointment of special constables to keep order at Chelmsford races (Q/SBb 478/12); correspondence concerning route taken in deporting Irish vagrants (Q/SBb 478/14/1-2); duplicated letter from Whitehall requesting details of detached portions of county (Q/SBb 478/15); correspondence re appointment of physician and Matthew Allen's request with references for licence for lunatic asylum at Leopards Hill Lodge, Loughton (Q/SBb 478/22,24,32); copy of Clerk of Peace letter to Mme. Tussaud at Cups Inn, Colchester, refusing permission for exhibition of 'Composition Figures' in Shire Hall (Q/SBb 478/25); rough note ordering bills to be paid, £900 for rebuilding part at Loughton Bridge, £25 for work on Newport Bridge (Q/SBb 478/38); complaint of overseer of Ridgewell that business at church interupted by riotous behaviour of man refused relief (Q/SBb 478/56/1-3); 'Horse Patrol' called in in case at theft of watch, Epping (Q/SBb 478/60); case of poaching in Monk or Grange Wood, Great Coggeshall (Q/SBb 478/67); pair of 'spectacles or eye preservers', value 3s., stolen from journeyman tailor, Brentwood (Q/SBb 478/74); depositions concerning woman's violent assault on another woman, blows, insulting names, mention of smuggled gin, etc., while gleaning corn, Heybridge (Q/SBb 478/80); jury's request to magistrates for customary 1s. apiece for serving with Coroner (Q/SBb 478/82); Chelmsford Chronicle, 21 January 1825 and Colchester Gazette, 22 January 1825 (Q/SBb 478/90-91); list of County Records (Q/SBb 478/94); General Purposes Committee to consider taking proceedings as to who is responsible for repair at Long Bridge, Little Coggeshall (Q/SBb 478/97)