Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes applications for theatre licences for Chemsford and Southend Theatres (Q/SBb 463/18); visitors' report on Chelmsford Gaol with accounts of shoe-making by prisoners; visitors' report on Chelmsford House of Correction including details of setting up mill, details of clothes manufactured by prisoners and shoes, amount of oakum picked, teaching of reading on Sundays, order not to give beer to vagrants, only bread and water, since encouraged before and vagrancy increased (Q/SBb 463/10-11); extract from Order Book concerning Birch Bridge (Q/SBb 463/16); petition of three cattle dealers or famers from Denbigh, Somerset and Cardigan, attended Assizes twice and petition for re-imbursement in case of agency; letter re case in Stebbing about theft of pig presenting thief as an example to village he is a 'case of a party who are going the high road to ruin... and are the pest of our village' (Q/SBb 463/65)