Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes Royal Exchange insurance policy for new Chelmsford House of Correction, printed prospectus of Chelmsford agent R.C. Stanes (Q/SBb 403/6-7); visitors' report on Chelmsford Gaol and details of many kinds of rope and cord in stock for prisoners' work (Q/SBb 403/9); visitors' report and suggestions on running new Chelmsford House of Correction, keeper's salary, prisoners' food, prohibition of letting lodgings (Q/SBb 403/10); correspondence on sale of County [or Common] Field, Chelmsford (Q/SBB 403/11-12); petition for weighing machine to be installed at Tilbury Fort or Billericay for weighing loads on waggons pressed for military carriage (Q/SBb 403/22); medical certificate signed by Sir William Blizzard [a noted London surgeon], Barking (Q/SBb 403/25); petition from widow of occupier of Bishops Hall Farm and County Field, Chelmsford, for compensation by county for payment of tithes (Q/SBb 403/27); petition of chief constables for each hundred for increased compensation for carrying out duties (Q/SBb 403/28); theft of coal from vestry of Barking church (Q/SBb 403/66); settlement examination of sailor who joined a 'marine society ship' and after serving in Royal Navy was pressed after his discharge through lameness (Q/SBb 403/55)