Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes presentment that blacksmith and four labourers paraded about Elsenham with fife, 'tin kettles' and bell for several hours on Sunday 'to the great terror' of villagers (Q/SBb 407/1); two lines of shorthand written on cause paper (Q/SBb 407/2); petition of widow of late Gaoler for monetary help, detailed inventory of gaoler's and debtors' quarters in Chelmsford Gaol in 1779, accounts and detailed lists of ropework done at County Gaol, 1806-1807, list of requirements and alteration needed in Gaol by new Gaoler, report on alterations to be carried out, plan of part of County Gaol (Q/SBb 407/9); petition for increase in salary by keeper of new Chelmsford House of Correction (Q/SBb 407/12); report on committee on cost of new Chelmsford House of Correction with letter to magistrate, Montagu Burgoyne from surveyor who had at his request examined and criticised House and Johnson's (County Surveyor) reply, committee found reply satisfactory (Q/SBb 407/13); footpaths diversion order, Upshire, Waltham Holy Cross (Q/SBb 407/28); printed poster advertising escape of forger on way to imprisonment in Carmarthenshire, with letters asking for co-operation in searching for him (Q/SBb 407/33); notice of appeal by Mayor etc. of Sudbury against rate levied on them for Portmans Croft, Ballingdon which they claim had been granted to them in 1250 (Q/SBb 407/44-45)