Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes visitors' report for Chelmsford House of Correction, recommendation for gas lamp in each yard, copy enquiry from Whitehall re effect of treadwheel erected in 1822 on prisoners and reply to Mr.Secretary Peel (Q/SBb 471/14); petition by proprietors for licence for theatre in Chelmsford (Q/SBb 471/32); theft of two half-crowns from pocket of labourer while he slept in kitchen of Sugar Loaves public house in Sible Hedingham (Q/SBb 471/81); theft of quantity of leather and pairs of shoes from two shops in Great Sampford (Q/SBb 471/86); deposition by Chief Officer of H.M. Preventive Service concerning part of carge of deals washed up in Havengore, Essex from 'Aurora' wrecked off Kent coast (Q/SBb 471/88); week's poor relief [8s.] obtained under false pretences, Broomfield (Q/SBb 471/90); girl of 10 drowned herself after being beaten by her mother for begging for food, Woodham Walter (Q/SBb 471/95); disturbance at public sale of miller's goods, chattels and effects, Bradwell-juxta-Mare (Q/SBb 471/96); Dr Charles Round in account with counties of Essex and Suffolk for Hobstevens Farm, Layer Breton, 1820-1822 (Q/SBb 471/99); abstract of mill accounts 1822-1823 for Chelmsford House of Correction (Q/SBb 471/100); abstract of account for shoemaking and weaving, oakum etc., 1821-1822 at Chelmsford House of Correction (Q/SBb 471/101-103); papers re man who joined service at East India Company to avoid prosecution, removed from H.M. Ship 'Spartiate' at Chatham (Q/SBb 471/104-110)