Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes authorisation of request for turnkey to assist Keeper of Halstead House of Correction, £1 per week (Q/SBb 482/13); report of Committee on storage of West Essex Militia arms, accoutrements and clothing in Shire Hall (Q/SBb 482/18); estimate of £530 and plan for converting dwelling of Keeper of Chelmsford House of Correction into office for Clerk of Peace and strong room for county records (Q/SBb 482/7); notes on case Witham Surveyors ordered to pay compensation for damage to lands carried by noting 300 loads of stores (Q/SBb 482/73); Grand Jury presentments that four bridges in Ridgewell, Pentlow Bridge and Great Dunmow footbridge [liablity of Viscount Maynard] broken down (Q/SBb 482/3); County Surveyor's report on Upminster Bridge, with details of costs and repairs from 1782 (Q/SBb 482/18,20,24); foot bridge at Harlow Mill to be referred to General Purposes Committee (Q/SBb 482/22); copy Court Order that not expedient to repair or enlarge Barking House of Correction, Visitors to consider whether eligible site can be found 'at or near to the town of Ilford' for new one, notes on number of prisoners to be housed, details of new site (Q/SBb 482/25,30); details of expenses incurred by parish of Horndon-on-the-Hill v. 'incorrigible rogue' and correspondence (Q/SBb 482/35,47); mention of Benefit Society held at 'Three Tuns', Waltham Abbey articles of which written 'in a common Schoolboys writing Book' (Q/SBb 482/45); note re machinery at additional gaol (Q/SBb 482/71); papers re counterfeit sovereigns tendered in Epping area (Q/SBb 482/75); case of felony at Bowers Gifford under 'Black Act', a 'more', property of two members of Society of Friends caused to bite off her tongue whilst in prisoner's charge (Q/SBb 482/84); information that coals stolen from heap near kiln for burning lime, Bulmer (Q/SBb 482/97); information that barleymeal stolen from Malting at Chelmshoe House Farm, Great Maplestead (Q/SBb 482/99); Chelmsford Chronicle 27 January 1826 and Colchester Gazette, 28 January 1826 (Q/SBb 482/104-105)