Warwickshire Quarter Sessions Records

QS

Warwickshire Quarter Sessions Records

1625-1992

QS/1 - Commissions of the Peace (see also QS/103)

2 - Reports of Committees, etc. to Quarter Sessions

3 - Quarter Sessions : Officers' Appointments

4 - Clerk of Peace : Salary etc.

5 - Briefs, Cases and Certiorari Returns

6 - Parochial Constables

7 - Constabulary Force

8 - Coroners (see also QS 93/f)

9 - Enrolments (Deeds, Wills and Papists' Estates)

10 - Protestant Dissenters' Meeting Houses and Roman Catholic places of worship 1791-

11 - Hearth Tax Returns

12 - Game Certificates ; Lists of persons to whom issued

13 - Game Certificates Registers

14 - Gamekeepers' Deputations (registers)

15 - Gamekeepers' Deputations, enrolments of

16 - Hair powder certificates

17 - Hawkers, Stage Coach Drivers, etc. - Penalties Book

18 - Oaths and Affirmations, Various

19 - Pauper Lunatics

20 - Poor, Relief of

21 - Criminal Lunatics

22 - (Reserved)

23 - Highways (see also Class 41,42,47 and 84)

24 - Public Works -

a) Private Asylums and County Asylum

b) Bridges, upkeep of

c) Shire Hall and Judge's House

d) County Rates c.

e) County Treasurer's Accounts and Vouchers

f) Fire Insurance policies (obsolete)

g) Militia Barracks, Magazines and Stores

h) Warwick & Coventry Old Gaols & House of Correction

i) Warwick New Prison (The Cape, Warwick)

j) Lock up houses, police stations & petty sessions rooms

k) Industrial or Reformatory Schools

25 - Quarter Sessions, Appeals to (see also Class 49)

26 - Calendars of Prisoners : a) Assizes ; b) Quarter Sessions

27 - Chairman's & Deputy Chairman's Court Note Books

28 - Clerks to Justices ; Salaries, fees, etc. c.

29 - Prosecutions costs and Sessions' Money Orders. c.

30 - Quarter Sessions Cases : Depositions

31 - Fines, Fees & Estreats

32 - Sessions bundles and Indictments including Highway Diversions

33 - Indictment Books

34 - Insolvent Debtors

35 - Alehouse Keepers Recognizances

36 - Alehouse Keepers Recognizances, Registers of

37 - Beer Licences ; Applications for

38 - Licensing Act, 1872, and subsequent Licensing Acts :

39 - Minute Books of Records of Quarter Sessions

40 - Order Books of Quarter Sessions

41 - Rough Minutes

41a - Crown Court Minutes

41b - Nisi Prius Court

42 - Minutes of Business

43 - Quarter Sessions Printed Orders of Court

44 - (Reserved)

45 - Soldiers' Baggage (Quarter Sessions Orders)

46a - Sessions Appeals (Enrolment of Orders Book)

47 - Highway Diversions includes Diversions after 1974

48 - Quarter Sessions Rating Appeals Committee

49 - Quarter Sessions Appeal Committee. b.

50 - Bastardy Orders, Certificates and Returns

51 - Summary Convictions filed with Clerk of Peace

52 - Petty Sessional Divisions ; Alterations to

53 - Precedent Books

54 - Recognizance Books

55 - Recognizance Lists

56 - Recognizance Papers

57 - Recognizances, Draft

58 - Recognizances

59 - Recognizances, persons bound, defaulting

60 - Roman Catholics, Act for relief of (see also CR 1616/W19/3)

61 - Popish Recusants. b. (see also CR 1616/W19/3)

62 - Papists Estates, Registers of (see also Class 9)

63 - Coventry, Quarter Sessions held at

64 - Coventry, Adjourned Quarter Sessions - records of (see also lists of records outside office under Public Local, Quarter Sessions)

65 - Warwick Borough - Grant of Quarter Sessions

66 - Warwick Borough - proportion of expenses in the County

67 - Annuity Act, 3 Geo.3 - Memorials of

68 - Barristers' Circuits, Revision of

69 - Charitable Donations - Registry of, under 52 Geo.3, c.102

70 - Charitable Trusts, Accounts of

71 - Charitable Trusts, Register of Accounts filed

72 - blank

73 - Cotton Mills, Factories and Printing Presses

74 - Elections, Accounts of

75 - Inclosure awards

76 - Freeholders' and Jury Lists and Books

77 - Land Tax Assesments

78 - Leamington - Various papers relating to (see also Class 24(b)

79 - Oxford Canal Navigation - Inrolments of Commissioners' Verdicts

80 - Railways, Gasworks and other Undertakings - Deposited Accounts of

81 - Acts of Parliament, Orders, etc. deposited

82 - High Court Verdicts and Judgements filed with Clerk of Peace

83 - Friendly Societies

84 - Turnpike Trusts

85 - Flax Bounty

86 - Contagious Diseases (Animals); papers relating thereto

87 - Freemasons' Lodges

88 - Savings Banks

89 - Weights, Measures and Balances - Returns of persons using

90 - Birmingham; Various papers relating to

91 - Coventry; various papers relating to

92 - Parliamentary Returns -

a) Commissions of the Peace

b) Judicial and Penal

c) Petty Sessions

d) Constabulary

e) Clerk of Peace Salary

f) Coroners see also QS/8

g) County Expenditure

h) Electoral

i) Highways

j) Lunacy

k) Militia and Lieutenancy

l) Poor Law

m) Misc. (Cotton Mills, Gunpowder Mills etc.)

93 - House of Commons Returns of Members of Parliament

94 - Augmentation of the Forces

95 - Inland Navigation - registration of boats, barges and vessels (Co. Warwick)

96 - Augmentation of the Navy - recruitment of seaman

97 - Presentation to Lord and Lady Leigh

98 - Articles of Religion

99 - Ufton, Fire at; letter of request

100 - Perpetual Commissioners appointments

101 - Tamworth Election 1761 - Voting Record

102 - Militia and Lieutenancy papers.

103 - Advisory Committee on Appointment of County Magistrates

104 - Apprehension of Felons ; Judges' Certificates

105 - Shrievalty

106 - Corn Returns

107 - (Reserved)

108 - (Reserved)

109 - (Reserved)

110 - (Reserved)

111 - Deposited Plans (Canals,Railways and Other Undertakings)

112 - Overseers' Voters Lists

113 - Parliamentary Electors (Co. Warwick) ; Registers of

114 - County Council Electors (Co. Warwick) ; Registers of

115 - Parochial Electors (Co. Warwick) Lists of

116 - Petty Sessional Courts : Registers of

117 - Warwick Borough Quarter Sessions Records

118 - Miscellaneous Records

119 - Inventory of paintings, silver, furnishings and objects d'art in the Shire Hall Warwick (not to be produced)

English

Under an act 7 of 8 Vict.c.92 [1844] and Orders in Council of 1847,1878 and 1914, Warwickshire was divided into three coroners' districts, Northern, Central and Southern. Coventry which had had its own coroner from medieval times until 1842, was included in the new Northern District in 1847, but Birmingham had appointed its own coroner under the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 and there were separate coroners for Warwick and Sutton Coldfield also. Under an Order in Council of 16th March 1932, the District boundaries were re-drawn and the Southern District was re-named the South Western District. This boundary change (which took effect from 1st April 1932) was consequent upon the appointment of a separate coroner for Coventry which had extended its boundaries under the Coventry Corporation (Boundary Extension) Act of 1931.Coventry inquests are held by Coventry City Record Office up to 1983. On the 1st October 1951, the borough of Warwick became a Coroner's District; on 1st August 1966, this district became amalgamated with the Central District.. On the 31st March 1974 , the Central and South-Western Districts ceased to exist and on 1st April 1974 Warwickshire was divided into two districts, Northern and Southern. The Southern District comprised the former S.W. District (from which the county borough of Solihull had already been removed) and the Central District, with the exception of Rugby Borough and most of the parishes in that area which now become part of the Northern District. In 1979, the whole County was united under one coroner, but the records continued to be kept separately until 1986.