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DERBY BOROUGH QUARTER SESSIONS

Catalogue reference: D3551

What’s it about?

This record is about the DERBY BOROUGH QUARTER SESSIONS dating from 1628-1971.

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Full description and record details

Reference

D3551

Title

DERBY BOROUGH QUARTER SESSIONS

Date

1628-1971

Description

Minute books; Draft Minute books; Alehouse Recognisances; Early Sessions rolls and papers; Association rolls; Oaths of allegiance, abjuration and supremacy; Fees; Index of Prisoners; Summary Convictions; Calendars of prisoners; Recorders notebooks; Sessions cost books; Appeals; Case papers.

Held by
Derbyshire Record Office
Language

English, Latin

Creator(s)
<corpname>Derby Quarter Sessions, 1446-1971</corpname>
Immediate source of acquisition

These records were transferred from Derby Local Studies Library in February 1992.

Administrative / biographical background

In 1446 Derby Borough was given the right to appoint a Borough Recorder, who with two bailiffs, formed a commission of the peace to preside over the Court of Record. The charter of 1611 constituted certain officers justices of the peace to keep Quarter Sessions. Matters of civil administration were transferred to the Borough Council in 1888, and judicial matters to the Crown Court in 1972.

A fire in the 19th century and a flood in the 20th century destroyed many of Derby's official records.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/d1eee6fc-8785-4966-916c-e3fb72d5f866/

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This record is held at Derbyshire Record Office

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DERBY BOROUGH QUARTER SESSIONS