Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes petition from Chelmsford surgeon for inclusion in surgeons appointed in rotation to County Gaol (Q/SBb 383/14); particulars of transactions leading to purchase of houses by county for site of new Chelmsford House of Corrections (Q/SBb 383/20); committee's report on obsence of any further necessity for continuing positions of Surveyors of Weights and Measures, and list of equipment (Q/SBb 383/25); printed sale catalogue of property of county called 'Common Field' in Chelmsford (Q/SBb 383/26); list of counties owing payments ot Essex for militia men's families and those owed payments by Essex (Q/SBb 383/31); appeal by inhabitants of almshouse in Felsted against poor rate assessment with abstract of original bequest by Richard, Lord Rich in 1564 (Q/SBb 383/32); list of Free Mason's Lodges registered (Q/SBb 383/39); printed suggestion of Westmorland magistrates for index of parishes and poor law authorities (Q/SBb 383/40); letter from Lord Lieutenant Lord Braybrooke on general situation of country (Q/SBb 383/43); theft of printed cotton, 'muslin handkerchief and about three yards of points' from box in an inn, Great Coggeshall (Q/SBb 383/93-96); theft of potatoes found in 'Town House' Ashen from labourer (Q/SBb 383/112); order that 'County business be done in future in the Room upstairs opposite the Grand Jury Room in the Shire House' (Q/SBb 383/35)