Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes presentment that bridge at Little Coggeshall still out of repair (Q/SBb 474/1); Committee report on disposal at building and land acquired for proposed lunatic asylum, building lately used as armoury and bought from Board of Ordnance to be taken down and material used towards extending gaol being erected at Springfield (Q/SBb 474/7); report of Committee that house built for keeper at Chelmsford House of Correction be used when vacated for office of Clerk of Peace and place of security for preservation of county records (Q/SBb 474/8); Visitors' report for gaol and Chelmsford House at Correction, resolutions concerning hours at instruction in reading and writing to prisoners, chaplain to recommend schoolmaster and mistress and provide instruction books from S.P.C.K., copy letter requesting report on state of health of female prisoner for Mr Secretary Peel's information and copy medical reports and reply, charges for debtors' chamber rent etc. to be discontinued (Q/SBb 474/9); Visitors' and Committee reports for Halstead House of Correction, details and cost of alterations, water supplied to all parts of prison by forcing pump set in motion by tread wheels, recommendations for further alterations with County Surveyor's report and estimate for extending female quarters (Q/SBb 474/11-12); Visitors' report for Newport House of Correction states that wife of late keeper, carrying on as Matron, much distressed through debt, visiting magistrate's letter reporting that House of Correction no longer necessary (Q/SBb 474/13); Visitors' and keeper's reports for Barking House at Correction prison in state of considerable dilapidation and insecure for safe custody of prisoners (Q/SBb 474/15); County Surveyor's report on foot-bridge and road subject to flooding in Pentlow (Q/SBb 474/16); body of woman stolen from grave in churchyard at Little Leighs (Q/SBb 474/60); case of poaching Earl Waldegrave's pheasants from Broom Wood, Navestock at night (Q/SBb 474/76); minister's silk handkerchief and great coat stolen from Vestry Room during serice at Dissenters' Chapel Loughton, suspect locked in Cage (Q/SBb 474/81,86); complaints of Under-keepers and assistant woodwards that limb of oak-tree, holly branches etc. taken from Forest at Hainault without King's authority, Chigwell, Dagenham and Romford (Q/SBb 474/83,84)