Rutland Court of Quarter Sessions and Associated Records

RQS : RUTLAND QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS, 1743-1971

RLM : RUTLAND LIEUTENANCY AND MILITIA RECORDS, 1825-1886

RCO : RUTLAND CORONERS' RECORDS, 1930-1963

RPS : RUTLAND PETTY SESSIONS RECORDS, 1919-1933

<span class="wrapper"><p>DE 2310 (uncatalogued) Land Tax assessments, 19th-20th C.</p> <p>DE 3167/1-40 Magistrates' Court registers, 1923-1983</p> <p>DE 3256 Records of Clerks to Rutland Land Tax Commissioners, 1799-1948</p> <p>DE 3709/20-24 Miscellaneous, 20th C.</p> <p>DE 5037 Land Tax assessments, 1799-1837</p> <p>For further references in other collections and general information, see Gwenith Jones Quarter Sessions Records in the Leicestershire Record Office (Leicestershire Museums, 1985).</p></span>

• <corpname>Rutland Quarter Sessions</corpname>
• <corpname>Uppingham County Court</corpname>
• <corpname>Rutland Petty Sessional Division</corpname>

The Coroners' records (RCO) are subject to a 75 year closure.

Accession numbers:

DE 1231 Transferred : 22 February 1972

DE 1381 Transferred : 20 March 1974

DE 2506 Deposited on indefinite loan : 10 May 1983

The Rutland Quarter Sessions records are known to have been kept at Oakham Castle at various dates until the 20th century - although they were reported as being in a leased building in Newgate Street, Oakham in 1800 and previously in the private residences of the Clerks of the Peace; this perhaps explains why surviving records date only from the mid-18th century. The County Council built a strongroom at the rear of Oakham police station in 1903, but many of the records transferred here were unfortunately sent for paper salvage in World War Two.

For further details, see G. Phillips "The Annals of Rutland" in The Rutland Magazine and County Historical Record, Volume IV (1909-10), p.43 et seq. This series of articles lists a considerable number of documents which are no longer extant, including the Quarter Sessions rolls from 1756.

The surviving records were deposited by the last Clerk of the Peace, Rutland County Council and solicitors whose predecessors had acted as Clerks of the Peace. The collection includes a good series of minute books, 1743-1971, records of enrolments, 1762-1873 and County Treasurers' accounts, 1816-1890. The remainder date largely from the 20th century and include series of notebooks, 1939-1969 and case papers and depositions, 1940-1971.