LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS

Section I Administration of Justice at Quarter Sessions.

QS1 Commission of the Peace

QS2/ Oaths and Qualifications of the Justices of the Peace

QS2/1/ Writs of Dedimus Potestatem

QS2/2/ Justices' Oath Rolls

QS2/3/ Oath Rolls

QS2/4/ Justices' Oaths

QS2/5/ Qualification Oaths

QS2/6/ Correspondence and other papers

QS3 Sessions Rolls

QS4 Sessions Bundles

QS5/ Court Minute Books

QS5/1/ Main Series

QS5/2/ Minutes of Second Court

QS6/ Court Order Books

QS6/1/ First Series

QS6/2/ Second Series

QS7 Presentment Books

QS8/ Jurors

QS8/1/ Freeholders Books

QS8/2/ Parish Returns of Jurors

QS9/ Quarter Sessions Note-books

QS9/1/ Court Note-books of Chairman of Quarter Sessions

QS9/2/ Other Court Note-books

QS10 Depositions

QS11/ Fines imposed by Justices

QS11/1/ Estreats of Fines

QS11/2/ Returns of Fines to Treasury

QS11/3/ Writs of Distringas

QS12/ Presentments and Traverses

QS12/1/ Presentments

QS12/2/ Traverses

QS13/ Transportation

QS13/1/ Orders

QS13/2/ Bonds

QS13/3/ Miscellaneous Papers

QS14 Insolvent Debtors

QS15 Petty Sessions

QS16/ Appointments

QS16/1/ Chairman & Deputy Chairman of Quarter Sessions

QS16/2/ Court Shorthand Writers

QS16/3/ Correspondence

QS17/ Summary Jurisdiction Appeals Committee

QS17/1/ Minutes

QS17/2/ Depositions

QS17/3/ Correspondence and Papers

QS17/4/ Registers of Appeals

QS18/ County Rating Appeals Committee

QS18/1/ Minutes

QS18/2/ Rating Appeals Files

QS19 Miscellaneous Judicial Papers

Section II Administrative Functions

QS25/ County Buildings

QS25/1/County Rooms

QS25/2/The Castle

QS25/3/The Magazine

QS26/ Finance Committee

QS26/1/Minutes

QS26/2/Mortgages

QS26/3/Correspondence and Papers

QS27/ County Rates

QS27/1/Minutes of County Rate Assessment Committee

QS27/2/Returns of Parish Revaluations, 1837

QS27/3/Returns of Union Assessment Committees

QS27/4/Miscellaneous Papers

QS28 Crop Returns

QS29 Poor Relief

QS30/ Highways and Bridges

QS30/1/Minutes

QS30/2/Bridge Contracts

QS30/3/Reports on County Bridges

QS30/4/Divisional Reports on County Bridges

QS30/5/Special Reports by County Surveyor

QS30/6/Miscellaneous Papers

QS30/7/Miscellaneous Plans of Turnpike Roads

QS31/ County Police

QS31/1/ High Constables and Special Constables

QS31/2/ Minutes of Police Committee

QS31/3/ Police Accounts

QS31/4/ Correspondence and Papers

QS32/ County Gaol and House of Correction

QS32/1/ Minutes and Orders

QS32/2/ Administration

QS32/3/ Buildings

QS32/4/ Keepers of Prisons

QS32/5/ Rules and Regulations

QS32/6/ Juvenile Reformatories

QS33 Corn Rents

QS34 Prevention of Cholera

QS35/ Diseases of Animals

QS35/1/ Minutes

QS35/2/ Papers

QS36/ Licencing

1/ Minutes

QS36/2/ Alehouse Recognisance Books

QS36/3/ Brewster Sessions Papers

QS36/4/ Miscellaneous Papers

QS36/5/ Liceneing Compensation Authority/County Compensations Committee

QS37 Badgers and Drovers

QS38 Petitions and Memorials

QS39 General Purposes Committee

QS40/ Coroners

QS40/1/Coroners Districts

QS40/2/Fees and Salaries

Section III Statutory Enrolments and Registrations

QS43/ Oaths and Sacrament Certificates

QS43/1/Register of Oaths

QS43/2/Test Acts Oath Rolls

QS43/3/Rolls of Declarations Against Transubstantiation

QS43/4/Rolls of Declarations Not to Injure the Church

QS43/5/Sacrament Certificates

QS43/6/Miscellaneous Oaths

QS44/ Protestant Dissenters

QS44/1/ Registration Rolls of Meeting Houses

QS44/2/ Applications for Registration

QS44/3/ Returns of Registrations

QS44/4/ Certificates of Ministers

QS44/5/ Subscriptions to Thirty-Nine Articles

QS44/6/ Dissenters Oath Rolls

QS44/7/ Oaths by Ministers and Teachers

QS45/ Papists

QS45/1/ Registration of Papists' Estates

QS45/2/ Applications for Registration

QS45/3/ Warrants of Attorney

QS45/4/ Enrolments of Conveyances by Papists

QS45/5/ Claims to Papists' Estates

QS45/6/ Papists' Oath Rolls

QS45/7/ Registration of Chapels

QS45/8/ Registration of Members of R.C. Religious Orders

QS46/ Registrations Under the Game Laws

QS46/1/ Gamekeepers' Deputations

QS46/2/ Game Duty Registers

QS47/ Enclosure Awards

QS47/1/ Enrolments

QS47/2/ Other Quarter Sessions Awards

QS48/ Highways

QS48/1/ Stopping-Up and Diversion

QS48/2/ Roads on Parish Boundaries

QS48/3/ Completion of new Roads

QS49 Inland Navigation - Boats and Barges

QS50 Enrolments under Canal Acts

QS50/1/ Navigation Books

QS50/2/ Certificates

QS51 Friendly Societies

QS52 Freemasons

QS53 Scientific and Literary Societies

QS54 Printing Presses

QS55 Certificates of Conviction of Felons

QS56 Charitable Donations

QS57 Railway Certificates

QS58 Enrolled Deeds

Section IV Parliamentary Elections

QS61/ Poll Books

QS61/1 Manuscript Books used at Elections

QS61/2 Printed Books of County Elections

QS61/3 Printed Books of Borough Elections

QS62 Land Tax Assessments

QS63/ Electoral Lists

QS63/1 Parish Lists of Voters

QS63/2 Registers of Objections

QS63/3 Registers of Electors

QS64 Annuities

QS64/1 Register of Memorials

QS64/2 Original Memorials

QS65 Election Oaths

QS66 Miscellaneous Election Papers

Section V Militia and Armed Forces

QS67/ Militia Qualifications

QS67/1 Statements of Qualifications

QS67/2 Enrolments of Qualifications

QS67/3 Returns of Enrolments

QS68/ Militia Returns and Certificates

QS68/1 Returns of State of Militia

QS68/2 Certificates of Deficiencies

QS69/ Recruiting Acts of 1795 and 1796

Section VI Statutory Deposits

QS70/ Hair Powder Certificates

QS71/ Deposited Turnpike Road Plans

QS72/ Deposited Canal Plans

QS73/ Deposited Railway Plans

QS74/ Deposited Plans for Tramways and Light Railways

QS75/ Deposited Plans for Gas Undertakings

QS76/ Deposited Plans for Electricity Undertakings

QS77/ Deposited Plans for Water Undertakings

QS77/1 Proposed Works

QS77/2 Completed Works (pipes & underground works)

QS78/ Deposited Plans for Improvements

QS79/ Acts of Parliament

QS79/1/ Town Improvements and Public Utilities

QS79/2/ Railways

QS79/3/ Canals

QS79/4/ Turnpike Roads

QS79/5/ Bridges

QS79/6/ Enclosure (Leicestershire)

QS79/7/ Enclosure (Other Counties)

QS79/8/ Criminal Justice

QS79/9/ Miscellaneous

QS80 Parliamentary Bills and Minutes of Evidence

QS81/ Orders by Government Departments

QS81/1/ Tramways and Light Railways

QS81/2/ Gas

QS81/3/ Electricity

QS81/4/ Water

QS82/ Inquisitions before Sheriff or Coroner

QS82/1/ Before High Sheriff - Railways

QS82/2/ Before High Sheriff - Waterworks

QS82/3/ Before Coroner - Railways

QS83/ Accounts of Public Undertakings

QS83/1/ Midland Railway Co.

QS83/2/ Leicester Water Works

QS83/3/ Leicester Gas Co.

QS83/4/ Loughborough Gas Co.

QS83/5/ Melton Mowbray Local Board Cattle Market

QS84/ Lunacy

QS84/1/ Lunatic Asylum - Building Contract Books

QS84/2/ Returns of Pauper Lunatics

QS84/3/ Registers of Pauper Lunatics

QS85/ Summary Jurisdiction Convictions

QS85/1/ Conviction Certificates

QS85/2/ Registers of Convictions

QS85/3/ Convictions of Juvenile Offenders

QS85/4/ Convictions & Depositions for larceny

QS85/5/ Register of Convictions for larceny

QS86 Appointments of Sheriffs

QS87 Appointments of Deputy Coroners

QS88 Appointments of Poor Law Commissioners

QS89 Poor Law Union Orders

Section VII Parliamentary and Government Returns

QS93/ Poor Rate Returns

QS93//1 Returns to Home Office

QS93//2 Parochial Returns

QS94 Turnpike Returns

QS95/ Returns of Dissenters

QS95/1 Licensed Teachers and Meeting Places

QS95/2 Dissenting Sects

QS95/3 Licensed Chapels

QS96 Return of State of Timber

QS97 Magistrates' Returns

QS98 Returns of Juvenile Offenders

Section VIII Clerk of the Peace

QS101/ Fees and Accounts

QS101/1/ Tables of Fees to Clerk of Peace

QS101/2/ Tables of Fees to Justices' Clerks

QS101/3/ Wages of Justices of the Peace

QS101/4/ Clerk of Peace's Account Books

QS101/5/ Other Accounts of Fees

QS101/6/ Accounts of Court Allowances and Costs

QS101/7/ Other Accounts of Clerk of Peace

QS102 Legal Briefs

QS103 Clerk of Peace's Correspondence

QS104 Inventories of Quarter Sessions Records

QS105 Home Office Circulars

QS106/ Miscellaneous Papers of Clerk of Peace

QS106/1/ Acting as Clerk of the Peace

QS106/2/ Acting in other capacities

QS107/ Clerk of the Peace as Clerk to the Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum

QS107/1/ Visiting Committee

QS107/2/ The Charity

QS108 Clerk of the Peace as Clerk to the Visiting Committee of Justices for the Prison

QS109 Clerk of the Peace as Clerk of the Leics & Rutland Combined Probation Committee.

QS110 Clerk of the Peace as Clerk of the Magistrates Courts Committee.

Section IX County Treasurer

QS111/ County Treasurer's Accounts

QS111/1/ General Account Books

QS111/2/ Other Account Books

QS111/3/ Printed Abstracts of Accounts

QS112 County Treasurer's Vouchers

QS113 Orders for Payment of Prosecution Costs.

Section X Miscellanea

QS114 Printed Rules, Orders and Acta of Quarter Sessions

QS115 Loyal Declarations 1819-1820

QS116 Constable of Leicester Castle

QS117/ Parliamentary Blue Books

QS117/1/ Census Returns

QS117/2/ Returns and Reports on the Poor Laws

QS117/3/ Other Returns and Reports

QS118 Miscellaneous Quarter Sessions Documents

There is a thirty year closure on all Quarter Sessions and Petty Sessions records with the exception of Coroner's Inquests which are subject to a seventy-five year closure. Other documents which contain sensitive information are closed at the discretion of the County Archivist.