Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes Sudbury contractors' correspondence concerning difficulty in obtaining slate for 'building at Springfield' (Q/SBb 485/19); Grand Jury presentment that ditch next to highway blocked up, Great Saling, footbridge removed from public way leading from common to Felsted (Q/SBb 485/1); Visitors' reports for County Gaol and Chelmsford House of Correction, prisoner's sentence remitted for information which failed escape plot, soup ration resumed in medical advice to alleviate scurvy etc., Chaplain's details of religious teaching and reading instruction given during year (Q/SBb 485/2,9); Visitors' report for Thomas Tomkins' Lunatic Asylum, Witham (Q/SBb 485/16); copy order to purchase more land for additional gaol, with order that medical attendants inspect new ranges of buildings at additional gaol as they become ready to see if fit for prisoners (Q/SBb 485/17); copy order to refer to General Purposes Committee whether Bath Bridge, Willingale Doe and Carriage Bridge at Gosfield Park Lake are responsibility of county, note of decision to adopt Carriage Bridge (Q/SBb 485/29,55); Colchester Gazette, 28 October 1826 (Q/SBb 485/78); two men assaulted the constable and spoke scandalously against Francis Hervey alias Mildmay at Woodford