Lancashire Quarter Sessions

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The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1523-1999
Places:	Lancashire Lancashire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (local) > Quarter sessions
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C29877 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O41924 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1523-18th cent: accounts, briefs etc of clerks of the peace, & petitions, orders, recognizances etc of quarter sessions	Lancashire Archives	DDKe/1,2	NRA 19460
2	1583-1999: records incl enclosure awards, tithe commutation, electoral registers, plans, various committee records, financial records, deeds, jury lists, register of vagrants deported from Liverpool to Ireland, records rel to Clerk of the Peace, County Treasurer, Manchester Assize Courts, lunacy, roads and bridges, bills, acts and orders, charities, disputed elections, gamekeepers, taxes, papists' estates, societies, turnpike trusts, constabulary, gaol sites and buildings, convictions, prisons, transportation, insolvent debtors, calendars of prisoners, riot depositions, estreats, indictments, appeals, arbitrations, civil suits, attendance books, recognizances, commissions of the peace, highway diversion orders, annual general sessions, oaths and sacrament certificates, lists of magistrates, minute rolls, order books, petitions, property qualifications, sessions rolls, land tax assessments	Lancashire Archives	Q	NRA 15234 Lancs QS
3	1641: recusant roll	Liverpool Record Office	900 M D 9	NRA 18452 Derby roll
4	1672-79: memoranda of JP, Thomas Parker, Browsholme	Lancashire Archives	P 144/1	NRA 3510 Lancs RO misc
5	1696-1820: misc papers of the chancery court, incl those of the Preston attorneys John Nabb, & William Shawe	Lancashire Archives	DDX 900/190-217	NRA 650 Lancashire Post
6	1768: roll of qualified jurors	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRA(S)2177/vol 1600	NRA 10979 Hamilton
7	1799-1902: financial records incl minutes, rate basis, assessment returns, rate rolls, assessment books, memoranda, reports, records rel to local finance sub-committees	Lancashire Archives	QAF	See Annual Return 1999
8	1821-45: proceedings of court of annual general sessions	Lancaster Central Library	p006	NRA 4842 Lancaster coll
9	1830-53: conviction book of John Whitworth	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford	29D93	See Annual Return 1993
10	1841-42: deposition books of quarter sessions held at Liverpool	Lancashire Archives	DP/345-50	NRA 3510 Lancs RO misc
11	1843-49: volume of justices notes made by William Turner	Lancashire Archives	DDX 171	NRA 3510 Lancs RO misc
12	1932: diary of JP, Mary Alice Hackney	Lancashire Archives	DDX/1057	NRA 3510 Lancs RO misc