Norfolk Quarter Sessions

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Date:	1532-1971
Places:	Norfolk Norfolk
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (local) > Quarter sessions
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C30247 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O41966 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	c1580-1670: papers of the Knyvett and Gawdy families as Norfolk justices of peace	Norfolk Record Office	Frere Collection C3/1/9, C3/2/3, 8-9, 12, II/2-10, 26, 28	NRA 42296 Frere
2	c1580-1602: papers of and rel to Norfolk justices of the peace	Norfolk Record Office	Frere Collection DS 593-604(d)	NRA 42296 Frere
3	c1590-1610: papers of Sir Arthur Heveningham, records rel to restraints on purchase of corn and rel to money paid by Browne	Norfolk Record Office	[5156A-5159A] 16, 17, 179	NRA 27820
4	1583-1751: papers, writs and returns, writs and jury lists	Norfolk Record Office	BL	NRA 27666 Bradfer-Lawrence
5	1588-1663: letter book Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy, incl justices' business, a similar book Sir William de Grey and sons	Norfolk Record Office	MS 21554, XVII/1,2	NRA 21634 De Grey
6	1597-1607: justices book (Sir Edward Coke)	Holkham Hall		NRA 12332 Coke
7	c1590-1610: Heveningham, Browne and Doughty family papers, JPs papers, incl licenses, subsidies etc	Norfolk Record Office	[5256A-5159A] 133-207	NRA 27820
8	1613-65: papers of Doughty family as justices of the peace	Norfolk Record Office	[5156A-5159A] 1, 304, 347, 829	NRA 27820
9	1619-25: examinations before JPs, incl examination of a supposed witch	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	2	NRA 5522 Bedingfeld
10	1634-44: estreat roll	Norfolk Record Office	EVL	NRA 22801
11	1649-53: alehouse recognizance rolls, Freebridge Marshland and Clackclose hundreds	Norfolk Record Office	p991	NRA 25130 Hare
12	1888-1890: calendars of prisoners	Norfolk Record Office	MC 2118
13	1532-1971: court records	Norfolk Record Office