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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
NRA 42296 Frere
2
c1580-1602: papers of and rel to Norfolk justices of the peace
Norfolk Record Office
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
NRA 27820
4
1583-1751: papers, writs and returns, writs and jury lists
Norfolk Record Office
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
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
NRA 27820
8
1613-65: papers of Doughty family as justices of the peace
Norfolk Record Office
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
NRA 5522 Bedingfeld
10
1634-44: estreat roll
Norfolk Record Office
NRA 22801
11
1649-53: alehouse recognizance rolls, Freebridge Marshland and Clackclose hundreds
Norfolk Record Office
NRA 25130 Hare
12
1888-1890: calendars of prisoners
Norfolk Record Office
13
1532-1971: court records
Norfolk Record Office