Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

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Date:	1600-2000
Places:	Gloucestershire Gloucestershire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (local) > Quarter sessions
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C31840 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O41908 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1660 - 20th cent: records	Gloucestershire Archives	Q	NRA 7408 Gloucester Sessions
2	early 17th cent: notebooks of Sir Richard Berkley as JP	Gloucestershire Archives	FmS/C 1/1-9	NRA 6282 Somerset
3	1673-76: papers, incl grand jury lists	Gloucestershire Archives	D6/Z1	NRA 4506 Hyett
4	c1710-20: papers to William Palling, as High Constable of Bisley Hundred & Petty Constable of Painswick	Collection held privately: enquiries to Gloucestershire Archives	76	NRA 6512 Brownshill estate
5	1734-42: papers of JP, Wm Blathwayt, chiefly contables' warrants	Gloucestershire Archives	D1799/X/12	NRA 9217 Blathwayt
6	1738-1860: papers of JPs, H.C.Clifford - mainly circulars 1816-60, Giles Gardner - papers, warrants & depositions 1738-58	Gloucestershire Archives	D149/X/33-41	NRA 10491
7	1788-92: papers of JP, Rev Charles Coxwell, informations, examinations & convictions rel to Game Law offences	Gloucestershire Archives	D269/B/F97-99	NRA 5915 Coxwell-Rogers
8	1790: memoranda of estreated recognizances, giving reasons for nonpayment, e.g. 'dead', 'very poor'	Gloucestershire Archives	D177/VII/15	NRA 10513 Haines & Sumner
9	1795-1812: papers of JP, Robert Bransby Cooper, mainly rel to poor law	Gloucestershire Archives	D2193	NRA 23792 Cooper and Purnell
10	1840-58: quarter & general sessions rel to the parishes of the county	Shakespeare Birthplace Trust	ER 13/1	NRA 4523 Shakespeare misc
11	1868-74: minutes of sessions & list of members	Gloucestershire Archives	D123/Z/6	NRA 1436 Curtis-Hayward
12	1815-16: minutes of transactions of JE Witts, JP, rel to petty sessions & at quarter sessions	Gloucestershire Archives	D1283	NRA 5530 Witts
13	1879-1935: Gloucester prison, Commissioners' and Inspectors' minute book	Gloucestershire Archives	Q	See Annual Return 1996
14	1641-1856: petition against episcopacy 1641; electoral corresp and papers; letter from Privy Council 1663; tax assessments; register of papists estates; estreats of fines; orders rules and precedents for sessions proceedings; misc papers	Gloucestershire Archives	D9125