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Gloucestershire 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: 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
NRA 7408 Gloucester Sessions
2
early 17th cent: notebooks of Sir Richard Berkley as JP
Gloucestershire Archives
NRA 6282 Somerset
3
1673-76: papers, incl grand jury lists
Gloucestershire Archives
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
NRA 6512 Brownshill estate
5
1734-42: papers of JP, Wm Blathwayt, chiefly contables' warrants
Gloucestershire Archives
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
NRA 10491
7
1788-92: papers of JP, Rev Charles Coxwell, informations, examinations & convictions rel to Game Law offences
Gloucestershire Archives
NRA 5915 Coxwell-Rogers
8
1790: memoranda of estreated recognizances, giving reasons for nonpayment, e.g. 'dead', 'very poor'
Gloucestershire Archives
NRA 10513 Haines & Sumner
9
1795-1812: papers of JP, Robert Bransby Cooper, mainly rel to poor law
Gloucestershire Archives
NRA 23792 Cooper and Purnell
10
1840-58: quarter & general sessions rel to the parishes of the county
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
NRA 4523 Shakespeare misc
11
1868-74: minutes of sessions & list of members
Gloucestershire Archives
NRA 1436 Curtis-Hayward
12
1815-16: minutes of transactions of JE Witts, JP, rel to petty sessions & at quarter sessions
Gloucestershire Archives
NRA 5530 Witts
13
1879-1935: Gloucester prison, Commissioners' and Inspectors' minute book
Gloucestershire Archives
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