Yorkshire 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:	1625-1900
Places:	Yorkshire and the Humber
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (local) > Quarter sessions
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C47930 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O42050 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1625-1718: misc JPs papers for each riding & the city, mainly informations etc	North Yorkshire County Record Office	ZDS.IX.2	NRA 21335
2	c1625-49: precedent book of clerk of the peace	Folger Shakespeare Library	MS V b 244	See Baker, English legal MSS in USA, 439
3	1660-82: papers of JP,Sir William Ingilby, rel to crime in the Ripley area, orders to constables, reports on information laid	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds	WYL230/2940-42	NRA 11614 Ingilby
4	1682-87: justices' register of warrants, Howdenshire (Robert Prickett)	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	D LONS/L.40	NRA 17777 Lowther
5	1759-1805: diaries of magistrate John Courtney of Beverley	East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service		See Brief Guide 1974, p22
6	18th cent-19th cent: papers of JPs from the Grimston family, calendars, lists, depositions, exams, warrants & summonses	East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service	DDGR/34.11-175	NRA 13468 Grimston