Catalogue description North Riding of Yorkshire Quarter Sessions

This record is held by North Yorkshire County Record Office

Details of Q
Reference: Q
Title: North Riding of Yorkshire Quarter Sessions
Description:

Their records cover crime, roads and bridges, weights and measures, vagrancy houses of correction, licensing, dissenters, Roman Catholics, county rates, militia, police and various taxes.
Date: 1538-1999
Related material:

The records listed here relate only to the former North Riding and exclude Richmond and Scarborough which held their own Sessions (see DC/RMB and DC/SCB). Separate Quarter Sessions courts were also held for the West Riding, the East Riding and York. The Liberty of Ripon was subject to its own court, independent of the West Riding, and a few records may be found with the Ripon Corporation archive (DC/RIC). The majority of the Liberty's records are housed at Wakefield.
Held by: North Yorkshire County Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

North Riding Quarter Sessions, c 1350-1971
Physical description: 46 series
Access conditions:

Microform copies must be used where available.
Subjects:
  • North Riding of Yorkshire
  • North Yorkshire
  • Administration of justice
  • Local government
Administrative / biographical background:

Until the creation of County Councils, the Justices of the Peace were responsible for local government in the shire or riding. They had both judicial and, from the sixteenth century onwards, administrative functions.

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