Title:
Sessions bundle
Level: Category
Borough records
Level: Fonds
COLCHESTER, PRE-1835
Level: Sub-Fonds
COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS
Level: Series
Sessions bundles, 1724-1820
Scope and Content:
Contains Grand Jury presentments, Epiphany, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas Sessions; appointment by Charles Runnington, Recorder of Vicesimus Knox as deputy; return of weights and measures, Epiphany, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas Sessions; list of jurors (arranged by ward), Epiphany Session; gaoler's bills, orders for payment of gaoler and receipts; orders to commit prisoners to gaol, including commitments of reputed fathers; certificate of return of gaoler as required by Act of Parliament; summons of Charles Bell Roofe for nuisance in parish of St. Nicholas; orders to treasurer, with receipts, to pay sum owing for militia and for surgeon and apothecary to gaol; bill to treasurer to pay expenses for relief of vagrants; list of disbursements by John Bland [purpose unknown]; precept to surveyor of parish of St. James, with note of return; militia accounts of amounts spent on maintenance of wives and families of militia men (details of name, rank and unit), for parish of St. Leonard, December 1812 - December 1813, for parishes of St. Leonard , St. James, St. Nicholas and St. Giles, September 1813 - March 1814, for parishes of All Saints, St. Leonard and St. Peter, December 1813 - March 1814, for parish of St. Peter, March - June 1814, for parishes of St. Giles and Holy Trinity, March - September 1814, with receipts from overseers of parishes to Treasurer and payments to Workhouse Corporation of Sudbury, Suffolk for maintenance of wife and children of militia substitutes; examinations of Robert Hewes of Lexden, farmer and Samuel Hazel, aged 16, his servant against Thomas Fairclee, servant to Robert Hewes, of Robert Havens of Colchester, labourer, Samuel Long of Ardleigh, labourer, Joseph Young of Ardleigh, labourer, Revd. John Brooke of Elmstead and Maria Lock, servant to William Bond, keeper of the Rose and Crown in parish of St. James, William Webb, servant to William Cockerell of Colchester, victualler, Abraham Gale of Colchester, labourer against Charles Hoyer, private soldier in 63rd Regiment (with recognizances to appear), of Roger Coe of Colchester, constable of St. Mary at the Walls, John Mills, esq. and Charles Cullum his servant and James Brown of Colchester, coachman against John Martin Ryan, of Henry Bettesworth, Captain and William Arden, Lieutenant in 4th Regiment of Foot against William Kibble of Wivenhoe, mariner, of Abraham Hale Clark, private soldier in Life Guards, quartered at the sign of the Plough in parish of St. Botolph, Carl Berckhahan, private soldier in 9th Troop, 1st Regiment King's German Legion, Mary Smith, singlewoman, servant to James Basket at the sign of the Plough against Abraham Halls of parish of St. Mary Magdalen; recognizances of John Bridge of Colchester, esq., of Isaac Marsden of parish of St. Nicholas, printer; certificates of good fame and alehouse keepers' recognizances of Susanna Lewis for the Joiners Arms in parish of Holy Trinity, of John Atkins for the Greyhound, George Ellis for the Bugle Horn, James Fellows for the Upper Canteen, Joseph Martin for the Rising Sun, James Baskett for the Plough and Thomas Hewitt for the Sawyers Arms, all in parish of St. Botolph, of Henry Bland for the Prince of Wales in parish of St. Giles, of James Knaples for the Lower Canteen and William Bond for the Rose and Crown, both in parish of St. James, of ? John for the Ordnance Arms, James Chamberlain for the Queens Head and Elizabeth Pipe for the Barley Mow, all in parish of St. Leonard, William Rand for the Bishop Blaze in parish of St. Martin, of Shadrach Seaman for the Fleece in parish of St. Mary at the Walls, of James Cullen for the Colchester Arms in parish of St. Mary Magdalen, of John Sergeant for the Waggon and Horses and Abednego Bland for the Marquis of Granby, both in parish of St. Peter, of Robert Keymer for the Griffin, Sarah Roofe widow for the Blue Boar and Joseph Rogers for the Angel, all in parish of St. Runwald, of Edward Ginn for the Sun and Joseph Jaggard for the Chequers, both in parish of Lexden [all fragile]; settlement examination of Thomas Halls, private soldier in Foot Royal Artillery; petition of John Clayton Hindes, manager of Norwich Company of Comedians for a theatrical licence
Dates of Creation:
1814

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Place Names Colchester Borough of Colchester Quarter Sessions bundle, 1814
Document Types Sessions bundle Borough of Colchester Quarter Sessions, 1814
Institutions Borough of Colchester Quarter Sessions bundle, 1814
Institutions Borough of Colchester Quarter Sessions bundle, 1814