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Q - Cheshire Quarter Sessions records - 16th century-20th century

A - Quarter Sessions Administration

A - Accounts

B - Building and Gaols

1 - Gaol and County Hall at Chester - Buildings - 1784-1881

2 - Gaol and County Hall at Chester - List of plans and drawings of Chester Castle and its surroundings by Thomas Harrison and others.

3 - Gaol and County Hall at Chester: Minutes of Visiting Justices - 1851-1878

4 - Gaol and County hall at Chester: Rules and Fees for Gaol - 1729-1869

5 - Gaol and County Hall at Chester: Papers concerning prisoners - 1726-1857

6 - Gaol and County Hall at Chester: Miscellaneous records relating to Gaol - 1785-1884

1 - Papers on settling the gaoler's allowance in lieu of selling ale, etc. in the gaol - 1785

2a - Letter, Peter Wright to Mr. Potts, enquiring if compensation for refusal to issue an ale-licence to the gaol keeper at Macclesfield was payable, as the property was thereby devalued. - 15 Jan 1788

2b - Appointment of Faithful Thomas, gentleman, as constable of Chester castle, by letters patent - 14 Dec 1791

3 - Order of Quarter Sessions confirming appointment of John Edward Hudson as deputy to his father Edward Hudson, constable of Chester Castle. - 19 Jun 1817

4 - Order of Quarter Sessions as to allowances to prisoners employed in hard labour. - 16 Jul 1822

5 - Letter of Ann Tod to Clerk of the Peace seeking situation of matron of Chester Castle, with testimonial of William Hardman, governor of Liverpool House of Industry, annexed. - 1823

6 - Presentment by Visiting Justices of insufficiency of gaol under the Prison Act, 1823, and need for a House of Correction adjoining the gaol for Eddisbury, Wirral and Broxton hundreds. - n.d. c 1823

7 - Letter of the Custos Rotulorum to Clerk of the Peace enclosing Secretary of State's letter concerning returns under Prison Act, 1824. - 1824

8 - Letter from Home Office opposing use of day rooms, but approving other alterations. - 20 Apr 1840

9 - Papers connected with the Prison Inspectors charges against Mr. Dunstan'. - 1840

10 - Correspondence on practice of the constable to supply bedding to debtors. - 1844

11 - Index to Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Present State of Discipline in Gaols and Houses of Correction. Printed. - 1863

12 - Regulations for government of prisons under Prisons Act. Printed. - 1865

13 - Report of Committee to consider the management of the Gaol. - 28 Jan 1865

14 - Presentment by visiting justices (only 1 signature) that gaol is insufficient under Prisons Act, 1865. - 7 Dec 1865

15 - Particulars of alterations proposed. - n.d.

16 - Abstract of Accounts, with list of prisoners discharged for quarter ending 24 Nov. 1866. Printed. - 1866

17 - Order authorising acceptance of prisoners from City in the gaol. - 26 Jun 1871

18 - Letter from Home Office informing appointment of Rev. J. H. Acheson, rector of St.Peter's, Chester as chaplain. - 22 Nov 1881

19 - Letter from Home Office informing appointment of W. W. Tomlinson, major A.M.D. in place of medical officer Dr. W. McEwen, dec'd. - 9 Jan 1883

20 - Papers and correspondence on closing the gaol at Chester Castle. - 1884

21 - Calendar of prisoners - 29 Sep 1724

22 - Account for conveying convicts to Chatham for transportation - c 1828

23 - Correspondence relating to the inadequacy of the Judges' lodgings at Chester - 1831-1875

24 - Indictment of John Carr of Barthomley for stabbing Thomas Horton [see also QAB/5/8/53] - 5 Apr 1834

25 - Correspondence relating to a dispute between the Sheriffs of the City and County of Chester as to who was responsible for executing condemned criminals. Also handbill describing trial and execution of Joseph Moseley and James Garside - 1834

26 - Correspondence relating to military precautions taken because of the threatened escape attempt of Chartists on trial at Chester Castle - 1839

27 - Warrant for removal of Samuel Shaw from Chester Castle to a lunatic asylum - 19 Jul 1854

28 - Letters, Justice Thomas Coltman to J. Lloyd, Clerk of Chester Assizes, relating to arrangements for the execution of Bartholomew Murray - 1841

29 - Rules for the treatment of condemned prisoners with related correspondence - 1845, 1847

30 - Draft memorial to the Secretary of State as to the execution of County criminals by the city with related letters from J. Tollemache - 1866

31 - Chester Castle Chaplain's report asking for public executions

32 - Annual Returns of Statistics - 1840-1855

7 - Gaol and County Hall at Chester: Reference books etc. on prisons.

8 - Gaol and Sessions House at Knutsford: Administrative records of Gaol.

9 - Gaol and Sessions House at Knutsford: Rules of Gaol and House of Correction

10 - Gaol and Sessions House at Knutsford: Plans - 1840, 1877

C - Coroners - 1837-1937

L - Licensing Committee

M - Committee Minutes

R - Roads and bridges

V - Vagrancy

X - Administration - Miscellaneous

C - Quarter Sessions: Clerk of the Peace

D - Quarter Sessions: Enrolment Registration and Deposit

J - Quarter Sessions: Judicial