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ZQ - Chester Quarter Sessions

A - Administration

AA - Assessments: Wage Rates - 1575

AB - City of Chester Probation Committee - 1928 - 1957

AG - Gaol and House of Correction - 1808-1872

AP - Point of Air Lighthouse Trust - 1775-1889

AR - River Dee - 1800-1831

AS - Quarter Sessions: Administration: Special Sessions - 1864-1880

C - Chester City Coroner - 1442-1973

CI - Coroners' Inquests. - c1442-1839

1 - Coroners Inquests. - 1519-1540

2 - Coroners Inquests. - 1549-1552

3 - This bundle is largely illegible. - 1560-1575

4 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1582-1584

5 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1585-1586

6 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1588-1595

7 - This bundle is faded. - 1594-1595

8 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1602-1604

9 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1610-1617

10 - This bundle on paper, in English. - 1613-1636

11 - Paper, ff.2,3,4a,b, rep. M.S. 1952. - 1658-1668

12 - Coroner's Inquests. - 1669-1673

13 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1674-1677

14 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1677-1684

15 - Coroners Inquests. - 1686-1687

1 - Edward Oulton and Frances Skellerne on Katherine Bromley, died from natural causes. -out of sequence-. - Feb 3rd 1686

2 - Coroners' warrant - addressed to the constables of all the wards; they are also to provide twenty 'able horses and furniture for them'. - 6 March 1685

3 - Jury list. - 7 March 1685

4 - Edward Oulton and Francis Shellerne on William Wynne, drowned while attempting to cross the ford at Duddington. - March 7th 1685

5 - Examinations concerning death of Edward Morecroft. - n.d.

6 - Coroners' warrant - April 13th 1685

7 - The same on Edward Moorecroft, drowned while attempting to cross Shotwick ford. - April 14th 1685

8 - The same on an unnamed infant, child of Anne Hoyes, died at birth from neglect. - April 29th 1685

9 - Coroners' warrant. - Aug 22nd 1685

10 - Examinations concerning death of Nicholas White. - Aug 23rd 1685

11 - The same on Nicholas White, labourer, attacked and murdered by Maturin Greenell. - Aug 1685

12 - Coroners' warrant; summon to the Bridge House. - 24 Sep 1685

13 - The same on John Sheepherd, attacked and killed by John Plant, labourer, on Sept.23rd. - 1685

14 - Examinations concerning death of Mary Gutteridge. - n.d.

15 - The same on Mary, wife of John Gutteride, butcher, fell into a vat of boiling water and was scalded to death. - Jan 14th 1686

16 - The same on Sara Heyman, fell into tub of boiling water and scalded to death. - Aug 1st 1686

17 - Examinations concerning death of Maudlen Sparke. - n.d.

18 - The same on Maudlen Sparke, killed when the cart she was driving turned over on top of her at Red Hill. - 3 Sep 1686

19 - The same on John Morle, died suddenly from natural causes. - Oct 3rd 1686

20 - The same on Hugh Kendrick and George Heylin, drowned while fishing at Saughall. - Oct 1686

21 - Examinations concerning death of Samuel Fletcher. - n.d.

22 - William Allen and Francis Skellerne on Samuel Fletcher, died of old age. - Nov 2- 1686

23 - Examinations concerning death of unknown man (mention of the sign of the Golden Talbot). - n.d.

24 - and William Allen an unknown man, fell out of a boat into the Dee and was drowned. - Jan 1687

25 - The same on a male infant, whose mother Mary Bromhall, hid it at birth, so that it died of neglect. - Feb 4th 1687

26 - Coroners' warrant. - Feb 7th 1686/7

27 - The same on -Ranulph?- Den, prisoner in Northgate on account of insanity, died from natural causes. - Feb - 1687

28 - The same on David Edwards, carpenter, accidentally hit on the head with a bit of wood while he was working. - March 25th 1687

29 - Examinations concerning death of an unknown boy. - June 20th 1687

30 - The same on an unknown boy, drowned in the Dee. - June 20th 1687

31 - William Allen on Charles Seigiour, drowned in the Dee at 'the first pole'. - June 23rd 1687

32 - Examinations concerning death of Sarah Jenkinson. - n.d.

33 - Francis Skellerne and William Allen on Sarah Jenkinson, widow, poisoned herself with arsenic - Aug 19th 1687

34 - The same on Margaret Plumbley, infant, accidentally smothered in bed by her nurse, Mary Price. - 2 Sep 1687

35 - The same on Robert Selby, drowned when trying to get from Chester to Neston along the shore between tides. - 13 Sep 1687

36 - Coroners' warrant. - Nov 14th 1687

37 - Examinations concerning death of Ann Byron. - n.d.

38 - The same on Ann Byron, drowned in Dee. - Nov 14th 1687

16 - Coroners' Inquests - 1690-1701

17 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1701-1708

18 - Coroner's Inquests - 1708-1714

19 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1715-1726

20 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1727-1740

21 - Coroners' Inquests - 1740 - 1749

22 - Coroners' Inquests - 1751 - 1759

23 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1760 -1769

24 - Coroner's Inquests - 1770 -1775

25 - Coroner's Inquests - 1776-1779

26 - Coroner's Inquests - 1780 -1789

27 - Coroner's Inquests. - 1790-1798

28 - Coroner's Inquests - 1811-1819

29 - Coroner's Inquests. - 1822-1826

30 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1837-1839

CR - Crownmote Court Rolls - 1316-1611

F - Finance

FA - Accounts - 1828-1836

J - Justices of the Peace

JC - Commissions of the Peace - 1836-1970

JD - Declarations - 1860-1901

R - Registration and Deposit

RJ - Jurors - 1608-1817

RL - Licenced Victuallers - 1552-1833

RP - Deposited plans - 1772-1935

RR - Sacrament Certificates - 1673-1789

RTB - Transportation Bonds - 1731-1775

RTC - Transportation Contracts - 1764-1775

S - Court in Session

SE - Examinations and Depositions - 1522-1858

SF - Quarter Sessions Files - 1488-1971

SM - Sessions Books Minute Books - 1814-1865

SMP - Sesions Books Register of Prisoners - 1853-1872

SMR - Sessions Books - Recognizance Book - 1780-1798

SO - Order Books - 1799-1866

SP - Process Records Register of Prosecutions, etc.

SPE - Quarter Sessions Fine Rolls - 1561-1634

SPT - Petitions mainly for poor relief or for exemption from poor rate, 16th century. - 1563-1594