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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

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

1 - The case between Richard Dutton, draper, and Edward Marten, tailor, concerning possession of a shop in Bridge Street - 1552

2 - Depositions and examinations - 1557-1572

2A - Deposits and Examinations

3 - Depositions and Examinations - 1577-1588

1 - Record of examinations taken before Nicholas Barram, the Mayor of Dublin, concerning the fraudulent importation of some sadle trees. (smuggled to 'avoide trooble of serchers customers and such like'.) Parchment - n.d.

2 - Copy of letter of attorney - June 15th 1577

3 - Note concerning action of debt. - n.d.

4 - Note, signed by the mayor and others, that one Dorington, parson of St. Peter's, affirmed '.. .. . that the Queenes men cam downe to Eaton Colledg to ring the bells ther upon a festival even and Doctor Day then provest of that same colledg did beare them awaye out of the bell fray'. - Feb 24th 1579

5 - Fragment - n.d.

6 - Expenses incurred in action of debt, removed from Pentice to Portmote. Signed by mayor. - 20 March 1581

7 - Examination of Thomas Throckm-orten, concerning his life over the last few years - includes part ownership of a bark carrying letters of marque against the Bretons, and a visit to Poland. - May 7th 1581

8 - Report on progress in action of debt. -in legal hand- - n.d.

9 - Expenses incurred in action of debt, removed from Pentice to Portmote. Signed by mayor. - May 8th 1581

10 - Copy of royal precept for production at Westminster of Robert Thornely, tailor, defendant in action of debt. - Nov 16th 1584

11 - Report on progress in action of debt. - n.d.

12 - Examination of Robert Bries, a soldier levied in Staffs for service in Ireland, concerning a rumour that the Earl of Derby had been captured by the French. - Feb 22nd 1585

13 - Examinations, (taken first before the mayor and then before the coroners,) jury list and verdict, in a case of manslaughter. -50 is probably part of the original file of examinations; 51-5 possibly an insertion? - Feb 28th - March 1st 1585

14 - Examinations concerning the death of a Frenchman. A French ship, anchored in the river at Chester, was boarded one night by a group of persons under the impression that she was Spanish; in the scuffle, one of the crew was killed and thrown overboard. When the boarders discovered that the ship was French, and most of the cargo English, they fled. - July 31st-Aug 2nd [c 1585-1586]

15 - Examinations concerning the piratical expeditions into Northern waters of two ships, the 'Hare' and the 'Admiral', alias the 'Dragon'. The former took as a prize a ship from Portugal and the latter one from Dunkirk. Mr. Roger Hurleston, on board the 'Hare', purchased her prize, and her crew received cash. - Nov 16th-20th 1586

16 - Note concerning action in the Portmote. - Aug 12th 1588

17 - Examination of a sailor concerning his voyage in Spanish waters in ships carrying letters of mark against the Spaniards - reference to the Spanish fleet 'but durst not deale with them'. - Aug 15th 1588

18 - Examination of certain sailors who had been trading in Spain (under letters of mark from the King of Navarre) and were shot up by the Spanish fleet. - Oct 8th 1588

19 - Examinations on suspicion of treasonable words; reference to fiddlers singing of the English victory over the Spaniards. - Oct 30th 1588

20 - Examination of three Dutchmen, who had sailed in the Armada. - Nov 13th 1588

4 - Recusancy. - 1592

5 - Depositions and Examinations - 1588-1600

6 - Depositions and Examinations - 1601-1602

7 - Depositions and Examinations - 1605-1607

8 - Depositions and Examinations - 1608-1609

9 - Depositions and Examinations - 1609-1610

10 - Deposition and Examinations. - 1610-1611

11 - Depositions and Examinations - 1611-1612

12 - Depositions and Examinations - 1613-1614

13 - Depositions and Examinations - 1615-1616

14 - Depositions and Examinations - 28 Sep 1620 - 30 June 1621

15 - Depositions and Examinations - 1766

16 - Depositions and Examinations - 1794-1795

17 - Depositions and Examinations - 1802-1804

18 - Depositions and Examinations - 1827-1834

19 - Depositions and Examinations - 1839-1848

20 - Depositions and Examinations - 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