| Description | Illustrated by the records of the Warwickshire Court of Quarter Sessions, 1773-1837. Dugdale Society Occasional Papers. No. 4, 1934.
Several packets and envelopes containing, amongst other things, a proof copy of the paper, Ms of the paper, extensive tabulations and analyses of County expenditure and income; notes on attendance of J.P.'s at Quarter Sessions 1682-1731: transcripts from the Newcastle correspondence in the British Museum; notes about the Warwickshire Bank for Savings and notes on a wide variety of aspects of county administration. Also notebooks containing lists of settlement appeals to Q.S. 1773-1835; Bastardy Cases 1773-1835; orders of Sessions 1789-1805, 1806-1815; acts of Parliament relating to county administration. Bundles of notes on small loose-leaf paper covering most aspects of county administration, (they amount almost to a subject idex of the Quarter Sessions order books of the period 1773-1837): Petty sessions, poaching, prisoners sent to Army and Navy, pillory, recommendations to mercy, political cases, solitary confinement, petty larceny, whipping, regrating, transportation, appeals from Petty Sessions, bastardy, prosecution of felons, conveyance of felons, Quarter Sessions procedure. Petty Constables, Chief Constables, Vagrants, Poor Law, Judicial, Militia, Care of Lunatics, Apprenticeship, Bread Act, Coroner, Corn returns, Licences to act plays, Hemp and Flax bounties, Licensing, Workhouses, Statute Fairs, visitors of Factories, County stationery and Law books etc., Justices clerk's fees, County loans, Navy Acts etc., Grand Jurymen, Soldiers baggage, Warwickshire Savings bank, Roman Catholics, Enclosure, Fees on Acts of Parliament, Attendance at Sessions, County Gaol, Building of the new Gaol, the new Bridewell and House of Correction, Fitting up parts of the old Bridewell enlarging the Gaol. Shire Hall, Judges House, Settlement Appeals, County Treasurer's accounts etc., Roads, Bridges, Miscellaneous, Warwickshire Justices, 1702-1730. |