Part of a page from a Quarter
Sessions minute book showing two entries for October 1837 with
sentences of transportation.
Very minor cases were dealt with
by magistrates at Petty Sessions, but most offences were tried
at Quarter Sessions. These were held four times a year, and
dealt with both criminal cases and some matters of local
administration.
The following is a list of some of
the Quarter Sessions and other court records records we hold:
- Session books 1682-1785, 1837-1941; related
papers 1776-1805, 1824-1837.
- Petty Sessions: registers of Depositions from
1851; business before the Mayor and Justices 1786-1793
- Settlement Examinations, city
parishes 1763-1866 (incomplete).
- Alehouse Recognizances 1776-1789, 1806-1814 (incomplete).
- Coroner’s Examinations and Inquests: 1776-1835.
- Court of Record, court books 1706-1803; related papers
1737-1838.
- Court of Request, court book 1785-1788