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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was the birthplace of Octavia Hill. The early 19th-century Sessions House and Police Station, on the opposite corner of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… alternately with Ely. By the late 14th century quarter sessions were being held at Wisbech. 8 It has remained a quarter-sessions town ever since; the January and July sessions for the Isle are held here, those in April and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… In the 1640s the parish officers were ordered by quarter sessions to pay weekly maintenance to one pauper, and to pay …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 4th, and September 14th. The county magistrates hold petty-sessions for the division every Tuesday; and manorial courts, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… transgressions elsewhere, perhaps before the Quarter Sessions. 94 Apprenticeship was enforced by legislation of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… RO, 11M59/B1/100, f. 23; 11M59/B1/203, f. 21; cf. Oxon. Sessions of Peace (ORS 53), p. 86. Hants RO, 11M59/B1/203, f. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… local govt. (seignorial jurisdiction: medieval cts). Oxon. Sessions of Peace (ORS 53), pp. 424, 735, 829. Pleas Before …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the vestry. A town crier and bellman gave notice of court sessions, and Richard Brice (d. 1596), keeper and scribe of … to the steward and were by then sworn in at the Quarter Sessions, 49 but earlier procedures are not recorded. … town crier, who in the 16th century gave notice of court sessions, 170 may also have helped with policing: certainly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… manorial courts occur as occasion requires, and petty-sessions are held on the first and third Tuesdays in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Essex People, 64-9. V.C.H. Essex, iv. 227; v. 212; Essex Sessions of the Peace, ed. E. C. Furber, 17-18; Morant, …