QUARTER AND PETTY SESSIONS
Quarter Sessions were formally established in Oswestry by
the charter of James I (see A21), which empowered the Mayor, the Recorder and
the Coroner to be Justices of the Peace.
A petition under section 103 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 (5
& 6 William IV c.76), for the
continuance of the separate Court
of Quarter Sessions, failed, but the Court was restored in 1842 after a further
petition. The Borough lost its separate
Commission of the Peace in 1951, following the Justices of the Peace Act 1949
(12, 13 & 14 Geo. VI c.101).
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C1 |
Quarter Sessions Books 3 vols. |
1737 - 1836 |
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Contain lists of jurors, orders,
presentments. |
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C1/1 |
[Oct.]
1737 - Oct. 1765 |
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Includes appointments of surveyors of
highways, 1737 - 1748, 1760 - 1765. At
end: lists of constables, 1737 - 1761; lists of halberdiers (‘holberteers’),
[1738?] - 1744. For extracts see Leighton
pp. 175 - 176; Bye-gones 1882-3, pp. 229, 285. |
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C1/2 |
Jan.
1766 - Oct. 1792 |
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Includes recognizances; appointments of
surveyors of highways 1766 - 1769. For
extracts see Bye-gones 1882-3, pp. 11, 38, 158; 1899-1900, pp. 59,
153, 197, 214. |
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C1/3 |
Jan.
1793 - Apr. 1836 |
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Includes recognizances. At end: certified copy, |
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