IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/311
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS (LONDON)
Date(s): 1747-1750
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 production units.
Name of creator(s): London Quarter Sessions of the Peace
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The office of Justice of the Peace dates from the fourteenth century, when their Commission of the Peace gave them the power to enquire into "all manner of poisonings, enchantments, forestallings, disturbances and abuses", try offences in their courts of Quarter Sessions and keep the peace in their locality. During the sixteenth century the work of the Quarter Sessions and the Justices was extended to include administrative functions for the county.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the court of Quarter Sessions, London, comprising lists of jurors for Bridge Ward, Aldgate Ward, Bassishaw Ward and Farringdon Within Ward.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For records relating to the City of London wards, see records beginning with the reference CLC/W/.. e.g. CLC/W/NA.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.