West Riding of Yorkshire Quarter Sessions

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Date:	1595-1971
Places:	Yorkshire, West Riding
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (local) > Quarter sessions
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C47816 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O42052 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1688-1744: misc papers incl warrants and accounts of treasurer, John Dodgson	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds	TN/LA/9	NRA 7398 Meynell-Ingram
2	1689-90: notes of court decisions	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield	A388	See West Yorkshire Archive Service Annual Report 1996
3	1686-1719: Robert Ferrand JP volume contains copy documents relating to Poor Law and to rates and assessments in Wapentakes of Skyrack, Staincliffe and Morley 1686-1719; abstract of returns of charitable donations, Bingley 1786; copy documents relating to the Free School of Bingley, 1638-1692; copy letters relating to militia and impressing of seamen 1694-1695	York Minster Archives	MS Add 319
4	1717-18: accounts of treasurer of West Riding, John Smith	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield		See Accessions to Repositories, 1976
5	1770-71: accounts of small payments and gratuities to clerk of the peace, William Crowle	Sheffield City Archives	976 p73	NRA 4883
6	1810-18: accounts of the quarter sessions, Mathew Wilson IV	Leeds University Library, Special Collections	52-58 MS417	NRA 21696
7	1818-1819: county treasurers accounts	Derbyshire Record Office	D239/O417	NRA 4879 FitzHerbert
8	1819-20: accounts of disbursements of general sessions by the treasurer William Lee	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds	GA/C/13	NRA 19412 Leeds AD misc
9	1828: case papers for Wetherby	Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	MD208	See Guide 1985
10	1595-1676: papers of Sir Godfrey Copley, JP for the West Riding, rate assessments, lame soldiers' pensions	Sheffield City Archives	CD 507-10	NRA 20424 Sprotborough
11	1834-49: sessions reports	Sheffield City Archives	H276	NRA 1083 Wentworth Woodhouse
12	1648-1709: estreat warrants from sessions mainly for rates for bridge repair in wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill	Nottinghamshire Archives	DDFJ10/20/5-21	NRA 20442 Foljambe
13	1830-53: conviction book of Joseph Wilcock	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford	29D93	See Annual Return 1993
14	c1656-59: West Riding Quarter Sessions book collated by Jo Pickering, Justice of the Peace	Thoresby Society	SD.XVII
15	1637-1971: records incl sessions rolls, order books, indictment books	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield	Q	See Former reference A000006