Atkinson was committed for trial at the
Quarter Sessions where he was sentenced to two months in gaol.
In 1610, and perhaps as a consequence of the controversy surrounding the company's St Christopher performance at Gowthwaite Hall, Pant, who was apprenticed to Christopher Simpson, complained at the Topcliffe
Quarter Sessions "that he hath not bene imployed in his occupation according to the Covenantes of his Indenture made betwene him & his said Mr", and therefore wished to be freed from his bond to Simpson (NRQSM 2/2 fol.
Court of General
Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Sept.
To achieve this more limited and short-term goal, it was not necessary to bring a lengthy and expensive suit to the ecclesiastical courts or even to the courts of
quarter sessions, as that would involve both time and money.
In Irish-born Pennsylvanian Ann Dougherty's desperate petition at Chester County's
Quarter Sessions in 1760 for the freedom of her son, sold away from her to Virginia to pay his passage to America, we see how harsh economic realities and cruel separations were not only found in Ireland (263).
The author's research is extensively based on municipal archives: including the Mayor's Court Book, minutes of the Municipal Assembly and
Quarter Sessions, Charity and Hospital accounts, plus Diocesan and Parish records.
Asked to preach to the House of Lords at the opening of Parliament in 1680, he was delayed by proceedings at the city
quarter sessions.
No reason is given for the omission of certain kinds of musician recorded in the Sussex coroner's records, while references in the
quarter sessions rolls are omitted on the grounds that they mostly relate to victuallers recognisances (lxxxv).
None the less we might wonder what value there is in such marginal records as a punishment at Glastonbury, where a 1617
Quarter sessions Roll item orders: 'That the said Nicholas Ruddock and Katheren Chauker shalbe both whipped through the Highe Street of Glaston aforesaid vntill their boddies shalbe both bloody and that there shalbe during the time of their whipping two fiddles playeing before them in regard to make knowne their lewdnes in begetting the said base child vppon the sabboth day coming from danceing' (i, 133).
After pleading guilty at North Shields Magistrates Court the prisoner was committed for trial at the
Quarter Sessions.
Built between 1882 and 1884 to house the
Quarter Sessions for the West Derby Hundred of the county of Lancaster, the building first heard a case in 1884.
