Volume 2

Hertford County records.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1905-
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Hertford County records. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    892. Notice from Samuel Allen and Thomas Brown, owner and occupier of a certain dwelling-house situate at Pirton, cer- tifying that the same or part thereof is intended to be used as a place of religious worship by an assembly or congrega- tion of Baptists, and it is requested that such be recorded at [the next general quarter sessions of the peace. 9th March. 908. Certificate that a building situated at Essendon is known as a Primitive Methodist Chapel, and requiring that it may be registered and recorded as such at the general quarter sessions. 8th April. 909. Certificate that a building situate at Great Amwell is used as a place of meeting for religious worship of Protestant Dissenters known as a Primitive Methodist Chapel, and re- quest that it may be registered as such. 8th April. 918. Report of the visiting magistrates that the buildings of the gaol are in good repair. No death has occurred during the last quarter, except in one case where a man, committed for re-examination, was found to be ill with small-pox. He would have been discharged but was too ill to he removed. All possible attention and care could not save his life. The disease was not communicated to any prisoner. The visit- ing magistrates recommend the adoption of a new form of dietary sent down from the Secretary for the Home Depart- ment. It has been carefully considered. The quantities of food are about equal to those in the present dietary. Easter Sessions. 919- Report of the finance committee, who have examined the bills for the quarter, amounting to the sum of iJ385 13s. 4d., which they recommend to be paid. They recommend a levy of five farthings for the half-year. Easter Sessions. 972. Certificate from George Jacob Bosanquet and James Bentley, two of Her Majesty’s justices of the peace, that upon the application and at the request of the Board for repair of the highways in the parish of Cheshunt, they have viewed a certain footway or bridleway (by the side of or contiguous to a certain private carriageway) within the parish of