Volume 2

Hertford County records.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1905-
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Credit: Hertford County records. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been held at the Bull Inn at this place, and that the use of the room has always been paid for by the magistrates them- selves. Each one paying a small annual sum in respect thereof; that the justices are not at all desirous of occupying the new county court at Royston, as they think the court would be less comfortable aad not at all more convenient than the room at the Bull Inn, but that in their opinion the sum at present paid to the innkeeper is insufficient to afford the proper recompense, and that it would be far better if an annual sum of not less than £5 were paid to her out of the county fund by virtue of the 12th Viet., c. 18. 1332. Notice from James Smith, keeper of the Hadham Palace Asylum at Great Hadham, that he intends to apply at the ensuing quarter sessions for the renewal of the licence for his house for twelve male and eight female patients to reside therein. 8th March. .1333. Report of Thomas Smith, surveyor, stating that the bridges of the county are in a general state of repair, requiring little more than the usual pointing of brickwork and painting to the wood and iron work. He begs to remind the court of the understanding with the Eastern Counties Railway Company with reference to the bridge at Bishop’s Stortford. 9th April. Letter from the clerk to the committee of visitors stating that he is instructed by the committee to submit for the approval of the court of quarter sessions the propriety of making certain alterations for providing a chapel and a new washhouse and laundry at the asylum, which the visitors consider of essential importance to the institution. For a long time past great inconvenience has been felt for want of a chapel, the patients having to assemble for public worship in one of the galleries, which is too small to accommodate as many as would wish to attend. The wash- house and laundry are also insufficient in size and incon- venient for the purposes required. The visitors have had the matter brought before them on several occasions and the Commissioners in Lunacy at their last visit having specially reported their opinion on the necessity of providing