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Q - Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions - 1558-1971
JP - Quarter Sessions (Justice): Records relating to Justices of the Peace - 1711-1907
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
Q/JP/3
Title
Qualification oaths
Date
[1746]-1907
Description
The Justices' Qualification Act 18 Geo II c.20 (1745) provided that a justice must possess an estate worth at least £100 a year and take an oath to that effect. The qualification was altered by subsequent acts.
No detail of the estates is given but parishes/townships where the estates lie are named.
Level
series
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions
Arrangement
The individual oaths were numbered and some, perhaps all, assembled into bundles in the 19th century. Surviving bundles are now numbered Q/JP/3/1-16. Those found loose now constitute bundles numbered Q/JP/3/17-20. Numbers in brackets are old numbers found on the individual oaths, sometimes followed by box numbers found on the bundles.
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