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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. |