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Q - Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions - 1558-1971
- RA - Quarter Sessions (registration): Licensed/registered tradesmen - 1746-1827

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	Q/RA/1
Title	Licensed Victuallers (alehouse and innkeepers)
Date	1753-1827
Description	The Registers of licensed victuallers record recognisances entered into by persons granted licences for keeping alehouses, inns and victualling houses by justices at their meetings for this purpose in the respective hundreds of the County for which they acted and which have been returned to the Clerk of the Peace. The lists give the name of the victualler and place with, until 1778, names of sureties and amount of surety. Though they list the innkeepers and alehouse keepers throughout the county for a substantial period, they do not give the name of the inn itself.
Extent	5 volumes
Level	SubSeries
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions
Administrative History	The Act of 5-6 Ed VI c 25 (1552) required licensed victuallers to enter into a recognisance (bond) of good behaviour which was to remain on record at Quarter Sessions. The Act of 26 Geo II c 31 (1753) also required the Clerk of the Peace to keep a register of bonds. An Act of 9 Geo IV c 61 (1828) brought this system to an end.
Arrangement	The lists are by hundred with Chesterfield entered separately from Scarsdale hundred.
Related Material	For records of public house licensing from the 1870s, see the records of the relevant Petty Sessions Division/Magistrates Court: Alfreton - D249 Bakewell - D232 Belper - D250 Buxton - D246 Chesterfield - D6116 Derby and South Derbyshire - D1990 Glossop - D246 Hathersage - D562 High Peak, formerly Chapel-en-le-Frith - D246 Ilkeston - D2294 Matlock - D251 West Derbyshire, formerly Ashbourne - D1049 Wirksworth - D199 See also D7657 which contains records for several Derbyshire divisions/Magistrates courts

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