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Few records of county government exist to any large extent, and very few have been printed. Among them are three bodies of quarter-sessions records. A. H. A. Hamilton, Quarter-Sessions ... chiefly of Devon , contains much on the subject.
A great noise now arose, occasioned by the prisoners all flocking to see a fellow whipt for petty larceny, to which he was condemned by the court of quarter-sessions; but this soon ended in the disappointment of the spectators; for the fellow, after being stript, having advanced another sixpence, was discharged untouched.
Many of the ringleaders in the outrage were apprehended during the week, and tried before the justices at quarter-sessions. Two of them were sentenced to stand in the pillory and to be imprisoned for a month; and as many as twenty more were fined in small sums for the assault, and bound over to keep the peace for a twelvemonth.
Since that time Sir Everard's Jacobitism had been gradually decaying, like a fire which burns out for want of fuel. His Tory and High-Church principles were kept up by some occasional exercise at elections and quarter-sessions; but those respecting hereditary right were fallen into a sort of abeyance.
The authority of three justices of the peace was, by the statute of Edward VI. necessary in order to grant this licence. But even this restraint was afterwards thought insufficient, and, by a statute of Elizabeth, the privilege of granting it was confined to the quarter-sessions.
'Five years auld exactly, this blessed day, answered the lady; 'so we may look into the English gentleman's paper. Mr. Bertram liked to show his authority in trifles. 'No, my dear, not till to-morrow. The last time I was at quarter-sessions the sheriff told us that DIES that dies inceptus in short, you don't understand Latin, but it means that a term-day is not begun till it's ended.
At the quarter-sessions our new Justice was publicly upbraided by a gentleman of the opposite party in county politics, that, while he affected a great zeal for the public police, and seemed ambitious of the fame of an active magistrate, he fostered a tribe of the greatest rogues in the country, and permitted them to harbour within a mile of the house of Ellangowan.
I attended one quarter-sessions at which a number of natives were tried on a great variety of charges. Several of them were induced to plead guilty, and on this admission of their having committed the crime sentence was pronounced upon them.
A whole code of law, procedure, and precedent grew up on these two subjects, besides others scarcely less extensive. Quarter-sessions had nothing to do with civil suits, and cases of treason, murder, and certain other high crimes were excluded from their competence.
Come, let us ring for tea; and to-morrow we must start for Yorkshire! The Quarter-sessions are coming on." We left M. Dumas at Marseilles: we find him again at Naples. Three volumes are the result of his visit to the last named city volumes in which he manages to put a little of every thing, and a good deal of some things.
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