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Collapse DEX523 - Papers of John Roberts, solicitor and Under-Sheriff of BerkshireDEX523 - Papers of John Roberts, solicitor and Under-Sheriff of Berkshire
1 - Writs addresses to the Sheriff of Berkshire.
2 - Copy of jury summons for hearing a case (John Terry v Sir Nathaniel Dukinfield and others) at Quarter Sessions.
3 - Letter (on printed form) to the Sheriff from the War Office, enclosing an order for removal of troops before the county election.
4 - Accounts, copies of bill of cravings for the sheriff's expenses etc.
5 - Notes of procedure for holding a parliamentary election.
6 - Printed proclamations for continuation of persons in their official capacities (31 January 1820) and for the dissolution of Parliament (29 February 1820) on the accession of George IV.
7 - Printed calendar of prisoners at the Lent Assizes in Reading.
8 - Order from Lord Sidmouth (as Home Secretary) for removal of ten named convicts from Reading gaol to the hulks at Portsmouth.
9 - Order to the keeper of Reading gaol for dischareg of William Pook, an insolvent debtor.
10 - Letter from Budd and Gray of Newbury, with list of names added to the Commission of the Peace 'within the last 9 or 10 years'.
11 - Reprieve of Henry Bren from execution on a charge of housebreaking, signed by [Sir] J Richardson, the judge.
12 - Appointment by Sir Gilbert East, bart., Sheriff, of John Roberts as Under Sheriff.
13 - Orders for transfer of a prisoner to the Justitia hulk on the river Thames and another to the General Penitentiary.
14 - Request from Robert Peel (as Home Secretary) for returns of persons committed to prison for contempt.
15 - 'Memoranda on the Appointment of Sheriff'.
16 - Royal warrant for discharge of recognisances (signature of George IV).
17 - Letters to John Roberts from Thomas Duffield, when Sheriff, on a Christmas gift to the prisoners, and on the expenses of his Shrievalty and the assistance of the Under Sheriff.
18 - Letter from the gaoler on a customaryu allowance for hats.
19 - Letter of appointment of John Roberts as a deputy to the Sheriff of Wiltshire.
20 - Signatures of commissioners taking the oaths of allegiance and supremacy.
21 - Warrant empowering deputy lieutenants to act during the vacancy in the Office of Lord Lieutenant (following the death of the Earl of Abingdon).
22 - Blank commission in the Rifle of Volenteers, Berkshire, from the Earl of Abingdon.
23 - Rules of Wokingham Savings Bank.

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