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[[England Quarter Session Records|''Quarter Sessions'']] handled summary offences and misdemeanours, but sometimes heard felonies. The ''Assizes'' were supposed to hear only serious criminal cases, but in practice some minor ones are found in their records. The reasons are no doubt complex but some may be related to the convenience of the court, and to the expenses of arrest, detention in gaol, and proceedings. The county paid the bill for the quarter sessions whilst the central government paid for the assizes. In order to reduce the burden on county funds local magistrates might commit as many prisoners to the assize as they thought reasonable.<ref>Christensen, Penelope. "England Overview of Assize Courts (National Institute)," ''The | [[England Quarter Session Records|''Quarter Sessions'']] handled summary offences and misdemeanours, but sometimes heard felonies. The ''Assizes'' were supposed to hear only serious criminal cases, but in practice some minor ones are found in their records. The reasons are no doubt complex but some may be related to the convenience of the court, and to the expenses of arrest, detention in gaol, and proceedings. The county paid the bill for the quarter sessions whilst the central government paid for the assizes. In order to reduce the burden on county funds local magistrates might commit as many prisoners to the assize as they thought reasonable.<ref>Christensen, Penelope. "England Overview of Assize Courts (National Institute)," ''The International Institute of Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Overview_of_Assize_Courts_%28National_Institute%29.</ref> | ||
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'''Indictments at Huntingdon Assizes 20 Mar 1869'''<br>''John Driskell'' 40 hawker for stealing from the person of Mary Sawyer, one purse containing 20s at St. Neots.<br>''William George Savage'' 25 labourer and ''William Brown'' 27 carpenter for having willfully set fire to two stacks of straw and one stack of hay, the property of John Cullip at Ramsay on 12 Sep 1868.<br>''James Row'' 24 for the abduction of Elizabeth Norwood 16 at Huntingdon.<ref>Christensen, Penelope. "England Assize Court Records (National Institute)," ''The | '''Indictments at Huntingdon Assizes 20 Mar 1869'''<br>''John Driskell'' 40 hawker for stealing from the person of Mary Sawyer, one purse containing 20s at St. Neots.<br>''William George Savage'' 25 labourer and ''William Brown'' 27 carpenter for having willfully set fire to two stacks of straw and one stack of hay, the property of John Cullip at Ramsay on 12 Sep 1868.<br>''James Row'' 24 for the abduction of Elizabeth Norwood 16 at Huntingdon.<ref>Christensen, Penelope. "England Assize Court Records (National Institute)," ''The International Institute of Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Assize_Court_Records_%28National_Institute%29.</ref> | ||
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