Comprises the following series:
QS7/1/ ENROLMENT BOOK 1772-1889
QS7/2/ MEMORIALS OF ANNUITIES OR RENTCHARGES 1780-1870
By an Act of 1763 (3 Geo.III, cap.24) 'to prevent fraudulent and occasional votes in the elections of Knights of the Shire and Members for Cities and Towns which are counties of themselves as far as relates to the right of voting by virtue of an annuity or rent charge', memorials of grants of annuities were to be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace and entered in a register (for which see QS7/1/1 above). The object was to prevent fraudulent votes in elections as an annuity of £2 or over entitled the grantee to a vote.
QS7/3/ CONVEYANCES BY TURNPIKE TRUSTEES 1758-1815
QS7/4/ AGREEMENTS FOR ENCLOSURE OF COMMONS FOR PRESERVATION OF TIMBER 1764-1818
Enrolled copies of agreements between lords and tenants for the enclosure of parts of commons for the preservation of timber under 29 Geo.II cap 36 (1756) and 31 Geo.II cap 41 (1757), listing names of tenants in agreement with enclosure. All are enrolled copies of the agreements on parchment, unless otherwise stated.
QS7/5/ CERTIFICATES OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND REVENUE 1861-1941
Commissioners of taxes, under 5&6 Vic., cap.85 (1842) were exempt from parish offices and jury service. Certificates to this effect were to be enrolled by the Clerk of the Peace. This exemption was continued in subsequent acts.
QS7/6/ ENROLLMENTS UNDER LOCAL ACTS 1756-1844
QS7/7/ APPOINTMENTS AND OATHS ON TAKING OFFICE OF SHERIFFS, UNDER-SHERIFFS AND RETURNING OFFICERS 1823-1971
An Act of 3-4 Will.IV, cap.99 (1833) required that duplicate warrants of appointment of the sheriff by the Privy Council and appointments of under-sheriffs by the sheriff should be sent to the Clerk of the Peace for enrollment and filing.
QS7/7/ APPOINTMENTS OF SHERIFFS AND UNDER-SHERIFFS 1823-1971
QS7/7/ QUIETUS 1653-1817
Although added to the Quarter Sessions records (and originally listed as QS1/4/1-2) it is unlikely that these quietus, passed to Surrey Record Office by Mr F Landon (Ac30) and Messrs Warren (Ac50), per the British Records Association, were ever actually part of the records of Quarter Sessions. They have been included in QS7/7/- because of their shrieval associations.