Catalogue description Sessions held at Lostwithiel

This record is held by Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)

Details of QS/1/6/159/1-167/1
Reference: QS/1/6/159/1-167/1
Title: Sessions held at Lostwithiel
Description:

QS/1/6/159/1

 

Justices: Francis Rodd, Thomas Graham, esqs; John Coles, Thomas Penwarne, Benjamin Forster, clerks; John Rogers, esq.; John Molesworth, clerk; and others.

 

Jury: William Searle, Joseph Warne, Robert Mullis, Edward Moon, William Colliver, Roger Bate, Joseph Harry, John Brown, Thomas Reed, Francis Brown, John Bassett, John Thomas, Thomas Hicks, James Wilton, Thomas Sargent.

 

Presentment of roads in Minster, St Teath, Gwennap and Falmouth continued to next sessions.

 

Three gaol and marshalsea rates to be levied and paid to Samuel Hext, gent., vice-treasurer.

 

QS/1/6/160/1

 

Recognizances of Richard Kessill of Bodmin, labourer, £40, Francis Burn of Bodmin, innkeeper, and John Pope of Bodmin, mason, £20 each, for Richard Kessill to appear at next sessions.

 

Continued appeal of St Issey against order of 9 Apr. 1790 for the removal of Matthew Jeals, wife Elizabeth, and children Ann (3) and Elizabeth (14 mo.), from Camborne to St Issey: continued to next sessions.

 

Edmund Cock of Bodmin, carpenter; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d.

 

John Jeffery of Antony, yeoman; pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour: fined 6d.

 

QS/1/6/161/1

 

Appeal of Morval against order of 10 Dec. 1790 for the removal of John May, wife Elizabeth, and daughter Ann (3), from Duloe to Morval: order reversed; Duloe to pay Morval costs.

 

Recognizances of James Bowden and his sureties: discharged.

 

QS/1/6/162/1

 

Application by Bodmin re female bastard born at Bodmin 29 Dec. 1790; mother Careless, otherwise Carey Hooper, father Samuel Flamank of Bodmin: S. F. to pay 1s. 6d., and C. H. 6d. weekly.

 

Recognizances of Jacob Coren of Madron and David Kerkeys, his surety: continued to next sessions.

 

QS/1/6/163/1

 

Richard Cann of Stratton; in custody as an incorrigible rogue: discharged.

 

Mary Jane Penaluna; in custody for want of sureties re breach of peace: continued for want of sureties to next session.

 

Treasurer to pay the Clerk of the Peace 20s. for carrying the statutes and other books from one sessions to another; also £11 for levy warrants at 5s. each, and 6s. 8d. for examinations of Elizabeth Cannon, William Farley, Mary Pascoe, John Pascoe, Elizabeth Sandercock, Joseph Sandercock and Ann Langman; also 10 guineas salary for keeping accounts.

 

QS/1/6/164/1

 

Benjamin Jones; in custody for having been found wandering and begging in Ludgvan: continued to next sessions; to be publicly whipped on his return to gaol, and again whipped on discharge.

 

William Triggs; in custody for refusing to obey a bastardy maintenance order chargeable to Gulval: discharged.

 

Robert Lugg of St Keverne, yeoman; pleaded guilty to assault on Elizabeth Rescorla: fined 6d.

 

Nehemiah Henwood and William Every of Liskeard, yeomen; acquitted of assault on Samuel Govett.

 

John Russell of Sithney, labourer; acquitted of a misdemeanour.

 

Recognizances of John Tonkin of St Agnes, tinner, £40, and Jno Prout and George Tonkin of the same, £20 each, for John Tonkin to appear at next sessions.

 

QS/1/6/165/1

 

Appeal of St Thomas by Launceston against order of 3 Jan. 1791 for the removal of Mary Givan from Launceston St Mary Magdalene to St Thomas: lodged and continued to next sessions.

 

Margaret Crowle, wife of Richard Crowle; convicted of taking 14 lbs of mutton, the property of Henry Rowl, value 6d.: confined to custody for 1 week.

 

Elizabeth Richards; convicted of taking one red and white handkerchief, the property of Jane Freeman, value 1d.: confined to custody for one week.

 

John Knight, Thomas Delbridge and Thomas Martin, all of St Agnes, tinners; acquitted of taking 3 cwt of tin ore, the property of John Tredinnick and others.

 

QS/1/6/166/1

 

Ann Rodda, late of St Erme, single woman; convicted of taking one Dowlas [coarse linen] shift, the property of Edward Jory, value 4d.: 3 months' hard labour.

 

Mary Davy, late of St Issey; acquitted of taking one pair of shoes, the property of Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Lowry; indictment quashed for insufficiency.

 

William Richards, late of St Hilary, labourer; acquitted of taking one deal board, the property of Christopher Hawkins, esq., value 6d.

 

Mary Ann Hugo, late of Kenwyn, single woman; convicted of taking one Dowlas shift, the property of Mary Hambly, value 4d.: to be transported to New South Wales or an adjacent island for 7 years.

 

Mary Davey, late of St Issey; convicted of taking one pair of leather shoes, the property of Thomas Lowry, value 2d.: 3 months' hard labour.

 

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John Roberts of Bodmin, labourer; convicted of taking 8 galls of wheat, the property of Daniell Wills, value 6d.: confined to custody until Saturday, 22 Jan., and then publicly whipped and discharged.

 

Recognizances of Charles Young, esq., of Bristol, Devon [Devon and Somerset previously struck out]: estreated for want of appearance to prosecute James Heale, late of Stratton, re a felony, and the recognizance of William Wilton, a witness, discharged.

 

One gaol rate to be levied and paid to Samuel Hext, gent., vice-treasurer.

 

A building, the property of Samuel Croxall in the moor in Flushing in Mylor, occupied by Mr Wm. Moore of Falmouth, is intended to be used as a place of worship for protestant dissenters: to be registered.

Date: 13 January 1791
Held by: Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office), not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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