Catalogue description Sessions held at Truro

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

Details of QS/1/6/168/1-182/1
Reference: QS/1/6/168/1-182/1
Title: Sessions held at Truro
Description:

QS/1/6/168/1

 

Justices: Christopher Hawkins, esq.; Sir John St Aubyn; John Thomas, Thomas Graham, Sir Michael Nowell; Thomas Trewren, esq.; John Molesworth, John Basset, clerks; Edward Collins, esq.; Sampson Sandys, Edmund Gilbert, clerks; and others.

 

Jury: Samuel Croxall, William Bosusto, Nicholas Trevena, Francis Hutchins Jacka, George Davis, William Hendy, Francis Hall, Peter Perry, John Rundle, Thomas Roskruge, Tobias Roberts, Martin Harvey, Henry Phillips, William Bosusto, Paul Quicke, Arthur Bawden, Charles Hocken, Henry Bawden, gents.

 

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

 

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

 

QS/1/6/169/1

 

Continued appeal of St Thomas by Launceston against order of 3 Jan 1791 for the removal of Mary Givan, pauper, from Launceston St Mary M. to St Thomas: order reversed; Launceston St Mary M. to pay St Thomas costs.

 

Recognizances:

 

Richard Corfill of Penryn, £40, and Simon Edsall of Truro, £20, for Richard Corfill to appear at next sessions.

 

Thomas Bryce of Penryn, £40, and Simon Edsall of Truro, £20, for Thomas Bryce to appear at next sessions.

 

QS/1/6/170/1

 

Appeal of Walkhampton, Devon, against order of 8 Jan. 1791 for the removal of Mary Bone from Calstock to Walkhampton: order confirmed; Walkhampton to pay Calstock costs.

 

Appeal of Cubert against order of 20 Jan. 1791 for the removal of Ann Bodilly, widow, and children William (5) and Thomas (2) from Padstow to Cubert: lodged and continued to next sessions.

 

QS/1/6/171/1

 

Appeal of North Petherwin, Devon, against order of 9 Apr. 1791 for the removal of Catharine Oaf from Egloskerry to North Petherwin: order reversed; Egloskerry to pay North Petherwin costs.

 

Appeal of Breage against order of 19 Feb. 1791 for the removal of Charlotte Sullivan, widow, from Penzance to Breage: lodged and continued to next sessions.

 

QS/1/6/172/1

 

Appeal of Nicholas Donnithorne, esq., occupier of properties in St Agnes, against a rate made on 15 Feb. 1791 by St Agnes: continued to next sessions.

 

Recognizances of Walter Tremenheere re bastardy: continued to next sessions, the woman not yet having given birth.

 

QS/1/6/173/1

 

Appeal of Gwinear against order of 15 Jan. 1791 for the removal of Loveday, wife of William Pearse, mariner, and children Jane (11), Loveday (9), Hannah (5) and William White (2) from Mylor to Gwinear: lodged and continued to next sessions.

 

One bridge rate to be levied and paid to Trehane Symons, gent., Surveyor of Bridges for Eastern Division.

 

Sir William Lemon and Francis Gregor, esqs, appointed treasurers for the ensuing year.

 

Bridges called Bizow, Trevemper, Frethern and Tregudick to be put into good repair, with roads adjoining, by Surveyor of Bridges (west).

 

QS/1/6/174/1

 

Additional Buildings to the Sheriff's Ward at Bodmin completed by Joseph Beard, architect; Andrew Stephens or Wood of Truro, architects, to asses whether the work is satisfactory.

 

QS/1/6/174/1, 175/1

 

Application by Mabe re male bastard born on 25 March 1791; mother Mary Rowe, single woman, of Mabe, father Nicholas Vincent of Mabe: N. V. to pay 16d. and M. R. 8d. weekly.

 

QS/1/6/175/1

 

Inquisition re the value of reversion in fee of several houses, the property of Lord Falmouth and Sir Jno. St Aubyn, in Truro, dated 6 May 1791: to be registered.

 

John Russell, late of Wendron; pleaded guilty of assault: fined 6d.

 

Recognizance of Mary Congdon, in custody for refusing to name the father of her bastard child: continued to next sessions.

 

QS/1/6/176/1

 

Nicholas Williams; in custody for running away and leaving his family chargeable to Crowan: discharged.

 

Edward Stephens; in custody for wandering and begging in St Columb Major: discharged.

 

Benjamin Jones; in custody for wandering and begging in Ludgvan: discharged.

 

Charles Webber; in custody for a like charge: discharged on condition he enters the Royal Navy.

 

Thomas Bray; in custody for wandering and begging in St Breock: to be passed to his legal place of settlement.

 

Rose Harris; in custody for having seduced several apprentices from their masters in Liskeard: 6 months' hard labour.

 

John England; in custody for wandering and begging in St Columb Major: discharged.

 

Thomas Hoskin; in custody for refusing to be examined re his place of settlement: discharged after examination.

 

John Pascoe, Mary Pascoe, and children John and Mary; in custody for wandering and begging in St Columb Major: to be examined and passed to their legal place of settlement.

 

QS/1/6/177/1

 

George Williams; in custody for wandering and begging in St Columb Major: discharged on condition he enlists in the Royal Navy.

 

William Tresize Nicholas; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify Helston re bastardy: discharged.

 

Recognizances:

 

Charles Gliddon of Little Petherick, yeoman, £40, and Edward Hawken of the same, £20, for Charles Gliddon to appear at next sessions.

 

Edward Hawken of Little Petherick, £40, and Charles Gliddon, £20,. for Edward Hawken to appear at next sessions.

 

Charles Gliddon of Little Petherick, £40, and Edward Hawken, £40, for Charles Hawken, jun., of the same parish, to appear at next sessions.

 

Charles Gliddon of Little Petherick, £40, and Edward Hawken, £40, for William Knight, labourer of Little Petherick to appear at next sessions.

 

Humphry Bellamy; pleaded guilty to assault on John Burden: fined 6d.

 

George Cock; in custody for running away and leaving his family chargeable to Lanteglos by Camelford: continued in custody unless he enters himself in His Majesty's Marine Corps.

 

QS/1/6/178/1

 

James Richards; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify St Just in Penwith re bastardy: continued for want of sureties, to next sessions.

 

Recognizances of Thomas Olliver of St Just in Penwith, tinner, £40, and James Olliver of the same, tinner, £20, for Thomas Olliver to appear at next sessions.

 

Nicholas Vincent; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify Mabe re bastardy: continued to next sessions.

 

Ann Palmer; in custody for obtaining money from John Mathew for reading his fortune: 6 months' hard labour.

 

Mary Jane Penaluna; in custody for want of sureties in a breach of the peace on Jane Borlase: discharged.

 

Mary Brooking; in custody for want of sureties in a breach of the peace on Elizabeth Williams: discharged.

 

Sarah Brooking and Elizabeth Brooking; in custody for want of sureties in a breach of the peace on Robert Crabb: discharged.

 

John Row; convicted for taking 3 pieces of Dowlas [coarse linen], the property of Peter Henwood, value 1d.: 2 months' hard labour.

 

QS/1/6/179/1

 

Francis Hodge, late of St Austell, tinner; convicted of taking one Dowlas [coarse linen] shirt, the property of Thomas Bunt, value 2d.: continued in custody for 3 months.

 

Laurence May, late of Truro; convicted of taking certain bars of tin, the property of Mary Fox and others: confined to custody for one day.

 

Jonathan Lawer of Newlyn East, labourer; convicted for taking one iron shovel, the property of William Demble, value 1d.: continued in custody for one week.

 

John Mayne, late of Camborne, tinner; convicted for taking one pair of boys' leather shoes, the property of James Merrifield, value 1d.: continued in custody for one month.

 

James Mein of St Agnes, tinner; convicted for taking 8 lbs of iron, the property of William Harpur and others, value 2d.: hard labour for two months.

 

QS/1/6/180/1

 

Thomas May, late of St Austell, labourer; convicted for taking one bullock's heart, the property of Samuel Williams, value 1d.: continued in custody for one week.

 

Alexander Lathlean, late of Crowan, labourer; convicted for taking a quantity of hay, the property of John Burall, value 1d.: hard labour for one month.

 

Richard Kessell, late of Bodmin; indicted for assault on Robert Hoblyn of the same: discharged after pleading guilty, and fined 6d.

 

Roger Couch; in custody for stealing a silk handkerchief and a pair of pumps, the property of William Williams: discharged for want of prosecution.

 

Richard Tolly; convicted for taking two pieces of timber and one fighting cock, the property of William Coumbe, value 3d.: two months' hard labour.

 

QS/1/6/181/1

 

John Tonkin of St Agnes, yeoman; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d.

 

William Mineer; committed for a felony: continued in custody to nest sessions; W. M. is ill and unable to attend this sessions: recognizances of prosecutor and witnesses continued to next sessions.

 

Joshua Le Sueur and Peter Gwellec, late of Jersey, mariners; acquitted of taking two oars, the property of William Ford and George Miller, for want of prosecution: recognizances discharged.

 

James Henna, apprentice; committed for having absented himself from the service of his master, James Melhuish: discharged and indenture cancelled.

 

QS/1/6/181/1, 182/1

 

Continued appeal of St Issey against order of 9 April 1790 for the removal of Matthew Yeats, wife Elizabeth, and daughters Ann (3) and Elizabeth (14 mo.), from Camborne to St Issey; evidence given by Matthew and brother Anthony that their father Anthony was born in Crowan, but had said that his last place of settlement was St Issey: order confirmed.

Date: 5 May 1791
Held by: Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office), not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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