Catalogue description Sessions held at Lostwithiel

QS/1/6/183/1

Justices: Henry Hawkins Tremayne, John Molesworth, Benjamin Forster, John Coles, clerks; and others.

Jury: Richard Hopkins, John Cossentine, Richard Coad, Abraham Austin, William Hambly, Henry Bate, Benjamin Davey, Edward Burn, John Deeble, Petherick Bunt, William Bawden, John Roskelly, Daniel Cock, George Body.

John Brindle of Lanherne, Roman Catholic Priest, William Couche of Callington, yarn jobber, Richard Couche of Liskeard, yeoman, Henry Beeston of Lanherne, gent., Frances Nicholls of Mawgan, spinster, and John Nicholls of St Columb, inn-holder, took oaths as Roman Catholics, as required by law.

QS/1/6/184/1

Continued 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: continued to next sessions.

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

Thomas Fossett, Joseph Pasta, Lazarus Cashanning, in custody: discharged.

QS/1/6/185/1

Continued appeal of Cubert against order of 20 Jan. 1791 for the removal of Ann Bodilly, widow, and sons William (5) and Thomas (2) from Padstow to Cubert: order confirmed; Cubert to pay Padstow costs.

QS/1/6/185/1, 186/1

Appeal of St Thomas by Launceston against order of 1 May 1791 for the removal of Mary Moise from Liskeard to St Thomas by L.: order reversed; Liskeard to pay St Thomas costs.

QS/1/6/186/1, 187/1

Appeal of Camborne against order of 28 April 1791 for the removal of Elizabeth Davies, widow, and sons John (4) and unnamed infant (8 weeks), from St Erth to Camborne: order reversed; St Erth to pay Camborne costs.

QS/1/6/187/1

Presentment of roads in Gwennap: discharged as in good repair.

William Barratt; in custody for running away and leaving his family chargeable to Gwennap: continued in custody to next sessions.

QS/1/6/188/1

Richard Burton, in custody for wandering and begging in St Wenn: discharged.

Ruth Carter and child; in custody for wandering and begging in St Wenn (where she recently gave birth): discharged.

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

Mary Congdon; in custody for refusing to name the father of her child chargeable to St Pinnock: discharged. [Entry crossed out.]

William Barrons; in custody for want of sureties in breach of peace on wife Florence: discharged.

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

Presentment of roads in St Teath, Falmouth, Egloshayle, St Agnes, Budock, St Gluvias and Perranarworthal: continued to next sessions.

QS/1/6/189/1

Four gaol rates to be raised and paid to Samuel Hext, Vice-Treasurer.

James Richards; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify St Just in Penwith re bastardy: continued in custody to next sessions, the woman not yet having given birth.

QS/1/6/198/1, 199/1

Appeal of St Thomas by Launceston against order of 30 May 1791 for the removal of Mary, wife of Adam Givan, from Launceston St Mary Magdalene to St Thomas by L.: order confirmed; St Thomas by L. to pay Launceston St Mary M. costs.

QS/1/6/190/1

Thomas Oliver of St Just in Penwith; indicted for assault; pleaded guilty: fined 6d.

William Meneer; in custody for taking a silver watch and sundry other articles, the property of Edward Minear; pleaded guilty: confined to custody for one day.

Joan Cheigwin; in custody for refusing to name the father of her child likely to be chargeable to Sancreed: discharged.

Samuel Mutton; in custody for having eloped from his master, Henry Elson of St Gennys: discharged.

QS/1/6/191/1

James Pooley; in custody for stealing a carpenter's plane, the property of Richard Hosking: discharged, as bill against him returned ignoramus.

Inquisition re the value of a messuage or tenement, lately occupied by Henry Mudge, part of Middle Row, Truro, being the lands of inheritance of George Hunt, dated 9 June 1791: registered.

John Williams, late of Penryn, wool-comber; convicted for taking twenty fleeces of wool, the property of William Dawney, value 6d.: confined to custody for 3 months.

Matthew George, late of Redruth; convicted for stealing a pair of breeches, the property of Walter Phillips, value 2d.: confined to custody until 23 July, and then to be taken to the Consolidated Mines at Gwennap and there stripped from the middle upwards and whipped publicly until his body is bloody.

QS/1/6/192/1

Thomas Smith of Morval, labourer; convicted for taking sundry carpenter's tools, the property of John May, value 2d.: two months' hard labour.

Indenture of apprentice of James Pooley of 8 Jan. 1785, when Gwithian bound him to Thomas Hosking of the same until he reached 21: cancelled and discharged.

Presentment of roads in Minster: discharged.

One bridge rate to be raised and paid to Trehane Symons, gent., Surveyor of Bridges (east).

QS/1/6/193/1

Recognizances of Bennett Mitchell of Bodmin, innkeeper, £40, James Chapple of Bodmin, £20, and James Every of Bodmin £20, for Bennett Mitchell to appear at next sessions.

Richard Crofield of Penryn and Thomas Brice of Penryn, officers of Excise; found guilty of assault on John Symons: fined 6d. each.

Thomas Giles: pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d.

Recognizances of Walter Tremenheere, gent., re bastardy: discharged.

Charles Gliddon, William Knight, Edward Hawken and Charles Hawken, late of Little Petherick; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d. each.

QS/1/6/194/1

Sessions adjourned and moved to St Columb Major on 28 July 1791.

Justices: John Oliver Willyams, Thomas Vyvyan, jun., esqs; and others.

Oath taken as Roman Catholics, as required by law, by:

Mary Merifield, widow of St Columb Major

Frances Basley, married woman, of the same

Elizabeth Lallo, spinster, of Mawgan in Pydar

Mary Beny, spinster, of the same

Winifred Minnow, widow, of the same

Mary Jolley, spinster, of the same

Jane Jolley, spinster, of the same

Mary Benny, sen., married woman, of the same

Jane Lala, jun., spinster, of the same

Jane Lala, sen., married woman, of the same

Jane Benney, jun., spinster, of the same

John Catton, yeoman, of the same