Catalogue description Sessions held at Truro

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Justices: Edward Collins, John Rogers, esqs: John Basset, clerk; Sir Michael Nowell; Thomas Trewren, esq.; and others.

Jury: Francis Thomas, Robert Hawkey, Andrew Buckingham, Richard Carveth, Nicholas Carveth, William Eddy, John Giddy, Andrew Hosking, John Adams, John Bellhouse, Edward Lawrence, John Lyne, Thomas Rowe, Richard Oke Millet, gents.

Recognizance of Richard Couche of Liskeard, gent., £40, for him to appear at next sessions.

QS/1/6/121/2

Appeal of St Breock against order of 17 Nov. 1791 for the removal of Peggy Vandersluys, widow of Lambertus Vandersluys, and children Lambertus (7¼), William (6), Henrietta Maria (4) and George (2), from Lostwithiel to St Breock: continued to next sessions.

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

Continued appeal of Breage against order of 19 Feb. 1792 for the removal of Charlotte Sullivan, widow, from Penzance to Breage: continued to next sessions.

QS/1/6/122/2

Appeal of Minster against order of 13 Jan. 1792 for the removal of John Lobb and wife Elizabeth from Endellion to Minster: order reversed; Endellion to pay Minster costs.

Presentment of roads in St Teath, Budock, St Agnes, Perranarworthal, Gluvias, Gwennap and Mawgan-in-Meneage: continued to next sessions.

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Appeal of St Neot against order of 4 Feb. 1792 for the removal of John Grigg, wife Catherine, and son John (8), from Bradock to St Neot: order reversed; Bradock to pay St Neot costs.

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Appeal of St Hilary against order of 3 Feb. 1792 for the removal of Peter Hendra, alias Hendy (27), wife Mary (37) and children Thomas (2) and Mary (4), from Penryn to St Hilary: order reversed; Penryn to pay St Hilary costs.

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Continued appeal of Gwinear against order of 15 Jan. 1792 for the removal of Lovedy, wife of William Pearce, mariner, and children Jane (11), Loveday (9), Hannah (5) and William White (2), from Mylor to Gwinear: dismissed by consent of both sides.

Appeal of James Richards, gent., against a rate made by Breage for 1791/2: rate quashed; Breage to pay appellant £1 6s. 8d. costs.

Sir William Lemon and Francis Gregor, esq., to be appointed Treasurers of the County for the following year.

QS/1/6/126/2

Account of Samuel Hext, gent., Vice-Treasurer, produced: £113 9s. 11d. to be paid to him.

Account of Trehane Symons, gent., Surveyor of Bridges (east), produced: £30 19s. 5½d. to be paid to the County.

Account of John Truscott, gent., Surveyor of bridges (west) produced: £58 9s. 2½d. to be paid to the County.

Henry Rogers; in custody for want of sureties re bastardy: discharged, as no order of filiation served.

Joseph Tregonning; in custody for want of sureties re bastardy: continued in custody to next sessions.

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Mary Gill; in custody as a loose, idle and disorderly person: hard labour to next sessions.

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Mary Williams; in custody for want of sureties for her good behaviour: continued in custody to next sessions.

John Ellery; in custody for want of sureties re bastardy: continued in custody to next sessions, as the woman has not yet given birth.

John Carr; in custody for want of sureties re bastardy: continued in custody to next sessions, as the woman has not yet given birth.

James Crocker; in custody for want of sureties re bastardy: discharged, having given security to Probus.

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Charles Webber; in custody for wandering and begging in Endellion: discharged.

Mary Hambly; in custody for being a lewd and disorderly woman: discharged.

Mary Pearce; in custody for wandering abroad in St Winnow: discharged.

George Pinch; in custody for having left his family chargeable to Roche: discharged.

Cornelius Delany, Anna Delany, William Smith and Thomas Norway; in custody for wandering and begging in St Columb Major: hard labour for one month.

Archibald Brown and Sarah Foley; in custody for wandering and begging in St Columb Major: hard labour for one month.

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Nicholas Cudlip took the oath as a Protestant dissenting preacher.

Recognizance of James Collins of Morval, yeoman, £50, to appear at next sessions.

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Application by Probus for relief re male bastard born Probus 5 Mar. 1792; mother Ann Clemoe, single woman, father James Crocker of Ladock, carpenter: J. C. to pay 14d. and A. C. 7d. weekly; J. C. to pay £2 13s. towards lying-in costs.

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Recognizance of James Crocker of Ladock, carpenter, £40, and William Crocker of the same, carpenter, £40, for James Crocker to perform the bastardy order.

John Hodge; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify Liskeard re bastardy: discharged.

Thomas Yendall, late of Ruan Minor, labourer; convicted of stealing 2 lbs or iron, value 1d., the property of George Pollard: confined to custody for one month.

Joseph Waters and John Moyle, late of Kenwyn, yeomen; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d. each.

William Williams; convicted for taking one pair of shoes, the property of John Trengove, value 1d.: continued in custody for one month, and then taken to Poldice mine to be publicly whipped until his body is bloody.

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John Husband, otherwise John Trelawny; convicted for taking 2 sheaves of oats, the property of James Merrifield, value 2d.: 3 calendar months' hard labour.

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John Wills of Sithney, labourer; acquitted of taking 50 lbs of tin stuff, the property of Thomas Carlyon, clerk, and others.

William Mutton, late of St Clether, labourer; convicted for taking one Poldavy [coarse hempen cloth] winnowing sheet, the property of William Ham, value 2d.: continued in custody for 6 months and then publicly whipped at Bodmin.

Recognizances of James Thomas and Daniel Roberts discharged.

Benjamin Pascoe of Camborne, labourer; convicted for taking one blue cloth coat, one cloth waistcoat and one pair of velvet breeches, value 2d., the property of Philip Rowe: hard labour for 6 months, and then publicly whipped at Bodmin.

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Appeal of Nicholas Donnithorne, esq., occupier of lands and rateable tenements in St Agnes, against rate made on 20 Feb. 1792 by St Agnes: 5 gentlemen farmers (Mr Alexander Paul and Mr Mathew Roberts for the appellant, and Mr John Stephens of Lower St Columb, and Mr William Hodge of Calestock, Perranzabuloe for the respondent, together with Mr Charles Parkin, nominated by the Court) to examine the estates and houses in St Agnes and report to next sessions; and that Mr Mathew Sylvester and Mr John Tregellas sen. be the shewers of the estates. Also, that 3 gentlemen conversant in tin business (Mr Thomas Reville for the appellant, Mr Thomas Mitchell for the respondent, and Capt. John Messer, recommended by the Court) be appointed to inspect the tin dues for St Agnes for the last 3 years, and report to next sessions: appeal continued to next sessions.

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Charles Richards the younger, of St Ives, a Protestant dissenter and owner of a building in Street an Garrow, lately erected: certified and recorded as a building for religious worship for Protestant dissenters.

Surveyor of Bridges Western Division to erect low parapet walls to the entrance to Godolphin Bridge.

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

Mary Laity and Ann Laity, both of Sithney, spinsters; indicted for taking one Dowlas shift, value 6d., the property of William Rowe: Ann Laity acquitted; Mary Laity found guilty: 2 months' hard labour.

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Appeal of Perranzabuloe against order of 12 Apr. 1792 for the removal of Sarah Curtis, widow of Thomas Curtis, and children James (6), Thomas (4), William (3 weeks) and Jane (2), from St Agnes to Perranzabuloe: continued to next sessions.

Henry Pearse and William Dunstan, late of Gwennap, labourers; indicted for taking 5 lbs of iron, the property of Henry Lord Arundell and others, adventurers of the United Mines, value 2d.: Henry Pearse acquitted; William Dunstan found guilty: hard labour for 12 months, and, on the Saturday following his discharge, taken to the United Mines at Gwennap and publicly whipped.

George Trewren of Ludgvan, victualler; found guilty of assault on Henry Phillips: fined 1d.