Catalogue description Sessions held at Bodmin

QS/1/6/150/2

Justices: Sir William Molesworth, Sir Francis Basset; Henry Hawkins Tremayne, John Molesworth, clerks; Francis Gregor, Francis Glanville, John Thomas, esqs; Edmund Gilbert, William, Sandys, clerks; and others.

Jury: John Bond, Samuel Billing, John Higgs, Nicholas Male, Richard Watts, John Pierce, Nicholas Cole, John Cole, William Hodge, Joseph Gard, Richard Hennah, Thomas Best, Edward Blackmore, Peter Hugo, Walter Hicks.

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

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

QS/1/6/151/2

Recognizance:

John Gundry of Wendron, yeoman, £100, for him to appear at next sessions.

Continued 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), Jane (2|) and William (3 weeks), from St Agnes to Perranzabuloe: order confirmed; Perranzabuloe to pay St Agnes costs.

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Appeal of Mawgan in Meneage against order of 13 June 1792 for the removal of Avis Webb, widow of John Webb, from Breage to Mawgan in Meneage: continued to next sessions.

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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.

Appeal of Madron against order of 26 July 1792 for the removal of Benjamin Forster, a base child, from Helston to Madron: continued to next sessions.

Surveyor of Bridges (east) to put into good repair 300 feet of the road at the eastern end of Dunsmere Bridge.

QS/1/6/153/2

Mary Dennis; in custody for having sworn that she was pregnant of a bastard when she was not: hard labour for one month.

Thomas Moyle; in custody for having behaved disorderly in Wendron, and having threatened the life of Joan Dowah: hard labour to next sessions.

Mary Moyle and Susanna Grey; in custody for being lewd and disorderly women: discharged.

John Wood; in custody for wandering and begging in Egloshayle: discharged.

Thomas Harries; in custody for being an idle and disorderly person in the workhouse of St Austell: discharged.

Recognizance of William Farnham, late of Paul Fisherman: estreat and recognizance discharged.

Christian Rook; in custody as an idle and disorderly person in the workhouse of St Austell: discharged.

John Olver; in custody for wandering and begging in Linkinhorne: discharged.

Recognizance of William Tonkin, jun.: discharged.

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William Bonetta; in custody for having run away and left his family chargeable to Ladock: hard labour to next sessions.

William Biznee, Sarah Johns and Maria Johns; in custody for wandering and begging and behaving in a riotous manner in St Austell: discharged.

John Boas; in custody for wandering and begging in Falmouth: discharged.

Mary Gill; in custody as a loose, idle and disorderly woman: discharged.

Mary Williams; in custody for want of sureties for her good behaviour, she having had three bastard children chargeable to Breage: continued in custody to next sessions.

Richard Goodman; in custody for want of sureties re bastardy: discharged.

Richard Visack; in custody for assault: discharged.

QS/1/6/155/2

Recognizance of Charles Penna: discharged.

Nicholas Tremewan of Buryan, yeoman; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d.

Recognizances:

Cornelius Philp of St Mabyn, gent., £40, and John Hambly of the same, mason, £20, for Cornelius Philp to appear at next sessions.

Thomas Wale of Bodmin, £40, and John Evans of Lewannick, yeoman, £20, for Thomas Wale to appear at next sessions.

Richard Godby of St Merryn, £40, John Trevethan of the same, and Philip Godby of Probus, £20 each, for Richard Godby to appear at next sessions.

William Godby of Mevagissey, shipwright, £40, John Trevethan of the same, and Philip Godby of Probus, £20 each, for William Godby to appear at next sessions.

William Meager of Breage, tinner, £40, Richard Meager and Richard Meager, both of Breage, tinners, £20 each, for William Meager to appear at next sessions.

James Meager of Breage, tinner, £40, Richard Meager and Richard Meager, tinners, £20 each, for James Meager to appear at next sessions.

Presentment of roads in Budock: discharged.

QS/1/6/156/2

John Jeffery of Bodmin, miller; indicted for a nuisance and misdemeanour: acquitted.

Richard Kessell of Bodmin; pleaded guilty to assault and misdemeanour: fined 1d.

Samuel Barley, late of St Mewan, labourer; convicted of taking one feather bed tye, one woollen blanket and other articles, the property of Andrew Hooper of St Enoder, value 10d.: S. B. to be transported for 7 years.

Zacheus Goldsworthy, late of Gwennap, tinner; in custody for having run away and left his family chargeable to Gwennap: adjudged an incorrigible rogue; hard labour for 6 calendar months.

William Ough, late of Bodmin, labourer; convicted of taking one pair of blue and white cotton stockings and one velvet waistcoat, the property of Moses Hewett, value 10d.: hard labour for 12 calendar months.

One jail rate to be levied and paid to the Treasurer.

QS/1/6/157/2

John Gullen, late of Falmouth, mariner, convicted of taking one silver watch and four pieces of gold guineas, and other articles, the property of David Allen, value 10d.: hard labour for 6 months.

Recognizances: William Tom of Bodmin, yeoman, to appear and answer, £20; and Charles Dymond of Bodmin, tailor, £10, for Thomas Wale to appear at next sessions.

Sir William Molesworth; John Molesworth and Edmund Gilbert, clerks, appointed visiting inspectors of the jail at Bodmin.

Abraham Tredua and his surety: recognizances discharged for want of prosecution.

James Gay: recognizance continued to next sessions.

Benjamin Pascoe, who was to be confined to custody for 6 months and then whipped, is now ill and has behaved well: punishment remitted because of his good behaviour.

QS/1/6/158/2

Bill of £10 13s. 6d. from John Mules, gaoler at Launceston, for attempting to take Nathaniel Lawrence, who broke out of the gaol: referred to next sessions.