Catalogue description Sessions held at Lostwithiel

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Details of QS/1/6/458-468
Reference: QS/1/6/458-468
Title: Sessions held at Lostwithiel
Description:

QS/1/6/458

 

Justices: Sir Christopher Hawkins; Weston Helyar, Thomas Graham, John Pierson Foote, esqs; John Molesworth, Charles Lemon, Edmund Gilbert, Thomas Penwarne, clerks; and others

 

Jury: William Flamank, Nicholas Robins, John Morshead, William Clogg, Joseph Grigg, William Drew, Joseph Hawkey, Luke Biddick, John Bennett, William Paynter, Henry Hawkey, William Lanyon, Roger Pascoe, John Pearse, Edward Cock, Robert Gummoe, John Daw, William Williams, John Varcoe, John Crocker, John Hicks, William Smith, Humphrey Hicks, gents.

 

Six gaol and marshalsea rates to be levied and paid to Edward Coode, jun., gent., Vice-Treasurer.

 

Account of Trehane Symons, gent., Surveyor of Bridges (east), produced: £35 10s. 8½d. due to County.

 

QS/1/6/459

 

Presentments of highways in Redruth, Wendron, Crowan, Linkinhorne, Roche, St Ervan, St Columb Major, Lanivet, Mabe and Bodmin: continued to next sessions.

 

Appeal of Warbstow against order of 5 April 1797 for the removal of Grace Stacey, single woman, pauper, from St Gennys to Warbstow: order reversed; St Gennys to pay Warbstow costs.

 

QS/1/6/460

 

Appeal of Poundstock against order of 5 April 1797 for the removal of Ann Heard, single woman, from Marhamchurch to Poundstock: lodged and continued to next sessions.

 

Appeal of Kenwyn against order of 14 June 1797 for the removal of Jenefer Dorrington from Tregony to Kenwyn: lodged and continued to next sessions.

 

QS/1/6/461

 

Robert Day, master, and James Thomas, mariner, both of the sloop Friends of Bideford, swore that they shipped, at Liverpool on 26 May 1797, 200 and 240 bushels of British fishery salt, bound for Fowey for John Mills of Mevagissey; the sloop sprang a leak in stormy weather, and 362 bushels of salt were lost, the loss not being due to leakage of the sloop or any neglect by the crew.

 

Presentment of highways in Little Petherick: discharged.

 

Thomas Pope, jun., late of Kenwyn, butcher; guilty of assault: fined 1d.

 

QS/1/6/461, 462

 

Continued appeal of Nicholas Reynolds, occupier of lands and tenements in St Agnes, against a rate made 2 Feb. 1797 by John Tregellas and Josiah Tregellas, pretending to be churchwardens, and John Tregellas, Matthew Sylvester and Joseph James, pretending to be overseers: appeal to be continued at next sessions.

 

QS/1/6/462

 

Continued appeal of Stephen Spargo against a rate made in Kea: continued to next sessions.

 

Peter Edward Scobell of Bodmin: appointed joint surgeon of Bodmin Gaol, with the present surgeon, Mr William Hambley.

 

QS/1/6/463

 

Honor Humphrys; in custody for disorderly conduct in Truro: discharged.

 

Cordelia Johns; in custody for having lived a riotous and disorderly life in Kenwyn: discharged.

 

Richard Cowle; in custody for having left his family chargeable to Bodmin: discharged.

 

John Bullen; committed to custody for want of sureties re bastardy in Bridgerule: continued to next sessions.

 

John Rawden; in custody for want of sureties re bastardy in Grampound: discharged.

 

Presentments of the Burgesses of Bodmin for not repairing the Assize Hall: continued to next sessions.

 

QS/1/6/464

 

One bridge rate to be levied and paid to William Beard, gent., Surveyor of Bridges (west).

 

Grampound, St Blazey, Resprin and St Austell Bridges and roads belonging thereto to be put into good repair by Surveyor of Bridges (west).

 

Clapper Bridge, Hicks's Mill Bridge and Sowden's Bridge and roads belonging thereto, to be put into good repair by Surveyor of Bridges (east).

 

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

 

QS/1/6/465

 

Gaol keeper to present account of charges for maintenance of those committed to custody by Justices of Boroughs and Towns not contributing to County rates.

 

Recognizances:

 

Philip Rogers of Gulval, yeoman, for appearance of wife Catherine, and Elizabeth wife of Samuel Hall, for assault: estreated.

 

Peter Floyd of Gulval, tinner, and Henry Cock of Madron, tinner, for appearance of Elizabeth, wife of Peter Floyd, Blanch Cock, spinster, and Elizabeth Cock, spinster, re assault: discharged.

 

James Donnell of Redruth, cordwainer, and William Donnell of Redruth, for appearance of James Donnell and estreats: discharged.

 

Gaolers and bridge wardens to verify accounts on oath.

 

James Tabb; in custody for stealing a felt hat: discharged.

 

QS/1/6/466

 

Recognizances:

 

John Bunt, jun., to attend these sessions: estreated.

 

William Henwood of Tregony, for assault, and his sureties: discharged.

 

Elizabeth, wife of Henry Taylor, late of St Breock, labourer; convicted for taking a felt hat, value 6d., the property of John Tremayne: one month's hard labour.

 

Elizabeth, wife of William Leach, late of Kea, labourer; convicted for taking a velvet waistcoat, the property of James Hodge: one month's hard labour.

 

Hannah Webber, late of Liskeard, spinster; in custody for felony: discharged.

 

QS/1/6/467

 

Recognizances:

 

William Seccombe of Bodmin, labourer, £20; and George Ley of Bodmin, feltmaker, £10, that Bridget, wife of William Seccombe, attend next sessions.

 

Richard James of Redruth, innkeeper, for assault and his sureties: discharged.

 

William Boundy, in custody for want of sureties re breach of the peace against his wife: discharged.

 

Rebecca Trenerry, late of Perranarworthal, spinster; acquitted of taking 2 silk gowns, the property of an unknown person: discharged.

 

Martin Goldsworthy; in custody for assaulting Hugh Phillips: discharged.

 

Thomasine Polmore; in custody for breach of peace against Ann Pidwell: discharged.

 

QS/1/6/468

 

Recognizances of Walter Crapp of Bodmin, labourer, and William Cocking and Hezekiah Wadling, his pledges: continued to next sessions.

Date: 13 July 1797
Held by: Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office), not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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