Catalogue description Sessions held at Lostwithiel

QS/1/6/483

Justices: Weston Helyar, esq., Charles Mayson, D.D.; Thomas Graham, David Howell, esqs; Edmund Gilbert, Thomas Penwarne, clerks; and others.

Jury: Oliver Slyman, James Dunn, William Hambly, John Rowse, Richard Brewer, William Henwood, Ezekiel Gaved, John Stephens, Thomas Geach, John Canning, John Larkey, Jonathan Cock, Francis Fugler, Thomas Treffry, gents.

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

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Treasurer to pay Deputy Clerk 20s. for carrying sessions books from one sessions to another in the past year; and £12 for gaol levy-warrants and £2 13s. 4d. for removal warrants; also 6s. 8d. each for conveying Sarah Oats, Sarah English, Jane English, Mary Mitchell, Ann Northey, Mary Boole, Ann Richards and Rebecca Trenerry at Epiphany Sessions, and Ann Martin, Hannah Miltown, James Fleming and Thomas Sidwell at Easter sessions, and Martha Thomas at Michaelmas Sessions; also 10 guineas salary.

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

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Application by St Ervan for relief of a female bastard born 7 Oct. 1797 at St Ervan; mother Mary Powell, father James George of St Ervan, labourer: J. G. to pay 1s. 4d. and M. P. 1s. 4d. weekly.

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Appeal of St Agnes against order of 26 Aug. 1797 for the removal of Annis Vigurs, widow, and children Betsey and Amy (each 8) from Gwennap to St Agnes: order confirmed; St Agnes to pay Gwennap costs.

QS/1/6/486

Appeal of John Allen, clerk, occupier of tenement of Hallgarrick in Crowan, and Robert Carter, yeoman, occupier of tenement of Tregear in Crowan, against rate made by Crowan for 1797 as illegal, unfair, unjust, unequal, etc.: ordered that rate be quashed and Crowan to pay John Allen and Robert Carter £1 6s. 8d. costs.

QS/1/6/487

Andrew Parnall of Padstow, wool-comber, and Richard Eliot of Padstow, labourer; pleaded guilty of a misdemeanour: fined 6d. each.

Trehane Symons, gent., Surveyor of Bridges (east) resigned on account of age and infirmity: John Symons of St Kew, gent., appointed in his place.

Indictment of highways in St Columb Major, on prosecution of Nevel Norway, gent.: discharged.

Thomas Wall; in custody for want of sureties in breach of the peace against Joan, his wife: continued in custody to next sessions.

James Hamilton; in custody as a rogue and vagabond: continued to next sessions.

QS/1/6/488

Sarah Roberts; in custody for acts of vagrancy in Lanteglos by Fowey: hard labour to next sessions.

George Martyn; in custody for wandering and begging in Callington: continued to next sessions.

Elizabeth Miners, otherwise Elizabeth Maddron; in custody for wandering and begging in St Austell: continued to next sessions.

Mary Hewett; in custody for being a disorderly person: discharged.

Thomas Gabriel; in custody for running away and deserting the service of his master, William Northey of Altarnun: discharged.

QS/1/6/489

John Smith, master, and Thomas Newman, mate, of the sloop Commerce of Arundell, swore that they shipped at Liverpool on 8 Aug. 1797, 3,200 bushels of British fishery salt for Peter Barber of St Ives, fish-curer; on the voyage, 108 bushels were lost due to stormy weather, and not through leak of the sloop or neglect of the crew.

John Harris, master, and John Ellis, mate, of the sloop Lively of Milford, swore that they shipped at Liverpool on 29 Sept. 1797, 1,827 bushels of British fishery salt for Paul Tremearn of St Ives, fish-curer; on the voyage, 162 bushels were lost due to stormy weather and not through any leak of the sloop or neglect of the crew.

QS/1/6/490

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

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

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Appeal by Bodmin against order of 20 Dec. 1797 for the removal of Robert Thomas Miller, wife Anne, children Thomas (9), Charlotte (4) and William (1) from St Stephen in Brannel to Bodmin: order reversed; St Stephen in Brannel to pay Bodmin costs.

QS/1/6/491

Recognizances:

Richard Drew of Kilkhampton, yeoman, £40; and Thomas Drew of the same, yeoman, £20, for Richard Drew to appear at next sessions.

John Snell; in custody for want of sureties re bastardy in Kenwyn: continued to next sessions.

Surveyor of Bridges (east) to put Tavistock new bridge in good repair.

Anthony Pascoe; in custody for want of sureties re breach of peace against Ann Dunstance of Mabe: discharged.

QS/1/6/492

Thomasin Polmeer; in custody for being an idle and disorderly person and having threatened to set fire to the house of John Adams, gent., in Budock: discharged.

Indictments against Roche: discharged.

Presentment of highways in Mabe: discharged.

Recognizances of Philip Salt of Pelynt, labourer, to appear re felony, and of William Wyatt, his pledge: estreated.

Frances Trenerry, wife of John Trenerry late of St Allen, yeoman; convicted for taking 8 ducks, the property of Henry Lanyon: fined 20s.

QS/1/6/493

John Morris of Mevagissey, gent., and Andrew Buckingham of Probus gent.: each fined 40s. for not attending for jury service.

Recognizances:

Richard Richards of Sancreed for assault: discharged.

Tobias Manhey, Richard Williams and Charles Thomas and their sureties: discharged for want of prosecution.

Thomas Floyd of St Agnes, tinner, and John Buddle, his pledge: discharged for want of prosecution.

Margery Bennetts of St Just in Penwith, spinster, re assault, and James Bennetts of the same, labourer, her pledge: estreated.

James Bennetts of St Just in Penwith, labourer, and Margery Bennetts of the same spinster, his pledge: estreated.

Thomas Vagg of Cardinham, yeoman, and John Cole of Lanivet, yeoman, and Thomas Whitley of Lanhydrock, yeoman, his pledges: discharged.

QS/1/6/494

Continued appeal of Stephen Spargo against a rate made by Kea: carried over to next sessions.