Catalogue description Sessions held at Bodmin

QS/1/11/93

Justices: Edward William Wynne Pendarves, esq., Richard Forard Michell, D.D., John Hearle Tremayne, Francis Hearle Rodd, William Peter, John Scobell, George Borlase, Abraham Hambly, Frederick Wallis, Stevens Wallis, William Jope, esqs., Joseph Pomery, Robert Walker, Nicholas Kendall, Thomas Grylls, Thomas Bennett, and Richard Gerveys Grylls, jun., clerks

Jury: Richard Norris Wilton, Paul Upton Oak, Thomas Tremayne, Paul Clarke, Daniel Hugo, John Oates, Richard Billing, Joseph Philp, Charles Ellis, Thomas Geach, William Hicks, James Hawke, Benjamin Andrew, William Cary, John Every, John Lovering, Henry Lewarne, Bartholomew Daniel, Theophilus Willcocks, James Stephens, John May Andrew, John Harry, gents.

QS/1/11/94

Seventeen gaol and marshalsea rates levied to be paid to Edward Coode, gent., treasurer.

Three lunatic asylum rates levied to be paid to Edward Coode, gent., treasurer.

Treasurer to pay clerk 40s. for carrying statutes at large and sessions books from one sessions to another for past year, £24 for levy warrants for gaol and marshalsea rates for past year, and £21 for clerk's salary.

Bastardy orders

Name: John Meager; Parish: St. Merryn; Court's decision: To remain in custody

QS/1/11/95

Bastardy orders

Name: Thomas Tonkin; Parish: St. Kew; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: William Eva; Parish: Tywardreath; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: William Retallick; Parish: St. Cleer; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: James Callaway; Parish: St. Clement; Court's decision: To remain in custody. Child not yet born

Name: Richard Medlin; Parish: Lanivet; Court's decision: To remain in custody. Child not yet born

QS/1/11/96

Bastardy orders

Name: William Haines; Parish: Callington; Court's decision: Discharged

Name: Samuel Woolcock; Parish: St. Mabyn; Court's decision: To remain in custody. Child not yet born.

Name: Richard Marks; Parish: Roche; Court's decision: To remain in custody. Child not yet born

Filiation orders

QS/1/11/96,97

Child: M.; When born: 18 Nov.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: St. Neot; Thomasine Inch, singlewoman; John Cawes of St. Neot, farmer

QS/1/11/97

Child: F.; When born: 30 Oct.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: St. Wenn; Ann Merrifield, singlewoman; William Henwood of St. Neot, farmer

Recognizances

QS/1/11/98

William Collick of St. Erth, miner and Richard Collick of St. Erth, miner. William Collick having paid security for maintenance of his bastard child, estreat discharged.

William Allen, jun. of Truro, lab., and William Allen, sen., and Joseph Rowe: estreat discharged, filiation order already made on William Allen jun. before last sessions.

Thomas Mare of St. Neot, husbandman and of his pledge George Mare of St. Neot, yeoman: estreats discharged.

Filiation orders

QS/1/11/98,99

Filiation orders

Child: M.; When born: 28 Nov.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: St. Neot; Jenifer Ward, singlewoman; William Knight of St. Neot, farmer

QS/1/11/99,100

Filiation orders

Child: F.; When born: 31 Oct.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: St. Clement; Sally Liddicoat, singlewoman; William Allen, jun. of St. Clement, lab.

QS/1/11/100

Richard Banning of St. Mewan, lab., indicted for stealing a gallon of potatoes, value 6d.: acquitted.

Paul Rowe of Poughill, lab. indicted for stealing a teapot, value 6d., property of John Hicks: one month's hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

QS/1/11/100, 101

Grace Keverne of St. Hilary, spinster, indicted for stealing a book, value 6d. and a pamphlet, value 6d. property of Thomasine Cornish: imprisoned until court rising.

QS/1/11/101

James Richards of Madron, lab. indicted for stealing 100lbs. of tin ore, value 6d. property of Pascoe Ellis and his partners in a streaming mine called Treganeris in Sancreed: six months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

Mary Ann Easterbrook, wife of Thomas Easterbrook of St. Austell, miner indicted for stealing 6 yds. of cotton value 6d., property of Benjamin Andrew: six months in Launceston gaol.

Richard Bath committed to gaol for stealing deal boards, property of Edward Sunno: discharged ignoramus.

Richard George of Gwennap, lab., indicted for stealing a pair of shoes, value 6d. property of William Williams: one month's hard labour in Bodmin goal.

QS/1/11/102

Thomas Harris of South Petherwin, lab., indicted for stealing ten faggots of wood, value 6d., property of Samuel Lane: six weeks' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

John Hurdle of South Petherwin, lab., indicted for taking a brass cock, a brass shutter knob, a stock lock, two drawer locks, a pair of brass dividers, and a watering pot, each item valued at 6d., property of Cornelius Crowhurst: three months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

QS/1/11/102

Elizabeth Barry of Lanlivery, spinster, indicted for stealing a bonnet, a cloak, two gowns, a pair of shoes and a petticoat, property of John Rundle. Pleaded guilty: six months in Launceston gaol.

James Watty [? Natty] of St. Germans, lab., indicted for stealing a blanket, value 6d., property of Edmund Moon. Pleaded guilty: one month's hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

QS/1/11/103

Richard Johns of Tintagel, lab., indicted for stealing a promissory note for £1, property of Richard Hayne: transported for seven years.

James Clarke of Kea, lab., indicted for stealing two brass pans, one belonging to Malachi Hitchens, and the other to Joseph Roberts. Pleaded guilty to both offences: three months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

John Sinclair of Liskeard, lab., indicted for stealing a sheet, value 6d., property of William Strike. Pleaded guilty: one month's hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

Arthur Daw alias Thomas Simons, of Lezant, lab., indicted for stealing a hempen bag, value 6d., property of William Spear Essery: acquitted.

William Kitt of Lezant, lab., indicted for stealing two barn door fowls, and an elm pole, property of William Hooper: three months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

QS/1/11/104

John White of Liskeard, lab., indicted for taking 10 yds. of muslin, 10 yds. of cambric, and two calico wrappers, property of Ann Rowe: six months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

Walter Trevena, and William Trevena, both of Redruth, labourers, were indicted for assaulting Thomas James, a petty constable of Redruth: both received two months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

Presentment of highways in St. Cleer discharged on payment of court fees.

Continued appeal by Gulval against order of 4 Feb. last for removal of Samuel Harvey, yeoman, from St. Buryan to Gulval: held over.

QS/1/11/105

Continued appeal by Constantine against order of 1 Sep. 1825, for removal of William Jenkins and Mary his wife from Kea to Constantine: held over.

Appeal by St. Veep against order of 7 Jan. inst. for removal of Mary Ann Court (30) from Lostwithiel to St. Veep: held over.

Appeal by South Petherwin against order of 5 Dec. last for removal of William Tink, lab., from Altarnun to South Petherwin: held over.

QS/1/11/106

Continued appeal by Feock against order of 2 Sep. last for removal of Jane Resuggan, widow of Robert Resuggan from St. Ives to Feock: order reversed. St. Ives to pay Feock £2.2s.0d. costs and maintenance.

QS/1/11/106,107

Appeal by Menheniot against order of 5 Dec. last for removal of Mary Tilley from Duloe to Menheniot: order reversed. Duloe to pay Menheniot £4 costs and maintenance.

QS/1/11/107

William Phillips indicted for a misdemeanour. Pleaded guilty: fined 1s. paid in court.

Appeal by Mary Key against poor rate in St. Ervan made 6 Oct. last at "thirteen shillings per farthing": held over.

Appeal by Joseph Hawken against poor rate in St. Ervan made 6 Oct. last at "thirteen shillings per farthing": held over.

QS/1/11/107,108

Application concerning order made at special sessions held at Tregear in hundred of Lesnewth on 8 Dec. last whereby part of highway in Laneast, between Tregear in Egloskerry and village of Badgall was to be diverted through lands of William Baron, esq.: order confirmed and enrolled.

QS/1/11/108

Bridge rate levied to be paid to James Chapple, jun., bridge surveyor (east).

William Peter, esq., requested to preside as Chairman at next sessions.

QS/1/11/108,109

Appeal by James Hingston against conviction of 3 Jan. inst. for being idle and disorderly person, for which sentenced to month in Bodmin gaol: conviction confirmed.

QS/1/11/109

Continued appeal by Penryn against order of 8 July last, for removal of Loveday, wife of Giles Smith, and their children William (4), and John (2), from Budock to Penryn: order confirmed. Penryn to pay Budock £5 costs.

Treasurer to pay treasurer of lunatic asylum £83.16s. 3d. for maintenance of William Bennett, a pauper lunatic whose legal place of settlement could not be ascertained.

QS/1/11/109,110

Continued appeal by Mawnan against order of 29 June last for removal of Elizabeth Merton, wife of Jacob Merton, and their children Jacob (12), John (9), James (6), and Samuel (9 months), also Oliver Merton (17) son of Jacob Merton and Susanna, his first wife, from Constantine to Mawnan: order reversed concerning Jacob and Oliver, children of Jacob Merton: order otherwise confirmed. Mawnan to pay Constantine £5 costs.