Catalogue description Sessions held at Bodmin

QS/1/11/314

Justices: Edward William Wynn Pendarves esq. (chairman), Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, bart., Edward Rodd, D.D., John Buller, Francis Hearle Rodd, John Hearle Tremayne, John Trevanion, Purnell Bettesworth Trevanion, Thomas Graham, William Peter, William Robinson Hill, Humphry Williams, John Hext, Richard Gully Bennet, George Borlase, Nicholas Kendall, William Hext, Henry Thomson, Richard Johns and Samuel Borlase, esqs., Joseph Pomery, Robert Walker, William Molesworth, Nicholas Kendall, Samuel Hart, Thomas Scott Smyth, John Kempe, Charles Hodgson, Edward John Clark, Richard Gerveys Grylls jun., Thomas Grylls and Walter Gee, clerks

Jury: William Michael Gichard, John Buscumb, Thomas Broad, Robert Cleave, Samuel Cleave, Nicholas Grose, Ambrose Grose, Warwick Guy, John Gurney, Jonathan Guy, Mark Guy, Thomas Hicks, John Legoe, William Legoe, Silas Edward Martyn, William Moyle, Nicholas Male, Nicholas Male, George Martyn, William Pollard, John Randall, John Rowse, Henry Symons, gents.

QS/1/11/315

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

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

Treasurer to pay clerk 13s. 4d. for examination and pass of Thomas Hughes (Easter sessions), 40s. for carrying the statutes at large from one sessions to another, £24 for levy warrants for gaol and marshalsea rates (Epiphany, Midsummer and Michaelmas Sessions) at 10s. each, and £21 for clerk's salary for keeping accounts of gaol and marshalsea, and of bridge surveyors and bridewell keepers.

Bastardy orders

Name: Samuel Woolcock; Parish: St. Mabyn; Court's decision: To remain in custody

QS/1/11/316

Bastardy orders

Name: John Rickard; Parish: St. Clement; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: William Elford; Parish: Tintagel; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: William Jose; Parish: St. Clement; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: Francis Champion; Parish: Newlyn; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: Thomas Hall; Parish: Gulval; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: William James; Parish: Budock; Court's decision: To remain in custody Child not yet born.

QS/1/11/317

Bastardy orders

Name: John Ford; Parish: St. Columb Major; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: Richard Davis; Parish: Lanteglos; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: John Kittow; Parish: St. Cleer; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: William Kingdon; Parish: Stoke Climsland; Court's decision: Discharged

Name: William Toms; Parish: St. Columb Major; Court's decision: Discharged

Name: James Julyan; Parish: Veryan; Court's decision: Discharged

QS/1/11/317, 318

Bastardy orders

Name: Charles Hellings; Parish: St. Just [in Roseland]; Court's decision: To remain in custody; Child not yet born.

QS/1/11/318

Bastardy orders

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

Name: John Hosking; Parish: Gwennap; Court's decision: To remain in custody.

John Stephens committed to the bridewell for "gathering alms" at Liskeard under false pretences: discharged.

Abraham Nicholls committed to the bridewell for want of sureties in an assault on William Rowe: discharged.

William Foot of Northill, gent., sworn in as High Constable of N. division of East Hundred.

Bridge rate levied to be paid to William Moorman, bridge surveyor (west).

QS/1/11/319

Filiation order

Child: F.; When born: 27 Dec.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: Gwennap; Mary Trebilcock, singlewoman; John Hosking of Gwennap, miner.

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

QS/1/11/320

Child: M.; When born: 25 Nov.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: Lanteglos by Camelford; Margaret Cock, singlewoman; Philip Chalk of Endellion, lab.

QS/1/11/321

Child: F.; When born: 17 Nov.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: St. Gluvias; Catherine Gill, singlewoman; John Dennis of Mylor

QS/1/11/322

Child: M.; When born: 22 June; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: Truro St. Mary; Mary Stephens, singlewoman; William Glen of Truro St.Mary, lab.

QS/1/11/323

Appeal by Gwennap against order of 1 Jan. inst. for removal of Mary Curtis from St. Austell to Gwennap: held over.

Appeal by St. Erme against order of 5 Jan. inst. for removal of Thomas Gilbert, lab., Grace his wife and son Thomas (2) from Kenwyn to St. Erme: held over.

Appeal by Gorran against order of 7 Jan. inst. for removal of William Golly, Elizabeth his wife, and unnamed male child (6 weeks) from Veryan to Gorran: held over.

QS/1/11/324

Appeal by St. Breock against order of 11 Jan. inst. for removal of Hannah Wood, wife of Richard Wood, and their children James (6), and Caroline (10 months) from Bodmin to St. Breock: held over.

Appeal by Camborne against order of 1 Nov. last for removal of Sarah Lathlean, widow of James Lathlean, and their children Sarah (14), William (11), and Thomas (9), from Calstock to Camborne: held over.

Appeal by Fowey against order of 10 Nov. last for removal of Ann Davey, singlewoman, from St. Neot to Fowey: held over.

QS/1/11/325

Continued appeal by Gulval against order of 4 Feb. 1825 for removal of Samuel Harvey, yeoman, from St. Buryan to Gulval: held over.

John Burrows of Stratton, lab. indicted for stealing 11 yards of cotton, property of William Ash, jun.: 12 months in Bodmin gaol.

James Jose of Colan, lab. indicted for stealing a gallon of apples property of William Michael Gichard: acquitted. [William Michael Gichard was on the jury!]

James Martin of Gulval, lab. indicted for stealing various items of haberdashery (thread, inkle and tape), property of George Hawke: two months in Bodmin gaol, for six weeks of that period with hard labour, and for last fortnight in solitary confinement.

QS/1/11/326

Joseph Allan of Lelant, lab., indicted for stealing an oil case hat [? souwester] property of William Curgenven, and pleaded guilty; also indicted for stealing several stockings property of John Banfield, for which acquitted: for first offence one week's hard labour in house of correction at Bodmin.

James Tremblet of Temple, lab., indicted for stealing a shirt and an apron, property of Thomas Ball: one month's solitary confinement in Bodmin gaol.

Appeal by Week St. Mary against order of 8 Jan. inst. for removal of Elizabeth Stacey, wife of John Spry Stacey, and their dau. Mary (1¾) from Egloskerry to Week St. Mary: held over.

QS/1/11/327

Continued appeal by Calstock against order of 25 Sep. last for removal of Richard Michell, Mary his wife, and their children Richard (13), Mary (11), Eliza (8), William (6), John (4), Selina (3), and Joseph (4 months) from Gwennap to Calstock: held over.

Consideration to be given to move to Truro one of the Sessions held at Bodmin. Notice to be given in two Cornwall papers.

Surgeon at Bodmin gaol to have increase in salary from £60 to £80.

John Bentham Everest appointed governor of house of correction at Bodmin in place of James Chapple, decd.

Clerk to issue one combined warrant for raising rates in hundreds of Powder, Pydar and Kerrier instead of separately as before.

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

QS/1/11/328

John Hearle Tremayne and Nicholas Kendall, esqs. appointed visiting magistrates of Bodmin gaol.

Eleanor, wife of William Osborne of Boyton, lab., indicted for assault on Nathaniel Reed: fined 1s.

John Rebouse and Petherick Martin of St. Minver, labs. indicted for entering place where coneys [rabbits] bred and taking them without consent of owner James Arthur: both imprisoned in house of correction at Bodmin with six weeks' hard labour.

John Trevean of St. Erth, lab., indicted for assault on George Uren: fortnight in house of correction.

QS/1/11/329

William Clift of Gwennap, miner indicted for assault on Tristram Powning, a constable of Gwennap, in execution of his duty: six weeks' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

Abraham Trewartha of Gwennap, miner, indicted for assault on Edward Bennetts: fined 40s. paid in court.

Richard Warne of Budock, lab., indicted for assault on Abel Hocking: acquitted.

Edward Hayes Hill indicted for committing a nuisance and pleaded guilty: fined 1s paid in court.

Henry James Clarke of South Petherwin, lab., indicted for assault on Thomas Lang, a petty constable of South Petherwin: 12 months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

QS/1/11/330

Thomas Clarke of Truro, tailor, indicted for stealing two bundles of straw, property of Edward Parker Player: one week's hard labour in house of correction at Bodmin.

John Watkins of Kenwyn, lab., indicted for stealing a great coat, property of Samuel Argall: one month in Bodmin gaol, first fortnight with hard labour, then in solitary confinement.

William Gard of Lanreath, lab., indicted for stealing an iron borer, a tamping iron, and 20lbs. of iron, property of William Arthur and his partners in Herodsfoot mine in Lanreath, and for stealing same items, property of William Baron: acquitted.

John Johns of St. Mabyn, butcher, indicted for assault on Nathan Sturge, builder: acquitted.

QS/1/11/331

George Julyan indicted for assault on Nathan Sturge, builder [possibly Nathan Sturge Builder]: fined 1s paid in court.

William Rowe indicted for assault on William Trevorrah: fined 1s. paid in court.

Samuel Glasson of Kenwyn, lab., indicted for stealing four bottles, four quarts of porter, and another four bottles property of Elizabeth Robins: acquitted.

Recognizances

John Nottle of St.Neot to appear, and his pledge John Browne of St. Austell.

Philip Knight of St. Neot, tinner, to appear and his pledge John Browne of St. Austell.

William Medland of Altarnun to appear, and his pledge John Browne of St. Austell.

QS/1/11/332

John Daw charged with having entered a house at night and having stolen four sovereigns, a one pound note, a wooden box and other items: discharged ignoramus.

Rules and regulations of a Female Friendly Society in Helston allowed and confirmed.

Appeal by Edmund Hambly against poor rate in St. Dominick made on 16 Dec. last: held over.

QS/1/11/332, 333

Noted that appeal at last sessions by Hindon in Wilts., against order of 3 Oct. last for removal of Mary Stevens, widow of Henry Stevens, Sergeant in Royal Marines, and her children George (9), Henry (6½) and John (1½) from Rame to Hindon (which was held over to present sessions) had not been continued by Hindon: Hindon to pay Rame £20 costs.

Recognizances

Richard Grenfell of Ludgvan, miner, in case of bastardy, and his pledge John Grenfell: estreated.

James Bawden of Marazion, lab., for appearance of John Bawden of Marazion, blacksmith to answer in bastardy: estreated.

QS/1/11/333,334

Continued appeal by Mylor against order of 7 June last for removal of William Rickett, Jane his wife and their children Mary (11) Charles (9), Elizabeth (7) and William (5) from Gwennap to Mylor: order confirmed. Mylor to pay Gwennap £5 costs.

QS/1/11/334,335

Continued appeal by Redruth against order of 3 July last for removal of Mary Minards, widow of Charles Minards and her children Jane (12), and Thomas (11) from St. Ewe to Redruth: order confirmed. Redruth to pay St. Ewe £5 costs.

QS/1/11/335, 336

Application for confirmation of order made at special sessions at Newlyn on 29 Oct. last, concerning stopping up of a road in St. Agnes, between Bans and Towan Cross, and between Trevissick and house of John Julian, innkeeper, necessary notice having been given: order confirmed and enrolled.

QS/1/11/336

Application for confirmation of order made at special sessions held at White Hart Inn in Launceston on 2 Oct. last for stopping up of public footway in Linkinhorne, between Westcott Farm occupied by Nicholas Foot, gent., and village of Rilla Mill going through farm yard "plantation" and other land belonging to Westcott: statutory notice having been given, order confirmed and enrolled.

QS/1/11/337

Continued appeal by Perranzabuloe against order of 6 Sept. last for removal of Mary, wife of William Spencer (William Spencer having been born on the "high seas" so lacking legal settlement) and their children John (7), Joseph (2) and unbaptised daughter (3 months), from Kenwyn to Perranzabuloe. Stated that William Spencer was a pedlar and that whole family were resident in Kenwyn and were removed by parents' mutual consent to Perranzabuloe, the parish of Mary Spencer's maiden settlement and where her parents lived. The removing magistrate, before making the order, had asked if husband and wife objected to being separated. They did not object: order reversed. Kenwyn to pay £8.5s.0d. costs and maintenance.