Catalogue description Sessions held at Truro

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Justices: William Peter, esq., Edward Rodd, D.D., Edward William Wynn Pendarves, Joseph Sawle Sawle, John Borlase, Henry Pendarves Tremenheere, Joseph Hosken, Richard Gully Bennet, John Hext, William Robinson Hill, Humphry Willyams, and John Paynter, esqs.. Joseph Pomery, Jeremiah Trist, George Treweeke, Charles Valentine le Grice, Edward Rogers, Richard Budd, Charles Trevanion Kempe, Nicholas Kendall, Richard Polwhele and William Hocken, clerks

Jury: Thomas Bate, John Bate, John Clarke, Paul Clarke, Richard Doble, Stephen Doble, Matthew Doble, John Downing, Henry Dunsford, William Gill, Thomas Grigg, Nicholas Henwood, Humphry Hicks, George Hill, Henry Leverton, Henry Michell, Edward Seccombe, Peter Oliver, Joseph Pearce, William Richards, George Robarts, Philip Sambell, and Benjamin Sampson, gents.

QS/1/11/112

Sixteen 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's account allowed £45.9s.2d. due to balance.

Account of William Moorman, bridge surveyor (west) examined. £179.10s.1¼d due from William Moorman to balance.

Rules and regulations of Redruth Annuitant Society for benefit of widows, allowed and confirmed.

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Bastardy orders

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

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Bastardy orders

Name: William Eva; Parish: Tywardreath; Court's decision: Discharged

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

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

Name: Richard Marks; Parish: Roche; Court's decision: To remain in custody

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Bastardy orders

Name: James Mitchell; Parish: Wendron; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: William Thomas; Parish: Constantine; Court's decision: To remain in custody; Child not yet born

Name: Hannah Turner; Parish: Breage; Court's decision: Having refused to declare father. Discharged.

Name: Thomas Smitheram; Parish: St. Pinnock; Court's decision: To remain in custody

QS/1/11/115

George Millar committed to the bridewell for having abandoned his family, chargeable to Antony: discharged

William Soady committed to the bridewell for having left his wife and children, chargeable to Pelynt; three months' hard labour.

John Prout committed to the bridewell for having left his wife and children, chargeable to Lewannick: six months' hard labour.

Theodora Lander committed to the bridewell charged with vagrancy in Wendron: to remain in custody for three months.

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Filiation orders

Child: F.; When Born: 4 Feb.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: St. Mabyn; Elizabeth Hamley, singlewoman; Samuel Woolcock of Lanivet, miner

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Filiation orders

Child: F.; When Born: 23 Jan.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: Mawgan in Meneage; Alice Curnow, singlewoman; John Walters of Mawgan, lab.

QS/1/11/118

Filiation orders

Child: M.; When Born: 13 Dec.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: St. Agnes; Jane Prout, singlewoman; Edward Woolcock of St. Agnes, carpenter

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Filiation orders

Child: M.; When Born: 20 Nov.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: Truro St. Mary; Betsy Harding, singlewoman; Andrew MacKenna of Kenwyn, draper

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Filiation orders

Child: F.; When Born: 11 Mar.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: Kenwyn; Johanna Tresize, singlewoman; James Harpur of St. Agnes, miner

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Filiation orders

Child: M.; When Born: 27 Dec.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father: Kea; Jane Tippet, singlewoman; William Mills of Falmouth, shoemaker

QS/1/11/122

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

Appeal by St. Kew against order of 20 Jan. last for removal of Samuel Pinch (37) and Ann his wife, and Amelia Pinch (6), William Pinch (5) and Samuel Pinch (1) from Bodmin to St. Kew: held over.

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

QS/1/11/123

Appeal by Lelant against order [no date] for removal of Honor Trevorrow, widow of Henry Trevorrow from St. Ives to Lelant: held over.

Appeal by Thomas Theophilus Hawkey, gent. against accounts of overseers of the poor in St. Columb Major: held over.

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Continued appeal by South Petherwin against order of 5 Dec. 1825 for removal of William Tink, lab. from Altarnun to South Petherwin: order reverse. Altarnun to pay South Petherwin £7.2s.0d. costs and maintenance.d

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Mark Thomas indicted for assault and battery pleaded guilty: fined 1s., paid in court.

William Rundle of Tywardreath, lab., indicted for taking a pair of shoes, value 6d., property of William Chynoweth: three months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

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Mary Ann Waldgrave of St. Just in Roseland, spinster indicted for taking a linen shift, and two linen aprons, property of Samuel Lowry: six weeks in Launceston gaol.

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Thomas Bosanco of Crowan, lab., indicted for taking a fore plane and a gouge, property of Cuthbert Bowden: two months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

Catherine Fenton of St. Mabyn, singlewoman, indicted for taking three oak poles, value 6d., property of William Lobb: six weeks in Launceston gaol.

Ann Rosewarne, wife of Thomas Rosewarne of Ludgvan, lab., indicted for taking 2 lbs. of hogs lard, value 6d., property of Henry Pearce: three months in Launceston gaol.

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Ann Reynolds, wife of Walter Reynolds of Kenwyn, husbandman indicted for taking various pieces of cloth, property of Mary Ann Job, also other cloth, property of Hugh Job: nine months in Launceston gaol.

Joseph Blackler of Kea, lab., indicted for taking 20 lbs. of wool, value 6d., property of Philip Crago: nine months in Bodmin gaol.

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Robert Oliver of St. Agnes, lab., indicted for taking timber, property of Edward Tregoning and his partners in East Wheal Music mine: transported for seven years.

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William Goldsworthy of Crowan, miner, indicted for taking wooden poles, property of Sir John St. Aubyn, bart.: three months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

Nicholas Cannon of Redruth, miner, indicted for taking a pair of shoes, value 6d., property of Matthew Roberts: three months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

William King and Thomas Down, both of Merther, labs. were indicted for taking two shirts, value 6d., property of James Boase: both received two months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

QS/1/11/128

Thomas Strick of St.Buryan, lab., indicted for taking a bag, value 6d., two yards of crocus, value 6d., and three gallons of wheat, value 6d., property of Gregory Nicholas: six months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

Thomas Tippet of Tywardreath, lab., indicted for taking an iron ploughshare, value 6d. property of William Jenkyn: one month in Bodmin goal.

Richard Allen of St. Austell, lab. was indicted for taking a cow's cheek, value 6d., property of Richard Cowling: three months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

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John Hayne committed to gaol for stealing a goose and a gander property of William Straight: discharged ignoramus.

Thomas Roads committed to gaol for stealing three silver spoons, a piece of leather and three minerals, property of Sarah Avery: discharged ignoramus.

William Smith committed to gaol for stealing a knife and fork and sundry other articles, property of Cornelius Crowhurst: discharged ignoramus.

Amended rules and regulations of Redruth Tradesmen['s] and Yeomen's Friendly Society and amended rules of Union Yeomen and Tradesmen's Friendly Society at Gwinear, and rules of Helston Equitable Annuitant Society allowed and approved.

Abraham Hambly, esq. appointed as bridge repair inspector, for Trigg hundred, in lieu of Rev. Edmund Gilbert, deceased.

QS/1/11/130

Appeal of St. Breock against order [no date] for removal of Edward Hawke, and Elizabeth his wife, from Egloshayle to St. Breock: held over.

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Continued appeal by St. Veep against order of 7 Jan. last for removal of Mary Ann Court (30) and her dau. from Lostwithiel to St. Veep: order reversed for "informality thereof." Lostwithiel to pay St. Veep £5 costs and maintenance.

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Continued appeal by Constantine against order of 1 Sep. last for removal of William Jenkins and Mary his wife, from Kea to Constantine: order reversed. Kea to pay Constantine £6.6s.0d. costs and maintenance.

QS/1/11/132

Appeal of Rev. Cornelius Cardew, D.D., against poor rate in St. Erme, made 2 April last: held over.

Appeal by Joseph Thomas Austen, esq. against poor rate in Fowey, made 25 Feb. last., at 1s. in £: held over

Appeal by John Mein against appointment of George Nickels, John Welman, Joseph Parson and William Littleton as overseers of the poor in Fowey, in the present year: held over.

QS/1/11/133

Francis Hearle Rodd, esq., requested to preside as chairman at next sessions.

Joseph Roscrow committed to the bridewell, for want of sureties in a breach of the peace against Grace his wife: discharged.

Nicholas Andrew committed to the bridewell for want of sureties in a breach of the peace committed on Daniel Kneebone: discharged.

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Appeal by Stithians against order of 30 March last for removal of John Peters and Mary his wife from Kenwyn to Stithians: order confirmed. Stithians to pay Kenwyn £5 costs.

QS/1/11/134

Stephen Doble of Mylor, gent., sworn as high constable of hundred of Kerrier (east division).

William Lightfoot of Redruth, lab., indicted for assaulting Thomas James, a petty constable of Redruth, in execution of his duty, also for assaulting and beating Thomas James: found guilty of common assault only, so received one month in Launceston gaol.

Emanuel Whitford, James Waters and John Rooke, all of Kenwyn, miners, indicted for assaulting Edward Bull a petty constable in Kenwyn, in execution of his duty; and also for common assault: found guilty on first charge. All received three months' hard labour in Bodmin gaol.

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Elizabeth Williams of Gulval, spinster indicted for assaulting Jane Martin, wife of Archilaus Martin: fined 1s. and imprisoned until end of the sessions.

John Bolitho and John Pascoe, both of Wendron, miners, also James Symonds of Wendron, lab., indicted for a riot and assault: all received four months in Launceston gaol.

James Symons of Contantine, lab., indicted for assaulting Francis Jenkin: acquitted

John Bolitho and John Pascoe, both of Wendron, miners, indicted for assaulting John Roberts: acquitted. John Bolitho also indicted for assaulting John Matthews and acquitted.

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John Pascoe of Wendron, miner, indicted for assaulting John Rashleigh: acquitted. John Pascoe also indicted for assaulting Joseph Michell and acquitted.

Recognizance

QS/1/11/136

Benjamin Oxnam of St. Hilary to appear in bastardy, and his pledges Richard Bennetts and Richard Bennet (sic): estreat discharged as parish to which bastard child was chargeable had received maintenance money before the last sessions.