Sessions held at Lostwithiel

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Justices: Sir William Molesworth; Weston Helyar, esq.; Henry Hawkins Tremayne, Benjamin Forster, John Molesworth, Thomas Penwarne, Henry Pooley, John Bennett, Edmund Gilbert, clerks; Thomas Graham, esq.; and others.

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Thomas Hext, gent., nominated and elected Clerk of the Peace by George Earl Mount Edgcumbe; sworn in.

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Thomas Hext appointed Edward Coode, jun., of St Austell, gent., his deputy.

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Jury: Bernard Anstis, Robert Hancock, Richard Coade,

William Hambly, William Stephens, Peter Hambly, Nicholas Moon, John Cooke, Thomas Philp, Nicholas Grose, Jacob Thomas, Thomas Thomas, William Thomas, Richard Flamank, Thomas Julyan.

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Treasurer to pay the Clerk 20s. for carrying the statutes and session books from one sessions to another, and £11 for warrants @ 5s. each, and 6s. 8d. each for the examination of John Verran, Maria Lee, Mary Pridham, Grace Phillips, Sarah Trethewy, William Penaluna, Richard Westcott and John Lawford; also 10 guineas salary.

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Recognizances:

William Browne of Hollocombe, Devon, £40, and Thomas Martin of St Thomas by Launceston, £20,

for William Browne to appear at next sessions.

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Appeal by Tavistock, Devon, against order of 2 Jan. 1794 for the removal of Thomas Mutton, wife Elizabeth, and daughter Mary (1), from Landrake to Tavistock: order reversed; Landrake to pay Tavistock costs.

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Appeal by Rame against order of 30 Sep. 1793 for the removal of John Cock, wife Mary, and children Walter (9), John (6), Mary (4) and Sarah (6 mo.), from Liskeard to Rame: order confirmed; Rame to pay Liskeard costs.

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Appeal by Mylor against order of 5 Nov. 1793 for the removal of Catherine Duncalf, wife of Thomas Duncalf, and children Thomas (6), William (2) and Francis (4 mo.) from Falmouth to Mylor: continued to next sessions.

Recognizances of William Colliver of St Breock, labourer, re felony, and sureties William Werry, Roger Gile, Robert Billing and William Pedlar: discharged, the bill of indictment being returned ignoramus.

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Continued appeal of Thomas Woodis against a rate made on 4 Aug. 1793 by Penzance: rate quashed; Penzance to pay Thomas Woodis £1 6s. 8d. costs.

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Application by Withiel re male bastard born at Withiel 3 Sep. 1793; mother Mary Hore, father Francis Symons, jun., of Withiel: F. S. to pay 16d. and M. H. 8d. each week; F. S. to pay £6 13s. 4d. towards lying-in charges.

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Application by Cardinham re female bastard born Cardinham 28 Nov. 1793; mother Philippa Reddell, father Thomas Courts, otherwise Thomas Couch, of Cardinham, carpenter: T. C. to pay 16d. and P. R. 8d. each week; T. C. to pay £5 4s. towards lying-in charges.

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Account of Samuel Hext, gent., late Clerk of the Peace and Vice-Treasurer, produced: £1 8s. 7d. due to him from County stock.

Presentments of roads in Ludgvan: discharged.

Presentments of roads in Perranarworthal, Mawgan in Meneage, St Teath, Helland, St Mabyn, St Columb Major, Bodmin, Minster, St Enoder and Lanlivery: continued to next sessions.

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Surveyor of Bridges(west) to repair the north parapet wall of Kegon Bridge, and to divert the river leading to Grampound bridge so as not to overflow the road.

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

Four gaol rates to be levied and paid to Edward Coade, jun., gent., Deputy Clerk and Vice-Treasurer.

£1,200 remains due to several creditors who advanced credit for building a new jail at Bodmin: one jail rate to be levied and paid to Edward Coade, jun., Vice-Treasurer, for paying off the debt.

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Mary Budbrook; in custody for wandering and begging in St Austell: continued in custody for 1 month.

Mahamet Ben Ally; in custody for wandering and begging in Camborne: discharged.

Catherine Duncalf, Hannah Lee, William Lee and Jane Benny; in custody for wandering and begging in St Austell: discharged.

John Perry; in custody for having run away and left his wife and child chargeable to St Breock: discharged.

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Catherine Bulger; in custody for wandering and begging in Perranzabuloe: continued in custody to next sessions.

Henry Restarrick; in custody for having behaved in an idle and disorderly manner and refusing to work, and threatening to do bodily hurt to the paupers in Bodmin workhouse: hard labour to next sessions.

Benjamin Pearce; in custody for wandering in Bodmin: hard labour to next sessions.

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William Hocking; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify Perranzabuloe re bastardy: continued in custody, the woman not yet having given birth.

Thomas Moyle; in custody for want of sureties in breach of peace committed on mother, Thomasine Moyle: discharged.

Charles Fitze; in custody for want of sureties in breach of peace committed on James Fitze: continued in custody to next sessions.

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Vice-Treasurer to Pay Treasurer of Devon £48 11s., being the expense of supporting families of militia men residing in Devon and serving in the militia regiment of Cornwall, 30 Sep. to 23 Dec.

John Peters; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify St Austell re bastardy: continued in custody to next sessions, the woman not yet having given birth.

Recognizance of John Gundry: continued to next sessions, he being a prisoner.

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Recognizances:

Mary Blewett and Nicholas Fox, her surety, bound over for assault: discharged.

Benjamin Roberts, and Edmund Warne and Robert Barnes, his sureties, bound over for assault: discharged.

John Spear, bound over for a misdemeanour: discharged.

Rules, orders and regulations of a Friendly Society, established at Liskeard, shown to the Justices and confirmed.

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Continued appeal of Breage against order of 19 Feb. 1792 for the removal of Charlotte Sullivan, widow, from Penzance to Breage: continued to next sessions.

Present and future turnkeys of the gaols shall give security, in the sum of £50 each, to the Keeper of the Sheriff's Ward, for their good conduct and behaviour.

The ceiling of the room over the chapel shall be secured with deal planks to be paid for out of County Stock.

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Recognizances:

Charles Gilbert of Kenwyn, tinner, £40, and Stephen Mitchell of Kea, tinner, £20,

for Charles Gilbert to appear at next sessions.

Edward Lillicrap; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d.

Josiah Cayzer; in custody for running away and leaving his wife and child chargeable to Bodmin: discharged.

John Clift, otherwise John Cluff; pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour: fined 6d.

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Thomas Williams of St Merryn, labourer; convicted of taking one canvas frock called a smock frock, the property of Thomas Andrew, value 6d.: confined to custody for one day, and then discharged, he consenting to enter H. M. Sea Service.

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Nicholas Rozay, otherwise Nicholas Resaigh, late of Redruth, blacksmith; convicted for taking two case knives, the property of Anthony Treweek, value 1d.: hard labour for 3 months.

Sarah, wife of William Moor late of Redruth, labourer; acquitted of taking half a yard of serge cloth, the property of Thomas Oppy, value 2d.

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Thomas Croggan, late of Grampound, carrier; acquitted of forcible entry into a dwelling-house in Grampound.