Sessions at Bodmin

QS/1/3/163

Justices: William Webb, Francis Rodd, esqs.; Simon Llewellin Leach, clerk; John Molesworth, William Morshead, John Fortescue, esqs.; Joshua Howell, Joseph Smart, clerks.

Jury: Abraham Browne, Samuel Warne, John Pearse, William Burnard, Robert Elford, Joseph Lang, William Hicks, Richard Hicks, Stephen Ivey, Henry Michell, Nicholas Hitchcock, Nicholas Reynolds, Thomas Salmon, John Bonython, Gilbert Cayzier, John Buscombe, Peter Werry, John Rowe, William Rowe, Richard Laffer, Edmund Bennett.

QS/1/3/163, 164

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

Jenkin of Crowan, yeoman

James Jenkin of Crowan, yeoman, surety

Silas Paul of Penzance, labourer

Thomas Clutterbuck of Marazion, gent., surety

Anthony Gandy of Penzance, labourer

Thomas Clutterbuck of Marazion, gent., surety

Jane Thomas of St Ives, spinster

Peter Thomas, sen., of St Ives, yeoman, surety

Peter Thomas, jun., of St Ives, surety

QS/1/3/164, 165

Application by St Kew concerning male bastard born 20 September at St Kew, son of Susannah Brown of St Kew, single woman: John Thomas, jun., of Endellion, yeoman, alleged father, to pay 1s. weekly maintenance and a payment of £2 towards birth expenses; Susannah Brown to pay 1s. weekly.

QS/1/3/165

Appeal of John Turner of Falmouth, blacksmith, against order of 26 July, requiring him to make payments for bastardy in respect of male child of Elizabeth Banfield: order quashed for insufficiency.

Appeal of Manaccan against order for removal of William Martyn from Gunwalloe to Manaccan: held over.

Richard Eddy of Zennor; misdemeanour, confessed: fined 6d.

QS/1/3/166

Surveyor (east): to repair Trekellan bridge.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

Francis Matthews of Truro, brazier

Edward Tregaskus of Truro, yeoman, surety

Arthur Jose of Bodmin, victualler, surety

Alexander Allen of Truro, brazier

Edward Tregascus of Truro, yeoman, surety

Arthur Jose of Bodmin, victualler, surety

[Above item is repeated]

Thomas Hodge of Cardinham, labourer; assault and battery, confessed: fined 6d.

Fine of £20 levied on St Germans, to be paid over to Edward Eliot and Charles Trelawney for highway repairs there.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

Digory Mill of Plymouth, Devon, gent.

William Row of Sithney, yeoman

John Row, jun. of Sithney, surety

Thomas Row of Sithney, surety

John Angwin of St Just in Penwith, tinner; misdemeanour, confessed: fined 6d.

QS/1/3/167, 168

Samuel and Jonathan Bake of St Teath, yeomen; Bake of Camelford, merchant; and

Thomas Sloggett of Lanteglos by Camelford, cordwainer, acted as sureties for appearance at next sessions of the following:

Samuel Bake (as above)

Matthew Kitt of St Teath, labourer

Robert Kellow of St Teath, labourer

Jonathan Bake (as above)

William Cornelius als Hatter, of Minster

William Arnale of Tintagel, labourer

John Nute of Lanteglos by Camelford, labourer

Thomas Smith of Lanteglos by Camelford, labourer

John Allen of St Teath, labourer

William Hoare of St Teath, yeoman

Hugh Bake of St Teath, yeoman

Moses Kellow of St Teath, labourer

Robert Bake (as above)

William North of St Teath, labourer

Giles ? of St Teath, labourer

QS/1/3/168

Edmund Wearn of Gulval, maltster, accused of a misdemeanour: indictment quashed for insufficiency.

QS/1/3/168, 169

Francis Arthur of St Columb Minor, labourer; stealing goods of Thomas Nicholls, value 3d.; petty larceny: transported to America for seven years.

QS/1/3/169

Samuel Caddey of Gwinear, labourer; stealing goods of Simon Pentecost, value 1d.; petty larceny: public whipping.

Vice-treasurer to pay Samuel Hendy and Charles Wroughton, gents., coroners, their accounts.

Accounts of James Row, gaoler, and John Eyre: allowed.

Recognizance to appear at next sessions:

John Rescorla of Liskeard, butcher

John Rescorla, jun., of Helland, labourer, surety

Nicholas Rescorla of Helland, labourer, surety

William Williams of Cuby, yeoman; misdemeanour: fined 1s.

John Rescorla of Liskeard, butcher, in bridewell for bringing a poor child into the parish: discharged.

QS/1/3/170

William Prideaux of Probus, labourer: discharged from bridewell for want of prosecution.

Vice-treasurer to pay Simon Pentecost of Crowan for prosecution of Samuel Caddey.

John Stevens of St Columb Minor: to be paid for his attendance as witness against Francis Arthur.

One gaol and marshalsea rate to be collected.

QS/1/3/170, 171

Elizabeth, wife of Francis Trebilcock of St Columb Minor, labourer, accused of perjury in the case of Francis Arthur: committed to gaol to appear at next Assizes.

QS/1/3/171

Eliza Piper, wife of John Piper, to be given an additional allowance of 11/2d. a day on agreeing to give evidence against Eliza Piper, Joan Piper and Robert Piper, in custody on suspicion of felony.