Sessions held at Bodmin

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Justices: Henry Hawkins Tremayne, James Cory, clerks; John Call, esq.

Jury: Samuel Symons, Hugh Bawden, Giles Jory, Francis Cole, Roger Sandy Pascoe, Thomas Thomas, John Osborne, Thomas Edyvean, William Tom, John Herbert, Mark Symons, Robert Hawkey, John Custain, William Retallack, Francis Parking, gents.

Presentments of highways in Mawgan in Meneage: to be discharged on payment of court fees.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions

Zacharias John of Helstone, surgeon;

Edmund Gilbert of Helland, clerk, and Danl. Carthew of Marazion, gent., sureties.

David Richards of Marazion, gardener;

Thomas Clutterbuck of Marazion, gent., surety.

QS/1/4/205

Continued appeal of St Gluvias against order dated 13 June 1778 for removal of Michael Martyn, wife, Grace and children, Grace (12), Thomas (7), William and Michael(3), from Paul to Gluvias: order reversed.

QS/1/4/206

Appeal of St Hilary against order dated 3 Aug. 1778 for removal of Ann Gundry, single woman, from Helston to St Hilary: order confirmed.

Presentment of highways in Falmouth and St Agnes: held over to next sessions.

QS/1/4/207

Complaint of John Parkyn of St Enoder, that Grace Oxenham, poor child of Little Colan, was bound apprentice to him by indenture dated 13 Aug. 1778: indenture cancelled.

Estreats of John Lyne and John Cook of Menheniot, farmers, for failure to attend last Michaelmas sessions, and their recognizances: discharged.

Recognizance of William Tucker to appear and abide by order of bastardy, for begetting base child on Honour Harris, widow: to be discharged.

QS/1/4/208

Further £700 advance to be paid to the contractor for the jail.

Mr Loyd, solicitor for procuring the Act of Parliament, having presented his bill, and the Treasurer not having sufficient in hand to meet it, £300 to be borrowed, to be repaid out of county stock.

Jail contractor instructed concerning the windows in the galleries before the Felons and Bridewell Wards: lower parts to be glazed, upper parts secured with thick Delabole rags, fixed in the manner of Venetian blinds.

Zacharius John of Helstone, surgeon; pleaded guilty to assault against Jacob James, gent.: fined 1d.

Henry Ellis of Truro, labourer; acquitted of stealing cord du roi breeches from Samuel Simmons.

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Benjamin Cock, labourer, and Hannah Cock, spinster, both of Lanteglos by Camelford; convicted of stealing two fleeces of wool, value 1d., from William Gregory: both to be privately whipped.

Henry Warne of Landulph, labourer; convicted of stealing two geese, value 1d., from William Wearing: to be privately whipped.

Henry Michell of St Columb Major, yeoman; acquitted of stealing two deal boards from Nicholas Donnithorne Arthur, gent.

Elizabeth Sparks of Probus, spinster; convicted of stealing a woollen petticoat, value 1d., from Robert Edyvean: to be privately whipped.

Margaret Simmons; committed to bridewell as a loose and disorderly woman: to remain in custody.

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Mary Donnithorne; committed to bridewell for assault and lack of sureties to keep the peace: to be discharged.

John Trevena; committed to bridewell for running away and leaving his family chargeable to Redruth parish: to be admonished and discharged.

Estreats of Margaret Cory of Camborne, spinster, and of Samuel Bennett and Henry Cory, her sureties, and also their recognizances: to be discharged.

Accounts of Joseph Hick, bridewell keeper, and John Males, gaoler: seen and allowed.

Presentment of average prices of corn, per Winchester bushel, as follows: wheat, 4s. 8d.; barley, 2s. 6d.; oats, 1s. 5d.

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Two gaol and marshalsea rates to be levied and paid to Samuel Hext, gent., Vice-Treasurer.

Vice-Treasurer to be paid £20 yearly, as long as the militia remains embodied, for his trouble in paying allowances to the militia men's wives and children.