Sessions held at Bodmin

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Sessions held at Bodmin

7 October 1740

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Justices: Thomas Pitt, Nicholas Glynn, John Hoblyn, John Williams, Samuel Foot, John Derbyshire Birkhead, Hugh Pyper, Thomas Fisher, Christopher Hawkins, Walter Kendall

Jury: John Lang, Constantine Moyle, John Treffry, Richard Nation, Charles Tredwen, Nathaniel Lang, John Harry, John Grey, William Hancock, Thomas Conning, Richard Mitchell, John Dandy, Richard Julyans, Reginald Servis, John Parkyn, Richard Stribley, John Permewing, James Blake.

Fine of £10 for not repairing the public highways previously levied on Stithians by William Mitchell, gent. High Constable of Hundred of Kerrier: fine to be repaid to Stithians, after deduction of fees for levying the fine, in view of satisfactory report by him and Oliver Pearce of Gwennap on the repairs carried out to the highway from Helston to Truro.

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Appeal of Davidstow against order of 18 July for removal of Stephen Michell, wife Elizabeth, son Richard (3) and dau. Modesty (1), from Lesnewth to Davidstow: order reversed, Lesnewth to pay costs to Davidstow.

Fine of £5 (respited until next sessions) levied on St. Germans who had been presented at last sessions for failure to repair highway to Barne "very foundrous, dangerous and difficult", and the repairs to be carried out.

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Fine of £10 for not repairing the public highways previously levied on Morvah by Philip Marrack, high constable of the Hundred of Penwith: fine to be repaid to Morvah, after deduction of fees for levying the fine, in view of satisfactory report on repairs.

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A woman was brought before the sessions from bridewell, held under a warrant from Northampton as Catherine Collins, vagrant, with a pass from Walgrave in Northampton to Pennycomquick in Cornwall, where she was stated to have been born. The woman denied ever having been called Collins and said she was married many years previously to Henry Holland of Cumberland, hawker, decd. It appeared that there was no such parish as Pennycomquick in the county: woman to be conveyed back to Walgrave.

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The following rates to be settled in pursuance of Act of Parliament (1739) relating to rogues and vagabonds:

For passing and conveying a person who is under order to be passed - 6d. per mile

For exporting and conveying to Ireland, Isles of Man, Guernsey, Jersey and Scilly - £1 [per person]

To the officer conveying person to a ship - 6d. per mile

To the master of the vessel conveying person from this County to any of H.M.'s plantations in America - £4 [per person]

For a guard to assist for safe passing: an amount to be determined reasonable by the J.P. involved in the case.

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Order made 9 Aug. on St. Austell for the relief of Christopher Williams, poor person: quashed.

Barbara Gaud of St. Winnow, widow, and William Goode of St. Mewan, lab., indicted for felony: acquitted

Thomas Williams jun., of Lanreath, husbandman, stealing goods value 10d. from John Francis Buller esq.: to be publicly whipped from the town hall door, Bodmin to Carriers Lane and on charge of stealing goods from a person unknown: acquitted

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Repairs to highway from Newlyn to Penzance now carried out: fine of £10, previously levied, to be repaid to Paul.

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£120 for a whole bridge rate to be levied and shared equally between surveyor (west) (Alexander Hambly) and surveyor (east) Francis Penwarne.

William Back of Cheriton Fitzpayne, stealing 1 linen shirt and 1 linen apron from George Bath: to be publicly whipped from the town hall door, Bodmin, to Carriers Lane and remain in prison until next sessions "unless in the meantime he be demanded by Captain (...) Commander of the Company wherein he the said William Back is a soldier in the Honourable Colonel Onslow's Regiment of Foot."

Richard Williams, confessed to a trespass and misdemeanour: fined 1s.

William Pearse, confessed to a trespass and misdemeanour: fined 1s.

William Higman: discharged from bridewell.

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John Burt: discharged from bridewell.

Elizabeth, wife of William Baker, late a soldier in Colonel Wallis's Regiment, and William and Joseph their children, now in custody at bridewell under a pass from Ferry Bridge alias Ferry Friston, West Riding of Yorkshire, being vagrants, to St. Oswys otherwise St. Austell: last place of legal settlement appeared to be St. Austell, to be conveyed there, and provided for by the parish.

Treasurer (east) to pay Philip Lyne, Clerk of the Peace, usual allowance of one guinea for contracts for transportation of Thomas Foss and henry Tippett [previously convicted], the same for collecting gaol rates and 20s. for carrying the state books to sessions for the past year.

Otho White and Sampson Thomas: discharged from bridewell.

Treasurer to pay Thomas Eyre, bridewell keeper, £20 to buy hemp or other goods to employ prisoners in manufacturing goods so that such prisoners maintained out of their own labour whilst confined: bridewell keeper to keep account.

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Treasurer to pay Thomas Eyre, bridewell keeper £5, usual quarter's allowance and £10.16s 4d. for carrying vagrants "and other charges as by his bill of particulars".

Treasurer to pay George Conner, keeper of Launceston gaol, £4, usual quarter's allowance and £6.10s. for conveying eight prisoners from Launceston to Bodmin.

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