Sessions held at Lostwithiel

QS/1/4/90

Justices: Joshua Howell, Henry Hawkins Tremayne, clerks; Henry Rosewarne, esq.; John Kingdon, clerk.

Jury: Richard Roseveare, Simon Slade, Nicholas Butland, Joseph Broad, Edward Slade, Nicholas Brent, jun., Thomas Sargent, John Williams, Thomas Pearce, Samuel Clemoe, William Harris, John Coad, Thomas Courteys, Richard Hosking, John Thomas.

Nicholas Reed of Falmouth, gardener; pleaded guilty to assault on Bartholomew Incledon, gent.: fined 6d.

Account of Thomas Roberts, bridewell keeper: allowed £40 15s. 3½d. due to him.

Account of John Mules, gaoler, allowed: £50 11s. 6d. due to him.

QS/1/4/91

Appeal by Breage against order dated 4 Dec. 1775 for removal of James Treglean, wife Ann, and children Ann (15), Elizabeth (13), Mary (11), Jane (9), Richard (8) and William (4), from Redruth to Breage: order reversed.

QS/1/4/92

Appeal of Joseph Banfield, Richard Motton, James Cumming and Walter Rice against poor rate levied in Falmouth on 24 Oct. 1775 by Edward Snoxell, churchwarden, and Thomas Steele and Thomas Williams, overseers; appellants cited Samuel Groube, Richard Earm, John Fox, Samuel and Joseph Tregelles, merchants, John Gwennap, mercer, and Thomas MacLillan, upholsterer: appeal allowed.

QS/1/4/92,93

Treasurer to pay expenses, fees and salary of Clerk of the Peace; detailed list recorded.

QS/1/4/93

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

QS/1/4/94

Account of Samuel Hendy, gent., coroner, allowed; £27 6s. 3d. due to him.

Sarah, wife of Arthur Holla, to appear at next sessions; surety, Joseph Roberts of Gulval, blacksmith.

Account of James Hobbs, overseer of the poor for Jacobstow, concerning order made against Thomas Longman at last April sessions, verified; £6 0s. 5½d. due to Jacobstow.

Salary of Mr Lethbridge, prison chaplain, reduced to £30 p.a. at Michaelmas sessions, to be restored to £50 p.a., following opinion of Solicitor-General that Justices had exceeded their powers.

QS/1/4/95

Application by St Stephens by Saltash concerning female bastard child, born 20 Aug. 1775, to Mary Hoblyn; putative father Charles Brenton of St Austell: weekly maintenance and lying-in expenses.

Francis Bridges of Grampound, excise officer; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d.

Presentments against St Kew, Sancreed and Constantine: to be held over to next sessions.

QS/1/4/96

Julian Barnes; committed to bridewell as rogue and vagabond: to be admonished and passed to her last legal place of settlement.

John Quenill; committed to bridewell as rogue and vagabond: to be admonished and discharged.

Charity Kemp and Mary Northy; committed to bridewell as whores and vagabonds: to be admonished and discharged.

Indictment by Elizabeth Bamfield of Hannibal Tregonning of St Michael's Mount, fisherman, and Samuel Gundry of Helston yeoman, for theft of one anchor [anker] of train oil: quashed for insufficiency.

Margaret Skinner and Chesson Sampson, both of Gwennap, single women; convicted of stealing one gallon of Welsh coals, value 1d., from Sir William Lemon: to be privately whipped.

John Argall of St Clements, labourer, accused of stealing a pair of leather shoes from John Edwards: acquitted.

Stephen Harris of St Ewe, labourer; convicted of stealing 14 lbs of beef, value 6d., from James Drew, and a horse whip, value 6d., from Richard Rowse: to be transported for 7 years.

QS/1/4/97

Richard Couch of St Austell, mariner; convicted of stealing a silver watch from Jeremiah Gist, value 6d.: to be privately whipped.

William Angove and William Pearse, both of Redruth, labourers; tried for stealing a silver spoon, value 6d., from John Gray: Pearse acquitted; Angove convicted, public whipping.

John Renorden: to remain in custody for want of sureties.

Philip Retallack; committed to bridewell for lack of sureties in bastardy: to be discharged.

Jenny Earle of Tintagel, spinster; convicted of assault on Rebecca Chilcott: fined 6d.

QS/1/4/98

Charles Chilcott of Tintagel; convicted of assault on Thomasine Earle: fined 6d.

Richard Legge, esq., of Falmouth; convicted of assault on Mary Bovey: fined £63.

John Skinnard of St Neot, yeoman, bailiff of the hundred of West: fined 40s. for non-attendance.

John Clements of Pillaton, gent.: fined 40s. for not attending the Grand Inquest.

John Trehane of Menheniot, yeoman, and James Pope of Pillaton, yeoman: fined 40s. each for not attending the petty jury.

Thomas Right of Truro, yeoman, committed to bridewell in felony; and Thomas Bray, likewise committed as rogue and vagabond: to be discharged for want of prosecution.

James Jenking of Redruth, gent.: appointed to make weekly returns of corn prices at Redruth, in place of John Williams, deceased.

QS/1/4/99

Surveyor (east) to repair Polston and Sowden bridges. One bridge rate to be levied and paid to Trehane Symons, surveyor (east).

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

Bridewell to be repaired.

William Giddy of Kea, gent.; convicted of assault on William Trebilcock: fined 1d.