Sessions held at Lostwithiel

QS/1/4/270

Justices: Benjamin Forster, William Henry Reynell, clerks; William Pennington, esq.

Jury: Richard Rosevear, Thomas Adams, Richard Hawkey, William Thomae [Thomas?], Robert Vincent, William Petherick, Thomas Tallack, Samuel Penticcost, William Smith, Thomas Jago, William Hick, James Littleton, Richard Cullis, Nicholas Stick, Joseph Teage, Reginald Billing.

James Uren, als Badneck, of Buryan, labourer, to appear at next sessions. William Bojustow of Buryan, labourer, surety.

QS/1/4/271

Appeal of Gwennap against order dated 16 May 1780 for removal of William Goard, wife, Kerenhappuch, and Archelaus, his son by a former wife, from Redruth to Gwennap: order reversed.

QS/1/4/272

Recognizances to appear at next sessions.

Thomas Wood of Northwalsham, Norfolk, corporal in Leicestershire Militia;

Robert Astle of Leicester, esq.; and Thomas Freer of Oakam, Rutland, esq., sureties.

James Tonkin, blacksmith; and James Murley, yeoman, both of St Buryan;

Thomas Tonkin of St Buryan, yeoman, surety.

Jacob Prout of St Agnes, blacksmith;

Abraham Prout, jun., of St Agnes, gent., surety.

QS/1/4/272, 273

Appeal of Gwennap against order dated 16 May 1780 for removal of Grace Kitto, widow, and children, Grace (13), Mary (11), Francis (9), Thomas (7), James (5), Ann (3) and Richard (1), from Redruth to Gwennap: order confirmed.

QS/1/4/273, 274

Appeal of Constantine against order dated 10 Apr. 1780 for removal of Margery Grenfield, widow of John Grenfield, and children, Mary (7), William (5) and Henry (3), from Mawnan to Constantine: order reversed.

QS/1/4/274, 275

Application of St Columb Major concerning female bastard child born 16 May 1780 to Elizabeth Saundry, single woman; putative father William Liddycoat of St Wenn: maintenance and lying-in costs awarded.

QS/1/4/276

Application of Lanteglos by Camelford concerning male bastard child born 13 Apr. 1780 to Catherine Clarke, single woman; putative father William Cock, the child having died a week earlier: maintenance and lying-in costs awarded.

John Hodge of St Mellion fined 40s. for not attending as juryman.

QS/1/4/277

Application by Robert Martyn, gent., and others of Kilkhampton, against Robert Butters, Roger Hayn, John Palmer and Richard Cann, churchwardens and overseers 1779-1780, for wrongful expenses and payments: dismissed for want of sufficient notice.

QS/1/4/277, 278

Application by St Erme for issue of scire facias against Osborn Fittock, late of Newlyn, labourer, and his pledges, Richard Gully, William Prinn, Theophilus Lawer and James Oxenham, all of Newlyn, for non-performance of bastardy order dated 16 Jan. 1771 for begetting a female bastard child on Catharine Pearne, single woman: application granted.

QS/1/4/278

John Foster of Penzance, customs officer, to be given certificate stating that he had preferred indictment against Nicholas Pentreath, labourer, and Joan Carroll, widow, both of Paul, for obstructing his seizure of ten gallons of foreign Geneva, under the Act against smuggling of 19 George III, the indictment being quashed for want of them being severally committed, according to the terms of the Act.

QS/1/4/278, 279

Nicholas Sinclair, late of Mabe; convicted of threatening to set fire to Mabe poor-house and to the house of Samuel Rail of Mabe, yeoman: hard labour until next Easter sessions.

QS/1/4/279

Thomas Colensoe, late of Madron, labourer; convicted of assault against William Rowe: hard labour until next Easter sessions.

Elizabeth Pelyne, late of St Mellion, spinster; convicted of stealing a plaid window-curtain, value 2d., from James Walker, gent.: hard labour until next Michaelmas sessions. Indictment against Joan Pelyne of St Mellion, widow, for receiving the curtain knowing it to be stolen: quashed for insufficiency.

QS/1/4/280

Jane Roach, late of Paul, spinster; acquitted of stealing two muslin caps and one Russia pillow-case from William Pentreath.

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

Indictment against William Taylor for stealing 1 lb. of bread and 1 lb. of figs from - Jordan, widow: quashed for insufficiency.

Mary Donnithorne; committed as lewd and disorderly, and kept in custody since last sessions: to be admonished and discharged.

Stephen Cocking; committed to bridewell as rogue and vagabond: to remain in custody until he enlists in Royal Navy or is delivered by due course of law.

Samuel Johns; committed as rogue and vagabond: to be admonished and discharged.

QS/1/4/281

John Hull and Ann Wilson, als Davis; committed to bridewell as rogues and vagabonds: to be admonished, examined and passed to their respective places of legal settlement.

Plea and traverse of Lanlivery to presentment for not repairing the road, from a gate near Castle Water through the lower way to Mill Town village, not having been answered, is judged to be pro confesso, and the inhabitants are discharged from that part of the presentment; the rest of the presentment of highways in Lanlivery to be held over to next sessions.

Presentment of average prices of corn, per Winchester bushel, as follows: wheat, 4s. 11d.; barley 1s. 11d.; oats, 1s. 4½d.; peas, 5s. 6d.

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