Sessions held at Lostwithiel

QS/1/5/262

Justices: John Buller, Thomas Graham, Francis Glanville, esqs.; Benjamin Forster, Edmund Gilbert, clerks.

Jury: Richard Carveth, Nicholas Male, John Higgs, Benjamin Andrew, Thomas Julyan, Bennett Mitchell, Sampson Roberts, William May, William Pearce, Robert Bone, Peter Hugo, William Hill, John Littleton, Walter Treleven, Humphry Hickes, John Hickes, John Michell.

Four gaol and marshalsea rates to be levied and paid to the Vice-treasurer.

QS/1/5/263

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

Richard Hand of Madron, labourer

Thomas Leggoe of Paul, surety

William Gartrell of St Hilary, yeoman

Thomas Phillipps and John Mollard of Germoe, tinners, sureties

Nicholas Colmer of Rame, mariner

Walter Colmer of Fowey, mariner, and Job Moyle of Plymouth, mariner, sureties

John Hickes, in bridewell for begging at Egloshayle: discharged.

QS/1/5/263, 264

Application by St Issey concerning male bastard born at St Issey on 6 May, son of Ann Yates of St Issey, single woman: Henry Warne of St Breock, alleged father, to pay 16d. weekly maintenance and £3 10s. 0d. lying-in expenses, etc.; Ann Yates to pay 8d. weekly.

QS/1/5/264, 265

Application by St Issey concerning male bastard born at St Issey on 13 May, son of Joan Smith: Henry Warne of St Breock, yeoman, alleged father, to pay 16d. weekly maintenance and £3 10s. lying-in expenses, etc.; Joan Smith to pay 8d. weekly.

QS/1/5/265

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

George Rees of Roche, officer of excise (own surety)

Samuel Teage of St Martins, miller (own surety)

Appeal of Breage against order of 27 June for removal of Grace Hosking, single woman, from St Erth to Breage: held over.

QS/1/5/266

Appeal of Perranarworthal against order of 3 July for removal of Anthony Johns from Feock to Perranarworthal: held over.

Appeal of Stithians [see QS/1/5/246]: held over.

QS/1/5/267

Appeal of John Snell in respect of poor rate for Feock, made by Robert Watkins and John Tallack, churchwardens, and Thomas Nicholls and Samuel Stephens, overseers, on 2 June: rate quashed for insufficiency; costs to appellant.

Thomas Kendall of St Tudy, mason; assault and battery: indictment quashed for insufficiency.

Presentments for non-repair of highways against Newlyn, Constantine, Perranuthnoe and Minster: held over; and that against Kenwyn: discharged.

QS/1/5/268

James Cannon of St Stephen by Saltash, yeoman; accused of assault on George Brown: acquitted.

Average prices of grain sold in the county certified as: wheat 5s. 2d., barley 2s. 9d., oats 1s. 8d.

Robert Bullock of St Enoder, labourer; three charges of assault and battery, pleaded guilty: fined 1d. on each.

Hugh Bullock of St Enoder, labourer; two similar charges, pleaded guilty: fined 1d. on each.

James Strongman of St Columb Major; assault and battery, pleaded guilty: fined 1d.

QS/1/5/269

Francis Symons, innkeeper, his wife Elizabeth, Henry Blake and Richard Sampson, all of St Columb Major; assault and battery, pleaded guilty: fined 1d. each.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

Edward Richards of Mawgan in Meneage

James Williams of Mawgan in Meneage, yeoman, surety

James Tippett, of Falmouth, gent., surety

William Lukey of Helston, labourer

James Tippett of Falmouth, gent., surety

Richard Nancollas, in bridewell as an idle and disorderly person: three months' hard labour.

William Best, in bridewell for begging: held over.

Robert Hart and Richard Blamey, in bridewell for want of sureties in bastardy to indemnify Budock and Gwennap, respectively: discharged.

QS/1/5/270

Robert Matthew, in bridewell for want of sureties in bastardy to indemnify St Keverne: discharged.

William Morcomb, in bridewell for want of sureties in bastardy to indemnify Mawgan in Meneage: held over.

Peter Merrifield, in bridewell for want of sureties in bastardy to indemnify Probus: discharged, as surety given.

Thomas Giles, jun., in bridewell for a breach of the peace on Lawrence Best Gill: held over.

John Martin, in bridewell on suspicion of stealing, from the mill of John Boase of Madron, 12 gallons of wheat-flour and 8 gallons of wheat: discharged.

QS/1/5/ 271

Mary Ann Hugo of Kenwyn, single woman; stealing one handkerchief and one bed sheet, value 6d., the property of the parish, pleaded guilty: to serve 3 months hard labour, separate from the rest of the prisoners, and be whipped privately on the first Monday of each such month.

John Williams and John Sharrop (als Sharp); stealing one dowlas shirt and one woollen petticoat from John Crowle, value 6d.: John Sharrop, 3 months' hard labour and public whipping; John Williams, 3 months' hard labour.

Mary Williams and Rebecca Sharp, indicted for the same offence as above: acquitted.

Charles Launder; stealing one piece of canvas tarpaulin from William Gitchard and others, value 6d.: one month's hard labour.

John Rodda of Ludgvan, labourer; accused of stealing one woollen shirt, one other shirt, and one pair of linen trousers, value 6d., from Richard Stephens: acquitted.

William Courtis of Gwennap, labourer; assault and battery on Sampson Nicholls: fined £20, with two months' hard labour; and to remain in custody until the fine is paid.

QS/1/5/272

John Lemin of Redruth, yeoman; stealing 4 lb. of tallow candles, value 2d., from Thomas Tiddy: six months' hard labour.

Joseph Walters of St Keverne, labourer; stealing one dowlas shirt, value 1d., from Richard Rogers: two months' hard labour.

Mary Gill of St Keverne, single woman; stealing one gallon of barley, value 1d., from Simon Pentecost: 14 days' hard labour.

Grace, wife of Thomas Cown [Corin?] of Falmouth; accused of stealing one silver sugar tongs and other pieces of silver from William Tremayne, gent.: acquitted.

QS/1/5/273

John Rodda of Ludgvan, tinner; stealing one woollen shirt, value 1d., from James Edwards: one month's hard labour.

Charles Polkinghorne of Falmouth, labourer; stealing one dowlas shirt, value 2d.: one month's hard labour and then to be passed to his last place of legal settlement.

Hugh Dower; stealing a loin of veal, value 2d., from Arthur Jolly: three months' hard labour and private whipping.

Richard Bernard; stealing one dowlas shirt and one pair of trousers, value 2d., from Hugh Houghton: one month's hard labour.

Trevemper bridge to be repaired by the Surveyor (west).

QS/1/5/274

Thomas Carlyon of St Just in Roseland, clerk; pleaded guilty to not repairing Penance Arch [a bridge], Creed: fined 6d.