Item
Sessions at Truro
Catalogue reference: QS/1/3/216-223
What’s it about?
This record is about the Sessions at Truro dating from 8 April 1766.
Access information is unavailable
Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- QS/1/3/216-223
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Sessions at Truro
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 8 April 1766
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
QS/1/3/216
Justices: Walter Borlase, doctor of laws; Penhallow Cuming, John Luke, esqs.
Jury: Thomas Bradford, John Hickes, John Cornish, Edward Martin, Richard Nicholas, Reginald Thomas, Thomas Powell, Henry Roberts, John Cornish, Robert Clemow, John Lanyon, Thomas Pope, Abraham Wellington, William Treverton, John Higman, John Harris, Thomas Hocking, Henry Jenkin, William Sampson, John Bosanco.
Recognizances to appear at next sessions:
Mary Geach of Lanteglos near Fowey, widow
Gregory Raby of Lanteglos, yeoman, surety
Jonathan Geach of Fowey, gent., surety
John Geach of Lanteglos, labourer
Gregory Raby of Lanteglos, yeoman, surety
Jonathan Geach of Fowey, gent., surety
QS/1/3/217
Appeal of Maker [QS/1/3/210]: order discharged.
John Tom, in bridewell for leaving his family chargeable to St Issey: discharged for want of prosecution.
Appeal of John Coryton, esq., against poor-relief assessment for Fowey made by Robert Howson, churchwarden, and Arthur Crocker, John Pearn and William Millett, overseers of the poor: assessment quashed.
QS/1/3/218
William Harvey, his wife Elizabeth, William Harvey, jun., and Ann Harvey, all of Camelford; assault and battery, confessed: fined 6d. each.
Richard and William Dennis, both of Kenwyn, tinners; assault and battery, confessed: fined 6d. each.
James Penwarden of Week St Mary, and wife Eulalia; assault and battery, confessed: fined 6d. each.
Thomas Harris, labourer, and Priscilla Courtis, spinster, both of Week St Mary; assault and battery, confessed: fined 6d. each.
Bleuman Yendall of Constantine, labourer; stealing goods of Richard Williams, value 1d.; petty larceny: to be transported to America for 7 years.
Vice-treasurer to pay Thomas Wordon expenses in the prosecution of John Jenkin.
Account of John Lyne, gent., Vice-treasurer: allowed.
John Trebell of Blisland, mason; stealing goods of William Jeckin [Jenkin?], value 2d.; petty larceny: private whipping.
QS/1/3/219
John Jenkin als Genkin of Lostwithiel; stealing goods of Thomas Wordon, value 1d.; petty larceny: to be transported to America for 7 years.
Isaac Cattle of Truro, currier; stealing goods of Joan Pedven, value 1d.; petty larceny: private whipping.
Account of Trehane Symons, gent., Surveyor (east): allowed.
QS/1/3/219-221
Rates for carriage of goods not to exceed certain (specified) limits.
QS/1/3/221
Walter Borlase and Sir John Glanvill to continue as Treasurers for a further year.
Recognizance to appear at next sessions:
John Hichens of Illogan, gent.
James Paul of Redruth, gent., surety
Appeal of St Mary Magdalen, Launceston, against order of 4 March for removal of Mary Brown, single woman, from St Stephens by Launceston to St Mary: held over.
Application of Edward Tippitt of Newlyn for discharge of Mary Harris, poor child, from apprenticeship with him: granted.
QS/1/3/222
Account of Joseph Yonge, Surveyor (west): allowed; and one bridge rate to be levied and paid to him.
Vice-treasurer to pay Mr Hendy, coroner, his bill.
Vice-treasurer to pay Richard Williams his expenses in the prosecution of Bleuman Yendall.
Thomas Bray, in bridewell as a rogue and vagabond: to be admonished and discharged.
Susanna Clark, in bridewell as a rogue and vagabond: to be passed to Scotland, her place of settlement.
Indictment against Nicholas Baily of Kea, tinner, by Thomas Truren, for a misdemeanour: quashed for insufficiency.
Indictment against William Devonshire of Tregony, mason, by Edward Medicott, for a misdemeanour: quashed for insufficiency.
Indictment against Francis Lang of Landrake, yeoman, by Richard Dingle, for a misdemeanour: quashed for insufficiency.
QS/1/3/223
Indictment against Francis Lang of Landrake, yeoman, by John Carew, esq., for a misdemeanour: quashed for insufficiency.
Indictment against Henry Jenkin, yeoman, and Edward Row, jun., labourer, both of Crowan, by William John, gent., for a misdemeanour; and a similar indictment by John Davy, yeoman: quashed for insufficiency.
Surveyor (west) to complete repairs to Long Bridge forthwith.
Account of John Eyre: allowed.
Account of James Row: allowed.
Vice-treasurer to pay William Jenkin expenses in the prosecution of John Trebell.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- Cornwall Record Office
-
Language (The language of the record)
- English
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/308d2ab6-1ae8-4fe1-8d6f-6a59e1c8fd39/
Series information
QS/1
Quarter Sessions Order Books
See the series level description for more information about this record.
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at Cornwall Record Office
Within the fonds: QS
Cornwall Quarter Sessions Records
Within the series: QS/1
Quarter Sessions Order Books
Within the file: QS/1/3
Quarter Sessions Order Book
You are currently looking at the item: QS/1/3/216-223
Sessions at Truro