Sessions held at Lostwithiel

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Justices: Benjamin Foster, clerk; Thomas Graham, esq.; John Coles, clerk; Christopher Hawkins, esq.

Jury: John Bond, John Nankivell, Kennett Banks, Peter Hambley, Joseph Moon, John Drew, William Edey, Richard Hennah, William Thomas, Edmund Wills, Samuel Rouse, Walter Hicks, Mathew Wellington, Richard Rosevear.

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Thomas Matthews, master of the sloop Fowey, testified that, on 21 December 1787, he shipped salt, duty paid at Bristol, for Fowey, of which 3 tons 4 cwt. were damaged due to a violent storm.

Average prices of grain sold in the county certified as: wheat 5s. 6d., barley 2s. 6d., oats 1s. 6d.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions (bound over to keep the peace, especially towards Joseph Harry and Eliza, his wife):

Jane Hambly of St Mabyn

William Hambley of Lostwithiel, mason, and Henry Hambley, mason, sureties

QS/1/5/289

Appeal of Luxulyan against order of 25 September for removal of Joan Woolcock, single woman, from St Breward to Luxulyan: order reversed; costs to Luxulyan.

Recognizance of Henry Osborne: discharged.

Case against John Gliddon of Bodmin [QS/1/5/277]: held over to next sessions due to non-attendance of witnesses.

QS/1/5/290

Appeal of Penryn against order of 3 January for the removal of Jane Rutter [Butler?], aged c.80, from Falmouth to Penryn: held over.

Humphry Harvey, gent., and Robert Tresidder, yeoman, both of Constantine; assault and battery, pleaded guilty: fined 6d. each.

Thomas Moyse, jun., of Minster; assault and battery, pleaded guilty: fined 6d.

Presentments against Constantine, Perranuthnoe, Gwennap, Newlyn and Minster for non-repair of highways: held over.

Recognizance of Joel Lean in the case against John Edwards and Ralph Marks for felony: discharged, as Edwards and Marks to give evidence against Mary Stephens and John Hosken; Ralph Marks to be discharged from custody.

QS/1/5/291

Appeal of Benjamin Pender, esq., against poor-rate assessment made on 27 December for Falmouth, on grounds that he had no trade or property there: his assessment to be struck out and his costs paid by Falmouth.

QS/1/5/292

Appeal of Benjamin Pender, esq., Jacob Wolfe, Michael F. McDonough, John Baulderson, jun., and Christopher Dicke, against poor-rate assessment made on 27 December for Falmouth, on grounds that they had no trade or property there: their assessments to be struck out and their costs paid by Falmouth.

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Treasurer to pay the Clerk of the Peace his salary, and various sums for his work and charges during the year, as specified.

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Appeal of Ruanlanihorne against order of 11 October for the removal of Isaac Bohenna from Kea to Ruanlanihorne: order reversed; costs to Ruanlanihorne.

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Presentments against Lanlivery and St Erth for non-repair of highways: notice of such presentments to be sent to their respective waywardens.

Appeal of Newlyn in Pydar against order of 22 November for the removal of Elizabeth Hoyte, spinster, from St Columb Minor to Newlyn: order confirmed; costs to St Columb Minor.

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Appeal [see QS/1/5/276] of St Erth against order for removal of Edmund Mills and wife Joan from Ludgvan: order reversed, with consent of both parties.

Elizabeth Kevill of Penzance, widow, accused of stealing six fighting cocks and six fowls from Thomas Corin: acquitted.

Thomas Kevill of Penzance, labourer; a similar charge of stealing six fighting cocks and fowls from John Corin: one month's hard labour.

Thomas Mildren of St Cleer, labourer; stealing two hen's eggs from Edward Hobling, gent.: one month's hard labour.

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Hercules Barnett of Kenwyn, tinner; stealing one piece of deal timber from Thomas Reed, esq., and others, the adventurers of Wheal Bush mine: one month's hard labour.

David Keskeys of Ludgvan, blacksmith; accused of stealing one iron rake from the Hon. John Jefferies Pratt and others: charge quashed for insufficiency.

John Hosking of Perranuthnoe; accused of stealing 40 lb. of iron: charge quashed for insufficiency.

Elizabeth, wife of John Westward of Lezant: charge quashed for insufficiency.

Simon Merrifield of Lanivet, mason; assault and battery, pleaded guilty: fined 6d.

John Teague, in bridewell for want of securities in bastardy case at St Hilary: discharged on payment to the parish of £10.

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Jacob Levy, late of the City of London, labourer; stealing one silver watch, value 9d., from Richard Johns of St Clement: to be transported for seven years.

Appeal of Francis Pender, esq., against poor-rate assessment made by Feock: held over.

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[See QS/1/5/277] Appeal of Perranarworthal against removal of Anthony Johns from Feock: order reversed; costs to Perranarworthal.

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Fine imposed on Gwinear for non-repair of highways and presentment against them: discharged.

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Recognizances of John Searle and John Michell, yeomen, both of Crantock: estreated.

William Best, Henry Mugford and Ann Pearce, in bridewell as vagrants: to remain in custody until next sessions.

Alice Nicholls, in bridewell as an idle and disorderly person: discharged.

Elizabeth Bennett and Mary Best, in bridewell as idle and disorderly persons: discharged.

Jane Poynter and Rose Harris, in bridewell as lewd, idle and disorderly persons: to remain in custody until next sessions.

John Jermyn, in bridewell as a rogue and vagabond: to be passed to Sancreed, his last place of legal settlement.

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Christian Sampson and Ann Phillips, in bridewell as lewd women: to remain in custody, with hard labour, until next sessions.

Edward Boase, in bridewell for want of sureties in bastardy: discharged.

Edward Dunstan and William Eyres, in bridewell for want of sureties to keep the peace: discharged.

Philip Tonkin, in bridewell for assault: discharged.

Francis Buckingham, in bridewell for assault and battery: discharged.

James Jenkins, in bridewell for an assault and battery on his mother, Johanna Jenkins, widow: discharged.

Three gaol and marshalsea rates to be levied and paid to the Vice-treasurer, and two gaol rates also.

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Security to be obtained from the bridge wardens for the execution of their office, and for the monies entrusted to them.