Sessions held at Lostwithiel

QS/1/6/560

Justices: Sir Christopher Hawkins; Weston Helyar, Thomas Graham, esqs; Charles Mayson, D.D.; John Molesworth, Edmund Gilbert, William Gregor, John Bennet, Edward Pole, Joseph Pomery, clerks; and others.

Jury: Richard Vincent, Philip Ball, Benjamin Mitchell, Nicholas Rowse, John Tresize, Joseph Moon, James Hill, Charles Cawse, Charles Wilcock, Thomas Sargeant, Gregory Raby, John Cook, Roger Henwood, John Honey, John Quiller, Christopher Maynard, gents.

Three gaol and marshalsea rates to be levied and paid to Edward Coode, jun., gent., Vice-Treasurer.

QS/1/6/561

Presentments of highways in Linkinhorne, St Columb Major, Lezant and Talland: continued to next sessions.

Appeal by St Breock against order of 1 June 1799 for the removal of Henry Williams, pauper, and wife Mary, from Bodmin to St Breock: order reversed; Bodmin to pay St Breock costs.

QS/1/6/562

Application by St Breock re male bastard born at St Breock 28 June 1799; mother Elizabeth Oliver, father Richard Fradd of St Breock, yeoman: R. F. to pay 1s. 8d. and E. O. 10d. weekly; R. F. to pay £3 15s. 6d. towards lying-in costs.

QS/1/6/563

Appeal of Talland against order of 1 May 1799 for the removal of Mary Reynolds and son James from East Looe to Talland: order reversed [no costs awarded].

QS/1/6/563, 564

Application by Bodmin re female bastard born at Bodmin 31 Jan. 1799; mother Mary Hocken, father Edward Lawrence of Truro, gent: E. L. to pay 2s. 6d. and M. H. 1s. 3d. weekly; E. L. to pay £7. 17s. 4d. towards lying-in costs.

QS/1/6/564, 565

Application by Falmouth re male bastard born at Falmouth 30 May 1799; mother Thomasin Warren, father Henry Boase of Falmouth, labourer: H. B. to pay 1s. 8d. and T. W. 10d. weekly; H. B. to pay £1 7s. 0d. towards lying-in costs.

QS/1/6/565, 566

Application by St Wenn re male bastard born at St Wenn 25 June 1799; mother Jane Edyvean, father William Coad of Roche, tinner: W. C. to pay 1s. 8d. and J. E. 10d. weekly; W. C. to pay £3 17s. 0d. towards lying-in costs.

QS/1/6/566, 567

Application by Lanlivery re female bastard born at Lanlivery 6 May 1799; mother Ann Hender, father Joseph Thomas of Bradock, yeoman: J. T. to pay 1s. 8d., A. H. 10d. weekly; J. T. to pay £3 17s. 0d. towards lying-in costs.

QS/1/6/567, 568

Application by St Stephen in Brannel re female bastard born at St Stephen 25 Jan. 1799; mother Elizabeth Tregonning, father John Best, jun., of St Stephen, yeoman: J. B. to pay 1s. 8d. and E. T. 10d. weekly; J. B. to pay £3 7s. 0d. towards lying-in costs.

QS/1/6/568

Appeal of Madron against order of 8 July 1799 for the removal of Edward Paul, wife Sarah, and children Jane (11), John (7) and Edward (4) from Penzance to Madron: lodged and continued to next sessions.

Presentment of highways in St Ervan: discharged.

QS/1/6/569

Appeal of Mary Walker against appointment made by William Symons, mayor, of John Symons of Grampound to be Overseer of the Poor for Grampound: appointment confirmed; Mary Walker to pay £1 6s. 8d. costs.

Mary Hocking and Margaret Weeks; in custody for being disorderly, riotous and lewd women in Camborne: discharged.

Sarah Gatley; in custody as an idle and disorderly person in Veryan: discharged.

Howell Williams; in custody for wandering and begging in Bodmin: discharged.

Charles Lawnder; in custody for leaving his family chargeable to Helston: discharged.

QS/1/6/570

Henry Langdon; in custody for leaving his family chargeable to Tintagel: discharged.

Benjamin Anthony and William Anthony; in custody for wandering and begging in Manaccan: continued in custody with hard labour.

Ann Northey; in custody for being a disorderly person in Kenwyn: continued in custody to next sessions.

Joseph Harker; in custody for leaving his family chargeable to St Agnes: 3 months' hard labour.

John Williams and wife, Mary; in custody for wandering and begging in St Ewe: discharged.

Elizabeth Symons and Ann Barker; in custody for wandering and begging in Liskeard: discharged.

QS/1/6/571

John Smith; in custody for wandering and begging in Redruth: discharged.

Peter Treleaven; in custody for wandering and begging in Redruth: continued in custody to next sessions.

Recognizances:

Thomas Giles of St Austell, officer of customs, £20;

Philip Ball of the same, shopkeeper, £10, for Thomas Giles to appear at next sessions.

Thomas Giles, £20; and Philip Ball, £10, for Mary, wife of Thomas Giles, to appear at next sessions.

Mary Giles of St Austell, spinster, £20;

Thomas Giles, £10; and Philip Ball £20, for Mary Giles to appear at next sessions.

QS/1/6/572

Recognizances:

Thomas Giles, £20; and Philip Ball, £10, for Martha Giles to appear at next sessions.

Charles Lobb of St Austell, £20; and Thomas Giles, £10, for Charles Lobb to appear at next sessions.

Abraham Henderson of Bodmin, labourer, £20, for wife Patience to appear at next sessions.

Alice Bennet; in custody for wandering and begging in Liskeard: one month's hard labour.

Ann Cook, Elizabeth Pye and Elizabeth Kendall; in custody for being disorderly and found wandering in Lanhydrock: one month's hard labour.

QS/1/6/573

Richard Westcott, wife Martha, and son Richard; in custody: one month's hard labour.

Ann Reynolds and Thomasine Warren; in custody for being idle, drunken and disorderly in Falmouth: continued in custody to next sessions.

John Best; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify St Stephen in Brannel re bastardy: continued in custody to next sessions.

Robert Hicks; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify Menheniot re bastardy: continued in custody to next sessions, the woman not yet having given birth.

Henry Boas; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify Falmouth re bastardy: continued in custody to next sessions.

QS/1/6/574

James Jenkyns; in custody for want of sureties in breach of peace on Ann Prowse: discharged.

Mary Penrose; in custody for assaulting William Keast: discharged.

James Clemoe; in custody for want of sureties in breach of peace against James Stevens: continued in custody to next sessions.

Matthew George, late of Redruth, labourer; convicted for taking one pair of iron shoe buckles and one pair of shoes, value 6d., the property of James Truran: transported to New South Wales for 7 years.

James Row, late of Tintagel, labourer; convicted of taking 7 sheaves of oats, value 6d., the property of John Marshall: 12 months' hard labour.

QS/1/6/575

Recognizances:

Thomas Davy, for appearance of George Davy re bastardy: continued to next sessions, the woman not yet having given birth.

John Peter of St Columb Major, gent., and his surety Revd Richard Paul: continued to next sessions.

John Edwards of Truro, gent, and surety Thomas Devonshire of Truro, gent.: continued to next session.

Richard Wells of Deal, mariner, and pledges Richard Moon and Michael Buckeridge: estreated.

Presentment of highways in Tregony: discharged.

Mary Clemence, late of Bodmin; acquitted of taking 8 pieces of silver shillings, the property of William Davey.

Recognizance:

Edward Whitley of Lanhydrock, yeoman, £20; and Reuben Nanjulian of Bodmin, saddler, £10, for Edward Whitley to appear at next sessions.

QS/1/6/576

John Berryman, late of Towednack, labourer, and Thomas Martins, late of Lelant, labourer; convicted of taking 5 gold guineas, the property of Frances Bamfield: 2 years' hard labour.

The quarter sessions in future to commence on Tuesday of the week in which they are held; notice of the change to be given by advertisement in the Sherborne and Exeter newspaper, one month before next sessions.

John Powell, late of Ruan Lanihorne, labourer; convicted of taking one tin pint, value 2d., and other articles, the property of John Jane Browne; 1 month's hard labour, then to be privately whipped and discharged.

QS/1/6/576, 577

Oath of Robert Moon, gent., High Constable of West Hundred, that he has held office for 15 years, and 15 years before that assisted his father Theophilus Moon, deceased, in the same office, and that Liskeard has, until last year, contributed one third of the County rate: order made at Epiphany sessions 1795 excluding Liskeard from any benefit of the County rate to be reversed.

QS/1/6/577

Recognizance:

William Runnalls of Cardinham, miller, £20;

Richard Symons of Bodmin, yeoman, £10; and Oliver Cullis of Bodmin, victualler, £10, for William Runnalls to appear at next sessions.