Sessions held at Bodmin

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Justices: Thomas Pitt, Francis Gregor, John Fortescue, John Radcliff Gregor, Sir John Molesworth.

Jury: John Arthur, William Bant, Christopher Andrew, George Marten, John Bray, John Borrow, John Peake, Thomas Mellow, Gilbert Casier, Ralph Cole, John Gill, Digory Kittow, Richard Davey, Nicholas Foot, Jeffery Wakely.

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Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

William Frost of Launceston, soap-boiler

Henry Frost, of same, tinsman, surety

William Pearce of Jacobstow, yeoman

Thomas Pyper of Warbstow, yeoman, surety

Thomas Pyper of Warbstow, yeoman

William Pearce of Jacobstow, yeoman, surety

John Row of Lanteglos by Fowey; confessed to misdemeanour: fined 6d.

Thomas Lobb, in bridewell for running away from his master: discharged.

John Pellow and Charles Williams: confessed to misdemeanour: fined 6d. each

Benjamin Wills of Perranzabulo; confessed to assault and battery: fined 6d.

William Meager, Thomas Broad and Henry Stacey, of Poundstock; confessed to misdemeanour: fined 6d. each.

One gaol and marshalsea rate to be raised and paid to Vice-treasurer.

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Appeal of Gunwalloe against order of 13 April last for removal of Blanche Banfield from St Martyn to Gunwalloe: order reversed.

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Presentment of Philleigh for not repairing highway: held over.

John Fortescue and John Tremayne, J.P., had inadvertently agreed payments at 6d. a mile, totalling 8s. 6d., for conveying vagrants, against the new rate of 3d. agreed at sessions held at Truro, 16 April 1751: payment to be allowed.

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Henry Bird, master, and William Paul, mariner, of sloop Seaflower of Boscastle, declared, on oath, that on 28 July last, they left Bristol with 7 tons of white salt, property of Edward Pearse of Camelford and Richard Wills of Boscastle (duty paid), to be carried to Boscastle; both sloop and salt were lost in a storm.

Recognizances to appear at next session:

John Hicks of St Kew, yeoman

John Earle of Tintagel, yeoman, surety

John Earle of Tintagel, yeoman

John Hicks of St Kew, yeoman, surety

Edward Hitchcock of Padstow, maltster

Malachi Spear and Hannibal Gammon of same place, sureties

Charles Hawke of Gwennap, tinner

John Goodman of Whitstone, yeoman; confessed to a misdemeanour: fined 6d.

Sussannah Lethan and William Jane: to be discharged from bridewell.

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Appeal by George Warmington Bewes, esq., against poor rate levied on 29 August last for Lanteglos by Camelford: rate quashed for insufficiency.

Thomas Sloggat and Thomas Dannam of Lanteglos by Camelford; acting as Overseers of the Poor without legal authority: to had the Vestry book relating to the poor to the present Churchwardens, John Barns and John Cock.

Accounts of gaoler and John Eyre: allowed.