Sessions held at Lostwithiel

QS/1/2/99

Justices: Thomas Pitt, Francis Gregor, John Radcliffe Gregor, John Fortescue.

Jury: William Martyn, Richard Brewer, Joseph Lockwood, John Treffry, Hugh Littleton, William Austyn, Hugh Littleton, Henry Maynard, James Richards, Peter Couch, Jonathan Avery, James Thomas, Henry Michell, John Gilbert, John Nankivell, gents.

QS/1/2/100,101

Presentment of Duloe for not repairing highways: discharged on payment of court fees.

Presentment of Veryan for not repairing highways: held over.

John Dilling, alias Jeffery, of Sithney: committed to house of correction, for bastardy, for 12 months' hard labour, and to receive the discipline of the house.

Application by St Cleer concerning a female bastard child born to Ann Bate on 24 December 1751: Thomas Coad of St Neot, labourer, alleged father to pay 1s. weekly maintenance; Ann Bate to pay 6d. weekly; Thomas Coad and Richard Roseveare of Tywardreath, gent., sureties.

QS/1/2/101

Thomas Aver of Perranzabuloe; tried for stealing goods of Richard Ham: acquitted.

Application by William Herring of Pillaton, married, house-keeper, over 30, for licence to operate as a badger lader, kidder carrier, buyer and transporter of corn: granted for 1 year; sureties, William Herring, John Herring, and William Bond of Calstock.

QS/1/2/101, 102

Similar application by John Anstis of St Germans: granted for 1 year; sureties, John Anstis, Henry Maynard of St Germans, and Nathaniel Carkeet of East Looe.

QS/1/2/102

Similar application by Henry Maynard of St Germans: granted for 1 year; sureties, Henry Maynard, Nathaniel Carkeet of East Looe, and John Anstis of St Germans.

QS/1/2/102,103

Similar application by Nathaniel Carkeet of East Looe: granted for 1 year; sureties, Nathaniel Carkeet, John Anstis of St Germans, and Henry Maynard of St Germans.

QS/1/2/103

Elizabeth Harding of St Breock, widow; confessed to a misdemeanour: fined 1s. and committed to bridewell for 6 months, and then for up to one year or until security produced.

William Bray and Elizabeth Hallett of Marhamchurch; confessed to assault and battery: fined 6d. each.

John Comon of Ladock and Charles Bennett of St Stephens; petty larceny of goods, value, 6d., of James Jolley and others; transported to America for 7 years.

QS/1/2/103, 104

Vice-treasurer to pay Clerk of the Peace for contracts, etc., for transporting Richard Bawden from Bodmin Assizes, for warrants levying gaol and marshalsea rates at Easter and Michaelmas, and for carrying statute books. Also to pay Sir John Molesworth for repairs to the bridewell. Salary of the Clerk of the Peace, and accounts of the Surveyors, gaoler and bridewell-keeper to be paid.

QS/1/2/104

Appeal of Gerrans against order of 14 August for removal of Alice Geach, spinster, from Budock to Gerrans: held over.

Presentments of Ludgvan and Mabe for not repairing highways: held over.

Joseph Vice and wife Diana, of Talland; petty larceny, stealing goods, value 3d., from Thomas Mellow: Joseph Vice to be publicly whipped; Diana, privately whipped.

QS/1/2/105

James Penticost, in bridewell as idle and disorderly: discharged.

Vice-treasurer to pay John Eyre, bridewell-keeper, and Thomas Turner, gaoler, their salaries and other costs.