Sessions held at Lostwithiel

QS/1/2/183

Justices: Sir John Glanvill, John Fortescue, Joshua Howell, William Webb, esqs.

Jury: Nicholas Butland, Roger Pascoe, Samuel Gully, Thomas Powell, Benjamin Hockin, John Yelland, William Parnell, William Slade, William Wills, Benjamin Nott, Nicholas Cole, Christopher Moone, John Cossentine, William Cossentine, gents.

Charles Medlyn of Kenwyn; confessed to assault and battery: fined 6d.

Presentment against St Germans for not repairing highway: discharged.

QS/1/2/183, 184

Application by John Palk of Fowey for a licence as a badger-lader, kidder-carrier, and transporter of corn and grain: granted for one year; applicant, John Sturtridge of Lostwithiel, and John Harper of Lostwithiel, sureties.

QS/1/2/184

Fine of £20 imposed on Newlyn for not repairing highway, to be paid to Robert Hoblyn.

Presentment against Perranuthnoe, St Hilary and Marazion: held over.

Appeal of John Tremayne, esq., against accounts of St Ewe: held over.

QS/1/2/185

Recognizance to attend next sessions:

Stephen Harris of St Allen

Stephen Harris, jun., surety

James Allen of St Hilary; stealing goods, value 6d., of Robert Hoblyn, esq.: public whipping.

Nicholas Langman of Lawhitton, yeoman; tried for a misdemeanour: acquitted.

John Williams of Gwinear, labourer; stealing goods, value 2d., of Thomas Dunstone: public whipping.

William Row of Gerrans, labourer; tried for stealing goods of Nicholas Kemp, esq.: acquitted.

Joseph Nicholls, in bridewell for begetting a bastard child of Mary Stribley of Launceston: discharged.

QS/1/2/185, 186

Complaint by St Keverne against George John, lately committed to bridewell, for leaving his family chargeable to the parish: held that George John is a rogue and vagabond, and that he be held in bridewell for 6 months, receiving the correction of the house once a month.

QS/1/2/186

Complaint by Liskeard against John Dunn, in bridewell as a rogue and vagabond: John Dunn to be held in bridewell for 6 months, receiving the correction of the house once a month.

One gaol and marshalsea rate to be raised.

Account of James Row, gaoler: allowed.

Account of John Eyre, bridewell-keeper: allowed.