Sessions held at Lostwithiel

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Justices: Henry Hawkins Tremayne, Benjamin Forster, Sampson Sandys, clerks; William Pennington, esq.

Jury: Richard Roseveare, Francis Brown, Christopher Hambly, William Flamank, Thomas Robins, Thomas Mellew, William Pease, William Searle, Ralph Powne, John Deeble, Richard Hicks, William Roberts, Hugh Williams, Ralph Cole, gents.

Recognizance to appear at next sessions:

Christopher Medlen of Constantine

John Nicholas of Constantine, gent., surety.

John Warne; committed to bridewell as dissolute and disorderly: to remain in custody.

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Salary and fees of the Clerk of the Peace to be paid.

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Continued appeal of Penryn against order dated 24 July 1779 for removal of Grace Crago, single woman, aged 30, from Falmouth to Penryn: order reversed.

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Appeal of John Whitaker of Ruan Lanihorne, clerk, against fine of 5s. for failing to provide a plough for repair of the parish roads: appeal dismissed.

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Sworn statements by John Roberts, master, and James Evans, mate, of the vessel Catherine, that, after shipping 27 tons of salt at Bristol on 3 Dec. 1779, to be taken to Padstow for Edward Fox of Wadebridge, merchant, and paying duty on the same, 2 tons 18 cwt. were lost due to bad weather.

Nicholas Sinclair; committed to bridewell for want of sureties in misdemeanour: to remain in custody.

Thomas Colensoe; committed for assault: to remain in custody.

Catherine Harris; committed as riotous: to be admonished and discharged.

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Patience Rodda and Mary Donnithorne; committed to bridewell as riotous and debauched: to remain in custody.

Surveyor (east) to repair Polston, Greeson, Amble and Tresarrett bridges.

Presentment of highways of Falmouth and St Agnes: to be held over.

James Gendall; committed to bridewell for running away and leaving his family chargeable to Sithney: to be discharged.

Richard Floyd; committed in bastardy: to be discharged.

Nicholas White; accused of burglary: to be held until next assizes.

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James Werry of St Mary's Truro; acquitted of stealing 7 linen handkerchiefs, value 7s., from Richard Curgenven to be discharged.

Agnes Clarke of Millbrook, Maker; acquitted of stealing 7 silver shillings from Joanna Kellow: to be discharged.

Richard Mathews; committed for running away before the expiration of his apprenticeship: to be discharged.

John Cock of Crowan, tinner; convicted of stealing 2 geese, value 6d., from Mary Hart, widow: 12 months imprisonment.

John Southern, late of Morval, labourer; convicted of stealing 20 lbs. of hay, value 2d., from Francis Olver: 1 month imprisonment.

Thomas Dowrick, late of Veryan, yeoman; now pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d.

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Application of Lanivet for scire facias against William Bawden, late of Lanlivery, now of Helland, farmer, and his pledges, Thomas Bawden, late of Helland, now of Cardinham, yeoman, and Richard Coppin of Helland, yeoman, for non-performance of order of bastardy against him, having been sworn the putative father of the child of Jenefer Thomas, now Jenefer Lukey: application granted.

Ann Bennetts; convicted of stealing a pair of women's leather shoes, value 2d., from Thomas Davey: to remain in custody for a month.

Amy Roberts of Kenwyn, single woman; pleaded guilty to stealing 23 copper halfpence from Thomas Searle: to remain in custody for a month.

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One bridge rate to be levied and paid to Trehane Symons, gent., Surveyor (east).

Two gaol and marshalsea rates to be levied and paid to Samuel Hext, gent., Vice-Treasurer.

Accounts of Edmund Leach, gaoler and bridewell keeper at Bodmin, and John Mules gaoler at Launceston: seen and allowed.

Vice-Treasurer to pay interest due on loans raised for building the new jail.

Accounts of Jos. Hick, late bridewell keeper: seen and allowed.

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Complaint of Edmund Leach, Bodmin Gaoler, that Thomas Jones, the contractor, had not completed the buildings in a proper, workmanlike way: complaint dismissed as groundless; Edmund Leach discharged from his office, with immediate effect, because of several instances of misbehaviour, James Chapple being appointed temporary gaoler. Post to be advertised in two Sherborne papers, the appointment to be made at adjourned sessions at the White Hart, Bodmin.