Sessions held at Bodmin

QS/1/6/469

Justices: Edmund Gilbert, clerk; William Flamank, Charles Mayson, D.D., Thomas Graham, Thomas Rawlings, John Cudlipp, John Lemon, esqs; John Molesworth, William Sandys, Edward Pole, Joseph Pomery, clerks; and others.

Jury: Thomas Filkins, Richard Varcoe, Richard Hawkey, Bernard Anstis, John Smith, Henry Hocken, Thomas Glanville, John Rogers, William Lean, John Werry, John Basset, Francis Cole, Nicholas Cole, Richard Henwood, John Martyn the elder, John Trebilcock, William Shephard, Richard Nance, Charles Parkyn, Gregory Mably, Theophilus Willcock, Christopher Ball, Samuel Jago, gents.

Presentments of highways in Redruth, Wendron, Crowan, Linkinhorne, Roche, St Ervan, St Columb Major, Lanivet, Mabe and Bodmin: continued to next sessions.

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

QS/1/6/470

Continued appeal of Kenwyn against order of 14 June

1797 for the removal of Jenefer Dorrington from Tregony to Kenwyn: order confirmed; Kenwyn to pay Tregony costs.

QS/1/6/470, 471

Continued appeal of Poundstock against order of 5 April 1797 for the removal of Ann Heard, single woman, from Marhamchurch to Poundstock: order confirmed; Poundstock to pay Marhamchurch costs.

QS/1/6/471

Appeal of St Tudy against order of 11 Sept. 1797 for the removal of Ann Snell, single woman, from St Kew to St Tudy: order confirmed; St Tudy to pay St Kew costs.

QS/1/6/472

Appeal of St Agnes against order of 26 Aug. 1797 for the removal of Annis Vigurs, widow, and children Betty and Amy, from Gwennap to St Agnes: lodged and continued to next sessions.

Appeal of Corydon Rowe, Mayor of Launceston, against rate made by Guardians of the Poor of Launceston on 12 Aug. 1797: ordered that his assessment be reduced.

QS/1/6/473

Recognizances:

Andrew Parnall of Padstow, wool-comber, £20; and

Thomas Best of Padstow, blacksmith, £10, that Andrew Parnall appear at next sessions.

Richard Eliot of Padstow, labourer, £20;, and Thomas Best of Padstow, blacksmith, £10, that Richard Eliot appear at next sessions.

QS/1/6/473, 474

Appeal of Langford Frost against a rate made by Guardians of the Poor of Launceston on 12 Aug. 1797; situation compared with that of Thomas Jago: ordered that his assessment be reduced and he be paid costs of appeal.

QS/1/6/474

Solomon Burall of Tuckingmill in Illogan, owner of building adjoining his house used for religious worship by Protestant dissenters: use recorded.

Continued appeal of Nicholas Reynolds, occupier and owner of lands and tenements in St Agnes, against rate made on 2 Feb. 1797 by John Tregellas and Josiah Tregellas, pretending to be churchwardens, and John Tregellas, Matthew Sylvester and Joseph James, pretending to be overseers: continued to next sessions.

QS/1/6/475

Israel Davies, master, and Jonas Richards, mate, both of the sloop Friends Good Will, swore that they shipped 2,707 bushels of British salt from Liverpool to Mevagissey; in stormy weather, 91 bushels were lost, not by leakage of the sloop or negligence by the crew.

Thomas Bowen, master, and John Renorden, mate, both of the sloop Flower in May, swore that they shipped on 4 Sep. 1797 1,600 bushels of white salt, duties paid at Droitwich by Ann Best, and carried to Hayle for John Edwards of Hayle. 114 bushels were lost in stormy weather, not by leakage of the sloop or negligence of the crew.

Continued appeal of Stephen Spargo against a rate made by Kea: continued to next sessions.

QS/1/6/476

James Hamilton; in custody as a rogue and vagabond: continued to next sessions.

[-] Hodge; in custody as a rogue and vagabond: discharged.

James Foley; in custody as a common breaker of the peace: discharged.

Thomas Andrew; in custody for running away and leaving his family chargeable to Menheniot: discharged.

Sarah Roberts; in custody for divers acts of vagrancy in Lanteglos by Fowey: continued to hard labour until next sessions.

QS/1/6/477

Presentment of the Burgesses of Bodmin for not repairing the Assize Hall: discharged; court fees to be paid to Deputy Clerk of County out of County stock.

Robert Bake of St Teath, gent., and George Simmons of Kea, gent.: fined 40s. for not attending for jury service.

Fine of £20 imposed on Roche for not repairing highways.

John Batten; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify Bridgerule re bastardy: discharged.

Thomasine Polmeer; in custody for being an idle and disorderly person and having threatened to set fire to the house of John Adams, gent.: continued to hard labour to next sessions.

QS/1/6/478

Charity Barrett; in custody on suspicion of receiving stolen iron: discharged.

Charles Spills, mariner, and James Ward, mariner, both late of Falmouth; convicted for taking one linen smock, value 6d., the property of John Henwood: in custody for one day, fined 1s., and then delivered to the regulating officer of the Navy.

Indictment by John Fisher, clerk, against Bodmin, for not repairing the highway: quashed for insufficiency; John Fisher to pay surveyors of the highway of Bodmin £3 9s. 4d. costs.

QS/1/6/479

Recognizances:

John Bunt, re bastardy and estreat: discharged.

Peter and Margaret Buckingham and estreat: discharged.

Mary Ann Stephens, wife of Jacob Stephens, late of St Winnow, yeoman: acquitted of taking 5 lbs. of beef, property of Thomas Kingdon.

Recognizances of John Kempe, jun., William Tyack, John Trewheela, William Trewheela and Christopher Trewheela, all of Towednack, re assault: discharged.

Bridget, wife of William Seccombe, late of Bodmin, labourer; convicted of assault on Mary, wife of Thomas Pearce: continued in custody for 14 days, and fined 1s.

QS/1/6/480

Martha Thomas; in custody for being drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner in Truro: discharged.

James Holman; in custody for running away and leaving his family chargeable to Perranzabuloe: discharged.

Andrew Knight, late of Grampound, labourer: acquitted of taking one silver teaspoon, value 6d., the property of Benjamin Gerrans.

John Richards, late of St Agnes: acquitted of taking one piece of iron, value 6d., and one piece of wrought iron, value 6d., the property of James Wyard Gooche, esq., and others.

Recognizance of Susanna Cullicoat of Mabe, spinster, to prefer indictment against Ann Martyn: estreated.

QS/1/6/481

Ann Martyn; in custody for stealing a linen bed gown, the property of Ann Martin: discharged for want of prosecution.

Joseph Tucker, late of Creed, labourer: acquitted of taking one corduroy waistcoat, value 6d., and one iron clasp-knife, value 3d., the property of Thomas Stone.

William Thomas, late of Stithians, labourer; convicted for receiving one piece of brass, value 5s., the property of James Wyard Gooche, esq., knowing it to be stolen: 12 months' hard labour and to be publicly whipped before and after the sentence.

Walter Crapp, late of Bodmin, labourer; pleaded guilty of misdemeanour: fined 1d.

Recognizance of James George to abide by bastardy order: continued to next sessions.

QS/1/6/482

John Harding, William Pearce, Thomas Rusden and Richard Trenwith took the oath as insolvent debtors.

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

Rules and regulations of a friendly society in Launceston registered.

Ordered that the turnkey of Bodmin gaol shall not permit any debtor or prisoner to go outside the prison doors, nor to absent himself without consent; penalty for non-compliance - discharge from office.