Sessions held at Bodmin

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Justices: John Fortescue, John Moyle and John Ennys.

Jury: John Luke, Thomas Philpe, Richard Henwood, Abraham Brown, George Martin, Thomas Prator, John Nankivell, William Prator, John Allen, John Martin, John Hodge, Stephen Doble, George Pasco, John Wallis, Nathaniel Constentine, Ralph Powne, Joseph Geach, Robert Macey, Joseph Thomas, Samuel Trute.

Appeal of Charles Coad [QS/1/1/234,235]: held over.

Liskeard and St. Cleer discharged from presentments for non-repair of highways.

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Recognizance to appear at next sessions: John Jose of St. Juliot, yeo.

Appeal of John Anstis of St. Germans against indenture of apprenticeship of 5 Aug. whereby St. Germans had bound to him Elizabeth Tozier, a poor child: apprenticeship quashed for insufficiency.

Presentment of Probus for non-repair of highways: held over.

John Wallis of St. Austell, assault and battery, confessed: fined 1s.

Presentment of Grampound and Creed for non-repair of highways: held over.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions: Nathaniel Coad of Redruth, cordwainer, Nicholas [remainder of line left blank], Richard Pearse of Warleggan, tinner, William Ough of Cardinham, weaver, surety.

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Appeal of St. Teath against order of 18 July 1746 for removal of John Vinacoumbe, wife Mary and Margaret, Charity, Mary, John, Elizabeth, Susanna, Catherine, Joseph and Christopher their sons and daurs., from Lanteglos-by-Camelford to St. Teath: order confirmed in respect of John Vinacoumbe, wife Mary and sons Joseph and Christopher but discharged for insufficiency in respect of the other children.

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William Tooker of St. Ewe: acquitted of stealing the goods of Christopher Warrick.

Richard Greenfell of St. Just-in-Penwith, tinner: acquitted of stealing goods of Thomas Allen, gent.

Nathaniel Coad of Redruth, assault and battery, confessed: fined 1s.

Stephen Kell of Maker, yeo: acquitted of forcible entry and detainer of a messuage belonging to Rt. Hon. Robert, Earl of Orford.

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Elizabeth Hony of Davidstow, forcible entry and detainer of a messuage in St. Teath belonging to Joan Eustice spr., confessed: fined 6d.

Charles Westcott of Maker, butcher, forcible entry and detainer of a messuage in Millbrook belonging to Rt. Hon. Robert, Earl of Orford, confessed: fined 6d.

James Traher of Redruth, tinner, assault and battery, confessed: fined 6d.

James Garbey of Redruth, tinner, stealing goods of Thomas Gill value 2d: petty larceny, private whipping.

One gaol and marshalsea rate to be levied and paid to the vice-treasurer.

Week St. Mary discharged from presentment for non-repair of highways.

James Bartlett, master and William Cook mariner of the sloop Speedwell of Tenby, Pembrokeshire testified to the loss on 10 Aug. of 140 bushels of salt, on which duty had been paid, in bad weather during voyage from Bristol to Wadebridge (shipped on account of Samuel Hopwood, William King and Edward Fox).

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Vice-treasurer to pay Thomas Eare [Eyre] bridewell keeper his account.

Vice-treasurer to pay John Lemincott, gaoler, his account.