Sessions at Truro

QS/1/3/423-431

Sessions at Truro

29 April 1772

QS/1/3/423

Justices: Henry Hawkins Tremayne, Edward Giddy, clerks; Francis Gregor, Darell Crabb, John Luke, Philip Enouf, esqs.

Jury: John Pearce, Nicholas Francis, John James, Abraham Prout, jun., James James, Jacob Williams, William Prynn, William Prater, Reuben Dyer Bone, William Kestle, Nicholas Martin, Isaac Williams, Charles Andrew, Robert Clemoe, John Williams.

QS/1/3/423, 424

Appeal of Breage against order of 22 April for removal of Elizabeth Ripper from Grade to Breage: order confirmed; costs to Grade.

QS/1/3/424

Appeal of Tavistock, Devon, against order of 15 April for removal of Elizabeth, widow of Henry Agabus, from St Keverne to Tavistock: order reversed; costs to Tavistock.

QS/1/3/424, 425

Appeal of Camborne against order of 4 April for removal of Thomas Davey, tinner, wife Alice and children Ann (18), Mary (13), Margarett(9), Rebecca (8), Barnard (5), James (3) and Benjamin (1) from Illogan to Camborne: order reversed; costs to Camborne,

QS/1/3/425

Appeal of Gwinear against order of 25 September [see QS/1/3/398] for removal of Bridget Gray, widow, from Gwithian to Gwinear: order confirmed; costs to Gwithian.

QS/1/3/426

Appeal by John Dawe of Veryan, yeoman, against poor-relief assessment: held over.

Account of Vice-treasurer: allowed.

Accounts of Surveyors (east and west): allowed.

Account of John Eyre, bridewell keeper: allowed.

Recognizance to appear at next sessions:

Thomasine, wife of Mathew O'Brian

Edward Sweet of Falmouth, gardener, surety

Nicholas Reed of Falmouth, yeoman, surety

QS/1/3/427

Application by Boyton for permission to levy a rate of 6d. in the pound for highway repairs: allowed; the money to be paid to Richard Wymond and John Spettigue, parish surveyors.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

Nathaniel Hollman of Kenwyn, blacksmith

Michael Aver of Kenwyn, blacksmith, surety

Richard Chapman of St Columb Major, labourer; stealing a quantity of hay, value 5d., from Thomas Jenkyn; petty larceny: to be transported to America for seven years.

Elizabeth Pascoe of Camborne; stealing 5 pounds of beef, value 2d., from Henry Symons; petty larceny: private whipping.

QS/1/3/428

Appeal of Probus against order of 20 April for removal of Thomas Bone, wife Ann and children Simon (7) and Duance (5), from St Austell to Probus: held over.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

John Tregurtha, jun., of Kenwyn, labourer

John Tregurtha, sen. (his brother) of Kenwyn, labourer, surety

John Rowe of Kenwyn, tinner

Charles Michell of Gwennap, tinner, surety

William Bridgeman of St Blazey; stealing 10 pounds of beef, value 3d., from Bennett Treloar; petty larceny: public whipping.

QS/1/3/428, 429

[See QS/1/3/421] The general Quarter Sessions to be held in future on the Thursday of every sessions week at 9 a.m., and whenever an application is made for a bridge, which is not a county bridge, to be erected or repaired, such application be advertised three weeks in advance in the Sherborne paper.

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Thomas Prust, master, and Richard White, mariner, both of the sloop John of Bristol, testified that they shipped, at Bristol in December 1771, 480 bushels of white salt, duty paid, to be carried to Falmouth and Truro for Philip Westcott, Thomas Barker and William Dyer of Falmouth, and Joseph Ferris, Richard Jewell and William Harpur of Truro. The sloop was driven into Carmarthen bay, South Wales, on 15 January, in a violent storm, and sank with the loss of the entire cargo.

Richard Hellens [Hellins]: discharged from bridewell.

Presentment against Wendron for non-repair of highways: held over.

Recognizance to appear at next sessions.

Joseph Ripper of Breage, yeoman

John Hodge of St Clement, yeoman, surety

Joseph Ripper of Breage; assault and battery on John Rowe: fined 6d.

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Ruth Cragg, in bridewell for a misdemeanour: discharged.

John Curnow, in bridewell accused of felony: discharged for want of prosecution.

Blanditia Richards, charged with assault and battery: discharged for want of prosecution.

Elizabeth Thomas, in bridewell as a rogue and vagabond: to be conveyed to St Just in Penwith, her last place of legal settlement.

William Rodda, in bridewell for contempt of court: discharged following payment of his fees and his apology to the court.

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Sir John Molesworth and Walter Borlase: appointed as treasurers for a further year.

John Williams and John Woolcock, jun.: discharged from their recognizances in the case against John Williams.

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