Sessions held at Lostwithiel

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Justices: Weston Helyar, Thomas Graham, esqs; Edmund Gilbert, clerk; and others.

Jury: Henry Woolcock, John Eady, Reuben Magor, Joseph Andrew, John Fox, Benjamin Hockin, Richard Hockin, Richard Phillips, John Rosewarne, Martin Harvey, Francis James, William Curgenvin Jame, Paul Burrell, gents.

QS/1/6/299

Presentments of highways in Lanlivery, Warleggan, St Neot, Perranarworthal, Mawgan in Meneage, Redruth and St Anthony in Meneage: continued to next sessions.

Four gaol rates to be raised and paid to Edward Coode, jun., gent., Vice-Treasurer.

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Treasurer to pay the clerk 20s. for carrying the statutes and other books from one session to another during the past year, and £11 15s. for gaol levy warrants at 5s. each, and 6s. 8d. each for the examinations of Mary Budbrook, Jane Benny, alias Jane Pearce, Catherine Duncalf, Hannah Lee, William Browne, Mary James, alias May, Philip Griffin, Thomas Mitchell, Jane Kent, Richard Nancolas and William Taylor; also 10 guineas salary for registering the Vice-Treasurer's and other accounts.

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Recognizances:

Joseph Jeffery of Redruth, yeoman, and Joseph Grose and Edmund Jeffery, his pledges, for Joseph Jeffery to appear re assault at last sessions; estreated for non-appearance: discharged.

Mark Jeffery of Gwennap, yeoman, and Stephen Grose and Edmund Jeffery, his pledges, for the appearance of Mark Jeffery at the last sessions re assault; estreated for non-appearance: discharged.

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George Gregor, Nicholas Bawden, Matthew Jeffery and James Uren, for appearance at last sessions to indict Joseph Tiddy for assault: discharged.

Surveyor of Bridges (west) to put St Austell and St Blazey bridges into good repair.

Benjamin Harvey, master, and William Knight, mariner, of the sloop Industry, swore that they shipped at St Ives on 28 Oct. 1794, 10 tons of British Fishery Salt, duties paid at St Ives, to be carried to Newquay in St Columb Minor for William Basely of Padstow; on the voyage they met stormy and tempestuous weather, and 63 bushels of salt were lost, which was not due to any leakage of the ship or neglect by the crew.

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Appeal by Bradock against order of 16 Oct. 1794 for the removal of Elizabeth, wife of John Wilton, from Altarnun to Bradock: order reversed; Altarnun to pay Bradock charges.

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Continued appeal of Penryn against order of 25 July 1794 for the removal of Joan Grenfell, widow, from Penzance to Penryn: order reversed; Penzance to pay Penryn costs.

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Appeal of St Cleer against order of 28 Oct. 1794 for the removal of Robert Collins Grose from Roche to St Cleer: order confirmed; St Cleer to pay Roche costs.

Ann Polkinghorne; in custody charged with being a common whore and street walker: continued in custody to next sessions.

Joseph Stick; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d.

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Recognizance of Joseph Lukey re misdemeanour: discharged.

Robert Warmington, late of, and Overseer of, Saltash, neglected or refused to perform an order of the Court: unless R. W. perform the order, after again being served with it, before next sessions, he be indicted for disobedience, and prosecuted by Mr Thomas Grylls, the expenses paid out of County Stock.

Stephen Thomas of Madron, yeoman, and Jane Dennis of Madron, spinster; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 1s.

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Appeal of Charles Hamley against a conviction of 27 Sep. 1794: dismissed for informality and insufficiency, and Charles Hamley to pay Francis Thomas, Surveyor of Roads, for repairing several roads leading through Bodmin, £1 6s. 8d. costs.

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Plea of St Neot re the presentment against them for not repairing a certain highway: filed.

Presentment of highways in St Columb Major: discharged.

Thomas Kitt, late of St Enoder, yeoman; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 1d.

Recognizances:

Richard May to appear at this sessions and abide by an order re bastardy; also of his pledge, John Toll: continued to next sessions.

William Johns to keep the peace towards Grace, his wife: discharged.

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Appeal of Constantine against order of 24 Nov. 1794 for the removal of Sarah Thomas, and children Henry, Eleanor and George, from Wendron to Constantine: continued to next sessions.

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Appeal of Probus against order of 9 Jan. 1795 for the removal of Richard Wills from St Allen to Probus: continued to next sessions.

Recognizances:

Henry Bennetts of Gwennap, yeoman, and William Bennetts of Gwennap, yeoman, for the appearance of Henry Bennetts at the last sessions to indict Mark Jeffery for assault: discharged.

Henry Stephens, jun., for appearance re misdemeanour: discharged, the bill being returned ignoramus.

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Appeal by Lanivet against order of 30 Aug. 1794 for the removal of Catherine Inch, widow, and son John, from Bodmin to Lanivet: continued to next sessions.

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Continued appeal of Crantock against order of 6 Feb. 1794 for the removal of Mary, wife of Martin George, tinner, and children John (9), James (8), Mary Ann (5), Annachia (3), Susanna (2) and Martin (7 mo.) from Kenwyn to Crantock: order reversed; Kenwyn to pay Crantock costs.

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Recognizances:

John Symons of St Cleer, butcher, £20, and Samuel Honeycombe of St Cleer, yeoman, £10, for John Symons to appear at next sessions.

Henry Restarrick; in custody charged with being an idle and disorderly person: discharged.

A dumb vagrant; in custody for wandering and begging in Perranzabuloe: discharged.

William Harris; in custody charged with being found wandering in Newlyn East: discharged.

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Joan Nankivell; in custody charged with being found wandering and begging in Liskeard: discharged.

Philip Griffin; in custody for wandering and begging in St Allen: discharged.

John Walters; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify Camborne re bastardy: discharged.

Charles Vigurs; in custody for want of sureties to indemnify Falmouth re bastardy: continued in custody to next sessions, the woman not yet having given birth.

Recognisance of William Bray and surety, to answer case of assault: discharged, the bill being returned ignoramus.

Thomas Woolcock, alias Abraham Woolcock, late of Mawgan in Pydar, labourer; convicted of stealing two Holland shirts and other articles, value 2d., the property of John Cobledick: hard labour for 6 months, unless claimed as a deserter by the Cornwall Regiment of Fencible Cavalry, or joins H. M. Army or Marines.

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Recognizances:

John Thomas and Elias Thomas, and sureties, for their appearance re misdemeanour: discharged, as indictment quashed.

Reynold Reynolds, to keep the peace towards Thomas Opie and John Opie, and John Roberts, his pledge; also Thomas and John Opie to keep the peace towards Reynold Reynolds and Samuel Stephens, their pledge: discharged.

William Berryman, to keep the peace towards Thomas Verran and Mary, his wife, and James Berryman, his pledge: estreated.

James Allen of Lanivet, miller; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d.

Warren or Wearne Gundry; in custody re a misdemeanour: discharged.

William Otherway, late of Liskeard, labourer, and William Blissett, late of the same, labourer, convicted for taking 2 canvass sheets, value 6d., the property of John Crabb: hard labour for 3 months.

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Indictment against Warren or Wearne Gundry for misdemeanour: quashed.

Thomas Lewis, Thomas Bagot and Thomas Edmunds, labourers, all late of Liskeard; indicted for taking one goose, value 6d., the property of John Nickolls: acquitted.

Mary Berryman; in custody: discharged for want of prosecution.

William Stephens; in custody for want of sureties to defend an indictment re a misdemeanour; pleaded guilty: fined 1d.

Recognizance of Johanna Semmens of Crowan to appear and prefer indictment against Mary Berryman: estreated.

Application for allowance of charges re prosecution of William Otherway and William Blisset, convicted of petty larceny in Liskeard; Liskeard is not assessed towards the gaol rates of the County: rejected; copy of order to be sent to J.P.s in Hundreds of East and West, and expenses paid out of County stock.

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Stephen Cundy of St Stephen in Brannel, labourer; indicted of taking one shovel staff, value 6d., the property of Nicholas Crews, jun. and others: acquitted.

Mary Handcock; indicted re assault; pleaded not guilty, but did not produce sureties: continued in custody to next sessions.

The County Gaoler to present annually, at the Easter sessions, an account in writing of the produce of the labour of the prisoners for the year past.