Sessions held at Bodmin

QS/1/5/99

Justices: Sir John St Aubyn, Sir Francis Bassett: Francis Rodd, John Rogers, esqs.; Henry Hawkins Tremayne, James Cory, William Sandys, clerks; John Buller, Edward Buller, esqs.; William Henry Reynell, clerk.

Jury: Peter Hambly, Henry Bate, John Hodge, Henry Doble, John Bond, John Wilton, William Collins, John Mitchell, John Eyre, John Bant, Giles Bawden, William Hocken, Richard Rouncevall, Thomas Curgenven, Robert Hooper.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

William Jones of Redruth

Richard Shallcross of Bodmin, excise officer, surety

Thomas Swaine of Redruth

Richard Shallcross of Bodmin, excise officer, surety

John Cole of Withiel, gent.

Ralph Cole of Withiel, gent., surety

QS/1/5/101, 102

Application by St Keverne concerning male bastard born at St Keverne on 4 August last, son of Elizabeth Lugg, single woman: John Varker of Sennen, labourer, alleged father, to pay 16d. weekly maintenance and 46s. lying-in expenses, etc.; Elizabeth Lugg to pay 8d. weekly.

QS/1/5/102, 103

Appeal of Constantine against order of 7 September for removal of Elizabeth Lugg, single woman, from St Keverne to Constantine: order reversed; costs to Constantine.

QS/1/5/103, 104

Appeal of Simonward [St Breward] against order of 15 July for removal of Thomas Davy and daughter Mary (30) from St Teath to St Breward: order reversed; costs to St Breward.

QS/1/5/104, 105

Appeal by Robert Dillon, jun., John Penwarne, jun., and Richard Rowe [see QS/1/5/8] against poor rate assessments made on 27 August and 3, 9, and 17 September at Penryn, especially concerning the omission of Revd William Johnson Temple, Vicar of St Gluvias, who should have been rated in view of his receipt of the small tithes: the four rates to be quashed; costs to appellants.

QS/1/5/105, 106

Appeal of Matthew Vivian against poor-rate assessment made on 6 July at Perranarworthal, alleging that he had been wrongly rated on his Churchtown tenement; similarly, Francis Trebilcock for his part of Hemmings tenement, which was also in part occupied by Samuel Hewett, William Sarah, William Welch and three others: rate quashed; costs to appellants.

QS/1/5/106

Average prices of grain sold in the county certified as: wheat 5s. 3d., barley 2s. 6d., oats 1s. 6d.

Four gaol and marshalsea rates to be levied and paid to the Vice-treasurer.

QS/1/5/107

Following petitions by several shopkeepers under a recent Act of Parliament, a fine of £10 to be imposed on travelling salespersons, such as hawkers, pedlars and petty chapmen, selling goods in the county; nine months' notice of such order to be given in the public newspaper.

QS/1/5/108

Appeal of John Pridham, sojourner in St Austell, against conviction and fine of £10 for opening premises there on 19 and 20 September, for sale of goods such as black satin, florentine, hollands, etc., such premises not being his usual place of residence or business, and it not being market or fair days: conviction confirmed.

Solomon Solomon: discharged from recognizance in bastardy, security having been given to the parish.

QS/1/5/109

Appeal of George Williams against a similar conviction to that of John Pridham [QS/1/5/108]: conviction confirmed.

QS/1/5/110

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

John Ellery of Redruth, tinner

Henry Ellery of Redruth, tinner, surety

Abraham Turner of Redruth, tinner, surety

Abraham Turner of Redruth, tinner

John Ellery of Redruth, tinner, surety

Henry Ellery of Redruth, tinner, surety

William Glasson, jun., of Budock, miller

Presentments for non-repair of highways: Ruan Major, discharged; St Agnes and Minster: held over.

John Wellington of Luxulyan, tinner; assault and battery; plea changed to guilty: fined 6d.

John Hambly; felony: discharged for want of prosecution.

QS/1/5/111

Sampson Hicks of St Ervan; assault and battery; plea changed to guilty: fined 6d.

Mary, wife of William Wills of Lanteglos by Fowey, mariner; assault and battery, pleaded guilty: fined 1d.

William Broad of Braddock [Broadoak]; assault and battery, pleaded guilty: fined 6d.

Recognizance of John Avery of Tintagel: to be estreated in view of his non-appearance at court.

QS/1/5/112

Mary, wife of Christopher Johns of St Cleer; stealing four large sticks of oak, value 2d., from John Sowden and another: one month in bridewell with hard labour.

Cornelius Walters of Gwennap; stealing four pieces of deal timber, value 6d., from Francis Rodd, esq., and others, at Wheal Chance mine: public whipping at the mine.

QS/1/5/112, 113

John Rawling of Mawgan in Pydar, labourer; stealing one pair of worsted stockings, value 2d., from William Bant: public whipping at Polgooth mine, near St Austell.

QS/1/5/113

John Killicoat of St Agnes; accused of stealing one piece of oak timber, value 10d., from Francis Cole, clerk, and others: acquitted. William Cocking, on the same charge: public whipping at North Down mine, Redruth.

Mary Hearl of Morval, spinster; stealing one linen apron, value 1d., from Ann Knight, spinster: public whipping and one year's hard labour in the house of correction, followed by a further whipping and discharge.

QS/1/5/114

George Ham of Kea, labourer; stealing one dowlas shirt, value 6d., from William Salmon: a further 21 days in bridewell, with hard labour.

Mary Roberts of Constantine, spinster; stealing one pair of white cotton stockings, value 6d., from Mary Oats: a further 3 months in bridewell with hard labour.

William Lampshire, jun., of St Clement, labourer; stealing one holland shirt, value 9d., from John Menhenniot: a further 21 days in bridewell, with hard labour.

QS/1/5/115

Thomas Smith of Lostwithiel; accused of stealing one waistcoat, value 6d., from John Brokenshire: acquitted, but detained until 17 October, awaiting an answer from the public office.

William Johns, in bridewell for assault and battery on John Ellery: to continue in custody for want of surety.

Julius Kitto and Hannah Took, in bridewell for want of sureties to keep the peace: discharged.

John James, in bridewell for a misdemeanour and on a charge of letting sheep into a field of barley at St Merryn: discharged.

QS/1/5/116

John Varker, bastardy case: to continue in bridewell for want of surety.

Jane Eddy: discharged from bridewell.

George West: discharged from bastardy case, the woman not appearing to give evidence.

Simon Reynolds, bastardy case: to continue in bridewell for want of surety.

Elizabeth Hill, in bridewell for want of surety for her good behaviour: to continue in custody, having given birth to a bastard child chargeable to Manaccan.

QS/1/5/117

Archibald MacPherson, in bridewell for begging in St Keverne: to be conveyed on a vagrant pass to his last place of legal settlement.

Richard Gammon, in bridewell for begging in Breage: to be conveyed on a vagrant pass to his last place of legal settlement.

Benjamin Pitt; same offence: to continue in custody for 14 days and then be discharged.

John Dempster, found begging: to continue in bridewell for 14 days and then be discharged, subject to any detainer from the public office in Bow Street, London.

John Tapper and wife Elizabeth, in bridewell for keeping a disorderly house in Falmouth: discharged as from 19 October, or sooner if Falmouth parish officers applied to remove them to their last place of legal settlement.