Sessions at Truro

QS/1/3/95

Justices: Walter Borlase, doctor of laws; John Fortescue, John Enys, John Willyams, Nicholas Kempe, Thomas Vyvyan, esqs.; John Collins, clerk.

Jury: Edward Martin, Hannibal Curnow, Tobias Harry, Martin Usticke, Thomas Roberts, Thomas Dewen, John Jenkin, Francis Hockin, Thomas Tripconey, Richard Wills, Henry Short, John White, jun., John Allen, John Oates, Thomas Morcombe, jun.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

John Anstis of St Germans, gent.

Bernard Anstis of St Germans, gent.

John Anstis, jun., of St Germans, gent.

John Anstis of St Germans, gent., surety

QS/1/3/96

Application by Lawhitton concerning male bastard born 8 January at Lawhitton, son of Mary Geak of Lawhitton, single woman: Richard Mitchell of Lawhitton, labourer, alleged father, to pay 2s. weekly maintenance and £8 12s. expenses; Mary Geak to pay 6d. weekly.

QS/1/3/97

Recognizance to pay [as above]:

Richard Mitchell of Lawhitton, labourer

John Mitchell of Lawhitton, yeoman, surety

Appeal of Crowan against order of 18 January for removal of Rachael Tyacke, widow, and children Thomas (8), Grace (12), Elizabeth (10) and Isabella (5), from Gwinear to Crowan: order confirmed; costs to Gwinear.

QS/1/3/97,98

Licences for one year, to trade in grain or corn, granted as follows:

John Anstis of St Germans, gent.

William Garland of Quethiock, gent.

Thomas Jones, esq., John Lyne, esq., and William Tremenheere, sureties for both.

John Peters

William Wivell, surety

David Horndon, surety

David Horndon of Callington

QS/1/3/98,99

Appeal of St Just in Penwith against order of 4 March for removal of Margarett Jermain, widow of Richard Jermain, and children John (17), Richard (12), Thomas (9), Arthur (6) and Margarett (2), from Madron to St Just: order confirmed; costs to Madron.

QS/1/3/99

Account of Trehane Symons, gent.: allowed.

QS/1/3/99,100

Application of Madron highways surveyors for levy of 2d. in the pound rate on the parish: granted.

QS/1/3/100

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

James Hill of St Tudy, labourer

Humphry Drake of Michaelstow, yeoman, surety

Ezekiel Williams of St Allen, yeoman

John Hoskyn of St Allen, yeoman, surety

Presentment of St Clement for non-repair of highways: discharged on payment of Court fees.

QS/1/3/100, 101

Continued appeal of Honiton, Devon, against order of 19 December for the removal of Swain Lugg, labourer, wife Mary and children Ann (12), Mary (10), Hester (7) and James (9 months) from Gerrans to Honiton: held over to next sessions, when evidence to be heard regarding marriage of Swain Lugg to Susanna Biles, in 1744, at Wroxhall, Dorset.

QS/1/3/101

Surveyor (west) to rebuild Grampound bridge.

Vice-treasurer to pay their charges in the prosecution of Grace Plint to William Best, Thomas Avard, John Baker, Mary Borlase and Martha Dingle.

QS/1/3/102

Account of James Row: allowed.

Account of Joseph Yonge: allowed.

William Wills of Gorran, grandfather of Anne, Catherine, Daniell, Jemima and a younger son (all children of John Oliver and his wife, the daughter of William Wills) to pay 5s. a week towards their maintenance.

John Johns of Tywardreath; misdemeanour, confessed: fined 6d.

Charles Dawes of Gorran; assault and battery, confessed: fined 6d.

QS/1/3/103

Grace Plint of St Austell, widow; stealing goods of William Best, value 10d.; petty larceny: public whipping.

Walter Borlase, doctor of laws, and Sir John Glanville, J.P.s: to continue as treasurers for a further year.

Martha Sire of St Tudy, single woman; assault and battery, confessed: fined 6d, and to remain in bridewell until next sessions.

Vice-treasurer to pay charges for prosecution of Grace Plint to William Best, Thomas Avard, John Baker, Mary Borlase and Martha Dingle.

Account of John Lyne, gent., Vice-treasurer: allowed.

Richard Grigg, in bridewell for bastardy: discharged for want of prosecution.

Account of John Eyre: allowed.

QS/1/3/104

Mary King and Margaret Johnson, in bridewell for vagrancy: to be publicly whipped and passed to Stoke, Somerset.

James Williams: discharged from bridewell.