Sessions held at Truro

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Justices: Henry Rosewarne, John Oliver Willyams, esqs.; Henry Hawkins Tremayne, Sampson Sandys, William Henry Reynell, clerks.

Jury: William Edwards, Edward Seccomb, James Rail, Richard Nicholas, Thomas Roskruge, Peter Perry, Thomas Roberts, James Sandow, John Stephens, Richard Victor, William Roberts, Samuel Michell, Francis Hales, John Weymouth, William Hitchens, gents.

QS/1/4/299, 300

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

John Millett of Redruth, scrivener;

John Andrew of Illogan, mercer; and Robert Millett of Marazion, chandler, sureties.

William Renfree of Kenwyn, tailor, to answer complaint of Gwennap in charge of bastardy;

William Veal, innkeeper, and John Magor, tinner, both of Kenwyn, sureties.

James Travish of Falmouth soldier.

QS/1/4/300

Appeal of St Erth against order dated 27 Jan. 1781 for removal of Ann Childew, widow, from Ludgvan to St Erth: order reversed.

John Morkham of Gwinear, mason; acquitted of assault.

QS/1/4/300, 301

William Renfrey to be discharged from bridewell, having entered into recognizances to appear at next sessions to answer complaint in bastardy.

QS/1/4/301

Accounts of Samuel Hext, gent., Vice-Treasurer, Trehane Symons, gent., Surveyor (east) and John Truscott, gent., Surveyor (west): seen and allowed.

Sir William Lemon and Edward Eliot, esq., appointed Treasurers.

QS/1/4/302

Appeal of Quethiock against order dated 5 Feb. 1781 for removal of Johannah Bray from Liskeard borough to Quethiock: order confirmed.

Mark Jeffery of Gwennap, tinner, to appear at next sessions. Edmund Jeffery of Gwennap, tinner surety.

QS/1/4/303

Presentment of average prices of corn, per Winchester bushel: wheat, 6s. 0d.; barley, 2s. 6d.; oats, 1s. 10d.; peas, 6s. 0d.

Thomas Colensoe and Nicholas Sinclair: to be conveyed to their respective places of settlement.

James Travish: to be discharged, having entered into recognizance to answer charge at next sessions.

Ann Williams: to be discharged for want of prosecution.

William Renfree: to be discharged, having entered into recognizance in bastardy, the woman not yet being delivered.

Richard Palmer; committed for violent misdemeanour: to remain in custody.

John Burton; indicted for assault: to remain in custody for want of sureties to appear at next sessions.

QS/1/4/304

Richard Mildern of Callington; acquitted of stealing a peck of wheat, value 10d., from Richard Dogdge.

Richard Barnett of Helston, labourer; convicted of stealing 6 yards of flowered cotton, value 10d., from Margery Rogers: 6 months' custody, unless he chooses to enlist in an infantry regiment.

Daniel Cock of St Just in Penwith, tinner; indicted for stealing 110 lbs of iron, value 10d., from John Mathews: to be discharged, the indictment being quashed for insufficiency.

Presentment of highways of St Agnes, Falmouth and Lanlivery: to be held over.

QS/1/4/305

Surveyor (east) to repair Polston bridge.

William Dungey of Mawgan in Pydar; pleaded guilty to assault against Thomas Cock: fined 6d.

QS/1/4/305, 306

Application of Kenwyn concerning male bastard born 19 Mar. 1781 to Sarah Terril of Kenwyn, single woman; putative father Richard Eva, jun., of Kenwyn: maintenance and lying-in costs awarded.

QS/1/4/306

Four gaol and marshalsea rates to be levied and paid to Samuel Hext, gent., Vice-Treasurer.

Four jail rates to be levied, the money to be used, at the discretion of the justices at next sessions, to repay partially the debt of £2,950 incurred in building the new jail.