Sessions held at Truro

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Justices: John Buller, esq.; Henry Hawkins Tremayne, clerk; Thomas Vyvyan, jun., Henry Rosewarne, Philip Enouf, John Oliver Willyams, Thomas Pitt, Francis Gregor, Darell Crabb, John Luke, esqs.

Jury: John Tregear, Samuel May, James Hammett, Peter Hammett, Henry Sara, William Laskey, Henry Bath, Edmond Wearn, John Harvey, Thomas Edmonds, John Nicholls, Tobias Tilley, William Tucker, Isaac Williams, Charles Andrew, Nicholas Blamey, Henry Doble, Humphry Hicks, John Cornish, Richard Lawrance, Edward Dillon, John Cornish, gents.

Richard Tonkin jun., of St Columb Major; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d.

Mark Marks of Lanlivery, yeoman; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 1d.

Bridgerule bridge to be repaired, the cost not to exceed £100.

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Recognizances:

Philip Hillman of Saltash, cordwainer, and William Starmar of Truro, yeoman: sureties for appearance of Philip Hillman at next sessions.

Appeal of St Allen against order dated 13 Feb. 1775 for removal of Martha Rowe, single woman, from St Clements to St Allen: order confirmed.

Presentment made of the average prices of corn, per Winchester bushel, within the county, as follows:

wheat, 6s. 5d.; barley, 3s. 3d.; oats, 1s. 8d.

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Application by Jacobstow to use the rents of property owned by Thomas Langman at Kerley, in order to provide maintenance for his wife, whom he had abandoned: application allowed.

Kegon, Tresillian, Bessow, Rethen and St Blazey bridges to be repaired.

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John Waters of Kenwyn, tinner; convicted of stealing three deal boards, value 2d., from John Magor: to be whipped.

James Facey of Sheviock, labourer; convicted of stealing a canvas shirt, value 2d., from Richard Hawking: to be whipped.

Richard Vincent of Kenwyn, yeoman, Thomas Devonshire of Truro, gent., and John James, jun., of St Agnes, gent.; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d. each.

Appeal of Camborne against order for removal of John Hocking, wife Susannah, and daughters Sarah (7), Alice (5), Jane (4) and Susannah (2), from Phillack to Camborne: held over.

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Letter to be sent to Lord North concerning government grant of £2,000 for new gaol.

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Resolutions concerning urgent need for new gaol, and desirability that it should be at Bodmin, not Launceston.

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Sir John Molesworth and Walter Borlase appointed Treasurers.

Presentment of roads in St Kew, Constantine and Sancreed: held over.

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Appeal of Week St Pancras, Devon, against order dated 28 Mar. 1775 for removal of Philippa Mynard from Bridgerule to Week St Pancras: order confirmed.

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Appeal of Perranzabuloe against order dated 30 Mar. 1775 for removal of Nicholas Wilken, wife Elizabeth and children Thomas (16), James (14), Richard (9), William (4) and Elizabeth (7), from St Agnes to Perranzabuloe; recital of evidence, involving John and Sarah Wilken, parents of Nicholas, and the family home: order reversed.

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Two bridge rates to be raised and paid to John Truscott, gent., Surveyor (west).

Two bridge rates to be raised and paid to Trehane Symons, gent., Surveyor (east).

Accounts presented:

Samuel Hext, gent., Vice-Treasurer;

Trehane Symons, gent., Surveyor (east);

John Truscott, gent., Surveyor (west);

Thomas Roberts, bridewell keeper;

John Mules, gaoler.

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Complaint of Robert Thomas of St Ewe, yeoman, concerning Rose Plint, apprenticed to him by the parish in 1767: apprenticeship declared ended.

Complaint of Thomas Gray of Redruth, peruke-maker, concerning Agnes Pollard, apprenticed to him by the parish in 1770: apprenticeship declared ended.

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Appeal of Prudence Worth and others against poor rate levied by St Ives borough on 18 Mar. 1775: held over.

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Richard Allen; previously fined £10 for assault: to remain in bridewell until fine paid and sureties found.

Mark Marks pleaded guilty to assault: fined 1d. [Entry deleted by clerk.]

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Richard Tonkin, jun., of St Columb Major, yeoman; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d. [Entry deleted by clerk.]

Thomasine Birch; committed to bridewell as disorderly person: to be conveyed to Ugbear, Devon, her last legal place of settlement.

William Rodda; committed to bridewell for assault: to be discharged.

Amos Westlake and wife Deborah; committed to bridewell as rogues and vagabonds: to be admonished and conveyed to last legal place of settlement.

James Harvey, Charles Haydon and Richard Lord: to remain in bridewell until sureties in bastardy found.

Robert Cooper, wife Sarah, and Mary Carne; committed to bridewell as rogues and vagabonds: to be conveyed to places of last legal settlements, he being whipped, they admonished.

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Roger Hewitt, who applied for benefit of Insolvent Act: to remain in bridewell because of debt owed to Crown.

William Jenkings; committed to bridewell as vagrant: to be admonished and conveyed to place of last legal settlement.

Peter Waters and Peter Waters, jun., convicted of stealing 100 lbs of tin ore, value 8d., from Sir John St Aubyn and another: to be whipped.

Jane Tippett, single woman; convicted of stealing a Holland shift, value 2d., from William Giddy: to be whipped.

Mary Tiddey of Gerrans, single woman; convicted of stealing a dowlas shift, value 6d., from Elizabeth Martyn: to be whipped.

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Joan Collins; committed to bridewell as a vagrant: to be conveyed to Illogan, her last legal place of settlement.

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

Agnes Pollard of Redruth, spinster; convicted of stealing a Holland shift, value 4d., from Jane Rowe: to be privately whipped.