Sessions held at Bodmin

QS/1/4/158

Justices: John Buller, esq.; John Kingdon, Charles Hammett, clerks; Edward Eliot, Francis Rodd, esqs; Henry Hawkins Tremayne and Benjamin Forster, clerks.

Jury: Charles Harris, John Phillipps, Joseph Harry, John Pearse, John Amy, William Hosken, Bernard Anstis, Peter Benny, John Clemoe, John Hockridge, Thomas Bate, John Hawke, Thomas Barthett, Mathew Broad, Richard Pomeroy, Thomas Frick [deleted], gents.

Nicholas Uren, Thomas Tonkin, Thomas Tonkin, jun., John Vingoe and James Tonkin, all of Sennen; pleaded guilty to assault on Eldred Roberts, gent.: fined 6d. each.

QS/1/4/159

Application by Bodmin concerning male bastard child of Mary Hocking, single woman, born 20 Sep. 1777; putative father William Hiern of Tavistock, Devon, tanner: maintenance and lying-in costs awarded.

QS/1/4/160

Application by Lanteglos near Fowey for William Geach, poor and impotent, to be supported by his mother, Mary Geach: application granted.

Appeal by St Allen against order dated 15 Sep. 1777 for removal of Susannah Tonkin, widow, and sons Henry (4) and John (3) from Illogan to St Allen: order confirmed.

QS/1/4/161

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

Anthony Thomas of Lanivet, yeoman;

John and Thomas Hickes, both of Lanivet, yeomen, sureties.

John Hickes of Lanivet, yeoman

Anthony and Lawrence Thomas, both of Lanivet, sureties.

Thomas Hickes of Lanivet, yeoman;

Anthony and Lawrence Thomas, yeomen, sureties.

Lawrence Thomas, jun., of Lanivet;

John and Thomas Hickes of Lanivet, sureties.

QS/1/4/161, 162

Appeal by Saltash against order dated 8 Sep. 1777 for removal of William Bone, wife Mary and children Dorcas (8), William (4) and Samuel (2), from Altarnun to Saltash: order reversed.

QS/1/4/162

Recognizance to appear at next sessions:

Thomas Goyne of St Cleer, yeoman;

John Hawke; and Benjamin Davey, both of St Cleer, yeoman, sureties.

QS/1/4/162, 163

Appeal by St Allen against order dated 7 Aug. 1777 for removal of Prudence Searle, single woman, from Perranzabuloe to St Allen: order reversed.

QS/1/4/163

Appeal by Redruth against order dated 19 July 1777 for removal of Stephen Williams, wife Elizabeth, and children Alice (9), Elizabeth (8), Stephen (5), Jane (4) and Mary (1), from Camborne: held over.

Presentments of highways in Mawgan in Meneage and Constantine: held over.

Presentment of highways and bridge in Bodmin borough: discharged.

QS/1/4/164

Presentment of average prices of corn, per Winchester bushel, as follows: wheat, 5s. 9d.; barley, 2s. 8d.; oats, 1s. 5d.

Application by Robert Pearce, son of Anna Pearce of Hatherleigh, Devon, to be discharged from his apprenticeship to John Pinch of Callington, carpenter and joiner, for ill usage: application dismissed.

Samuel Wood of Minster, excise officer; acquitted of assault on John Bray of St Gennys.

John Lane of Launceston, labourer; acquitted of assault on Thomas Hosking.

Indictment of James Trebilcock and George Huddy for misdemeanour: quashed for insufficiency.

QS/1/4/165

Complaint of Samuel Peters of Sheviock against apprenticeship of Thomazine Warrick, by indenture dated 23 Apr. 1777: to be held over.

Recognizance of John Reed of Stithians, tinner, for appearance of James Northey: to be discharged.

Mary Tiddy, committed for want of sureties in misdemeanour, and James Retallick, for want of sureties in bastardy: to remain in custody. Peter Donnithorne: to be discharged.

George Cobeldick, als Hayle, late of Stratton, cordwainer; acquitted of stealing 3 lbs of green leather from William Bond.

QS/1/4/166

Richard Bartlett; committed to bridewell as rogue and vagabond: to be admonished and conveyed to his last legal place of settlement.

George Knight of St Agnes; committed to bridewell for bestiality: to remain in custody until next assizes.

Margery Pentecost, against whom bill of ignoramus found in felony: to be discharged.

Thomas Calensoe; committed to bridewell for want of sureties to the peace, further charged with assault: to remain in custody.

John Pearne; committed to bridewell for want of sureties to keep the peace: to remain in custody.

QS/1/4/167

Thomas Collick of Truro, labourer; convicted of stealing a hand saw, value 6d., from John Williams: to be privately whipped.

Valentine Johns of St Issey, labourer; convicted of stealing 2 yards of hessing cloth, value 6d., from Richard Benny: to be privately whipped.

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

John Wheals; committed to bridewell for want of sureties in bastardy, and Bennett James; committed for abandoning his family in Wendron: both to remain in custody. Thomas Warburton; committed for want of sureties in bastardy: to be discharged.

QS/1/4/168

Accounts of Joseph Hick, bridewell keeper, and John Males, gaoler: seen and allowed.

Estreats of the recognizances of Jane Piarick and Robert Shepperd: to be discharged.

Account of John Pryce, coroner: seen and allowed.