Sessions held at Lostwithiel

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Sessions held at Lostwithiel

9th January 1816

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Justices

Edward William Stackhouse, esq., Rt. Hon. Francis Lord de Dunstanville & Bassett, John Hearle Tremayne, Edmund John Glynn, Thomas Graham, Francis Hearle Rodd, John Colman Rashleigh, esqs., Edmund Gilbert, Robert Walker and Joseph Pomery, clerks.

Jury

Joseph Hambly, Anthony Pike, Joseph Hambly, Jonathan Palmer, John Blake, John Sobey, Philip Blake, Richard John Parson, Nicholas Rundle, John Lovering, Henry Udy, Thomas Cock, Charles Medger, Thomas Key, Hart Nicholls, James Carveth, Jonathan Higge, Samuel Hoblyn and Zaccheus Bice, gents.

Presentments of highways in Lanlivery, Budock and St. Germans: held over.

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Fourteen gaol and marshalsea rates levied to be paid to Edward Coode, gent., vice-treasurer.

Treasurer to pay deputy clerk 40s. for carrying statutes at large from one sessions to another; £24 for levy warrants, £1. 6s. 8d. for examinations and passes of William Adams and Thomas Vennard at last Easter sessions, £2. 13s. 4d. for examinations and passes of Eleanor Pascoe, Thomas O'Flagarty, Richard Cleer and Richard Collins at last Michaelmas sessions, and £21 for salary of deputy clerk for past year.

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Army transport rates fixed to be in force until 3 Apr. next.

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One bridge rate levied to be paid to William Moorman, gent., bridge surveyor (west).

Bastardy orders

Name: Richard Trenwith; Parish: Gwinear; Court's decision: To remain in custody.

Name: John Small; Parish: Altarnun; Court's decision: To remain in custody

Name: Charles Rundle; Parish: St. Winnow; Court's decision: To remain in custody.

Name: John Trevail; Parish: St. Buryan; Court's decision: To remain in custody.

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Bastardy orders

Name: William Perkins; Parish: Budock; Court's decision: To remain in custody.

Name: Charles Mitchell; Parish: St. Austell; Discharged.

Name: John Yeudall; Parish: Ruan Major; Court's decision: To remain in custody for refusing to obey bastardy maintenance order.

Name: Richard Chanoweth; [Chenoweth]; Parish: Crantock; Court's decision: To remain in custody. Child not yet born.

Name: Thomas Trevethan; Parish: St. Minver; Court's decision: To remain in custody. Child not yet born.

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Bastardy orders

Name: George Perry; Parish: St. Allen; Court's decision: To remain in custody.

Child not yet born.

Name: George Andrewartha; Parish: Paul; Court's decision: To remain in custody. Child not yet born.

Name: George Uren; Parish: Sancreed; Court's decision: To remain in custody. Child not yet born.

John Cook committed to bridewell for deserting his family, chargeable to St. Mawgan in Meneage: discharged.

Henry Carne committed to bridewell for vagrancy in St. Columb Major: admonished, discharged and sent to place of last legal settlement.

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Aguste Vansitte and Phoebe Vansitti [sic] committed to bridewell for vagrancy in Kenwyn as unlicensed pedlars: discharged.

Samuel Harpur committed to bridewell for deserting his family, chargeable to St. Agnes: discharged.

George Gibbs and William Seldon indicted for misdemeanour at this sessions pleased guilty: fined 1s. paid in court.

Salary of Mr. Joseph Hambly, surgeon to bridewell and gaol at Bodmin, increased from £30 to £50 p.a. commencing at this sessions.

Friendly societies

Rules and regulations of following societies exhibited and allowed:- St. Neot, Newport, Crowan and St. Mabyn.

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Filiation orders

Child; F.; When born; 21 Sep.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father.; St. Winnow; Ann Carne, singlewoman; Charles Rundle of St. Pinnock, woodman

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Filiation orders

Child; F.; When born; 29 Nov.; Parish; Mother; Alleged father.; Budock; Elizabeth Davey, singlewoman; William Perkyn Williams, of Penryn, carpenter

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One bridge rate levied to be paid to William Moorman, gent., bridge surveyor (west).

Recognizances

Thomas Munday of Mullion to answer in bastardy: held over. Child not yet born.

Robert Glasson of Crowan to answer in bastardy: held over. Child not yet born.

John Tomby of Camborne to answer in bastardy: held over. Child not yet born.

Stephen Rule of Camborne to answer in bastardy: held over. Child not yet born.

James Paul of Lanivet to answer in bastardy: held over.

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Thomas Ventris of Lansallos to answer in bastardy: held over. Child not yet born.

Thomas Rowe of Constantine to answer in bastardy, and his surety William Rowe: discharged.

John Smith of Truro St. Mary, cordwainer indicted for taking a jigger and a seam set, property of John Benny: six months' hard labour in county gaol.

John Stevens of Crantock, yeoman, indicted for taking a sheaf of barley, property of Thomas Prater: three months in county gaol.

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Mary Adams of Antony, spinster, indicted for taking a linen shift, property of William Bawden: acquitted.

Robert Freeman of Landulph indicted for taking a hen, property of Benjamin Sambells: one month's hard labour in county gaol.

William Hambly, Thomas Lovesay and William Moyse, all of Kenwyn, labs., indicted for taking three fowls, property of Jane Glasson: acquitted.

William Keam of St. Mewan, lab., indicted for taking [item left blank], property of Rev. William Hocker, jun.: six months' hard labour in county gaol.

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Elizabeth Williams, wife of William Williams of Luxulyan, lab. indicted for taking two silver spoons, property of John Colman Rashleigh, esq.: acquitted.

Deputy clerk to give notice to Cornwall papers, prior to next sessions, of the proposal to abolish Launceston gaol as a county gaol.

John Vivian, esq. requested to preside as chairman at next sessions.

Recognizances

James Cunnack of St. Breock to answer in bastardy: held over. Child not yet born.

William Hickey of Bodmin to answer in bastardy: held over.

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Appeal by Truro St. Mary against order of 31 Oct. last for removal of John Martyn, Grace his wife, and their children Roxana (9), Joanna (5), Elizabeth (3) and James (8 weeks) from Falmouth: held over.

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Appeal by St. Cleer against order of 28 Oct. last for removal of Charity McLean, wife of Dennis McLean, born of Irish parents and who never gained a settlement in England, and Samuel Philp (4) son of C. Mc.L. by former husband Samuel Philp, and John [McLean] (11 months) from Liskeard: held over.

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Appeal by Probus against order of 12 Dec. last for removal of Ann Daveys from St. Stephen in Brannel: held over.

Continued appeal by Crantock against order of 11 Oct. last for removal of Thomas Morris and his wife Elizabeth from Penryn: held over.

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John Hancock of Gwithian, lab. and Christiana his wife, indicted for receiving a piece of copper and a copper pipe, property of Joseph Banfield, "from a certain ill disposed Person to the Jurors unknown.": acquitted.

William Hodge of Wendron, lab. indicted as a "common Barrator" [taken in this sense to mean a brawler or hired bully]: three months' hard labour in county gaol.

Thomas Perrow committed to bridewell for want of sureties in breach of the peace against Henry Pearce: discharged.

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Appeal by St. Sampson (Golant) against order of 27 Oct. last for removal of Mary Hambley from St. Winnow: order confirmed. St. Sampson to pay St. Winnow £5 costs.

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Appeal by Lifton, Devon against order of 15 Nov. last for removal of John Daymond, Elizabeth his wife, and their children Richard (8), Samuel (6), and Mary (6 months) from Lostwithiel: order reversed. Lostwithiel to pay Lifton £8. 10s. 0d. costs and maintenance.

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Appeal by Edward Smith against three indentures of apprenticeship dated 28 Sep. last whereby Joseph Tamblyn, Jane Jocey and Grace Penrose, poor children of St. Agnes were bound to E.S.: held over.

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Gunpowder licence

Application by John Williams to keep unlimited quantity of gunpowder at Wheal Damsel Mine in Gwennap. Second application by J.W. to keep unlimited quantity of gunpowder at United Mines in Gwennap. Third application by J.W. to erect and use a gunpowder magazine for unlimited quantity at Gunnislake Mine in Gwennap. Fourth application by J.W. to erect and use a magazine for unlimited quantity of gunpowder at Treskerby Mine in Gwennap: all four applications granted.

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Francis Hearle Rodd, Edmund John Glynn, Edward William Wyne Pendarves, Edmund Gilbert, Robert Walker and Joseph Pomery, clerks, appointed as committee of magistrates to administer the Act for pauper lunatics and criminal lunatics.

Recognizance

Estreat of recognizance of Edward Thomas of Paul to answer for assault and for Thomas [other name omitted] of Paul, his pledge: discharged.

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Following Act empowering magistrates to visit parish workhouses and poorhouses to certify the state and condition of them, certificate produced signed by Stephen Usticke, esq., John Rogers, jun. clerk, and Peter Bown Harris, esq. stating that they visited the workhouse at Gweek in Constantine on 31 Oct. last, in the daytime. Reported house to be very dilapidated. It was held by parish at annual rent for a term expiring at Christmas last. They considered it unsafe for the "Habitation of any poor person and particularly so for the weak and infirm", and recommended another poorhouse should be provided for the parish: order made for closure of the old workhouse and that Constantine provide new workhouse.

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