Sessions held at Lostwithiel

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Justices: Joshua Howell, Henry Hawkins Tremayne, Mydhope Wallis, Benjamin Forster, clerks; Edward Eliot, Francis Rodd, John Eliot, esqs; Charles Hammett, clerk.

Jury: James Littleton, Richard Popplestone, Henry Udy, Mathew Wellington, Edward Slade, John Wills, Nicholas Butland, John Seccombe, Arthur Jose, John Edwards, Jonathan Bake, Francis Browne, Thomas Adams, jun., John Grigg, Thomas Chark, William Searle, John Thomas, gents.

QS/1/4/169, 170

Appeal of Falmouth against order dated 12 Nov. 1777 for removal of Jane (10), Thomas (8), Benjamin (6), Joseph (4) and William (1), children of Thomas Lawrence, mariner and wife Martha, from Mylor to Falmouth: held over.

QS/1/4/170

Appeal by John Siers of Lanlivery, miller, against rate levied by Thomas Littleton of Chark, and Daniel Hick, overseers of the poor, and Thomas Littleton, jun., churchwarden, on Mill Town Mill and other property: appeal dismissed.

QS/1/4/171

Appeal by Elisha Arundle, jun., against bastardy order dated 29 Oct. 1777, concerning female child born in Rame to Hannah Hoskin: appeal dismissed.

QS/1/4/172

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

Walter Oke of Marhamchurch, yeoman;

William Oke of Poundstock, yeoman, surety.

Samuel Bray of Marhamchurch, yeoman;

William Langwin of Marhamchurch, yeoman, surety.

Richard Scoble of St Clements, yeoman;

Humphry Scoble of St Clements, surety.

Treasurer to pay the expenses and salary of the Clerk of the Peace.

QS/1/4/172, 173

Appeal by Lanreath against order dated 23 Dec. 1777 for removal of Jenny Hoskings, single woman, from Liskeard to Lanreath: order confirmed.

QS/1/4/173

Appeal by Sennen against order dated 13 Dec. 1777 for removal of Ann, wife of Martin Semmens, labourer, from St Buryan to Sennen: held over.

Recognizance to keep the peace, especially towards John Searle of Crantock:

Edmund Woodward of Crantock, yeoman;

John Woodward and William Nicholls, yeomen, sureties.

QS/1/4/174

Recognizances of James Rooke of Probus, yeoman, John Kestle of Probus, and David Rooke of Cornelly, estreated following James Rooke's failure to appear at last sessions: discharged.

Thomas Goyne of St Cleer, tinner, and Thomas Colensoe of Madron, yeoman; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d. each.

John Polkinghorne of Breage, tinner; acquitted of stealing one Russia cloth, value 10s.

Thomas Best of Roche, labourer; acquitted of stealing a quantity of beef from John Netting.

Stephen Keast of St Clements, labourer; convicted of stealing an oak post and other timber, value 6d., from William MaCarmick, esq.: to be privately whipped.

QS/1/4/175

Application of St Kew concerning female bastard child born 1 Dec. 1777 to Mary Goodman, putative father Constantine Moyle, jun., of St Kew: maintenance and lying-in costs awarded.

QS/1/4/176

Continued appeal of 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 to Redruth: order confirmed.

Mary Tiddy of St Anthony in Roseland, single woman; pleaded guilty to threatening to set fire to Bohorrow village in said parish: fined 1d.

QS/1/4/177

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

James Retallick and James Grills; committed to bridewell for want of sureties in bastardy: to remain in custody.

Bennett James, committed for running away and leaving his family chargeable to Wendron parish: Margarett Robins, committed for having three bastard children: Francis Mullis, committed for breach of the peace; John Donald, committed for want of sureties in bastardy; and Joseph Inch, committed on charge of felony: all to be discharged.

QS/1/4/178

William Jenkings; committed to bridewell as an 'incourageble rogue': to be conveyed to Veryan, his last legal settlement.

Presentment of average prices of corn, per Winchester bushel, as follows: wheat, 6s.; barley, 2s. 10d.; oats, 1s. 5d.

Continued appeal of Samuel Peters of Sheviock against apprenticeship of Thomazine Warrick: dismissed for want of prosecution.

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

Presentments of highways of Mawgan in Meneage, Constantine and St Agnes: to be held over.

QS/1/4/179

Clerk of the Peace to purchase Burrow's Settlement Cases and its continuations, and the last edition of Burn's Justice, to be available for future sessions.

Anthony Thomas of Lanwith, yeoman; convicted of assault on John Sanders: fined 5s.

Lawrence Thomas, John Hicks and Thomas Hicks, all of Lanwith; acquitted of assault on said John Sanders.

Accounts of Joseph Hick, bridewell keeper, Samuel Hendy and Robert Bennett, coroners: seen and allowed.

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Advertisement to be inserted in Sherborne Mercury, giving names and residences of coroners in the county, and recommending that the appropriate coroner be informed in case of accidental death.

QS/1/4/180

Clerk of the Peace to request William Masterman, esq., to insert clause in the Act of Parliament, intended this session for erecting new gaol and bridewell at Bodmin, for taking up money at interest upon the credit of the county stock, to finance the building.