Sessions at Truro

QS/1/3/70

Justices: Walter Borlase, doctor of laws; William Webb, John Luke, Thomas Vyvyan, esqs.

Jury: Andrew Hoskin, Renatus Kempthorne, Joseph Hardy [Handy?], John Johns, John Nicholls, Henry Polkinghorne, James Millett, Edward Rowe, Walter Reed, Erasmus Pascoe, Thomas Rawe, Thomas Leverton, Nicholas Trevena, Thomas Millett, Ralph Williams, Tobias Harry.

QS/1/3/71

Richard Saunders of Stratton; assault and battery, confessed: fined 6d.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

Richard Budd of St Columb Minor

John Morrice of St Columb Minor, surety

William Sleeman of St Columb Minor, surety

Appeal of Manor of Tregavethan, Kea, against order of 24 March for removal of Mary Oats, widow, and daughter Christian (12) from Kenwyn to Kea: held over.

John Lyne of Liskeard, gent.: discharged from apprenticeship indenture of 15 July 1758, in respect of Thomas Clemo, jun., son of Thomas Clemo of Lostwithiel.

Presentment against Launcells for non-repair of highways: discharged, on payment of Court fees.

QS/1/3/72

Presentment against Stratton for non-repair of highways: held over.

Charles Jenkin, jun., master, and Charles Jenkin, mariner, of the sloop Elizabeth of St Ives, gave evidence that they shipped 120 bushels of salt at Bristol on 19 November, on which duty had been paid, to be carried to St Ives for John Davy of Redruth, which were accidentally lost through bad weather on the voyage; and that 480 bushels being carried for George Blewett were also lost.

Account of Mr Yonge: allowed.

QS/1/3/73

One bridge rate to be levied and paid to Joseph Yonge, gent., Surveyor of bridges.

Account of John Lyne, gent., Vice-treasurer: allowed.

John Marshall of Whitstone, carpenter, accused of stealing goods of Paul Orchard, esq., and Richard Cory, gent.: acquitted.

Four gaol and marshalsea rates to be collected and paid to the Vice-treasurer.

Walter Borlase, doctor of laws, and Sir John Glanvill to continue as Treasurers for a further year.

Account of John Eare [Eyre]: allowed.

Peter Care of Towednack, tinner, accused of stealing goods of Michael Baragwanath: acquitted.

Thomas Eddy of St Just, tinner, accused of stealing goods of Thomas Morrice: acquitted.

QS/1/3/73-75

Appeal by John, Duke of Bedford and Robert Butcher, esq., against poor-rates assessment made on them by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of St Stephens by Launceston (named as Benjamin Crocker, Thomas Edgcome, Jacob Grigg and Daniel Harvey) on grounds that the appellants did not occupy any lands in such parish: appeal not proceeded with, as the overseers did not appear before Court to produce the assessments, and it was not clear, therefore, what powers were available to the Court to quash or alter the assessments made.

QS/1/3/75-77

Appeal by George Warmington Bewes, esq., and parishioners of St Stephens by Launceston against the same poor-rates assessment as quoted in QS/1/3/73-75 above, in which they also stated that Robert Pearse, Henry Bray, Edward Dart, John Bate, Peter Broad, John Frost, William Hender, jun., John Gendall, jun., Godfrey Isble, John Sumpter, Thomas Bate, John Allen, Thomas Kingdon, Julius Mann, Thomas Couch, James Bryet, William Bingham, George Avent had been omitted from the assessment: appeal not proceeded with, as the overseers did not appear before them to produce the assessments, and it was not clear, therefore, what powers were available to the Court to quash or alter the assessments made.

QS/1/3/77

Vice-treasurer to pay Charles Larke for prosecuting Edward Dyer.

Account of Trehane Symons, surveyor: allowed.

QS/1/3/78

Richard Budd of St Columb Minor; assault and battery: fined 6d.

James Row, carpenter, and Thomas Weymouth, fisherman, both of Madron; assault and battery: fined 6d. each.

Henry Carter of Penzance, felt-maker; assault and battery: fined 6d.

Robert Yeo: discharged from bridewell.

Charles Pearse of Probus, held in bridewell for deserting his family: to remain in custody until next sessions.

Presentment against Wendron for non-repair of highways: held over.