Sessions held at Bodmin

QS/1/2/233

Justices: William Webb, Thomas Glyn, Francis Rodd, John Trewren, John Molesworth, esqs.; Sir John Molesworth.

Jury: Christopher Bawden, Arundell Cock, Robert Elford, John Cock, Richard Taylor, John Hawkins, William Warne, Thomas Salmon, Edward Martyn, William Paynter, John Allen, John Martyn, John White, Robert Peake

Recognizance to attend next sessions:

Samuel Mitchell of St Tudy, esq., £20 surety, in each case that -John Hill, labourer of Michaelstow; Francis Arthur, John Trethewey, Samuel Jago, all of St Tudy; John Peters and John Best, cordwainers, and William Poor, alias Rowe, currier, all of Bodmi, shall appear.

Ralph Williams of St Buryan; confessed to assault and battery: fined 6d.

QS/1/2/234

Alexander Mills, the younger, of St Buryan, confessed to assault and battery: fined 6d.

Alexander Mills, gent., and William Tippett, tinner, both of St Buryan; tried for assault and battery: acquitted.

Trehane Symonds, gent., Surveyor of bridges (east): to repair Dunmoor Bridge.

Joseph Yonge, gent., Surveyor of bridges (west): to repair Leprin Bridge.

Presentment against St Germans: discharged on payment of costs.

QS/1/2/234, 235

Appeal of Penzance against order of 17 September last for removal of Thomas Paull, tanner, wife Christian, and daughters, Mary (5), Jane (3) and Margery (1), from Helston to Penzance: order reversed.

QS/1/2/235

Appeal by Grampound against order of 21 June last for removal of Thomasin Gill, widow, from Ladock to Grampound: held over.

QS/1/2/235, 236

Appeal of St Cleer against order of 14 July last for removal of Richard Nicholl, or Nicholls, from St Austell to St Cleer: order confirmed.

QS/1/2/236

Appeal of St Just in Penwith against order of 20 July last for removal of Oliver Duncalf, wife Mary, and children, Mary (14), Grace (12), Alice (10), Oliver (7), Henry (3) and Thomas (1), from Redruth to St Just in Penwith: order reversed.

QS/1/2/236, 237

Continued appeal by Illogan against order of 9 June last for removal of John Toy, wife Elizabeth, and children, Anthony (7), William (3) Sampson (9 months) and Elizabeth (5), from Camborne to Illogan: order confirmed.

QS/1/2/237

Appeal by Redruth against order of 24 September last for removal of Elizabeth, wife of William Remfry, and children, William (2), Mary (14), Elizabeth (12) and Prudence (7), from Uny Lelant to Redruth: order confirmed.

QS/1/2/238

Joseph Yonge, gent, Surveyor (west): to repair Trevemper bridge.

Presentments against Week St Mary, St Wenn, St Kew and St Johns for not repairing highways: held over.

Recognizances to attend next sessions:

Henry Reynolds of Redruth, tinner

William Trenwith, and Thomas Reynolds, both of Redruth, tinners, sureties

Athanasius Prior of Wendron, yeoman

John Pearse and Nicholas Roberts, both of same, sureties

Athanasius Prior: to keep the peace and be of good behaviour, especially to Eleanor, his wife.

George Gill and wife Mary, of St Issey; confessed to assault and battery on Richard Musgrove: fined 6d. each.

Henry Trerise of St Just in Penwith, in bridewell for bastardy: discharged.

William Gimlett of Laneast, labourer; stealing goods of Samuel Angell, value 2d.: private whipping.

QS/1/2/238, 239

One bridge rate to be raised.

QS/1/2/239

Mary Best, in bridewell as a rogue and vagabond: to be publicly whipped and then taken to St Stephen in Brannel, her place of legal settlement.

One and a half gaol and marshalsea rates to be raised.

Mr Jones to be paid for prosecuting Benjamin Wills and others, and the expenses of Charles Parkins and William Poyner, in connection with same, to be paid.

Account of Thomas Calvert, coroner: to be paid.

Account of Stephen Thomas, prosecuting Ephraim Woolcock: to be paid.

QS/1/2/239, 240

John Bryant of Gwinear, yeoman, in bridewell for not obeying a bastardy order: to be held until discharged by due process of law.

QS/1/2/240

John Sleep of St Columb Minor, in bridewell for begetting a bastard child of John Warn: to be held until discharged by due process of law.

Account of John Eyre: to be paid.