Sessions held at Bodmin

QS/1/6/212

Justices: William Molesworth, bart; Edmund Gilbert, clerk; George Bickford, Weston Helyar, esqs; John Molesworth, clerk; John Rogers, esq.; Harry Trelawney, bart.; and others.

Jury: Nicholas Foot, Robert Burnbury, Thomas Martin, John Hoskin, Theophilus Willcock, John Bassett, jun., Francis Cole, William Kent, John Helyar, George Tallack, John Drew, Robert Lean, John Curgenven, James Kempthorne Pascoe, William Hendy, Simon Hendy.

Presentments of roads in Mawgan in Meneage, St Teath, St Agnes, Perranarworthal and Gwennap: continued to next sessions.

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

QS/1/6/213

Continued appeal of Breage against order of 19 Feb. 1792 for the removal of Charlotte Sullivan, widow, from Penzance to Breage: continued to next sessions.

Recognizances:

Edward Lillicrap of St Juliot, yeoman, £40, and William Pearce of Davidstow, £20

for Edward Lillicrap to appear at next sessions.

Thomas Croggan of Grampound, £40, and John Newton of Bodmin, £20

for Thomas Croggan to appear at next sessions.

John Perryman; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 6d.

Estreat of James Hoskins of Roche and his recognizance re bastardy; also that of his sureties: discharged.

Recognizance of Humphrey Ostler of Truro re bastardy: discharged.

QS/1/6/214

Rose Harris: deemed and adjudged a rogue and vagabond, and discharged.

James Williams; in custody for running away and leaving his family chargeable to Gwennap: deemed and adjudged a rogue and vagabond; hard labour for 3 months.

Ralph May; in custody for running away and leaving his family chargeable to Perranzabuloe: discharged.

Sarah Trethewy; in custody for wandering and begging in St Columb Major: deemed and adjudged a rogue and vagabond, and continued in custody for 1 month.

QS/1/6/215

William Penulena; in custody for wandering and begging in St Columb Major: discharged and passed to Constantine.

Thomas Treweeke; in custody for running away and leaving his family chargeable to Gwennap: deemed and adjudged a rogue and vagabond; hard labour for 1 month.

Richard Westcott; in custody for wandering and begging in Redruth: deemed and adjudged a rogue and vagabond; hard labour for 2 months, and passed to Thorburton in Devon.

John Lawford; in custody for wandering and begging in Redruth: deemed and adjudged a rogue and vagabond; hard labour for 3 months.

QS/1/6/216

Robert Harris; in custody for want of sureties re breach of peace on wife Dorothy: discharged.

Richard Stephens; in custody for having threatened the lives of Nicholas Kendall, Elizabeth Kendall and Joan Pearce: discharged.

Recognizances and traverse of:

James Brawn; indicted for assault on William Mallett, esq.: discharged for want of prosecution; also of

John Johns; indicted for assault: discharged for want of prosecution.

QS/1/6/216, 217

Appeal of Thomas Woodis against a rate made on 24 Aug. 1793 by Penzance: continued to next sessions.

QS/1/6/217

Appeal by Rame against order of 30 Sep. 1793 for the removal of John Cock, wife Mary, and children Walter (90), John (6), Mary (4) and Sarah (6 mo.), from Liskeard to Rame: continued to next sessions.

John Stephens of Menheniot, yeoman; found guilty of assault on William Herne: committed to custody for 6 months, and fined £50.

QS/1/6/218

Recognizances of John Gundry: continued to next sessions, he being a prisoner.

Appeal by Luxulyan against order of 30 Sep. 1793 for the removal of John Udy and wife Jane from Cardinham to Luxulyan: continued to next sessions.

William Halse, late of Redruth, labourer; acquitted of taking one silver tablespoon, value 10d.

James Pascoe, late of Gwennap, labourer; convicted of taking 5 lbs. of iron, value 1d., the property of Henry Lord Arundell and others, adventurers in the united Mines in Gwennap: hard labour for 12 months.

QS/1/6/219

William Lowry; in custody for having violently assaulted and beaten Ezekiel Haly of Kea: discharged for want of prosecution.

Gabriel Knight; in custody for assault on Hobson Osborne: discharged for want of prosecution.

John Pearce of St Just in Penwith, tinner; convicted for taking 20 lbs. of turf, the property of William Hicks, value 1d.: hard labour for 3 months.

James Ellis; in custody on suspicion of having stolen one Dowlas shift, the property of Grace Bennatto: discharged for want of prosecution.

QS/1/6/219, 220

Bills of gaolers, coroners, bridge wardens and others to be presented, in future, for the inspection of the Justices in the morning of the commission day of each quarter sessions; otherwise, such bills be not allowed. Great inconvenience has arisen by the irregular, and often non-attendance, of the Grand and Petty Juries: in future, all jurors be required to attend in the morning of the Commission day, and fines be inflicted on non-attenders. Resolutions to be inserted in the Sherborne paper before next sessions.

QS/1/6/220

Recognizances of Charles Daw and Thomas Richards, bound over for a misdemeanour: discharged.

Recognizances of John Bunt, James and William Bunt, the witnesses bound to give evidence: discharged.

Vice-Treasurer to pay the Treasurer of Devon £29 10s. 6d. spent for the support of militia men and families living in Devon and serving in the Royal Cornwall Militia between 24 June and 30 Sep. 1793.

QS/1/6/221

Recognizance of Grace Bennetts to prosecute James Ellis re felony: estreated for want of her attendance.

Francis Stephens, Thomas Stephens alias Rushall, John Stephens alias Pugg, Alexander Stephens, William Boundy, Thomas Tregellas, John Goyen, James Jeffery, Samuel Cock and Paull Ninnis, all of St Agnes, tinners; pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour: fined 6d. each.