Sessions held at Bodmin

QS/1/4/316

Justices: Sir William Molesworth; John Buller, William Masterman, William Pennington, Thomas Graham, esqs; William Henry Reynell, Benjamin Forster, Sampson Sandys, clerks.

Jury: Charles Harris, William Wade, jun., Christopher Andrew, John Bawden, John Michell, John Wilton, John Bond, John Nankivell, John Bant, Francis Brown, Charles Cottell, William Burnard, John Phillipps, William Werry, Henry Blake, Stephen Brewer, Richard Rowse, John Bonithon, Ralph Cole, Able Williams, gents.

Recognizances of Temperance Buzza of Gwennap, widow to appear to answer Sarah Francis for assault: to be estreated.

Recognizances of Solomon Walkem and Henry Barbary, both of St Just in Roseland, labourers, to appear to give evidence against William Pascoe: to be estreated.

QS/1/4/317

Appeal of Breage against order dated 8 Sep. 1781 for removal of George Andrawartha, wife, Ann, and children, George (2) and William (7 mo.) from St Hilary to Breage: order reversed.

QS/1/4/317, 318

Appeal of Cubert against order dated 6 Sep. 1781 for removal of Temperance Rickard, widow, from Newlyn to Cubert: order reversed.

QS/1/4/318, 319

Appeal of St Stephens by Launceston against order dated 7 Aug. 1781 for removal of Ann Isbell and her children, Abraham (9), John (¾), Jane (4) and Ann (2), from Redruth to St Stephens: quashed for insufficiency.

QS/1/4/319

Appeal of St Just in Roseland against order dated 9 July 1781 for removal of John Bone, wife Mary, and children, Mary (3) and Elizabeth (10 mo.) from Morval to St Just: order reversed.

QS/1/4/320

Appeal of Gwennap against order dated 7 Aug. 1781 for removal of Dorothy Moore, single woman, from Redruth to Gwennap: to be held over.

Appeal of Helston against order for removal of Thomas Williams, wife, Diana, and children, Thomas, William and Richard, from Falmouth to Helston: to be held over.

In future, notice of appeal respecting any pauper, delivered to a churchwarden or overseer, to be deemed sufficient notice to enter upon the appeal.

QS/1/4/321

Recognizance in bastardy of Richard Rosvear, jun.: to be held over, the woman not yet being delivered.

Recognizance in bastardy of Richard White of St Columb Major: to be held over, Catharine Benny, the woman charging him as father of her child, not appearing to testify.

Appeal of Illogan against order dated 20 Sep. 1781 for removal of Mary Syms, wife of Joseph Syms, and their children, Mary (7), Joseph (4) and William (3), from Budock to Illogan: to be held over.

QS/1/4/321, 322

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

Mary Stephens of Calstock, widow;

John Stephens of Altarnun, surety.

William Davey of Bodmin, cordwainer;

Thomas Pearce, maltster, and John Hewett, cordwainer, both of Bodmin, sureties.

Thomas Tuck of Truro, grocer;

John Hosking of Truro, brasier, surety.

Thomazine, wife of Thomas Ellett of Truro, pewterer;

John Hosking of Truro, brazier, surety.

QS/1/4/322

Request by Benjamin Moon, Edward Samson, Robert Donnall, Benjamin Strongman, John Eddy and Joseph Burn that the house of the said Benjamin Moon at the bottom of New Street, Penryn, be licensed for worship by Protestant dissenters: request granted.

John Pearce of Blisland, yeoman; pleaded guilty to misdemeanour: fined 6d.

John Kittoe, late of Gwennap, now of St Agnes; pleaded guilty to assault against Betty Penberthy: fined 6d.

QS/1/4/323

William Scantlebury of Bodmin, cordwainer; pleaded guilty to assault: one month's hard labour.

John Burton of Kenwyn, yeoman; pleaded guilty to assault against William Gill, constable of Kenwyn: fined 6d.

John Lyne of Maker, victualler; acquitted of assault against John Taw.

Recognizance of Charles Smith of Mylor, mariner, to appear to answer charge of assault: to be continued to next sessions, provided he pay 3 guineas costs to his prosecutor for attendance at this sessions.

QS/1/4/324

Presentment of highways: in Gwinear, discharged; in Lanlivery, from Cowbridge to Castlewater and thence to the lane leading from Bodmin to Fowey, discharged; in St Agnes and Falmouth, to be held over.

John Whittle, Joseph Eyre, Elizabeth Youldon, James Flint and Maria Martyn; committed to bridewell as vagrants: to be discharged.

Rachael Mills; committed as riotous and disorderly: to be discharged.

Sarah Wilkins; continued in custody from last sessions: to remain in custody.

William Renfree; committed for want of sureties in bastardy: to remain in custody.

QS/1/4/325

Presentment of average prices of corn, per Winchester bushel: wheat, 6s. 0d.; barley, 2s. 4d.; oats, 1s. 3d.

One gaol and marshalsea rate to be levied and paid to Samuel Hext, gent., Vice-Treasurer.