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Sessions held at Truro

Catalogue reference: QS/1/2/106-113

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This record is about the Sessions held at Truro dating from 7 April 1752.

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QS/1/2/106-113
Title
Sessions held at Truro
Date
7 April 1752
Description

QS/1/2/106

Justices: Walter Borlase, Nicholas Kemp, John Thomas, Samuel Foot, John Hill, John Tremayne.

Jury: Samuel Trebilcock, Thomas Betty, Nicholas Francis, Thomas Powell, Roger Powell, John Cornish, Michael Tanner, John Thomas, Thomas Roskelly, Hannibal Jenking, Joseph James, John Sandys, William Adams, John Trevenning, Andrew Hoskin, Philip Brown, Melchizadeck Hotten, William Job.

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

William Lord and wife Ann

John Bartlett of Anthony, surety

John Hoblyn of St Columb Minor

William Warmington of St Columb Minor

John Hoblyn of St Columb Minor, surety

Abraham Soby; confessed to assault and battery: fined 6d.

QS/1/2/107

Application by Thomas Julyan of St Breock to be relieved of an indenture of apprenticeship made by St Breock, 10 January 1752 for Mary Truscott, a poor child: agreed.

Application by Richard Edwards of Calstock, married, house-keeper, over 30, for licence to operate as a badger lader, kidder carrier, buyer and transporter of corn: granted for 1 year; Richard Edwards, Nicholas Brent of St Dominick, and John Ambrose of Calstock, sureties.

QS/1/2/107,108

Similar application by Hugh Littleton: granted for 1 year; Hugh Littleton, Richard Edwards of Calstock, and Nicholas Brent of St Dominick, sureties.

QS/1/2/108

Similar application by Nicholas Brent of St Dominick: granted for 1 year; Nicholas Brent, Richard Edwards of Calstock, and John Ambrose of Calstock, sureties.

Similar application by John Ambrose of Calstock: granted for 1 year; John Ambrose, Richard Edwards of Calstock, and Nicholas Brent of St Dominick, sureties.

QS/1/2/109

Appeal of St Enoder against order of 27 March 1752 for removal of Ann Jolley, widow, Elizabeth and John, her daughter and son, from Newlyn to St Enoder: held over; St Enoder to pay costs.

Places certified by William Phillips of Redruth to be used for worship by Protestants dissenting from the Church of England: House of Benjamin Pascho at Higher Bospidnick, Sithney; house and yard of Elizabeth Sampson at Helstone; house of Edward Fox at Wadebridge; the Coinage Hall, Town Hall, Ship Inn, Red Lion Inn and King's Head Inn, Truro; the Angel Inn, Helston.

Presentment of Ludgvan; not repairing highway: discharged.

George Ley of Penryn, clothier; confessed to assault and battery: fined 6d.

Presentment of Mabe; not repairing highway: held over.

QS/1/2/110

Presentment of Veryan; not repairing highway: held over.

Avice wife of John Nichols of St Austell, labourer; tried for stealing: acquitted.

George Eustice and Enoch Meagor, of Gwinear, labourers; petty larceny: public whipping.

John Trenerry of Newlyn, labourer; petty larceny: public whipping.

John Williams of St Enoder; confessed to assault and battery: fined 6d.

John Symons; committed to bridewell as a rogue and vagabond: to be whipped and discharged.

May Kestle, held in bridewell: to be discharged.

Thomas Hobbs, held in bridewell on suspicion of felony: to be discharged.

QS/1/2/111

Accounts of Francis Penwarne and John Marshall, Surveyors: allowed.

Account of John Lyne, Vice-treasurer: allowed.

Bridge rate to be collected and paid to Francis Penwarne and John Marshall, Surveyors,

One half of a gaol and marshalsea rate to be collected and paid to John Lyne, Vice-treasurer.

Accounts of Thomas Turner, keeper of gaol at Launceston, and of John Eyres, bridewell-keeper: allowed.

Vice-treasurer to pay Abraham Cole of Lostwithiel, joiner, 14s. for making a box to carry the statutes.

Walter Borlase and John Glanville to continue as Treasurers for one year further.

QS/1/2/112,113

Appeal of St Agnes against order of 26 February 1752 for removal of Mary, widow of Richard Roman, Sarah, widow of William Roman and her 4 children, William (5), Ann (4), Martha (2) and Sarah (11 weeks) from Kenwyn to St Agnes; Mary Roman claimed, on oath, that her late husband, Richard, on their marriage, was a resident of Kenwyn where they lived for 3 years and had 2 children before building a house at St Agnes; at one time, her husband had been resident at St Michael Penkevil: order confirmed; St Agnes to pay costs.

Held by
Cornwall Record Office
Language
English
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/fd424dea-c1af-466e-9189-625bde508759/

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