Catalogue description Sessions held at Bodmin

QS/1/4/413

Justices: Sir William Molesworth; William Masterman, Francis Rodd, esqs; Henry Hawkins Tremayne, John Cory, Benjamin Forster, clerks.

Jury: John Bond, Nicholas Male, Moses Bonear, John Bant, William Collins, John Rogers, Richard Rouncivele, Robert Hooper, Thomas Pearce, Nicholas Clemoe, Charles Nicholes, Sampson Lewarne, John Benoke, William Hocken, John Symons, Richard Smith.

Presentment of average prices of corn, per Winchester bushel: wheat, 6s. 2d.; barley 3s.; oats, 1s. 8d.; peas, 6s. 2d.; horse beans [no price given].

QS/1/4/414

Appeal of Jacobstow against order dated 15 Sep. 1783 for removal of Lovedy Rowe and her children, Lovedy (7), Richard (5), Grace (3) and Frances (11 mo), from Whitstone to Jacobstow: order reversed.

QS/1/4/415

Application and appeal by Samuel Hoblyn of Perranzabuloe, esq., against Constantine Bradford and William Henwood, churchwardens, and John Hoskin, esq., and Thomas Bradford, overseers of Cubert, concerning a warrant of distress on the goods of the said Samuel Hoblyn, for raising £10, following his refusal to receive and provide for George Perry, a poor apprentice: appeal dismissed for irregularity, and costs awarded to Cubert.

QS/1/4/416

Continued appeal of Gwennap against order for removal of Dorothy Moore, single woman, from Redruth to Gwennap: to be held over for want of attendance of William Moore, material witness.

Continued appeal of St Stephens by Launceston against order dated 12 Nov. 1781 for removal of Anna, wife of Abraham Isabell, and their children, Abraham (9), John(¾), Jane (4) and Ann (2), from Redruth to St Stephens: to be held over.

QS/1/4/417

Appeal of Michaelstow against order dated 11 Sep. 1783 for removal of John Chapman, wife, Mary, and children, John (7) and Priscilla (2), from Advent to Michaelstow: to be held over.

Thomas Chergwin; committed to bridewell for running away and leaving his family chargeable to St Just in Penwith: to be admonished and discharged.

Anthony Hooper; for same offence at Morval: admonished and discharged.

Samuel Hancock of Gwennap, labourer; pleaded guilty to assault on John Visick: fined 6d.

QS/1/4/418, 419

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

QS/1/4/419

Application of Thomas Michell, esq., John Trevenen, esq., and John Edwards, merchant, on behalf of the Cornish Copper Co. trading at Hayle, to make an additional arch for St Erth bridge, and cut proper levels and conveniences, above and below the bridge, to carry off all water. (Application originally made at Lostwithiel sessions, 16 Jan. 1783. At Truro sessions, 1 May 1783, following report of inspection made by John Truscott, Surveyor (west), a majority of the justices agreed to the application, provided that the county was indemnified from all costs.) Application now granted, and articles to be drawn up between the applicants and Samuel Hext, gent., Clerk of the Peace and County Treasurer, fully indemnifying the county.

QS/1/4/419-421

Recognizances to appear at next sessions:

William Russell of St Erth, yeoman

William Phillipps of the same, surety.

William Phillips of St Erth, yeoman;

William Russell of the same, surety.

Edward Tregensa of St Erth, yeoman;

William Russell of the same, surety.

John Bartle of St Erth, labourer;

Edward Tregensa of the same, yeoman, surety.

Henry Rees of St Erth, yeoman.

[The above list is repeated twice.]

John Williams of Creed, yeoman;

John Peters, labourer, and Abel Williams, clothier, both of Probus, sureties.

George Dreadon of Bodmin, yeoman;

Joseph Hick, velmonger, and Edward Bond, peruke-maker, both of Bodmin borough, sureties.

QS/1/4/421

Estreat of recognizance of William Neills to prosecute Richard Hele, and of recognizance of Richard Hele to answer the complaint: to be discharged.

QS/1/4/422

Appeal of St Just in Penwith against order dated 6 Aug. 1783 for removal of Hope Uren, widow, from Gwennap to St Just: order reversed.

Richard Gill of Bodmin borough; pleaded guilty to assault: fined 1d.

QS/1/4/423

Application by Lanivet for scire facias against William Bawden, late of Lanlivery, now of Helland, farmer, and his pledges, Thomas Bawden, late of Helland, now of Cardinham, yeoman, and Richard Coppen, now or late of Helland, yeoman, for non-performance of bastardy order against William Bawden, sworn the putative father of the child of Jennifer Thomas, now Lukey: application granted.

William and Mary Credacott; indicted for stealing pears and plums from Burden Abraham Harris, gent.: to be discharged, an ignoramus bill being returned against them.

Edward Bokennah; committed to bridewell for want of sureties to indemnify Kea for maintenance of the base child of Anne Burly, single woman: to remain in custody.

QS/1/4/424

John Clemens, late of St Just in Penwith, labourer; convicted of stealing a pair of men's leather shoes, value 1d., from William Tonkin. 1 month's hard labour.

Catherine, alias Christian Doncaster of Sithney, widow; convicted of stealing a brown cloth coat and beaver cloak, value 6d., from Thomas Hockin: to be whipped.

Richard Kessell of Bodmin borough, yeoman; convicted of assault against Joseph Hick, yeoman, and Edward Bond, constable of Bodmin borough: 4 months.

QS/1/4/425

Jane Davis of St Michael Penkivel, single woman; acquitted of stealing two bushels of coals, value 1d., from Thomas Fenton, esq.

Thomas Hobbs; committed to bridewell as rogue and vagabond: to be passed to Launcells, his legal place of settlement.

Thomas Chapple; committed as rogue and vagabond: to be passed to Poundstock, his last legal place of settlement.

William Burley and Joseph Seccombe; committed in felony: to be discharged, an ignoramus bill having been returned against them.

Presentment of highways in Gwithian, Gwinear, Phillack and St Agnes: to be held over.

QS/1/4/426

Appeal of Bodmin parish against order dated 10 Sep. 1783 for removal of Catharine, wife of Roger Couch, and their children, William (6½) and James (31/3), from Bodmin borough to Bodmin parish: order reversed.

QS/1/4/427, 428

Recital of regulations contained in the Act of Parliament of 21 George III, for encouraging the growth of hemp and flax. In accordance with these, bounties for growing hemp to be advertised in Sherborne Mercury.

QS/1/4/428, 429

Application of Lesnewth concerning John Bettenson, gent., who has gone away from his abode at Grylls, leaving his wife, Ann, and children, William, Ann, Mary, John and George chargeable to the parish, which has, under a warranted dated 11 Sep. 1783, already seized goods to the value of £16 12s. and annual rents from lands belonging to Bettenson, to meet the costs of providing for his wife and children: warrant confirmed; annual rent of all lands belonging to Bettenson in Lesnewth to be paid to the parish officers; they are to give Ann Bettenson one guinea a week to support herself and her children, and present accounts of receipts and disbursements at next session.

QS/1/4/429

Man committed to bridewell by name of Lawrey Tate, alias Mead, as vagrant: to remain in custody and at hard labour.