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Devon Quarter Sessions - Midsummer 1725 [DRO - QS 32/15]
Transcribed by Brian Brassett
Lady Day Sessions 1725. A Calendar of the prisoners in his Majesties high Goal Devon.
| Emmanuel Drewe | Committed by James Bulteel esq the 27th day of March and charged upon oath for breaking and entering the Dwelling house of John Harper of Brixton and taking there Two Gold Rings value Thirty shillings and Four shillings in money. |
| George Grey George Colebreath | Committed by Thomas carew esq the 29th day of March and charged upon oath for committing a Rape on the body of Ann Redwood of Gittisham and by force and violence feloniously take from her a hand Baskett Two loaves of bread two pounds and a quarter of Tobacco a pound of Bacon and other odd things. |
| William Bourne | Removed by habeus Corpus from Somersett. |
| Agnes Melhuish | Committed by John Hawkins [gent] vid Coroid Ind Regis the 3rd day of Aprill and charged for murdering her Bastard child. |
| Richard Land | Committed by Mathew Thorne Mayor of Tiverton the 3rd dy of Aprill and charged on oath for mortily wounding Simon Arter. |
| William Morgan Elizabeth Morgan | Committed by Thomas Pyne esq the 5th day of Aprill and charged upon oath for entering his Majesties Store house in Stoke Damerell in the night time and feloniously taking and carrying away from there twelve or thirteen Crows of Iron. |
| Stephen Ball Jacob Treble Mathias Randle | Committed by John Crabb Mayor of Plymouth the seventh day of Aprill and charged upon oath for breaking open the said Storehouse and feloniously taking and carrying away from there severall large quantitys of his Majesties stores. |
| James Harris | Removed from Bridewell at Sessions. |
| Hezechial Wyatt | Under Sentence of Death and charged since upon oath before John Ivie esq the 13th day of Aprill for feloniously stealing a Black Nag from William Govis of Axminster. |
| Jonathan Wyatt | Committed by Sir William Pole Bart and Richard Stuckey esq the 19th day of Aprill and charged as a lewd dangerous and disorderly person and suspected to have been guilty of diverse felonys. |
| Ann Hunt | Charged by virtue of a Sessions process. |
| James Lockhart | Committed by Sir John Lear Bart the 6th day of May and charged on suspicion of felony. |
| Thomas Elston | Committed by John Gibbs esq the 12th day of May and charged upon oath on suspicion of stealing a white weather sheep And also for feloniously stealing Two books out of the house of Elizabeth Skinner. |
| Thomas Ware | Committed by Thomas Brown esq the 24th day of May and charged upon oath for stealing three pounds and fifteen shillings from James Leathern. |
| Susanna Gay | Committed by James Bulteel esq the 7th day of June and charged upon oath for feloniously taking and stealing one Gold Ring from Susanna Bower. |
| Nathaniell Hamock | Committed by John Gibbs esq the 10th day of June and charged upon suspicion of burning the house of Elias Bishop And also taking out of the said house fifteen Guineas in Gold. |
| John Luckcraft | Committed by John Hatthe esq the 11th day of June and charged on suspicion of murdering Thomas Tomby of the City of Exon. |
| Jonathan Harvey | Committed by Arthur Arscott esq the 17th day of June and charged on oath with the suspicion of having stolen one white sheep. |
| Robert Pearcy | Committed by Thomas carew esq the 26th day of June and charged upon oath for felniously breaking and entering the Dwelling house of James Mogridge And also charged for carrying away a large peice of Timber from ffrancis Drew esq and likewise for leaving his family. |
| Samuell James Nicholas Scarrett Elizabeth Blaggeford William Skitch Henry Harris | Under Sentence of Death. |
| Sarah Laugham | Ordered to lay three months in prison and giving good seurity for her behaviour. |
| Phillip Kerslake | Ordered to lay till next Assizes. |
| James Blackro | Lay till payment of a fine of 200L. |
| Nicholas Brown | Lay till payment of a fine of 10L and one year imprisonment. |
| Edward Hoskin | Lay till payment of a fine of 10L |
| William Pooll | Ordered to be sent to Boston in New England. |
| Edward Effard | Committed by Samuel Wotton esq the Ninth day of July and charged upon oath on suspicion of feloniously stealing a saddle and pair of Gambadoes out of the stable of Peter Gillard of Hallwell. |