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Devon Quarter Sessions - Summer 1739 [DRO - QS32/36]
Transcribed by Brian Brassett
Devon [to Witt] - A Calendar of the prisoners in the High Goal for the County aforesaid Summer Sessions 1739
John Crockford | Detained by virtue of a warranr under the hands of William Turker and George Southcott esq's dated 6th March 1738 for stealing a Sorrell or Chestnut Nagg. |
Richard Calvin | Committed 6th April 1739 by J. Cleveland esq and charged with the Murder of William Crosell gent and Robbing his house. |
John Williams | Committed 7th April 1739 by Caleb Inglott esq on suspicion of breaking open Two houses. |
Simon Needs | Committed 2nd May 1739 by the Mayor of Tiverton on suspicion of breaking open a house. |
Richard Bond | Committed 5th May 1739 by Thomas Saltron esq on susition of stealing a ffatt weather sheep. |
Patience Harding Jane Harding | Committed 6th May 1739 by J. Baker gent one of the Coroners for the said County for Murdering a ffemale base child. |
Thomas Limpous | Committed 7th May by John ffowell esq for feloniously Robbing the Post boy that carried the Western Male for London and feloniously stealing the Horse and the said Male. |
William Ganny alias Huskings | Committed 7th May 1739 by the Mayor of Totnes for feloniously stealing and privately taking away a purse and £18:1s in money. |
John Hammon | Committed 22nd May 1739 by William Bickford esq on suspition of braking open a house. |
William Lethbridge | Committed 28th May 1739 by Robert Lucas esq for breaking open the parish Church of Rackenford in said County and out of the coffer there sacrilegiously taking and carrying away a silver Cup a silver Salver and the Ministers Surplice. |
Robert Pearce | Committed 7th June 1739 by Walter Ratcliffe esq on suspition of breaking open a house in the night time. |
John Squire | Committed 15th June 1739 by the Reverend Mr. Peter Beavis on suspition of stealing a Game Cock. |
Judith Paw | Committed 25th June 1739 by J. Pyne esq for feloniously stealing a piece of Stampt Linnen. |
William Bale | Committed 3rd July 1739 by Walter Ratcliffe esq and charged as a Deserter from a Regiment now lying in Gibralter. |
John Vivian | Ordered the last Assizes to be continued till he should be discharged by one Course of Law. |
William Parsons William Peircy | Ordered to remain pursuant to their Committments. |
Joseph Barrow alias Bennett William Maddocks Henry Bunker [jnr] Ann Ratcliffe | Sentenced to Death the Last Assizes but Reprieved for Transportation. |
Bampfield Carew William King | Ordered to be Transported the Last Sessions. |