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Devon Quarter Sessions - Epiphany 1782 [DRO - QS32/52]
Transcribed by Brian Brassett
Devon [to wit] A Calendar of the prisoners in his Majesty's high Goal for the County of Devon at the General Quarter Sessions of the peace held at the Castle of Exeter April 10th 1782.
| William Bryan | Committed April 3rd 1782 by Ralph Mitchell esq, charged on the Oath of grace O'Bryan with violently assaulting and beating her. [comment] Tryed, convicted. |
| Richard Parsons | Committed April 8th 1782 by Edward B. Blackett. DD. charged with assaulting Susanna Jope. [comment] Discharged - no prosecution. |
| From the County Bridewell | |
| Elizabeth Langley | Committed March 23rd 1782 by the Revd George Cooke clerk for feloniously stealing two Pewter Plates. [comment] Tryed, convicted. |
| For the Assize | |
| Henry Martyn | Committed March 19th 1782 by William Coffin Gent Coroner for the wilful Murder of Elizabeth Edds his Apprentice. |
| John Adams | Committed March 24th by William Mackworth Praed esq charged with wilful and corrupt Perjury. |
| Thomas Miller | Committed March 27th by Jacob Shaw esq charged on the oath of William Baron with feloniously breaking and entering the shop of the said William Baron and stealing thereout four shillings in Silver. |
| Francis Lashay William Rose | Committed April 2nd by Ralph Mitchell esq charged on the oaths of John Pollard, Robert Fulford, and William Billing on a violent suspicion of Burglariously Entering the shop in the dwelling house of the said John Pollard and feloniously taking and carrying away two pair of Plated Buckles several Watch Chains, and Seals, and other Goods. |
| Henry Watts Cole | Committed April 5th by Ralph Mitchell esq charged on the oaths of noah Skinner and Richard Parsons on Suspicion of feloniously Robbing the said Noah Skinner of one half guinea, one half crown, two pair of silver sleeve Buttons and five pence in half pence. |
| Jeremiah Hurley John Brown | Committed April 8th 1782 by Ralph Mitchell esq charged on the oaths of Tabitha Bennett, Jenny Bath, and John Humphreys on a violent suspicion of feloniously taking stealing and carrying away out of the dwelling house of the said Tabitha Bennett four Silk Gowns, two Silk Cardenals, one Silk Petticoat, one pair of Stays and one dematy Petticoat. |
| Remain on former Orders | |
| James Roope Edmund Roope | Committed on Statute of Bankruptcy. |
| Agnes Ley | Committed Sept 15th 1780 by R. Bawden and P. Beavis esq's untill she shall pay a fine of five pounds. |
| Mary Shullish | Committed April 3rd 1782 by Thomas Putt and Richard Copplestone esqs untill she shall pay a fine of six pounds and six shillings. |
| John Battey | Sentenced last Lammas Assize to be imprisoned one Year and twice publick whipped. |
| John Joyce | Sentenced last Assizes to be three Years on the River Thames. |
| John Harris Thomas Jones George Fry Joseph Kingdom Thomas Sparks Samuel Thompson | Sentenced for Death last Assize but since reprieved. |