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From: "Julia Mosman" <>
Subject: [CON] West Briton, October 7, 1836
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:53:02 -0500


There is a mention – the first of its kind thusfar- regarding someone being sentenced to the
Treadmill. Does anyone know about this practice? What did the Treadmill do, and how was it
different from "heavy labour"? Thanks! Julia and Rita

PS I owe everyone an apology. My last offering should have been titled September 23, 1836, but instead I typed Sept. 26, 1837.... SORRY!!! Julia



October 7, 1836 - Game License applications

County of Cornwall
Persons who have obtained Game Certificates for the year 1836

List 1 - General Certificates at £3.13s.6d. each

Ash, William Bridgerule
Bradley, William Truro
Braddon, John Trenegloss
Bastard, Samuel St. Breward
Bullmore, G. G Newlyn
Chapman, William Probus
Carlyon, Clement, M.D Truro
Cardell, Christopher, jr St. Erth
Coon, Richard Madron
Francis, William Marazion
Fitzgerald, Herbert Bodmin
Gregor, G.W.F Cornelly
Gregor, F. G Cornelly
Grenfell, Pascoe Gulval
Giddy, Charles, jun Madron
Giddy, Charles, R.N Madron
Gully, W. S Gorran
Hawke, Ruby Callington
Hancock, Richard St. Germains
Hambly, Abraham St. Kew
Harvey, Samuel Buryan
Harris, Nicholas Redruth
Hosking, Henry Uny Lelant
Hockin, William, clerk Phillack
Hockin, John Phillack
Hodge, William, jun Perranzabuloe
John, G. D Penzance
Key, John St. Breock
Kitson, James Buller, clerk St. Veep
LeGrice, D.P Madron
Lewis, Robert St. Clements
Littleton, John Landrake
Little, Thomas, jun St. Pinnock
Martyn, William, jun Crantock
Michell, Joseph Gorran
Morshead, Edward………...Calstock
Nickell, Hart, jun………….St. Breock
Nicholls, John………………..St. Columb Minor
Praed, W. T………………….Uny Lelant
Parks, C. W………………….Newlyn
Pearce, William………………Camelford
Pearce, Richard………………Ruanlanihorne
Pearce, John…………………Penzance
Penrose, Cyrus………………Redruth
Permewan, James……………Sennen
Pomroy, Thomas……………St. Germans
Richards, James……………..Uny Lelant
Richards, George……………West Looe
Roskilly, Richard……………St. Kew
Rogers, John………………..St. Blazey
Rowse, James………………Newlyn
Saundry, John………………Sennen
Searle, William, jun………..Newlyn
Steed, John…………………St. Pinnock
Simmons, George………….St. Erme
Simmons, John…………….St. Erme
Simmons, George, jun……..Kenwyn
Strike, Theophilus…………Callington
Symons, John……………..Morval
Taylor, William………….. .Tintagel
Taylor, Richard……………Truro
Treleaven, William………..Probus
Turner, Charles……………Truro
Varcoe, William…………..Newlyn
Vaudry, A. A……………..Kenwyn
Vivian, John Vivian………St. Clements
Wallis, George Buryan
Webber, Francis, clerk _____________
Williams, Henry Kenwyn
Wills, Nicholas Gorran
Wills, John Antony
White, Thomas Stick Roach

List 3 - Gamekeepers being assessed servants at £1.5s. each

Colwell, John appointed by John Vivian, Esq. for the Manor of Moresk,
Trewinnion, and other lands
Coleman, John by G. W. f. Gregor, Esq. for Trewarthenick

Frost, Daniel by Lady Grenville, for Bosonnoc, Bradock and
Bawdoe
Harding, John by Sir. R. H. Vivian, Bart. For Glynn

Heathman, Absalom by Thomas Bewes, Esq. for Duloe

Haines, George by W. H. P. Carew, Esq. for Sheviock


Nile, John by G. P. Norris, Clerk, for Rosecradock

Made up from the First of September, 1836, to the Twenty-third of September, 1836.

By order of the Boards,
CHARLES PRESSLY,
Stamps and Taxes Secretary
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NEWS

Revision of the Lists of Voters for the WESTERN DIVISION of the
County of Cornwall - list of Courts to be held, to enlist new voters
Irish Magistracy
Public dinner in Waterford to honour Henry Villiers Stuart, Esq. [full page
description]
New order in Spain; Carlists defeated
Vivian and Reform [political viewpoints]
Act of Marriages [one half of entire act printed in full]
After 1st of March, 1837, all Rules prescribed by the Rubrick to continue
to be observed. Marriages may be solemnized on production of Registrar's
Certificate. [Etc]

Foreign News

The condition of the British Legion is wonderfully improved. Not a trace of the Spirit of
insubordination which formerly disgraced it now remains. The perfect docility of the men contrasts
wonderfully with their recent dogged obstinacy, as their clean and strictly military appearance does
with their late disregard of all discipline. Drunkenness has disappeared among them; and a mutual
confidence has grown up between the officers and men, which in action must be productive of the
best results. The privates are all strongly attached to General Evans, who, by his leniency towards
those convicted of insubordination by Courts-martial, his strict attention to the wants of the men, and
strenuous efforts to provide them with necessities, and above all, his known determination to stand or
fall with the Legion, has succeeded in making for himself as many devoted followers as there are men
in the Legion.

The full amount guaranteed by Mendizahal for the payment of the arrears of the Legions (£35,000) is
now in the course of remittance. To prevent the accumulation of future arrears, a real [Spanish
dollar] a day is paid to the men out of their current monthly wages, and is expended under the
direction of the officers. Food is abundant, and of the best quality ............

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Friendly Advice to Servants

Sometimes, perhaps (if you are the cook) you neglect having the loaves one under the other, and
then you are obliged to cut new bread; or sometimes (still worse) you cut it up on purpose, because
you like it best; and you use a quantity of butter with it. We have known a very high professing
servant make hot toast for the kitchen, and when it was forbidden, and try to hide it when her
mistress came down stairs! When nice things that are made for company pass through your hands,
do you know it is wrong even to taste them, without you have leave given? These little things are
mentioned, because they lead you to greater; for we have heard of a servant who went into the
pantry merely with the intention of eating something nice that was there, and was tempted when there
to steal a piece of plate, which being afterwards found out, brought him to the gallows. You are
guilty of a breach of trust (and that is one sort of dishonesty), if you ever read letters which are
accidentally left about. We mention this because we have known it done by servants who were
called Christians, who did not see what a sin it is to indulge vain curiosity, and try to pry into matters
which did not concern them at all. To waste your time, which in reality belongs to your master, is
another breach of trust. If you lie in bed in the morning, or are lazy at your work, you waste time
and do not comply with orders. You would not think of running into another person's house to do
the work of the servants there; but you are just as wrong if you stand idly about, or do things for
yourself whilst you ought to be getting on with your work. (Kentish Chronicle)
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Bankrupts
Wm. Rowe, Truro, grocer, October 7 to November 11 at Pearce's Hotel.
Attys: Messrs. Paul and Smith, Truro. Messrs. Addington, Gregory, Faulkner
and Follett, Bedford Row.
Partnership dissolved
H. C. Milford and S. Milford Truro, Cornwall, wholesale and retail draper.
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National Education
We understand that government has presented to the Rev. B. Woodyard, and the friends of liberal
education at St. Agnes, the sum of £250 for the erection of British schools in that populous parish.
In anticipation of this benefit, £230 have already been raised, principally by those who are desirous
of having their children educated in this institution. The schools will be sufficiently large to
accommodate about 600 children.
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Pilchard Fishery
During the past week, quantities of fine pilchards have been selling at Falmouth, at from 1s.6d to 2s
per hundred. They were taken in seans near the Lizard.
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Falmouth
The ships in this harbour rode out the storm, on Sunday night last, without sustaining the slightest
damage.

On Wednesday last, the new steamer "Iberia" arrived here from London on her way to Lisbon and
the Mediterranean. This vessel is one of the largest steamers in England, and is most beautifully fitted
up. Some of the passengers speak highly of her as a sea-boat, having been out in the gale on
Sunday night last.
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Hunting Appointments
Mr. Phillipps's hounds will meet on Monday next, the 10th instant, at Down Gate in Stokesclimsland;
and on Thursday, the 18th, at Chapmanswell - each day at ten o'clock.
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Fairs
This fair, on Monday last, was but thinly supplied with cattle, and the sales were not very
considerable, on account of the scarcity of grass, turnips, &c. The fair being generally a large one, it
has been usually attended by a gang of pickpockets; but handbills having been issued cautioning the
public against such customers, none of them made their appearance.

On Thursday se'nnight, at the fair at Marazion, a farmer of Buryan, was robbed of money to a
considerable amount, and has not yet been able either to detect the thief or recover his property.
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Caution
On Saturday last, Richard Tregaskies, of Wheal Busy, in the parish of Kenwyn, was fined by E.
Turner, Esq. forty shillings, and thirty seven shillings and sixpence costs, for having broken certain
apple trees in an orchard belonging to Mr. Gill, of Chacewater. We understand the magistrates have
very properly determined to punish severely all persons detected in stealing fruit or injuring trees.
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Scilly Islands
Last week, some men being employed in procuring clay from a neighbouring cliff for the purpose of
repairing the roads on the island of St. Agnes, were proceeding with their work, when a great
quantity (supposed to be from 50 to 60 tons) fell, burying one man called Thomas Bickford, and
severely bruising some others. The unfortunate man, who was the sole support of a widowed and
aged mother, has left a wife and two small children to deplore his untimely end. He was not missed
until some time after the accident occurred, when his body was extricated from the rubbish, but life
was quite extinct. Providentially, the greater part of the men employed on this work had left a short
time before to partake of some beer at an adjacent public-house. Had it been otherwise, many must
have shared the same fate as poor Bickford.

Vagrancy
A few days since, Pascoe, the chief police officer at Penzance, apprehended a fellow who wore a
red coat, and represented himself as a soldier who had been engaged in Spain. The fellow sold
matches, and levied contributions on the public by stating his knowledge of the friends of parties
upon whom he called. He has, very properly, been sent to the Treadmill as a punishment for
vagrancy.

Coroner's Inquest
On Wednesday last, an inquest was held before Hosken James, Esq. at the dwelling-house of James
Rooke, innkeeper, Truro, on the body of Samuel Hall, about 17 years of age. It appeared from the
evidence that the deceased was a groom in the service of John Vivian, Esq. of Pencalenick; and that
about half-past three o'clock in the afternoon of the preceding day, as he was returning to his
master's house from Truro, where he had been on an errand, the horse on which he rode ran off in
St. Austell-street, and on arriving at the point where the new London road commences, stopped
suddenly, and threw him with great violence upon his head. The unfortunate youth was so severely
injured that he died in about an hour. Verdict, accidental death.

To Correspondents
We are of opinion we have taken sufficient notice of the case of John Lobb and the double-barreled
gun for which he obtained a prize at the last meeting of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society; and
must, therefore, decline inserting any more communications on the subject, unless some new
circumstance should arise to render such a step necessary.


BIRTHS

At Redruth, on Wednesday, the lady of R. Tweedy Esq. of a son.

On the 17th ult, at the residence of her father, the Rev. W. Evans, Parkwood House, near
Tavistock, the lady of C. V. Bridgman, Esq. of a daughter.

At Carclew, on Monday the 26th ult, Mrs. W. B. Booth, of a son.

On Sunday last, at Boscawen-street, Truro, Mrs. Gill, of a daughter.

On Wednesday, at Tresillian, Mrs. William Huddy, of a son.

At St. Austell, Mrs. William Crapp, of a son.

At Higher Blowing-house, St. Austell, Mrs. John Martin, of a daughter.

At Falmouth, on Saturday last, the wife of Mr. R. Snow, builder, of a daughter.

At Falmouth, on Friday last, the wife of Mr. W. Wheatley, of a son.

MARRIED

At St. Austell, Mr. John Easterbrook, to Miss Maria Kay; also, Mr. Mat. Ralph, to Miss Thomasine
Stripp.

On the 22nd ult, at St. Clement, Mr. W. Gummow, of St. Erme, to Miss Jane Pill, of the former
parish.

On the 29th ult, at Probus, Mr. Thomas Bonython, to Ann, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Harvey,
of Gorran.

Lately, at Breage, Mr. W. Clark, of St. Ewe, to Miss Mary Glasson, of Godolphin, in the former
place.

On the 4th instant, at St. Mewan, Mr. Thomas Body, innkeeper, to Miss Mary Wills, of Trewinnick,
in Gorran.


DIED

On Tuesday morning, at Truro, after a very short illness, Christiana, daughter of the Rev. John
Medley, aged four years and three months. Of such is the kingdom of God.

On Sunday last, at Truro, James Parks, youngest son of Mr. John Blee, aged five years and five
months.

On Monday last, at Penzance, the infant child of Mr. W. M. Baynard, draper.

On Friday last, at Truro, aged 81 years, Rachel, relict of the late Mr. John Downe, painter.

On Wednesday last, at Penryn, Mr. William Trevena, innkeeper, aged 63 years.

On Sunday last, at Rosemodrass, Buryan, Mr. Thomas Edmonds, aged 70 years.

Lately, at Exeter, Joseph Parks, Esq. aged 60 years, principal partner in the General Bank, Exeter.

At Devonport, on Friday last, Mr. J. Philp, upwards of 40 ears the faithful servant of the late John
Vivian, Esq. of Truro.

On Saturday last, at Crediton, much and deservedly regretted, after an long and painful illness,
Sarah, the widow of Mr. Bucknell, of that place, and mother of Mr. Bucknell, of Tredidon, in this
County, aged 77 years.

At St. Ives, Betsey, the wife of Mr. Charles Short, innkeeper, aged 36 years.

At Falmouth, on Wednesday last, Mrs. Broadley, aged 76 years.




Julia Mosman, OPC for St.Austell,Charlestown, and Treverbyn
website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell

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