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The Accused
The Crime
The Details
From file: 4/821/5
Document: 3
May 11, 1780
Crime

Pembroke, New Moat

Assault. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Assault (including wounding, but not malicious wounding)

Accused
William Scourfield, Yeoman
Pembroke, New Moat
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Price Phillips, gent.
Result

Verdict:
Guilty.1

Punishment:

Other:
Ep, J ( both in 4/821/7 )

  • 1 Verdict added from related document(s) within Great Sessions records other than Gaol Files.
From file: 4/821/5
Document: 3
May 11, 1780
Crime

Pembroke, New Moat

Assault. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Assault (including wounding, but not malicious wounding)

Accused
John Harris, Clergyman
Pembroke, New Moat
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Price Phillips, gent.
Result

Verdict:
Guilty.1

Punishment:

Other:
Ep, J ( both in 4/821/7 )

  • 1 Verdict added from related document(s) within Great Sessions records other than Gaol Files.
From file: 4/821/5
Document: 8
Sep 1, 1780
Crime

Pembroke, St Dogmaels

Theft from a ship called the Providence, of raw sugar belonging to the prosecutors. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Theft from ships

Accused
Benjamin Richards, Mariner
Pembroke, St Dogmaels
Plea:
Prosecutor
John Dixon & Isaac Littledale, Whitehaven,
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

Other:
R

From file: 4/821/5
Document: 9
Nov 14, 1780
Crime

Pembroke, St Dogmaels

Assault. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Assault (including wounding, but not malicious wounding)

Accused
Thomas Mendus, Carpenter
Pembroke, St Dogmaels
Plea:
Prosecutor
Thomas Lloyd
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

From file: 4/821/5
Document: 10
Nov 14, 1780
Crime

Pembroke, St Dogmaels

Theft of a boat. Recognizance refers to forcibly taking the boat away and destroying it. more

Offence type: Larcenies
Specific offence: Theft, others

Accused
Thomas Mendus, Carpenter
Pembroke, St Dogmaels
Plea:
Prosecutor
Thomas LLoyd & James Williams
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

Other:
R

From file: 4/821/5
Document: 4
Dec 4, 1780
Crime

Pembroke, Narberth

Murder. Poisoning Sarag Powell, St Issells, spinster, by mixing pounded glass and ironrust into a quantity of treacle. According to 'Letters of Sir William Jones', ( vol. 2, Oxford, 1970 ), the poisoning was intended to procure an abortion. The deceased was pregnant by the accused, a married man; the body was exhumed from St Issells churchyard1. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Murder

Accused
George Williams, Collier
Pembroke, Narberth
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
John Powell, St Issells, collier
Result

Verdict:
Not guilty.

Punishment:

Other:
J, R, Iq

  • 1 Details added from related document(s) outside the records of the Great Sessions, usually the Criminal Registers in the National Archives.
From file: 4/821/5
Document: 7
Jan 6, 1781
Crime

Pembroke, Rosemarket

Assault on Sarah Davies, prosecutor's wife. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Assault (including wounding, but not malicious wounding)

Accused
William Husband, Yeoman
Pembroke, Rosemarket
Plea:
Prosecutor
Evan Davies
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

From file: 4/821/5
Document: 12
Feb 28, 1781
Crime

Pembroke, St David's

Obstructing the highway by erectng a stone and soil wall across it. more

Offence type: Marketing, labour and administrative offences
Specific offence: Nuisance (mainly obstructing the highway or pollution)

Accused
Peter Williams, Yeoman
Pembroke, St David's
Plea:
Prosecutor
John Parry
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

Other:
A, Ep ( both in 4/821/6 )

From file: 4/821/5
Document: 11
Apr 6, 1781
Crime

Pembroke, Lampeter Velfrey

Assault and resue of distrained livestock in prosecutor's custody. more

Offence type: Rescue, harbouring, escaping, returning from transportation
Specific offence: Rescue of livestock

Accused
Sarah Gibbon, Married
Pembroke, Lampeter Velfrey
Plea:
Prosecutor
William Owen, Lampeter Velfrey, farmer
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

From file: 4/821/5
Document: 11
Apr 6, 1781
Crime

Pembroke, Lampeter Velfrey

Assault and resue of distrained livestock in prosecutor's custody. Indicted with her husband. more

Offence type: Rescue, harbouring, escaping, returning from transportation
Specific offence: Rescue of livestock

Accused
Catherine Thomas, Married
Pembroke, Lampeter Velfrey
Plea:
Prosecutor
William Owen, Lampeter Velfrey, farmer
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

From file: 4/821/5
Document: 11
Apr 6, 1781
Crime

Pembroke, Lampeter Velfrey

Assault and resue of distrained livestock in prosecutor's custody. Indicted with his wife. more

Offence type: Rescue, harbouring, escaping, returning from transportation
Specific offence: Rescue of livestock

Accused
John Thomas, Farmer
Pembroke, Lampeter Velfrey
Plea:
Prosecutor
William Owen, Lampeter Velfrey, farmer
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

From file: 4/821/5
Document: 5
Sep 14, 1781
Crime

Pembroke, St Issells

Infanticide of her female bastard child by strangulation. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Infanticide, i.e. new born child murder (including concealing birth)

Accused
Anne Lewis, Spinster
Pembroke, St Issells
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
John Hodge, St Issells, parish officer
Result

Verdict:
Not guilty.

Punishment:

Other:
J, R, Iq