It hapned, that one newly associated,
and not yet seasoned with either humour, made this motion for a
reconcilement, viz. that the Sessions should enterchangeably one
quarter begin at Bodmyn, and end at Truro; and the next begin,
at Truro, and end at Bodmyn; and that no recognisance should
be discharged, or cause decided out of his owne diuision. This
proposition, as it gaue the Westerne Iustices the greatest part of
their will, so it salued a sore which chiefly grieued the Easterne:
for before, what was done in the beginning at one place, was, or
might be vndoone in the ending at the other: wherefore all parties
willingly condiscended hereunto, and it hath euer sithence beene
accordingly obserued.
Another variance hath sometimes fallen out betweene Cornwall and
Deuon, about the time of keeping their Sessions. For whereas the
Statute 2. H. 5. enacteth that the Iustices shall hold the same in
the first weeke after S. Michael, the Epiphanie, the clause of Easter,
and the translation of S. Thomas (which, worthily blotted out of the
Calender, Teste Newbrigensi, is euer the seuenth of Iuly) and their
oath bindeth them to a strickt obseruation hereof: the question hath
growne, when those festiuall dayes fall vpon a Munday, whether the
Sessions shall be proclaimed for that weeke, or the next, and the
generall practise hath gone with the former.
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