a history
From Cork in the Juverna: … B. Pinsent, 76 qrs bere barley, 31 ½ qrs barley … From Waterford: in the Victory: … B. Pinsent 125 ½ qrs oats …
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Bristol (Foreign and Irish) Imports: From New York, in the Tyringham; B. Pinsent, 500 brls flour: From Waterford, In the Victory; B. Pinsent, 125 1/4 qrs oats.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Bristol Imports: In the Sabrina, from Cork; B. Pinsent, 333 ½ qrs oats: In the Juverna, from Cork; B. PInsent 250 qrs oats.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Bristol (Foreign and Irish) Imports: From Cork, in the Sabrina; B. Pinsent, 333 ½ qrs oats: In the Jurvena; B. Pinsent, 145 qrs oats: From Waterford, In the Victory; B. Pinsent, 125 1/4 qrs oats.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Bristol, Foreign and Irish Imports: In the Sabrina, Stavely, from Cork: B. Pinsent 333 ½ qrs. oats.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Newton County Court: Sittings of the Court were held at the Town Hall on Saturday and Monday, before Judge W. M. Praed, Esq., there were thirty cases entered for hearing each day but many of these were settled out of Court. Frost v Pinsent: Claim for £6 6s 6d. for services as a farrier, in attending calves and sheep. Mr. Carter conducted the plaintiff’s case; Mr. Francis appeared for the defendant. William Frost examined: He lives at Broadclist, and is a farm bailiff; in 1847, he resided at Kingsteignton and was innkeeper and tended cattle; The Judge: – what do you mean by tending cattle? Mr. Frost: He tended them with medicine if they were ill. The Judge: Then you acted as a farrier? Examination continued: He was requested by a servant of the defendant to go to Greenhill, and drench a calf for him, in May 1847. He went to the farm and asked to see the calf, when one of the defendant’s men took him to a shed and he gave the calf a drench, and on the same evening gave it a second drench; he did not see the defendant the first time he went and the second time he saw a servant maid, who said her master was not at home: he told the maid if the calf was not better, to send the hind for him again. He was not sent for, after that, about this calf; and he concluded that the calf was cured by the medicine he gave it. He then attended some sheep by the request of the defendant personally, who asked him if he did not tend sheep for the scab, and on his saying he did, he told him to come to his farm. He went the next day, and after he had examined the sheep, he saw Mr. Pinsent. The sheep were in a house on the premises, he told the defendant that the sheep were, all of them more or less, diseased, and he wished him to take them in hand, and try to cure them. There were about thirty sheep at that time there, he told the defendant he would take the sheep in hand and asked him to buy the ingredients; the defendant said he should buy the ingredients, and he might prepare them in their kitchen. Plaintiff brought the ingredients in a day or two after and went to the farmhouse and prepared them in the kitchen. He used the mixture about the sheep until he had used it all, the he prepared another pot, after purchasing the ingredients; after he had done this in the kitchen, one of the servants said he could not prepare any more there, because it caused such a disagreeable smell in the house; he afterwards prepared three or four pots in his own house; he was attending the sheep several months, when the ingredients came to £1 8s 4d. He gave the bill to Mr. Pinsent. The first day he struck the sheep was the 6th of April. It would take him sometimes two hours for about one sheep, for some were diseased from top of the nose to the sole of the foot. He was frequently striking half a dozen of the worst of the sheep, each time he went it occupied him nearly the whole day; he was sometimes assisted at first by the defendant’s man; he then employed a man for seven days and a half and paid him 18s. There were two rams among the sheep which were cured and sold to the defendant, two other sheep were sold to the defendant while he was about them, he saw Mr. Pinsent several times and had conversation with him about the sheep and the disease. He told Mr. Pinsent the saw the sheep twice a week, and Mr. Pinsent said he ought to see them oftener, and after that he did see them oftener; there were more sheep deceased then, and the weather being wet, they required more attendance; he allowed a man named Tapp 15s for assisting him; he was generally there the whole day, but sometimes half days; he charged the defendant the same for his attendance as he did other farmers, and which he had been paid without any objection. When he was about the sheep in September 1848, he drenched three calves, one of them being in a very dangerous state, by the order from Mrs. Pinsent, he attended three calves several times and told Mr. Pinsent he thought one of them would die, and it did die. He gave Mr. Pinsent the bill for the ingredients, as they cost him £1 18s, and Mr. Pinsent would not pay before he had settled an account with his son; when the mixture was done, he ceased his attendance on the sheep, but they were not cured. He told the defendant that the sheep were not cured when he asked for money to buy more ingredients. On the 28th of May last, he came to a settlement with the defendant’s son, paying him £14 4s 8d, when defendant’s son allowed £1 8s 4d which he said he was to pay for his father; Plaintiff said he has an account with his father, and would rather settle with him for the whole; defendant’s son said unless he choose to settle it, he should order Mr. Francis to proceed against him. He then settled with the defendant’s son, deducting £1 8s 4d on the father’s account. He called on the defendant the next day and asked him for the balance of his account. He had sent him the full account about a week or fortnight before. Mr. Pinsent walked off, saying he shouldn’t pay him, and he might get it how he could. Cross-examined: He had practised as a farrier for many years. He learnt it by experience; he could not charge like a veterinary surgeon and should have been satisfied with his charge of half a crown a day; he never offered to cure the sheep, if the defendant would pay for the stuff. He had offered Mr. Pinsent to become his bailiff before he attended the sheep and calves; he took the dead calf to a dealer and got 2d for it – (a laugh). He had said in his examination in chief that, after Mr. Pinsent complained, he saw the sheep oftener than before, but he could not tell how it was that the charges on his account were nearly the same throughout, showing that he had seen the sheep once in five days only and sometimes one day had elapsed between visits. Mr. Francis, for the defendant, said he should show that he did not employ the plaintiff, who volunteered to cure the sheep and calves. If Mr. Frost would pay for the stuff; that the defendant had paid this demand; that the plaintiff had not cured the sheep but left them in a very bad state without any notice. He dwelt on the fact that the statements of the plaintiff in his evidence on oath, as to the time of his attending the sheep, had been entirely contradicted by his own statement of accounts, and that consequently his evidence could not be depended upon. He had utterly failed in maintaining his claim, and then called the defendant and other witnesses whose testimony went to rebut that given by the plaintiff. His Honor observed that the case was one requiring much consideration, and therefore he postponed his decision until Monday morning, when he gave judgment at considerable length, the substance of which was, that it appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff had voluntarily offered to cure the sheep if the defendant would pay for the ingredients, so that his claim for several days and half days attendance, as charged, had not been sustained. The judgement therefore was for the plaintiff for £1 7s 6d only, for drenching the calves with costs £1 8s 4d.
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901
GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872
From New York in the Tyringham: … B. Pinsent, 500 brls flour … From Cork in the Sabina: … B. Pinsent, 333 ½ qrs oats … In the Juverna, … B. Pinsent 255 qurs oats …
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
County Court: Oct. 4th: (Before William Praed, Esq., Judge): Frost v Pinsent: The plaintiff sued the defendant for the sum of £6 6s 6d, balance due for attending cattle in the year 1847. The attendance was charged at 2s 6d per day. Mr. Francis attended for the plaintiff and Mr. Carter for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged that he was an innkeeper and farrier at Kingsteington, in the year 1847, and the defendant was a gentleman farmer, residing at Greenhill, near the same place. In the early part of the year, about April, he was fetched by a servant of defendant’s, named Gray, to drench a calf at Greenhill. Plaintiff could not go that evening, but did so the following morning, and drenched the sick calf in the presence of two of the defendant’s men and continued to attend it. Defendant called at plaintiff’s house in the beginning of April 1848, and asked if he was in the habit of striking sheep for the scab; on plaintiff’s answering in the affirmative, defendant said he had some sheep which were suffering from scab very badly and ordered plaintiff to attend to them, plaintiff went either the next day or the day after and examined the sheep. At some length he stated the results of the examination, and his other transactions. There were 20 sheep diseased, and the witness was engaged to purchase, mix, and apply the ingredients necessary for their cure. The sheep being very severely affected, the scab required his constant attention, and after attending to them for some time, the plaintiff gave the defendants his bill. The latter observed that the plaintiff owed his son some money, and on that being paid, he would pay the bill. Plaintiff had no means of purchasing more ingredients and ceased his attendance on the sheep when he had used all the medicine. Plaintiff afterwards called on defendant’s son, a spirit merchant, of Newton, to whom he owed £14 4s 8d to settle the accounts. He was offered £1 8s 4d for his services to the defendant, which he at first demurred to take, but afterwards he accepted it under fear he alleged of legal proceedings. He afterwards called on the defendant for the alleged balance, which he refused to pay. Cross-Examined; He had never asked plaintiff for the amount due for attendance on the sheep until April in this year, when there was an action between defendant’s son and plaintiff’s mother. For the Defence: Mr. Pinsent was examined and stated that he had never engaged the plaintiff as a farrier. Plaintiff met him one day and said “I hear your sheep have got scab, Sir; “defendant said they had; plaintiff said he would cure them if defendant would pay for the ingredients; defendant accepted the offer and thanked him for his attention, wondering at his liberality – but this was explained some time after, by plaintiff offering to become his bailiff. While the plaintiff was attending to the sheep, a conversation occurred about a calf, which the defendant had given up as incurable; the plaintiff said he could cure it and was allowed to try. After attending it for some time the calf became worse, and the defendant made the plaintiff a present of it. Had heard nothing about the plaintiff attending to three calves, until he sent in his last bill, but then found he had charged for it. The calves were under the charge of the hind, and he had authority to employ a farrier, and might have employed the plaintiff without the defendant’s knowledge. Defendant did not tell the plaintiff, on his presenting a bill for the ingredients, that he would not pay him until he paid his son, but gave him back the bill, and said “You owe my son some money. Go and give him the bill, and he will give our credit for it.” Had no idea at that time that plaintiff was going to charge more – and had never known him as a farrier. It appeared that before the defendant told plaintiff to take the bill to his son and get credit for it, the son had sued and obtained judgment for £14 against plaintiff in this court. His Honour remarked that the defendant was acting very irregularly in sending the plaintiff to the son at such a time; it was far better that everyone should pay their own debts. Mr. Murrin, a butcher, of Newton, said he bought the sheep of Mr. Pinsent, after plaintiff had ceased to attend them, and they were then very bad, but he cured them with a shilling’s worth of ointment, and considered the amount £1 8s 4d sufficient for curing the sheep and calves. The sheep were not worth much; witness bought them cheap, he should not have bought them at all, but he was in the habit of purchasing all Mr. Pinsent’s sheep, and was obliged to keep the sheep a long time before they were sufficiently fat to kill. Mr. John Pinsent, spirit merchant of Newton Abbot, son of the defendant, said the bill of £1 8s 4d was brought to his office by plaintiff before April 1851, and he offered it as part payment of his account, and in answer to witness said that that sum was all defendant owned him. Witness had heard nothing about the sum now demanded, until he had commenced an action against plaintiff’s mother, when he received a letter, which was now produced, and contained the following remark “you have commenced an action against my mother, and I shall now proceed against your father for £7 15s, which he owes me.” Plaintiff paid the amount of his bill on the 28th May; he came late in the evening, the witness refused to take the money, as the matter was in Mr. Francis’s hands. Plaintiff entreated him to do so, as he said he should lose a situation which he was then holding if he did not get back to Broadclist that evening. Witness at last consented to take the money, the plaintiff promising to pay Mr. Francis his expenses in a few days. Witness gave the plaintiff a receipt for the money. The receipt, an unstamped one, was now produced. The bill paid by the plaintiff was on a judgment standing against the mother in a superior court. The plaintiff owed witness £13 14s and judgement was obtained in this court for the amount. After that, the witness issued a judgment summons from the Exeter County Court, plaintiff having become a resident in that district. A note of hand for £50 given by plaintiff’s mother to him, he endorsed to witness, as a security for the money, that the proceedings may be stayed, in which note, the mother was afterwards sued, by Mr. Francis, on the part of witness. The bill due from plaintiff, and on which he had been sued, was now put in, and his Honour Remarked that witness has charged interest on the bill for four years, and also on the expenses of the court, which he said was very irregular and further that it was decidedly wrong for witness to have taken the money and given an unstamped receipt only, while the order of the court remained unsatisfied in the books. It was bringing the court into disrepute. William Holmes said he was clerk to the last witness and corroborated his statements: Mr. Carter, having replied on the whole case, His Honour reserved judgement until Monday. The case occupied nearly the whole day: Monday: His Honour gave judgment. He said this was an action for £6 6s 6d, the balance of £7 14s 10d which plaintiff claimed for services rendered as a farrier, £1 8s 4d having been paid. That amount was paid in a manner of which he could not altogether approve. The items were very distinct. – The one part was for drenches given to calves, and the second for attendance to sheep. The claim for drenches was clearly established by the defendant himself, who said in evidence that he had given authority to his hind to employ attendance for his cattle and had since found that the plaintiff had been so employed. His Honour was therefore of the opinion that the defendant was ill-judged in opposing that part of the account. At the same time, he could not help remarking that tradesmen and others too frequently took orders, and were employed by servants and agents, without considering whether their authority was sufficient. Indeed, he himself had occasion to complain of the facility with which orders were taken by tradesmen, from servants without making due enquiries. The great contest in this case had been for the demand for attending to a flock of sheep. The plaintiff said he was engaged by the defendant. He had first given in a bill for ingredients but had since given in a bill for attendance. The bill for ingredients was by no means a satisfactory one. There was a large amount charged for tobacco, and for the other part of the sum nothing specific was named. It was tobacco and other ingredients but that there was no need for further remark on for the bill had since been settled, and of course there was an end to it. The plaintiff seemed never to have made any demand for attending the sheep, from the time he attended them in 1848 to May 1851. Two years and a half elapsed before any intimation was given to the defendant that the plaintiff intended to make such demand. The answer made by the defendant was that it was a voluntary offer, and that was mainly confirmed by the time the plaintiff allowed to elapse before he made his demand, and his giving in a previous bill for the ingredients; besides that there was the angry letter written by the plaintiff to defendant’s son, relative to a suit instituted by him against plaintiff’s mother, and it seemed to express something like “If you go to law with my mother, I will go to law with your father.” There was some evidence given also of a motive that the plaintiff might have had, in voluntarily offering, to cure the sheep; he wished to become defendant’s bailiff and took perhaps the opportunity of showing his skill in treatment of cattle. His Honour, considering the whole of these circumstances, thought the plaintiff had failed to prove his case relative to the charge made for the cure of the sheep, and he therefore gave judgement for the plaintiff for £1 7s 6d only. He could not close the case without again commenting on the remark of the plaintiff that he should have asked for his money sooner but that the son of the defendant had a judgment against him in the County Court. A judgment was obtained in this court, and afterwards taken to the Exeter County Court. The money had since been paid, but an unsatisfied order had been allowed to stand on the books up to this time. And this went to show how the County Court might be made the means of much injustice and oppression. Besides that, it was shown that when the defendant’s son took the money he charged interest, not only on the account, but on the County Court charges also, and then gave the plaintiff no proof that there had been a settlement, save an unstamped agreement, which was not of the least value to him. That was most irregular. The County Court was often brought into disrepute by such means. He had no doubt, if the books of the court were looked over, a great many cases where an unsatisfied judgment had been allowed to remain after the money was paid, would be found. It was often used as a reproach in the County Court that so many unsatisfied orders remained on the books. A great many people adopt the plan of getting a judgment in the court and afterwards tampering with the parities making their own arrangements, getting the matter settled in their own way without giving any intimation to the court. This was unfair and might lead to injustice to the defendant. In reference to the unstamped agreement in this case, it was nonsense for Mr. John Pinsent to have said he had no stamp, and it was too late to get one. His proper course would have been to have said to the present plaintiff “I have no stamp, nor is it my place to get one, if you will get a stamp I will deduct the amount for it, “and in case of Frost having come, Mr. Pinsent might have given an acknowledgement and said “You bring a stamp in the morning, and I will sign it.” However, nothing was said about a stamp at all. The blame was not altogether to be laid to Mr. Pinsent; it was the place of Frost to have seen that he had a stamp receipt when he paid his money. Only Mr. Pinsent, from his position and extensive transactions, was expected to have best understood the matter. After these remarks he hoped persons obtaining judgment in this court would act more regularly.
[Exeter Flying Post: Thursday 9th October 1851: see Exeter Flying Post Thursday January 1st, 1852: (Frost v Pinsent)]
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901
GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872
From Cork: In the Sabrina: … B. Pinsent 167 1/8 qrs oats, 77 qrs bere, … From Waterford in the Juverna … B. Pinsent, 145 qrs oats …
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Bristol Imports: In the Sabrina, from Cork; B. Pinsent, 167 qrs oats, 77 qrs bere: In the Juverna, from Cork; B. Pinsent, 145 qrs oats: In the Victory, from Waterford; B. Pinsent, 94 qrs oats.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874