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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Aigle (master Jacques Tostain). Capture history:...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/262/22
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HCA 32/262/22
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Date (When the record was created)
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1778 Aug 17
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Description (What the record is about)
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Aigle (master Jacques Tostain).
Capture history: a French merchant ship (brigantine, 60 tons, 10 men) bound from St Malo to St Pierre et Miquelon for the Newfoundland fisheries, in convoy escorted by the French corvette La Perle, and laden with salt, brandy, wine and many sets of bale goods [pacotilles]; taken on 17 August 1778 off the Isle of Bass [Ile de Batz] by HMS Fox (Thomas Windsor commanding), and brought into Plymouth.
Intended voyage: from France to New France.
Court papers numbered CP 1-8:-
- [CP 1]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1-29) brought in by the prize master Donald MacDonald, late steward of HMS Fox, 9 October 1778;
- [CP 2]: standing interrogatories;
- [CP 3]: three depositions of Louis Chaignon, François Coterie and Louis Coterie, taken at Plymouth, and commissioners' affidavit, 9 October 1778;
- [CP 4]: translations of 5 of the ship's papers, 23 November 1778 (now SP 4, SP 8, SP 11, SP 12, SP 13;
- [CP 5]: allegation.
Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-29:-
- SP 1: detailed invoice for goods sent from Sabatier Fils et DesPrez to Grandclos Meslé at St Malo, for L'Aigle;
- SP 2: convoy signals;
- SP 3: muster roll;
- SP 4: ship's pass;
- SP 5: instructions to Tostain from Grandclos Meslé;
- SP 6-SP 7: papers from [Prothee of St Malo?], master Morin [perhaps from HCA 32/430/14, in the same convoy, taken on the same day by the same captor];
- SP 8: receipt of goods by Tostain from Grandclos Meslé;
- SP 9-SP 10: receipts for pacotilles (small collections of trade goods);
- SP 11-SP 13: bills of lading;
- SP 14-SP 29: receipts for pacotilles.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-13; Ship's papers: 14-37 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].
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HCA 32/262/22/1-37
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English and French
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Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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