Captured ship: Beurs van Rotterdam otherwise Boeurs (master Robert Denney, an Irishman)....

Captured ship: Beurs van Rotterdam otherwise Boeurs (master Robert Denney, an Irishman).

History: a Dutch merchant ship (120 tons), bound from Tenerife to Rotterdam (but really to Port Louis, France, if possible), laden with Canary wines and 600 Mexico dollars; taken on 26 April/2 May 1746 about 30 leagues west of Madeira by HMS Prince Edward (Hon William Montague commanding) and HMS Grand Turk (Justinian Nutt commanding), and brought first to Madeira, then to Lisbon, then to Portsmouth and last into Sheerness.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 2]: two claims;
• [CP 3 -C P 5]: three attestations as to the master being held prisoner by the captors;
• [CP 6]: further attestation as to pressure placed on the original crew to confess to trading with France;
• [CP 7] attestation as to perishing of the Canary wine;
• [CP 8]: attestation of Nutt;
• [CP 9]: attestation that the wine was not perishing;
• [CP 10-CP 14]: four attestations about the captured crew, how to assess Canary wine, and the status of the owner John Archdeacon [an Irishman] as a burgher of Rotterdam, with translation;
• [CP 15]: attestation of the master, that he was examined in Lisbon but was not allowed to speak to the Dutch consul, and was held prisoner;
• [CP 16]: affidavit as to papers;
• [CP 17]: affidavit by Montague that the British consul at Lisbon was to have forwarded the examinations;
• [CP 18-CP 19]: attestation as to the receipt in February 1747 of the Lisbon examinations, and the examinations, dated August 1746;
• [CP 20]: allegation.
• [CP 21- CP 24]: attestation as to papers, November 1746, and translations of those of the 18 ship's papers in Spanish, Dutch and French [15-18 were restored].

Ship's papers, now numbered SP 1- SP 14, including mail in transit, with letters in English by John Blake, merchant of Tenerife to the master, the owner and to Joachim Kahler in Hamburg. Wrapper numbered [SP 19].

[Decision: ship and dollars restored as a Dutch ally, cargo condemned, 26 February 1747]

3 examinations are in HCA 13/90