Piece
Former piece now catalogued as HCA 32/8A, HCA 32/8B and HCA 32/8C.
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/8
Former piece now catalogued as HCA 32/8A,HCA 32/8B and HCA 32/8C.
Item
Captured ship: Le Bon , formerly the English Bond or Bonn (master Jean Magescaz)....
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/99/21
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- HCA 32/99/21
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1746
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: Le Bon, formerly the English Bond or Bonn (master Jean Magescaz).
History: a French merchant ship (300 tons) bound from Bordeaux to Martinique, laden with wine, beef, butter, pork, flour and other small goods; taken on 2/12 August 1746 in latitude 45° by the privateer Blandford of Bristol (George Stonehouse commanding) and brought into Bristol.
Documents:-
Court Papers:
- [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
- [CP 6]: attestation as to the leaky state of the ship;
- [CP 7]: allegation;
- [CP 8-CP 9]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 28 ship's papers.
Ship's papers, now numbered SP 1-SP 28.
[Decision: condemned as prize, 2 October 1746]
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Miscellaneous
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Series information
HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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