Captured ship: Domina Lucretia or De Juffrouw Lucretia or La Demoiselle Lucretia...

Captured ship: Domina Lucretia or De Juffrouw Lucretia or La Demoiselle Lucretia of Danzig (master Rasmus or Erasmus Anderson).

History: a Danzig ship (85 Danzig lasts, 8 men), bound from Bordeaux to Rotterdam, laden with wine, brandy, coffee, juniper berries, sugar, pipes cork, sweetmeats, prunes, sedds and other merchandise; taken on 9/20 November 1747 between Dover and Calais by the privateer Culloden (Abraham Boxell commanding), and brought first into the Downs and then into Sandwich Haven.

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations taken at Deal, commissioners' affidavit;
• [CP 6]: attestation and claim of the master, November 1747;
• [CP 7-CP 15]: attestations by the master and merchants in London, with bills of lading annexed as exhibits, January 1748
• [CP 16-CP 25]: 10 sets of attestations, affidavits, exhibits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Rotterdam, the Hague, Dordrecht and Middleburg, brought into court in January 1748;
• [CP 26]: schedules of goods proved neutral to be restored; not sufficiently proved and reserved; and to be condemned;
• [CP 27-CP 29]: 3 sets of attestations, affidavits, exhibits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Rotterdam, the Hague, brought into court in March 1748;
• [CP 30]: attestation by the master, March 1748;
• [CP 31-CP 33]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and two translations of the 87 ship's papers and books [most of these were restored].

Ship's Papers, [24 of the 87 papers] numbered SP 1-SP 4, SP 6, SP 8, SP 11-SP 14, SP 16, SP 20-SP 24, SP27, SP 31-SP 32, SP 34-SP 37 and SP 72.

[Decision: part of the cargo condemned, the ship and the rest of the cargo restored as neutral, 20 January 1748]