Captured ship: St Etienne (master Mathieu Jean Dumont otherwise Mathias du Mondt)....

Captured ship: St Etienne (master Mathieu Jean Dumont otherwise Mathias du Mondt).

History: a French merchant ship (100 tons, 13 men), formerly Les Deux Frères, bound from Malaga to Dunkirk, laden with wine, anchovies and lemons; taken on 13 April 1744 between Dover and Calais by HMS Jersey (Henry Norris commanding), and brought into quarantine in Stangate Creek on the Medway.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 2]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit [one document] and docket;
• [CP 3-CP 22]: claims, translations and exhibits relating to the affairs of Robert Hanning resident at Dunkirk, John Macnamara previously resident at Malaga but relocating to Ostend, one Terry, and Robert Jones merchant of London;
• [CP 23-CP 28]: three attestations as to papers (referring to the escape of the master from quarantine, and the failure of Robert Jones to hand him in), and two abstracts and translations of the separate bundles of ship's papers.

Ship's Papers:

• Bundle 1, now numbered SP 1/1- SP 1/16: sent via the garrison at Sheerness to William Bell a Commissioner of the Sick and Wounded, including letters in French and English, bills of lading, accounts, a bill of health, French pass and muster roll;
• Bundle 2, now numbered SP 2/1-SP 2/22 and SP 2/A - SP 2/C: papers found later, including letters in English and French, bills of lading, accounts, passes.

[Decision: ship and part of the cargo condemned, the rest of the cargo restored, 5 July 1744]