Captured ship: Juffrouw Anna Elizabeth (master Daniel Schultz). History: a Prussian...

Captured ship: Juffrouw Anna Elizabeth (master Daniel Schultz).

History: a Prussian merchant ship (100 tons, 12 men), bound from Bordeaux to Amsterdam, laden with wine, juniper berries, prunes and chestnuts; taken on 7/18 January 1748 near Beachy Head by the privateers Salamander (Henry Staffield commanding) and Dolphin (Thomas Pierce commanding), and brought into Rye, where she was damaged by laying on bad ground.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, 3 examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
• [CP 6]: attestation and claim of the master, January 1747;
• [CP 7-CP 8]: 2 attestation as to the damage of the ship, brought into court 4 February 1747;
• [CP 9]: commission of unlivery to unload the cargo, brought into court 3 March 1747;
• [CP 10-CP 18]: 9 sets of attestations as to the damage of ship and cargo, brought into court between May and June 1748;
• [CP 19]: allegation;
• [CP 20-CP 21]: 2 attestations of the master, Daniel Schultz, brought into court 3 November 1748;
• [CP 22]: allegation, brought into court 3 November 1748;
• [CP 23-CP 29]: accounts of damages and schedules with translations marked A-E, brought into court 3 November 1748;
• [CP 29-CP 54]: English correspondence and accounts as to the damage and value of the cargo, brought into court 3 November 1748;
• [CP 55]: Attestation with a schedule as to the damage of ship and cargo, brought into court 12 November 1748;
• [CP 56-CP 72]: 8 sets of attestations, affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Amsterdam and Haarlem in November 1749;
• [CP 73-CP 75]: account as to the cargo of juniper berries with two lists of calculations, brought into court 4 February 1749;
• [CP 76]: Schedule of damages, brought into court 15 February 1749;
• [CP 77]: Report of the deputy register, brought into court 3 November 1750;
• [CP 78-CP 82]: 5 sets of attestation as to damage of ship and cargo, brought into court December 1750;
• [CP 83] Proxy, brought into court 16 February 1753;
• [CP 84-CP 86]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 28 ship's papers [all these papers were restored].

[Decision: restored with costs and damages, 18 June 1748]