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 goods: Spanish cocoa taken from the Sancta Maria (master Jean Jacques Gerard...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/130/9
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This record is about the Captured goods: Spanish cocoa taken from the Sancta Maria (master Jean Jacques Gerard... dating from 1742 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HCA 32/130/9
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1742
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured goods: Spanish cocoa taken from the Sancta Maria (master Jean Jacques Gerard or Gerrard).
History: a French merchant ship (tartan, with a passenger, a Spanish gentleman disguised in the habit of a common sailor, specifically as a foremast man, by the French captain in order to disguise the Spanish nature of the trade), bound from Corunna allegedly to Genoa but actually to Cadiz, laden with cocoa from the French consul at Corunna; taken on 26 July/ 5 August 1742 off Cape St Vincent by HMS Diamond (Robert Pett commanding), and brought into Portsmouth.
Documents:-
Court Papers:
- [CP 1-CP 6]: parchment wrapper (part of an unrelated deed), standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
- [CP 7]: one examination taken before the British vice-consul in the great cabin of HMS Diamond at Lisbon, of John Anthony Caballido of Valladolid, the Spanish passenger, who was intending to take ship from Cadiz for Panama; released at Lisbon, after asking that his original Spanish statement should not be sent to Cadiz as it would ruin him there; 28 August 1742;
- [CP 8]: release of claim;
- [CP 9]: allegation.
[Decision: condemned as prize, 22 November 1742]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Extra information from HCA 30/775/2
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also IND 1/9022, f137v
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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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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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