Item
Number not used; see HCA 42/554/10A and HCA 42/554/10B
Catalogue reference: HCA 42/554/10
Number not used; see HCA 42/554/10A and HCA 42/554/10B
Item
Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Duke of Kingston (master...
Catalogue reference: HCA 42/27/8
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- HCA 42/27/8
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1744-1752
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Description (What the record is about)
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Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Duke of Kingston (master Thomas Meriton).
History: History: an English ship (50 tons), usually employed importing French wine from Boulogne with a pass, but bound from London to Boulogne, laden with 300 or so guineas concealed behind the stove and in a cake of gingerbread, to take on household goods, baggage and passengers; taken on 6 July 1744 by the privateer Eagle snow (John Bazeley commanding), and brought into Dover.
[Decision: restored with costs and damages, 8 September 1744, and appealed]
Manuscript appeal papers. [There are no papers left in HCA 32].
Appellant: the captor, appealing against the decision that there was no just cause of seizure, and condemning the captor in damages and expenses
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
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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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- Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 42
High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Papers
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