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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
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Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Minorca. Captured ship: the French ship Count...
Catalogue reference: HCA 42/26/19
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This record is about the Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Minorca. Captured ship: the French ship Count... dating from 1749 in the series High Court of Appeals for Prizes: 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 42/26/19
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1749
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Description (What the record is about)
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Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Minorca.
Captured ship: the French ship Count Charolais otherwise La Misericordia (master Pierre Bland), bound from Crete to Alexandria; taken by the privateer Fame (Fortunatus Wright commanding).
Documents: manuscript appeal papers, including papers in Turkish.
Added from HCA 32/1829: affidavit of Joseph Pinfold, merchant at Leghorn (Livorno), that he had served papers on Fortunatus Wright [c.1712-1757]"in the Process or Decree hereunto annexed" (no longer annexed) 9 May 1752. This probably relates to the case of the Count Charolais or Le Comte Charolois (see SP 36/95/1/73), or similar activities on the high seas by the inaptly named Mr Wright, who by all accounts, was no stranger to the inside of a Mediterranean prison cell.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Added a stray paper from HCA 32/1829 in June 2022
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and Turkish
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16720426/
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HCA 42
High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Papers
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