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Index to HCA 45/7 - HCA 45/15
Catalogue reference: IND 1/8990
Date: 1770-1780
Index to HCA 45/7 - HCA 45/15
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Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Antigua. Captured ship: Echo...
Catalogue reference: HCA 45/53/6
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This record is about the Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Antigua. Captured ship: Echo... dating from 1808 in the series High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Case Books (Printed Appeal Papers). It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HCA 45/53/6
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Date (When the record was created)
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1808
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Description (What the record is about)
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Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Antigua.
Captured ship: Echo (master David Higgins).
Nationality: American.
History: bound from Nantes to Madeira and St Bartholomew, laden with wine, utensils for boiling sugar, slate, bricks and pig iron; taken on 7 or 9 November 1805 by HMS Unique (George Rowley Brand commanding), and brought into Antigua.
Appellant: The master for the ship and cargo on his own behalf.
Respondent: The captor and HMPG.
Bound printed appeal with manuscript decree of 3 March 1808 (folios 57-69) [no folio 62].
Decision: ship and cargo to be restored subject to further proof.
Folios 57-58: case on behalf of the appellant; Folios 59-60: case on behalf of the respondent; Folio 60: decree; Folios 61-68: appendix
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 45
High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Case Books (Printed Appeal Papers)
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Within the series: HCA 45
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