'Admiralty Reports 1744-1745'. A manuscript notebook containing detailed notes of...

'Admiralty Reports 1744-1745'.

A manuscript notebook containing detailed notes of discussions in the High Court of Admiralty on prize cases, some with decrees, writen by an advocate engaged in the cases (possibly Crespigny: the authorship is discussed in a 7pp note by C J B Gaskoin added to the binding). Dates given are of the discussions: the ships were taken sometimes years earlier, and about 20 cases going back to the 1690s are cited.

Contains

• ff 1-4: La Fortune [Fortuna] master Helmer [see HCA 32/111/12];
• ff 4-5: Louisa, a Swedish ship [see HCA 32/127/31];
• f 6: De Eendraght [see HCA 32/108/1];
• f 6v: Juffrouw Catherina [not yet identified];
• f 6v: Rose in June [see HCA 32/149/16];
• ff 7-8: Ceres [see HCA 32/103/13: Marsden notes that this discussion shows that the"rule of 1756" (as to the illegality of a neutral carrying on in time of war the trade of a belligerent, which is closed to the neutral in time of peace) was already treated as settled law in 1744];
• ff 8-9: Duke of Kingston [see HCA 42/27/8];
• f 9: Jacob, a Dutch ship [not yet identified];
• f 9v: Christianus Sextus [see HCA 32/103/26];
• f 9v: Francis [see HCA 32/111/17];
• ff 10-13: Hoffnung of Altona [see HCA 32/117/19];
• ff 13v-14v: De Eendraght [see HCA 32/108/1];
• ff 14v-16v: Duke of Dorset, jurisdiction of Cinque Ports - not prize;
• ff 17-20v: Humility, a Swedish ship [see HCA 32/116/17];
• ff 20v-24v: Postillon or Postilion of Bordeaux [see HCA 32/143/18];
• ff 25-26v : Mary of Bilbao [not yet identified];
• ff 26v-27: Catharina [see HCA 32/100/5];
• ff 27-27V: Young Lambert; [not yet identified];
• ff 28-32: Francis [see HCA 32/111/17];
• ff 32-35: Brigida Antonia [see HCA 32/99/24];
• ff 35-36v: Grand Paul alias the Baltic Merchant [see HCA 32/114/14];
• ff 37-40: Vierge Marie; [not yet identified Riga to Port Louis];
• f 40v: Young Lambert; [not yet identified];
• f 41: Dursley Galley [see HCA 32/106/24];
• ff 41v-42: Les Aimables Marthes [see HCA 32/96/2];
• f 42v: Joseph and Mary [see HCA 32/119/12];
• ff 42v-43v: T'Slots Copenhagen [see HCA 32/151/22].