Captured ship: Jonge Lambert (master William Bakker, prize-master Jacques Mora)....

Captured ship: Jonge Lambert (master William Bakker, prize-master Jacques Mora).

History: a Dutch ship (10 guns, 13 men), bound from Smyrna to Amsterdam, laden with cotton wool, cotton yarn, mohair, goats wool, alum and a bale of carpets, etc; taken on 19/30 September 1744 in latitude 49°28'N, longitude 9°3'W by a French privateer of Bayonne (as the Jonge Lambert had an English passenger carrying several letters to London), and was sent in for Bayonne, retaken on 22 September /3 October 1744 by the privateer Salamander (Henry Strangeways commanding), and brought into the Downs, and then into Stangate Creek.

[CP 1-CP 2]: two attestation of the mate and the boatswain;

[CP 3-CP 6]: two attestations and claims;

[CP 7]: attestation as to the perishing nature of the cargo;

[CP 8-CP 14]: attestation, two cargo manifests, translations of further claims claims;

[CP 15-CP 17]: summary of the sets of abstracts and translations, five sets of abstracts and translations of the ship's papers, in Parcels A (64 papers, 2 abstracts), B (cargo manifest) and C (instructions), I (21 papers) and a further parcel (2 papers), [most were restored].

Ships Papers, now numbered SP 1-SP 5 [all unnumbered by the court].

[Decision: condemned, 16 November 1744; afterwards appealed and restored: appeal papers are in HCA 42/37/11]