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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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Captured ship: Amelia of London (John Robinson Master). History: an English merchant...
Catalogue reference: HCA 42/1/4
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- HCA 42/1/4
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1697
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Captured ship: Amelia of London (John Robinson Master).
History: an English merchant ship [in the slave trade ?] (180 tons, 10 guns), bound from Jamaica to London, laden with sugar, logwood, fustic, indigo, jamaica pepper, cotton, elephants' teeth, cocoa, and about £300 in pieces of eight, Spanish money for the master, and £300-£400 for several merchants in London; taken on 19/29 April 1697 off the Scilly Isles by the French privateer Le Duc de Maine of St Malo, retaken in fight on 21 April / 1 May 1697 of the Sept Iles by a fleet of 13 Dutch and English privateers of which the Revenge (John Le Nap commanding) and the Prosperous (Dennis Rous commanding) brought the vessel into Guernsey.
Documents: manuscript appeal papers[Decision: not yet known]
For the initial prize case papers, see HCA 32/1851/10
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- The National Archives, Kew
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High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Papers
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