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Captured ship: Amelia of London (master John Robinson). History: an English merchant...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1851/10

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Reference
HCA 32/1851/10
Date
1697
Description

Captured ship: Amelia of London (master John Robinson).

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:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 4]: standing interrogatories, eight examinations;
  • [CP 5]: allegation;
  • [CP 6]: claim;
  • [CP 7-CP 10]: four attestations, two alleging the embezzlement of money aboard by Dutch and Ostend privateers, one about costs for unlading, one stating that further embezzlement is likely in Guernsey;
  • [CP 11-CP 12]: attestation with an exhibited letter annexed from Robert Renouf;
  • [CP 13-CP 15]: commission of appraisement, inventory, envelope;
  • [CP 16-CP 17]: further commission of appraisement and a more detailed inventory;
  • [CP 18]: attestation relating to the unlading of the cargo.

Ships' Paper numbered SP 1, copy letter of marque for the French ship Le Duc de Maine.

[Decision: restored, paying salvage, 16 September 1697. Appealed]

Note
Extra information added from IND 1/9016 p5
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
HCA 32/13, HCA 32/15, HCA 32/21. HCA 32/33, HCA 32/1827
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English, French and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17514015/

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