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Captured ship: Anne and Elizabeth of Topsham (master Charles Quicke). History: an...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1854/11

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This record is about the Captured ship: Anne and Elizabeth of Topsham (master Charles Quicke). History: an... dating from 1693 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
HCA 32/1854/11
Date
1693
Description

Captured ship: Anne and Elizabeth of Topsham (master Charles Quicke).

History: an English merchant ship (50 tons, 1 Englishman and 4 Frenchmen as prize crew), bound from Plymouth to the Canary Islands, laden with cloth, candles, iron serges; taken on 21/31 January 1692/3, 80 leagues from Cape St Vincent by the French privateer St Anthony of St Malo (M de la Villetreux commanding), but then separated from the captor by bad weather and rectaken by Cornish fishermen on 18/28 February 1692/3 off Lands End and brought into St Ives.

Documents:-

Court Papers:-

  • [CP 1-CP 3]: examination of the prize crew, letter from John Hicks of St Ives, a further examination of the fisherman John Heller;
  • [CP 4]: claim of the owners of ship and cargo, merchants of Exeter;
  • [CP 5-CP 6]: commission of appraisement, inventory;
  • [CP 7]: petition of the fishermen for payment of salvage.

[Decision: restored, paying salvage, 16 March 1693]

Note
Extra information added from IND 1/9014, p6
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
HCA 32/13, HCA 32/15, HCA 32/33
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17847533/

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HCA 32

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