Captured ship: Concord of Brest (commander Nicholas Janvrin, Sieur des Mielles);...

Captured ship: Concord of Brest (commander Nicholas Janvrin, Sieur des Mielles); formerly the Concord of London (master John Mudge and later George Nanter, both deceased), an English slave trader bound from Guinea to Barbados, laden with enslaved people, from Barbados to Virginia, and from Virginia back to London, laden with tobacco; taken on 20 November 1694 by the French privateer Francois D'Assise and another French privateer, and brought into Brest, where she was condemned in the Prize Court and sold, with her cargo.

History: now a French merchant ship with a commission (150 tons, 10 guns, 19 men), bound from Granville to Dieppe, laden with the prize Virginia tobacco, to deliver to the Farmer General of Tobacco at Dieppe; taken in fight on 10/20 October 1695 off Granville by the Guernsey privateer Defiance (John Gruchy commanding), and brought into Guernsey.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1]: three examinations;
• [CP 2]: claim to the ship and cargo on behalf of Thomas Stark, merchant of London;
• [CP 3-CP 4]: interrogatories, two examinations;
• [CP 5]: allegation;
• [CP 6]: attestation by Thomas Stark about his actions during the prize case;
• [CP 7-CP 8]: inventory, commission of appraisement;
• [CP 9-CP 9/4]: attestation as to papers with three documents annexed, all short notes from the Isle of Wight about navigation, numbered 1-4 (number 3 is not here);
• [CP 10-CP 11]: two sets of interrogatories;
• [CP 12]: docket, still attached to the ship's papers.

Ship's Papers:

• SP 1-SP 10: bill of sale from Brest, instructions to Janvrin, letters, customs paper, ship's pass, muster roll, tobacco manifest, bill of lading, crew list.

Two bundles of exhibits numbered A and B, consisting of papers submitted at many different times during both the High Court of Admiralty and the later appeal cases. Many more papers were submitted but most were returned after the appeal case concluded.

• A 6-A 10: letters to Thomas Stark from Virginia, bills of lading;
• B 2-B 19: further letters to Thomas Stark from Virginia and Bristol, bills of lading and invoices, 1691-1695.

[Decision: ship restored, cargo part-restored, early 1696]

See appeal papers in HCA 42/2/19.