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Captured ship: St Francis of Galway (master Philip Walsh). History: an Irish (Jacobite)...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1877/28

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HCA 32/1877/28

Date

1690

Description

Captured ship: St Francis of Galway (master Philip Walsh).

History: an Irish (Jacobite) merchant ship, owned by French merchants in Galway (20 tons, 12 men who had previously served on a Jacobite man of war and abandoned James II's service to seize the St Francis in port at Limerick to sail to Falmouth or Plymouth) bound from Limerick, Ireland to St Malo, laden with hides, herring, tallow and worsted wool; after apparently being chased by a French privateer, was driven into St Ives on 8/18 December 1690 by bad weather, and there seized as Jacobite.

Documents:-

Court Papers numbered CP 1-CP 3:

  • [CP 1-CP 2]: interrogatories, two examinations;
  • [CP 3]: five further examinations.

[Decision: ship and cargo condemned 26 January 1691].

Note

Extra information added from IND 1/9013, p. 120

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The National Archives, Kew
Former reference

HCA 32/36

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Public Record(s)

Language

English and Latin

Access conditions

Open on Transfer

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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