Captured ship: Greyhound or Windhund of Copenhagen (master Jurgen Jansen or George...

Captured ship: Greyhound or Windhund of Copenhagen (master Jurgen Jansen or George Johnson Queller).

History: a Danish merchant ship (52 tons, owners Abraham Erickson and David Israel, possibly both Jews) bound from Dram to Bordeaux, laden with deal boards; the ship was apparently intending to sail for 'Abson' a port in England but was damaged by bad weather and put into Dunkirk, where some of the deals were sold and the ship then sailed for Bordeaux in ballast, but was forced by bad weather off the Shingles [Dungeness] to seek shelter in Dover; seized in Dover Harbour on 18/28 March 1692/3 by the privateer Spy Sloop (Charles Donston commanding).

Documents:-

Court Papers numbered CP 1-CP 8:

• [CP 1-CP 3]: four examinations, interrogatories, four further examinations;
• [CP 4]: claim to the ship and cargo on behalf of merchants in Copenhagen;
• [CP 5-CP 6]: commission of appraisement, inventory.
• [CP 7-CP 8]: two dockets for the ship's papers and Bundle A.

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-SP 27 and A1-A112:-

SP 1-SP 27: credit agreements for provisions, letters to Jurgen Jansen Queller at Dunkirk, ship's passes, official papers issued at Dram and Copenhagen, charterparty, accounts.

Bundle A numbered A 1-A 112, including:

• Accounts, receipts, invoices, a fragment of a religious text, freight agreements, instructions, customs papers and rough notes. Some of these relate to earlier voyages;
• Letters to and some copy letters from Jurgen Jansen Queller while at Copenhagen, Dram and Dunkirk;
• Letters to others, possibly members of the crew, at Dunkirk;
• A table book (A 112) with a stone stylus.

[Decision: ship and cargo condemned, 3 May 1692].