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Captured ship: Nord Staer or North Star of Nieuwpoort (master John or Johannes Harpyn)....

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1909/7

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This record is about the Captured ship: Nord Staer or North Star of Nieuwpoort (master John or Johannes Harpyn).... dating from 1689 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 32/1909/7

Date

1689

Description

Captured ship: Nord Staer or North Star of Nieuwpoort (master John or Johannes Harpyn).

History: a Spanish Netherlands merchant ship (72 tons) bound from Nantes to Dunkirk, laden with wine, brandy; taken during March or April 1689 by the Dutch warship Orange Sloop (John or Jan Kenton commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers numbered CP 1-CP 94:

  • [CP 1-CP 4]: interrogatories, three examinations;
  • [CP 5]: allegation;
  • [CP 6-CP 7]: two sets of claims to the ship and cargo on behalf of merchants in Nieuwpoort, Bruges, Ghent and Ostend;
  • [CP 8]: allegation;
  • [CP 9-CP 16]: legal proceedings taken on commission at Dover, including an allegation, commission, interrogatories, examinations and proxies;
  • [CP 17]: examinations taken at Portsmouth,
  • [CP 18]: commission;
  • [CP 19-CP 34]: legal proceedings sent in from Ghent, including affidavit, envelope, examinations and exhibits, which are copies of letters and other documents, with a bill of lading and accounts annexed;
  • [CP 35-CP 38]: schedule of goods, commission, inventory, docket;
  • [CP 39-CP 89]: legal proceedings taken on commission at Nieuwpoort, including, allegation with translations, interrogatories, attestations with annexed exhibits including letters and bils of lading, examinations, many further exhibits, mostly copies of commercial letters, receipts and invoices;
  • [CP 90-CP 92]: schedule of goods, commission of appraisement, inventory;
  • [CP 93]: interrogatories;
  • [CP 94]: docket for the ship's papers.

Ship’s Papers numbered SP 1-SP 21, ship's passes, certificates, customs paper, cocket, lighthouse passes, accounts, receipts, invoices, bills of lading.

[Decision: ship condemned, cargo part condemned, 16 May 1690].

Note

Extra information added from IND 1/9013, p.373

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference

HCA 32/18, HCA 32/22, HCA 32/29, HCA 32/45, HCA 32/1927

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

Dutch, English, French and Latin

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18063628/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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