Captured ship: Golden Lion (master Burgh Jacobs). An instance cause about prize....

Captured ship: Golden Lion (master Burgh Jacobs). An instance cause about prize.

History: a Dutch merchant ship, bound from Surinam to [the Netherlands], laden with sugar; taken about mid-December 1674 by the French privateer Golden Fleece (Bernard Le Moyne commanding, otherwise Le Moin) and, by 17/27 December 1674, was forced by contrary winds, with her captor, into Milford Haven where both ships stayed 6 or 7 weeks. Le Moyne trans-shipped much of the prize's cargo (309 hogsheads of sugar) into his own frigate and sold much of it locally. On 26 January 1674/1675 February 1675 the local officers arrested part of the cargo in executing a writ issued in the instance case Simpson v Le Moyne. On 31 January 1674/10 February 1675, when the local officers returned aboard, Le Moyne and his crew imprisoned them. Both ships left Milford Haven about 5/15 February 1674/1675.

Court Papers, numbered CP 1-2 :-

• [CP 1]: commission, 26 January 1674/1675;
• [CP 2]: six depositions by commission taken at Pembroke, 17 February 1674/1675.

Extra information:-

• Examinations of the Dutch crew were said to have been taken, but are not here; these may perhaps be found within instance papers in HCA 15.
• See also Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1673-1675, pp.470, 482, 586.