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Ships captured at the Kent oyster fishery: Captured ships: St Peter of Bruges (master...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1955
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- HCA 32/1955
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1672 Dec-1673 Jan
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Description (What the record is about)
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Ships captured at the Kent oyster fishery:
Captured ships:
- St Peter of Bruges (master Peter Petue); St Peter of Bruges (master Giles de Suter); and Whiting of Bruges (master Michael Dover or Cornelis Butts);
- St Peter of Brussels (master Gerard Randen or Gerrit Reijnders);
- St Bartholomew of Nieuwpoort (master Thomas Rubens); St Jacob of Nieuwpoort (master Jacob Lorin Pousijn); St Judith of Nieuwpoort (master Adrian Vroome); St Peter of Nieuwpoort (master Christian Arnodt); and St Peter of Nieuwpoort (master Peter Stenkijst).
History: nine Flemish oyster boats, come from the Spanish Netherlands to the oyster fishery at Faversham or East Swale, Kent; and there seized between December 1672 or January 1673, to the use of the Duke of York as Lord Admiral [droits].
Court papers, numbered CP 1- :-
- CP 1: commission and interrogatories, December 1672;
- CP 2-CP 11: ten examinations (1 per ship, but two for St Peter of Nieuwpoort, of Christian Arnodt and Giles Arnodt);
- CP 12-CP 13: two appraisements of decayed oysters at East Swale, January 1673;
- CP 14: court note on the St Bartholomew of Nieuwpoort (master Thomas Rubens).
Ship's papers, numbered SP 1-5:-
- SP 1-SP 2: passes (with seals);
- SP 3: certfiied extract from Nieuwpoort baptismal records;
- SP 4: ship's paper;
- SP 5: wrapper.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Dutch, English and Latin
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19652116/
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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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