Captured ship: St Jacob of Amsterdam (commander Jan Andriessen Trompetter). History:...

Captured ship: St Jacob of Amsterdam (commander Jan Andriessen Trompetter).

History: a Dutch privateer, bound on a cruise from (a port in the jurisdiction of the Amsterdam admiralty); taken off Sunderland on 11/21 January 1673/4, by HMS Newcastle (John Wetwang commanding) and brought into Newcastle.

Court Papers: (none here, but see the allegation and incomplete special interrogatories at HCA 24/147/40).

Ships Papers, numbered SP 1-4, 6:-

• SP1 (printed) privateering commission issued by Willem, Prince of Orange at Bodegraven, 7 October 1672, to an unamed owner for Jan Andriessen Trompetter to command an unnamed privateer, registered by the Amsterdam admiralty 11 October 1672, and at the Texel 27 October 1672;
• SP2 (printed) copy of the same, issued by Andriessen to Jacob Turff as commander of his prize, 19 January 1674 (also used as an HCA wrapper);
• SP 3 manuscript copy of the same;
• SP4 (printed) States General order on the treatment of French prisoners, 3 September 1672;
• SP 5: wanting;
• SP 6 affidavit of Edward Standish, master of the English merchant ship John bound from Bridgewater to Virginia, as to his humane treatment as a wounded prisoner of war by Andriessen, 9 November 1672.

Extra information:-

• Condemned 1 July 1674: see IND 1/ 9012 f.43.
• A privateering commission of Cornelis Fransen Cudde, issued 10 October 1672, was moved to St Joseph of L'Isle Dieu HCA 32/1949/14 in 2024.