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Captured ship: Justice of London (master Clayborn Haselwood otherwise Hasslewood)....

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1949/15

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This record is about the Captured ship: Justice of London (master Clayborn Haselwood otherwise Hasslewood).... dating from 1672 Jul 29 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HCA 32/1949/15
Date
1672 Jul 29
Description

Captured ship: Justice of London (master Clayborn Haselwood otherwise Hasslewood).

History: an English merchant ship (80-100 tons, 6 guns, 14 men, 2-3 passengers, built in the Dutch Republic or otherwise outside England), bound from New York, America to Dover, Dartmouth, Newcastle upon Tyne or any other port in England at the discretion of the master, and after paying HM customs, to Amsterdam or Hamburg (ordered to Newcastle and Hamburg, 16/26 May 1672, on news of the outbreak of war), laden with tobacco, Brazil wood, fustic wood, hides, deer skins, and bear skins, and carrying packets of letters on HM service from Colonel Francis Lovelace, the Governor of New York; on 29 July/8 August 1672 came into Newcastle upon Tyne [and was there seized].

Previous voyage was outward bound in January 1671, laden with 150 pieces of eight, linen and haberdashers' wares to the Cape Verde Islands, where he bought enslaved people to sell in Barbados and salt to sell in New England, and from New England returned to Barbados, and thence to Jamaica and New York.

Court Papers, numbered CP 1-9:-

  • [CP 1]: three examinations taken at Newcastle, 9 October 1672;
  • [CP 2]: attestation and claim for ship, endorsed as received 25 October 1672;
  • [CP 3]: attestation and claim for the cargo;
  • [CP 4]: translation of letter in French, New York, 14 May 1672, endorsed 26 October 1672;
  • [CP 5]: translation of letter in Dutch, New York, 25 May 1672, endorsed 26 October 1672;
  • [CP 6]: translation of letter in French, New York, 26 July 1672, endorsed 4 November 1672;
  • [CP 7-9]: three depositions, 20 November 1672.

Extra information:- IND 1/9012 f.39v: ship restored, 30 October 1672; goods restored, 15 November 1672.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
HCA 32/7/50; HCA 32/9/29
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C21117478/

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