Short title: Savill v Yates. Plaintiff(s): William Savill and Thomas Smyths, gent....

Short title: Savill v Yates.

Plaintiff(s): William Savill and Thomas Smyths, gent. Francis Ripley, apothecary.

Defendant(s): John Yates.

Subject of depositions: Court of Admiralty and their Majesties' prize offices at the ports of Kingston-upon-Hull and London, and a ship called "the Resolution" (of which defendant was owner) taken and seized as prize by Capt. Robinson, commander of Her Majesty's ship "the Garland" and carried and brought into the port of Hull. Touching a charge (made by plaintiffs) of fifty-six pounds twelve shillings (paid under protest, and followed by an action at law by defendant) for their care and preservation of said ship with her "cargo, apparel, and furniture" etc. Touching the "usual customs and proceedings in the Court of Admiralty and at the prize office in London in relac'on to shipps that are taken and seized as prize and afterwards discharged and freed, and not made absolute prize when such shipps are only taken and kept on good grounds of suspicion and afterwards discharged, is there noe charge or fees allowed by the Cot of Admiralty and principle Commrs of the prizes as justly due and `accustomerly' paid to the officers that are to waite on, secure, and preserve such shipp untill duely discharged.

County/place: Kingston-upon-Hull;.

Date of commission: 1 July 1691.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 27 October 1691 at Kingston-upon-Hull.

Deponent(s): Thomas Taylor; Stephen Boyse; Thomas Johnson; Edward Haslam; John Spinke; Benjamin Graves.