Prize jurisdiction: register of Francis Raynsford, Receiver of the rights and perquisites...

Prize jurisdiction: register of Francis Raynsford, Receiver of the rights and perquisites of the Admiralty, comprising:-

• orders for the restoration of ships or goods taken as prize, but judged by the Court not to be enemy, and therefore to be restored to their owners;
• orders for the payment of salvage by the original owners to the re-captors of ships re-taken from enemy captors;
• accounts of the payment on tenths due from the capture of prize ships as droits of the Admiralty;
• accounts of the payment of full value from the capture of prize ships, where the captor had no commission, as droits of the Admiralty;
• copies of Raynsford's warrants.

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Armed Forces (General Administration)