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Registrar of the High Court of Delegates and of the High Court of Admiralty: Cause...
Catalogue reference: DEL 2
What's it about?
DEL 2
Mainly cause papers not filed in other High Court of Delegates series, but also a substantial number of records of the High Court of Admiralty, mainly from the mid seventeenth century, which may have been exhibited before the court. Miscellaneous...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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DEL 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registrar of the High Court of Delegates and of the High Court of Admiralty: Cause and Miscellaneous Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1582-1834
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Description (What the record is about)
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Mainly cause papers not filed in other High Court of Delegates series, but also a substantial number of records of the High Court of Admiralty, mainly from the mid seventeenth century, which may have been exhibited before the court. Miscellaneous material includes a few churchwarden's accounts and rate assessments.
The cause papers (sometimes printed) may include allegations of promoters, personal answers of defendants, depositions of witnesses taken by commission in the country, sentences, bills of costs, and exhibits including the texts of such documents as agreements, contracts and freight lists in maritime causes, disputed wills in testamentary causes, personal letters in matrimonial causes, and title deeds and vestry minutes in causes relating to ecclesiastical property.
This series also contains records originating from the High Court of Admiralty (HCA).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The current arrangement of this series resulted from the rearrangement of the records in 1974.
Cause papers are listed in strict alphabetical order by appellant, except that the printed papers are normally at the end of each letter of the alphabet.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Parallel material is in HCA 42
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- High Court of Admiralty, 1340-1875
- High Court of Delegates, 1533-1833
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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170 bundle(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The majority of the records which now form the series DEL 1 to DEL 8 were transferred to the Public Record Office at various dates between 1863 and 1923. They came from the registry of the High Court of Admiralty and its successor, the Admiralty registry of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Since the cause titles given are generally those endorsed on the documents and these may be the titles used in the lower court check that no papers have been missed in An index to other parties in DEL 2/1-98. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk fo
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5815/
Catalogue hierarchy
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: DEL
Records of the High Court of Delegates
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Registrar of the High Court of Delegates and of the High Court of Admiralty: Cause and Miscellaneous Papers
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