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High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice,...
Catalogue reference: HCA 2
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HCA 2
This series contains account books and other papers concerning the Instance and Prize Courts.These accounts cover the period 1600 to 1976 and are very diverse in character.The most numerous documents in the series are fee books of various sorts:...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HCA 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Instance and Prize Courts: Account Books and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1600-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains account books and other papers concerning the Instance and Prize Courts.
These accounts cover the period 1600 to 1976 and are very diverse in character.
The most numerous documents in the series are fee books of various sorts: registry and court fee books, bill books, fee accounts of the Marshal and the Judge, day books, books of fees for seals, office copies, interlocutories, taxing and poundage, etc. Next most numerous are accounts concerning suitors' money. There are also accounts of prize commissioners and Navy agents, bills of costs and cash books, etc.
From November 1875 the records concern Admiralty accounting matters in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice.
For a key to certain of the records in this series, see HCA 30/898.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The catalogue of this series is arranged alphabetically by sub-series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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When acting in his capacity as Judicial Committee Registrar other than as Admiralty Registrar, the relevant documents are to be found in Records of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: PCAP
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Five volumes of bills of costs covering the years 1816 to 1857 are in PRO 30/28/18-22.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 571 bundles and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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)
- It is not clear whether the earlier of the documents were transferred with the other HCA records from the Tower of London to the Public Record Office between June 1856 and March 1857. The accounts are not specifically mentioned with the other documents in the Eighteenth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, 2nd March 1857, pp 31-34, and nor do the documents seem ever to have had fixed to them the small white labels bearing a number in black early nineteenth century billboard lettering, so characteristic of other early HCA records.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8600/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: HCA
Records of the High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts
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High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Instance and Prize Courts: Account Books and Papers
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