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High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Appraisements Files
Catalogue reference: HCA 4
What's it about?
HCA 4
This series consists of files of documents (or broken files of loose papers) concerning the appraisement of ships and their cargoes carried out by order of the High Court of Admiralty. All files after 1672 have indexes of ships prefixed.The...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HCA 4
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Appraisements Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1626-1746
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of files of documents (or broken files of loose papers) concerning the appraisement of ships and their cargoes carried out by order of the High Court of Admiralty. All files after 1672 have indexes of ships prefixed.
The documents consist of commissions or decrees from the Instance Court to appraise the value of the ship and its goods; the detailed inventory (not including prices); the appraisement, or overall valuation, with prices, based on the inventory; the commission or decree from the Court to sell the ship by public sale to the best bidder; and the articles of sale signed by the purchaser. The inventories are very detailed and when they include cargoes they sometimes include illustrations of merchants' marks.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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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)
- High Court of Admiralty, Instance Court, 1660-1875
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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24 file(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8602/
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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: Instance Court: Appraisements Files
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