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Smuggling gangs and coastal policing in 19th-century England
Following the Napoleonic Wars, smuggling became a major concern for the British government.
Series
High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Assignation Books, Series I
Catalogue reference: HCA 5
What's it about?
HCA 5
This series contains assignation books (series I) of the Instance Court.These assignation books contain brief notes of the proceedings of each session of the Instance Court, and also record the formal adjournment of sittings of oyer and terminer...
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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HCA 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Assignation Books, Series I
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Date (When the record was created)
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1671-1767
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains assignation books (series I) of the Instance Court.
These assignation books contain brief notes of the proceedings of each session of the Instance Court, and also record the formal adjournment of sittings of oyer and terminer at Admiralty Sessions. The earliest assignation book in the series covers 1671 to 1673; the others cover 1747 to 1767.
Each entry gives the current state of the case concerned, and the names of the proctors acting in it. The final part of each entry is a summary of action taken at the hearing, which might be a final judgment but is more often than not a postponement.
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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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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records of the oyer and terminer cases are in HCA 1
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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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142 boxes and volumes
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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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Many of the early instance assignation books were destroyed under Schedules of 1915 and 1922, but the earliest book, covering 1671 to 1673, escaped destruction.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8603/
Catalogue hierarchy
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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: Instance Court: Assignation Books, Series I
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