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High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Exemplars (Drafts) Files
Catalogue reference: HCA 14
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HCA 14
This series contains files of exemplars or drafts, miscellaneous documents including correspondence, petitions, licences, grants, etc, relating to the issue of the process of the High Court of Admiralty and the duties of the Registrar. Many of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HCA 14
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Exemplars (Drafts) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1531-1768
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of exemplars or drafts, miscellaneous documents including correspondence, petitions, licences, grants, etc, relating to the issue of the process of the High Court of Admiralty and the duties of the Registrar. Many of the documents were sent from the Privy Council to the Lord High Admiral, who referred them to the Judge, who referred them to the Registrar for the issue of process.
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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)
- 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)
- 79 file(s)
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For fuller information see R G Marsden, Select Pleas in the Court of Admiralty, II, Selden Society XI (1897), pp 1xxv-1xxix, where they are erroneously referred to as exemplifications.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8612/
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