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Series
High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Early Instance and Prize Papers
Catalogue reference: HCA 15
What's it about?
HCA 15
This series contains the first of six series of instance papers, this series being known as the early series.The first four pieces in the series covering 1586 to 1652 but with strays from 1735-1737, are prize papers. The documents in 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 15
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Early Instance and Prize Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1586-1778
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the first of six series of instance papers, this series being known as the early series.
The first four pieces in the series covering 1586 to 1652 but with strays from 1735-1737, are prize papers. The documents in the remainder of the series, covering 1650 to 1778, are instance papers.
The series contains a wide variety of loose miscellaneous documents, such as affidavits, bills of lading, examinations, exhibits, interrogatories, first decrees and inventories, similar types of which exist in other HCA series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Later instance correspondence and papers are in HCA 52
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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58 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8613/
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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 and Prize Courts: Early Instance and Prize Papers
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