Focus on
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 Appeals for Prizes: Miscellanea
Catalogue reference: HCA 47
What's it about?
HCA 47
This series consists of miscellaneous papers of the High Court of Appeals for Prizes, comprising several discrete blocks of records as well as a few stray individual records.The records include files of drafts, covering 1690 to 1786 with large...
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 47
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Miscellanea
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Date (When the record was created)
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1689-1845
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of miscellaneous papers of the High Court of Appeals for Prizes, comprising several discrete blocks of records as well as a few stray individual records.
The records include files of drafts, covering 1690 to 1786 with large gaps; and minutes or drafts of Acts, covering 1772 to 1828. Various account books of fees charged by the Court cover the years 1689 to 1830. Other documents in the series are bills of costs, a list of appeals book, original commissions of 1690 to 1715, and a list of causes heard book.
The stray documents are a bundle of drafts of 1737 to 1833 relating to the High Court of Delegates; and an account book of fees (or bill book) of 1840-1845 belonging to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
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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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44 bundles 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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- Topics
- Navy
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8645/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
108,802 records
Within the department: HCA
Records of the High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts
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