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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 Appeals for Prizes: Sentences Files
Catalogue reference: HCA 48
What's it about?
HCA 48
This series consists of sentences files of the High Court of Appeals for Prizes.A sentence is the judgement or decision of a court, and is finally decisive of a case or suit. Sentences were drafted by both parties, each drawing up a judgement...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HCA 48
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Sentences Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1672-1772
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of sentences files of the High Court of Appeals for Prizes.
A sentence is the judgement or decision of a court, and is finally decisive of a case or suit. Sentences were drafted by both parties, each drawing up a judgement favourable to his cause. These were 'porrected' (i.e. put forward) to the judges, who would decide which sentence was successful. The successful sentence was signed by the judges and promulgated; the unsuccessful sentence had merely been porrected. Both promulgated and porrected sentences are contained in this series.
They all relate to appeals in prize cases (ships captured from an enemy in time of war). The documents cover 1672 to 1772, with a noticeable gap from 1718 to 1759.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
From 1672 until October 1696 the sentences were bound up as files; thereafter they exist as bundles of loose sentences.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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File nos 3 and 4, covering dates from Oct 1692 to April 1694, were both missing at their time of transfer to the Public Record Office.
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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 Appeals for Prizes, 1533-1833
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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8 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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- Topics
- Navy
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8646/
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High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Sentences Files
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