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Vice-Admiralty Courts: Proceedings
Catalogue reference: HCA 49
What's it about?
HCA 49
This series consists of the records of proceedings of the Vice-Admiralty courts held in the colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, 1795 to 1805; Cape Nichola Mole [Saint Domingue], 1797 to 1799; Guadaloupe, 1811 to 1815; Jamaica, 1747 to 1748;...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HCA 49
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Title (The name of the record)
- Vice-Admiralty Courts: Proceedings
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Date (When the record was created)
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1593-1875
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the records of proceedings of the Vice-Admiralty courts held in the colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, 1795 to 1805; Cape Nichola Mole [Saint Domingue], 1797 to 1799; Guadaloupe, 1811 to 1815; Jamaica, 1747 to 1748; Minorca, 1799 to 1802; New York, 1777 to 1783; Sierra Leone, 1808 to 1817. There are also proceedings for various places, 1636 to 1875, including some for Lancashire and Cheshire, 1635 to 1642, and some arising from trials of pirates, 1723 to 1733.
The series contains a wide variety of filed documents and exhibits, including abstracts, affidavits, answers, appraisements, bills of lading, cargo lists, certificates of registration, claims, day books, decrees of delivery and possession, decrees of unilivery, depositions, examinations, interrogatories, invoices, letters of attorney, libels, lists of adjudications, memoranda, monitions, passports, petitions, powers of attorney, powers of procuration, seamen's articles, ships' manifests, stipulation bonds, translations and other documents.
HCA 49/98-106 comprise records of various Vice-Admiralty courts at home and abroad, although the records of the colonial courts often consist only of returns in the form of lists of adjudications.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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The coastal town of Mole Saint Nicholas, now Môle-Saint-Nicolas, in Haiti, was the place where the Vice-Admiralty court of Saint Domingue was held.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The bulk of the series is arranged alphabetically by colonies.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further overseas Vice-Admiralty records see HCA 1/99
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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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106 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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Notes on this series are available in printed form at the PRO.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8647/
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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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