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High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice,...
Catalogue reference: HCA 52
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HCA 52
This series comprises inward correspondence of the Admiralty Registry on a variety of administrative matters arising from its instance business, for the years 1853 to 1946. Much of the correspondence is from the Treasury, Admiralty and other...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HCA 52
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Admiralty Registrar: Instance Business Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1853-1963
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises inward correspondence of the Admiralty Registry on a variety of administrative matters arising from its instance business, for the years 1853 to 1946. Much of the correspondence is from the Treasury, Admiralty and other government departments, and concerns such matters as accounts, appointments, statistics, etc. Copies of outward letters have been filed with later papers.
There are also registers of correspondence, indexed under subjects, etc, and showing the action taken, for the years 1856 to 1963.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The documents are arranged and catalogued chronologically, and the number under which each transaction was first registered is indicated in the catalogue.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Instance case papers, mostly predating the correspondence in this series are in: HCA 18 HCA 19 HCA 20 HCA 17 HCA 15 HCA 16
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- High Court of Admiralty, 1340-1875
- Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice; Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, 1875-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 119 bundle(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Some of the papers in pieces 1-4 were destroyed in 1937, apparently under the terms of a Destruction Schedule of 3 May 1922, because they were not considered worthy of permanent preservation.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8650/
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High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Admiralty Registrar: Instance Business Correspondence and Papers
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