MRP: Admiralty court cases

Admiralty court cases

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Index of abstracted and/or transcribed Admiralty court documents

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HCA 1/8 1648-1660 No images nor transcriptions
HCA 1/9 1660-1674 No images nor transcriptions

HCA 13/64 1650-1651 Transcriptions
HCA 13/65 1651-1652 No images nor transcriptions
HCA 13/66 1652-1653 No images nor transcriptions
HCA 13/67 1653 No images nor transcriptions
HCA 13/68 1653-1654 Sample images & Transcriptions

HCA 13/68 Part One 1653-1654 Sample images & Transcriptions
HCA 13/68 Part Two 1653-1654 Sample images & Transcriptions

HCA 13/69 1654 Transcriptions
HCA 13/70 1654-1656 No images nor transcriptions
HCA 13/71 1656-1657 Transcriptions
HCA 13/72 1657-1659 Transcriptions
HCA 13/73 1659-? Transcriptions
HCA 13/74 1660-1661 Transcriptions

HCA 13/75 1664-1666 No images nor transcriptions

HCA 13/76 1666-1669

HCA 13/76 Part One 1666-1669 Transcriptions
HCA 13/76 Part Two 1666-1669 Transcriptions

HCA 13/77 1669-1675

HCA 13/123 1650
HCA 13/124 1650-1652 Transcriptions
HCA 13/125 1652-1653
HCA 13/126 1654-1655 A few transcriptions
HCA 13/127 ?-? A few transcriptions
HCA 13/128 1656-1658 A few transcriptions
HCA 13/129 1658-1664 A few transcriptions
HCA 13/130 1662-1664 No images nor transcriptions
HCA 13/131 1673-1682

HCA 14/51 1649-1654
HCA 14/52 1654-1660 No images nor transcriptions
HCA 14/53 1660-1666 No images nor transcriptions
HCA 14/54 1666-1671

HCA 15/5 1650-1653
HCA 15/6 1654-1657 A few transcriptions, BOX ONE only
HCA 15/6 Box Two 1654-1657
HCA 15/7 1658-1660
HCA 15/8/1 1661-1665 No images nor transcriptions
HCA 15/9 1666-1670

HCA 23/15 1649-1653
HCA 23/16 1649-1653
HCA 23/17 1649-1653
HCA 23/18 1653-1658
HCA 23/19 1658-1664 Transcriptions
HCA 23/20 1664-1667
HCA 23/21 1667-1676

HCA 24/110 1650-1652
HCA 24/111 1652-1655
HCA 24/112 1655-1657 A few transcriptions
HCA 24/113 1657-1659
HCA 24/114 1659-1662
HCA 24/115 1662-1664
HCA 24/116 1664-1672 (HCA 24/116/1; HCA 24/116/2)

Analysis

HCA 13/76 Analysis

Marine History Sources

TNA index

HCA 1/ High Court of Admiralty: Oyer and Terminer Records: Indictments and subsequent Proceedings filed.

- HCA 1/8 1648-1660
- HCA 1/9 1660-1674

HCA 13 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Examinations and Answers 1536-1826

- This series consists of examinations and answers relating mainly to the civil jurisdiction of the Court in instance and prize causes, although a few relate to criminal jurisdiction. An examination, in the legal sense, consisted of the statements or depositions made by a witness or accused person when examined, and is the the record of such statements. An answer, specifically in law, was the counter-statement made in reply to a complainant's bill of charges (such a bill in civil law being termed a libel)

The examinations cover 1536 to 1750, the answers 1577 to 1770, and the examinations on commission 1564 to 1678, with some extra material from 1694 to 1826. HCA 13/1 relates to the Vice-Admiralty of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1536 to 1537. Some volumes contain their own indexes. 272 bundles and volumes

High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Examinations and Answers 1536-1826

- HCA 13/64 1650-1651
- HCA 13/65 1651-1652
- HCA 13/66 1652-1653
- HCA 13/67 1653
- HCA 13/68 1653-1654
- HCA 13/69 1654
- HCA 13/70 1654-1656
- HCA 13/71 1656-1657
- HCA 13/72 1657-1659
- HCA 13/73 1659-1661
- HCA 13/74 1661-1664
- HCA 13/75 1664-1666
- HCA 13/76 1666-1669
- HCA 13/77 1669-1675

Answers to Bills of Complaint

- HCA 13/123 1650
- HCA 13/124 1650-1652
- HCA 13/125 1652-1653
- HCA 13/126 1654-1655
- HCA 13/127 1655-1656
- HCA 13/128 1656-1658
- HCA 13/129 1658-1662
- HCA 13/130 1662-1664
- HCA 13/131 1673-1682

HCA 14 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Exemplars (Drafts) Files 1531-1768

- HCA 14/51 1649-1654
- HCA 14/52 1654-1660
- HCA 14/53 1660-1666
- HCA 14/54 1666-1671

HCA 15 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Early Instance and Prize Papers 1586-1778

- HCA 15/5 1650-1653
- HCA 15/6 1654-1657
- HCA 15/7 1658-1660
- HCA 15/8/1 1661-1665
- HCA 15/8/2 1661-1665
- HCA 15/9 1666-1670

HCA 23 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Interrogatories Files 1541-1733

- HCA 23/15 1649-1653
- HCA 23/16 1649-1653
- HCA 23/17 1649-1653
- HCA 23/18 1653-1658
- HCA 23/19 1658-1664
- HCA 23/20 1664-1667
- HCA 23/21 1667-1676¨

HCA 24 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Files of Libels, Allegations, Decrees, Sentences and Miscellaneous Documents 1526-1814

- HCA 24/110 1650-1652
- HCA 24/111 1652-1655
- HCA 24/112 1655-1657
- HCA 24/113 1657-1659
- HCA 24/114 1659-1662
- HCA 24/115 1662-1664
- HCA 24/116 1664-1672 (HCA 24/116/1; HCA 24/116/2)

HCA 25 High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Warrants, Bonds and Bails for Letters of Marque 1549-1815

HCA 32 High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Papers 1592-1855

HCA 34 High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Sentences and Interlocutories 1643-1854

HCA 38 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Warrant Books 1541-1859

HCA 39 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Warrants, Monitions and Decrees Files 1515-1761

HCA 49 High Court of Admiralty: Vice-Admiralty Courts: Proceedings 1593-1875

HCA 65 High Court of Admiralty: Miscellaneous Objects, Artefacts and Documents extracted from Prize Papers 1578-c1852

- All items examined so far in sub-index relate to 1745 and later

Possible secondary sources

Coldham, Peter Wilson, English adventurers and emigrants, 1609-1660: abstracts of examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with reference to Colonial America (Baltimore, 1984)

- Wilson states in his preface that he has worked largely from the Examination Books, and has omitted merchants' accounts and balance sheets

- He observes that equity examination books are unfit for 1610-20, 1625-29, and 1645-47
- He observes:

- HCA 13/39-73: Examinations in equity causes; each volume covers a two year span; personal details of the deponents are in latin, but most text is in English. Entries are day by day, so details of one case may be stretched over a number of days and months
- HCA 13/226ff.: Depositions taken outside London
- HCA 24: Libels
- HCA 13/100ff: Answers to bills of complaint
- HCA 1/1-27: Indictments and proceedings
- HCA 23: Interrogatories

Inman, James, Nautical tables, designed for the use of British seamen (London, 1849)

- See 'The Latitudes and Longitudes of Remarkable Harbours, Islands, Shoals, Capes, &c.', pp. 380 - 400

Coote, Henry Charles, The new practice of the High Court of Admiralty of England: with the Rules of 1859, and a collection of forms, and bills of costs, &c., &c (London, 1860)

Prichard, M J and D E C Yale (eds.), Hale and Fleetwood on Admiralty Jurisdiction, Selden Society CVIII (London, 1993)
- Sir Mathew Hale, 1609-1676

Shilton, Dorothy O. and Richard Holworthy, High Court of Admiralty Examinations 1637-1638 (XXXX, 1932)

Steckley, George F., 'Collisions, Prohibitions, and the Admiralty Court in Seventeenth-Century London,' Law and History Review, Spring 2003, viewed 10 Nov. 2011).

Steckley, George F., 'Instance cases at admiralty in 1657: A court "packed up with sutors"', The Journal of Legal History, vol. 7, issue 1, 1986, pp. 68-83

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