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Revision as of 07:44, April 21, 2015

Welcome to the MarineLives project


The MarineLives collaborative public history project was established in 2012 to digitise, transcribe and annotate the manuscript records of the English High Court of Admiralty from the 1650s and 1660s. The original records are held at the National Archives in Kew.

The project is led and advised by academics and members of the general public.



Our team based transcription programmes


We run regular team based transcription programmes, facilitated by trained team leaders, with teams of three or four volunteer associates. These programmes last twelve weeks, and will take a transcriber from a novice to a confident transcriber in that space of time.

To learn more about our programmes read what our volunteers have to say - Katie Parker (a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburg), Thomas Davies (a third year undergraduate at Bath Spa University), and Roger Towner (a regulator of seafarers' qualifications, who has spent twenty five years at sea as a navigator and Master)

Please contact us to discuss volunteering, or to explore how we might work with your University, School or Local History Society.



Explore our transcriptions


The English High Court of Admiralty produced a wide range of documents.

The various steps in a particular case can be followed in summary form the Acts of Court.

Prior to witnesses being called to make their depositions, the defendant or "producent" in a case, might make a Personal Answer.

The most accessible of the court records are the statements made by witnesses, which are called Depositions. These depositions were in response to written Interrogatories, which were prepared by both plaintiffs and defendants in a case.

Various written documents were submitted by plaintiffs and defendants, as well as witnesses, during a court case. Some of these have survived as loose documents in the Instance Papers.

Many cases were settled prior to the giving of a formal verdict or Sentence. For those cases which went to sentence, the sentences can be found in document bundles. These bundles often include bills of expense related to the case, and in some cases include copies of the interrogatories, and other miscellaneous documents.


Browse our transcriptions

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Actbooks.jpg Act Books

HCA 3/43 – HCA 3/48

Volumes pending
Depositions.jpg Depositions

HCA 13/64 – HCA 13/73

  • Schedules
Volumes pending Currently available volumes:
Personalanswers.jpg Personal answers

HCA 13/124 – HCA 13/129

  • Schedules
Volumes pending
Instancepapers.jpg Instance papers

HCA 15/5 – HCA 15/7

  • Accounts
  • Bills of lading
  • Bonds
  • Inventories
  • Petitions
Volumes pending
Interrogatories.jpg Interrogatories

HCA 23/15 – HCA 23/19

Volumes pending
Sentencebundles.jpg Sentence bundles

HCA 24/110 – HCA 24/114

  • Allegations
  • Libells
  • Primum decretum
  • Secundum decretum
  • Schedules
  • Bills of expenses
  • Accounts
  • Bills of sale
  • Inventories
  • Protests
  • Wage schedules
  • Supplier schedules
Volumes pending