MRP: Admiralty court cases
Admiralty court cases
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23/11/11, CSG: Created page
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Index of abstracted and/or transcribed Admiralty court documents
Data
HCA13/64 (1650-1651)
HCA13/69 (1654)
HCA13/71 (1656-1657)
HCA13/72 (1657-1659)
HCA13/73 (1659-?)
HCA13/74 (1660-1661)
HCA 13/76 (1666-1669)
HCA 13/76 Part One (1666-1669)
HCA 13/76 Part Two (1666-1669)
HCA13/126 (1654-1655)
HCA13/127 (?-?)
HCA13/128 (1656-1658)
HCA13/129 (1658-1664)
Analysis
TNA index
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 15 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Early Instance and Prize Papers 1586-1778
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 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 subindex 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
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 <http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/21.1/steckley.html> (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
