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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 A few transcriptions; a few offline images
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 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 Part One 1659-? Transcriptions
HCA 13/73 Part Two 1659-? Transcriptions

HCA 13/74 1660-1661 Transcriptions

HCA 13/75 1664-1666 No images nor transcriptions

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; but no images made
HCA 13/125 1652-1653 Transcriptions
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 Box One 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)


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HCA 13/76 Analysis

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TNA index, 1650-1669


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 34/1 1643-1650 Sentences in Prize Causes
- HCA 34/2 1650-1653 Sentences in Prize Causes
- HCA 34/3 1653-1659 Sentences in Prize Causes
- HCA 34/4 1649-1652 Sentences in State Causes
- HCA 34/5 1653-1654 Sentences in Prize Causes
- HCA 34/6 1654-1659 Sentences in Prize Causes
- HCA 34/7 1665 Feb-Mar Sentences in Prize Causes
- HCA 34/8 1665 Apr - Sept Sentences in Prize Causes
- HCA 34/9 1665-1666 Sentences in Prize Causes
- HCA 34/10 1666 Sentences in Prize Causes
- HCA 34/11 1666-1667 Sentences in Prize Causes
- HCA 34/12 1667 Sentences in Prize Causes
- HCA 34/13 1667-1670 Sentences in Prize Causes

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


Appleby, John C., A Calendar of material relating to Ireland from the High Court of Admiralty Examinations, 1536-1641 (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1992)

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


Dobson, David, American Data from the Records of the High Court of the Admiralty of Scotland, 1675-1800 (XXXX, 2009)

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)

Edwards, Edwin, A treatise on the jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty of England (London, 1847)

Fitzgerald, John David, Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland (London, 1864)

Horne, Thomas Hartwell, A compendium of the statute laws, and regulations of the Court of admiralty: relative to ships of war, privateers, prizes, recaptures, and prize-money. With an appendix of notes, precedents, &c (London, 1803)

Marsden, Reginald Godfrey, The High Court of Admiralty, (A.D. 1547-1602) (XXXX, 1953)

Meeson, Nigel, The practice and procedure of the Admiralty Court: forms and precedents (London, 1993)

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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