Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Assignation Books, General Series

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Reference: HCA 8
Title: High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Assignation Books, General Series
Description:

This series contains assignation books (general series) of the Prize Court.

The books record brief notes of the prize proceedings both in court and in chambers. Many of them relate to ships taken as prize during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. There are also some relating to theWar of American Independence, and there is a volume of 1840 arising from the 'Opium War' with China. The volumes usually have an index of ships' names appended.

Date: 1718-1840
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The volumes are catalogued chronologically within sub-series.

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additional finding aid ZBOX 1/92/2

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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High Court of Admiralty, Prize Court, 1660-1875

Physical description: 161 volume(s)

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