Catalogue description Records of the Admiralty Registrar and Admiralty Marshal

By the terms of the Judicial Committee Act 1843, the existing Admiralty Registrar was appointed as registrar to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in respect of appeals in ecclesiastical and maritime causes. This post was held by the Admiralty Registrar until 1904, when it was merged with that of the registrar to the Judicial Committee itself. It was a post he had previously held in the High Court of Delegates and the High Court of Appeals for Prizes.

The Admiralty Marshal's principal duty concerned the arrest and custody of ships and cargoes and, if condemned, their appraisement and sale. These latter duties initially applied to instance cases only, but from the early 19th century also included prize cases.