Catalogue description HM Procurator General: Assignation Books

Volumes of HM Procurator General, as representing the Crown, containing notes of proceeding in appeals from Admiralty Instance and Prize Courts, and from Vice-Admiralty Courts. Several volumes contain prize cases and draft bills of costs of prize cases from the Crimean or Russian War. There is also a volume relating to probate cases in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Court of Probate, and Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. Traditionally, such 'assignation books' were used in maritime and ecclesiastical courts to record briefly their business proceedings.

For records of Admiralty prize courts see HCA 33

For records of Vice-Admiralty courts see HCA 49

For entry books of HM Procurator General containing reports on Crimean War prize cases see TS 10

Related probate material may be found especially in TS 17

HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, 1876-

Treasury Solicitor, 1655-1876