Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Exemplars (Drafts) Files

This series contains files of exemplars or drafts, miscellaneous documents including correspondence, petitions, licences, grants, etc, relating to the issue of the process of the High Court of Admiralty and the duties of the Registrar. Many of the documents were sent from the Privy Council to the Lord High Admiral, who referred them to the Judge, who referred them to the Registrar for the issue of process.

For fuller information see R G Marsden, Select Pleas in the Court of Admiralty, II, Selden Society XI (1897), pp 1xxv-1xxix, where they are erroneously referred to as exemplifications.