Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Instance and Prize Courts: Account Books and Papers

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Reference: HCA 2
Title: High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Instance and Prize Courts: Account Books and Papers
Description:

This series contains account books and other papers concerning the Instance and Prize Courts.

These accounts cover the period 1600 to 1976 and are very diverse in character.

The most numerous documents in the series are fee books of various sorts: registry and court fee books, bill books, fee accounts of the Marshal and the Judge, day books, books of fees for seals, office copies, interlocutories, taxing and poundage, etc. Next most numerous are accounts concerning suitors' money. There are also accounts of prize commissioners and Navy agents, bills of costs and cash books, etc.

From November 1875 the records concern Admiralty accounting matters in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice.

For a key to certain of the records in this series, see HCA 30/898.
Date: 1600-1976
Arrangement:

The catalogue of this series is arranged alphabetically by sub-series.
Related material:

When acting in his capacity as Judicial Committee Registrar other than as Admiralty Registrar, the relevant documents are to be found in Records of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: PCAP
Separated material:

Five volumes of bills of costs covering the years 1816 to 1857 are in PRO 30/28/18-22.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 571 bundles and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Custodial history: It is not clear whether the earlier of the documents were transferred with the other HCA records from the Tower of London to the Public Record Office between June 1856 and March 1857. The accounts are not specifically mentioned with the other documents in the Eighteenth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, 2nd March 1857, pp 31-34, and nor do the documents seem ever to have had fixed to them the small white labels bearing a number in black early nineteenth century billboard lettering, so characteristic of other early HCA records.

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