HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/298
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY
Date(s)	: 1760-1795
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 2 items.
Name of creator(s)	: High Court of Admiralty

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The High Court of Admiralty had jurisdiction over crimes at sea, discipline in the fleet, piracy, and questions of prize and spoil.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the High Court of Admiralty, comprising order to give up seized goods, 1795; and opinion and petition in a case concerning the condemnation of a ship, 1760.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Records of the High Court of the Admiralty are located at The National Archives, reference HCA.

Publication note:

For more information on the High Court of Admiralty see The National Archives Legal Records Information leaflet number 26; available on their website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk (accessed Oct 2010).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
August to October 2010.