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London Metropolitan Archives

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/298

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

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 AND 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 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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Admiralty | Government departments | Central government | Public administration | Government
Admiralty court | Courts | Administration of justice
Courts of admiralty | Courts | Administration of justice

Personal names

Corporate names
High Court of Admiralty

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe