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Royal Navy: Prize Money


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 ADL/X

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Royal Navy: Prize Money

Date(s): 17th century - 19th century

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 11 items

Name of creator(s): Royal Navy

CONTEXT

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CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This category contains documents relating to prize money, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It includes a letter of 1652 from the Council of State, signed by the President, William Purefoy (1580-1659), to the Commissioners of the Navy, concerning the capture of Dutch prizes by Robert Blake (1599-1657); a vellum document appointing Richard Neale of Portsea prize agent for the PORCUPINE, 1718, signed and sealed by all members of the crew; a copy of a prize money case between Admiral Sir John Duckworth (q.v.) and Admiral Sir Robert Calder (1745-1818), with a legal opinion, 1805; certificates and receipts for payment, 1805, 1806 and 1842.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.

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: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Naval prizes | War seizures | War (concept) | International conflicts

Personal names
Calder | Sir | Robert | 1745-1818 | Knight | Admiral
Duckworth | Sir | John Thomas | 1748-1817 | Knight | Admiral

Corporate names
Royal Navy

Places