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A collection of papers to which the following title has been prefixed by Mr. Hasted [Edward Hasted]: ‘Papers and accounts relating to the Commissioners for Prizes taken in the Dutch wars, together with their original Commission from the Council of State, with the 14 articles exhibited against the said Commissioners in 1659’ viz.

1. Resolution of the House of Commons, appointing John Sparrow, Richard Blackwell, Humphrey Blake, Richard Hill, Samuel Wilson and Robert Turpin, commissioners for the sale of goods and ships taken from the Dutch. 8 March 1652. f. 1.

2. Order of Parliament touching livers merchant ships belonging to the people of the United Provinces, lying in the River Thames and the port of Dover. 9 July 1652. f. 2.

3. Declaration of the commissioners respecting the sum of 6000 £ to be remitted, by exchange to Hamborough, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam.

4. ‘List of Prize Shipps in the Port of London.’ f. 4.

5. ‘A Relacoñ of such English Shipps as have bin taken into Algiers since February 1638.’ 10 Apr 1640. f. 5.

6. Duplicate of the last. f. 6.

7. Account of the deposit money from John Carleton, cashier, to the commissioners; 1659-60. f. 7.

8. Certificate of Edward Byrche to Richard Hill of £8387. 18. 0. deposit money. Prize Office, 28 Jan 1655. f. 8.

9. Original commission from the Council of State to Richard Hill, Samuel Wilson and Robert Turpin, appointing them commissioners for the disposal of Dutch vessels. Whitehall, 27 July 1654. Signed ‘Denis Bond, President.’ f. 9.

10. Memorandum of goods sold. f. 10.

11. Case of Raphael Fontino submitted to the Court of Admiralty, for the payment of 1440 £ by the commissioners of prizes. f. 11.

12. Order of the prize commissioners for the delivery of papers, etc., to their officers from Alderman Hill’s. 10 Feb 1659. (Original). f. 12.

13. Letter to Richard Hill from Samuel Wilson, respecting a sale at Plymouth. Order of the state to restore all Dutch ships captured after the 4th instant. London, 2 May 1654. (Original). f. 13.

14. ‘Accompt of moneys paid to the Commrs. for Dutch prizes and salarye to the 8th March 1652.’ f. 14.

15. Statement of Mr. Hill’s account with the commission, from 1652 to 1656. f. 15.

16. Sir Henry Martyn’s decree (judge of Court of Admiralty) respecting mutiny among mariners. f. 16.

17. Agreement between William Wetton of Westminster, esquire, and John Carleton of London, merchant, on behalf of the commissioners for the lease of a house in Bishopsgate, 1657. (Original). f. 17.

18. ‘Foureteen Articles answered which were given in to the Parlyment by one Robt. Turner against all the Commrs. for Prize goods. June 26 1659.’ f. 18.

19. ‘The personal answers of Tho. Gower of London Esq. to the presented posicoñs of certain Lybell given agt. him in the name of his Majesty Charles the Second.’ f. 22.

20. Counsell’s opinion signed ‘Penfould,’ respecting the liability of all the commissioners for the acts of one. 20 Oct 1677. f. 23.

21. Depositions of Thomas Butt and Peter Cossen. Fol. 24.

22. Case respecting the liability of the executor of an executor (in Richard Hill’s case against Raphael Fontino, see 11). f. 25.

23. Extract from the Statute of Limitations (?) Charles II. Respecting the accounts of collectors, and their executors. f. 26.

24. ‘Articles put in against the Commrs. for prize goods into the Commrs. for bringing in the arrears of ye Revenue due to ye Common wealth now sitting in ye Queen’s Court at Westminster, by Robt. Turner, June 29 1659.’ f. 27.

Folio, ff. 29.