Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

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Reference Detail Dates Archive Keywords
S.P.L. MS 2740

logbook of HMS Cambrian, 1798-1801

1798 to 1801 Shropshire Archives navy ships
TC/box 144

accounts, 1865, 1904, 1936; dues, Counsel's opinion and correspondence, 1905; printed report of the Harbour Commission of Enquiry, 1912; misc papers, 1902, with accounts, 1892, 1899, 1900 and standing orders, 1886; papers regarding Bill, 1891, and papers regarding formation of a Harbour Trust; minutes, 1949; tide tables, 1933; Act with Bill, petitions and evidence in Commons, 1913 and 1911

1865 to 1936 Southampton Archives ports Parlliament
T.C. Box1/1, 13-44

papers concerning Southampton Admiralty jurisdiction, privateering and piracy, customs duty, n.d., 1581-1606;

1581 to 1606 Southampton Archives navy
T.C. Box1/1,45-60

`pirates' of the Maghrib, 1617-33;

1617 to 1633 Southampton Archives ships piracy
T.C. Box1/1,61-80

the salt trade, 1617-38;

1617 to 1638 Southampton Archives None
T.C. Box1/1,81-2

customs duty on wine, 1638; draft of case of repayment of debts incurred by merchants, co-partners and part-owners of a ship, n.d.;

1638 to 1638 Southampton Archives alcohol trade imports
T.C. Box1/1,101

copy of letter from Burghley requiring Mayot to seach a vessel taking goods to Ireland, 28 February 1587;

1587 to 1587 Southampton Archives correspondence cargo trade exports
T.C. Box1/1,102

letter from Richard Stringfellow to Mayor regarding his vessel, 19 February 1587; letter from Privy Council regarding ship belonging to William Nycoles of Northam (Devon) imprisoned in contempt of the Lord Admiral's powers, 7 January 1589; letter from Ambrose Spinola on duties to be paid by merchants, n.d.

1587 to 1589 Southampton Archives correspondence navy trade
Box2/1

annual lists compiled by the sellers of tanned leather of amounts of leather shipped to Jersey and Guernsey, 1620-3, 1625-30, 1631-2, 1633-4;

1620 to 1634 Southampton Archives trade materials exports
Box2/1, 2

case papers including a bundle of depositions regarding case before the King's Bench of a dispute between the Corporation and the Governor of the Isle of Wight regarding jurisdiction over the wreck of the Burse of Rotterdam at Calshot Spit, 1684-5;

1684 to 1685 Southampton Archives ships
Box2/1,3

papers concerning Lymington petty customs, includes accounts of petty customs for the years 1661-3, 1666-7, 1676-7, 1692-4 and 1707-13, with papers connected with Southampton and Lymington over customs, 1722-6, n.d.;

1661 to 1726 Southampton Archives None
Box2/1,4

case papers including depositions regarding dispute between Southampton and Roger Beere, before the Exchequer, regarding Lymington Petty Customs, 1715-16;

1715 to 1716 Southampton Archives None
Box3/2

writ from King Richard III to mayor of Southampton ordering him to release la Nicholas of Couquet, 12 September 1483; 30-5, misc rough notes of cargoes and calculations, c.1723-37

1723 to 1737 Southampton Archives Crown ships trade
SC2/3/9 & 11, SC2/3/13/1-2, SC2/2/1-35

minutes of the Commerce of the Port Committee, 1874-1922 (for post 1922 see SC2/3/24 for the Parliamentary and General Purposes Committee)

1874 to 1922 Southampton Archives None
SC9/3/1-11

A good number of examinations and depositions books for the years March to August 1571, October 1575 to August 1576, October 1576 to September 1577, October 1578 to September 1579, October 1583 to September 1584, October 1584 to September 1585, October 1586 to October 1587, July to September 1590, October 1592 to September 1594, November 1601 to September 1602, 1622 to 1644 with interruptions, 1648-63, 1663-8 and 1669-98. 

 

See the Southampton Record Series for Gertrude H. Hamilton (ed.), Books of Examinations and Depositions, 1570-1594, 1914; R.C. Anderson (ed.), The Book of Examinations, 1601-1602, 1926; R.C. Anderson (ed.), The Book of Examinations and Depositions, 1622-1644, in four volumes for the years 1622-7, 1627-34, 1634-9, 1639-44 (1929-36).

1571 to 1926 Southampton Archives None
SC2/1/1

`Paxbred or Oak book', town administration book.  See P. Studer (ed.), `The Oak Book' of Southampton, Southampton Record Society, 1910-11, vols 1-2, supplement. fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, includes tables of customs, early fourteenth century; copy of agreement between Salisbury and Southampton concerning petty customs, 25 July 1329

1329 to 1911 Southampton Archives None
SC2/1/2

Remembrance Book.  See Harry W. Gidden (ed.), The Book of Remembrance of Southampton, Southampton Record Society, 1927-30, in three volumes. in five volumes, including references to petty customs, 1329, 1408, 1479; note of measure of Newfoundland fish, 1560

1329 to 1930 Southampton Archives None
SC2/1/4

Second Book of Remembrance, including admiralty courts, 14 July 1493, 27 April 1508, 19 January 1570, August 1707-21, September 1756; dispute with Henry Carew about Admiralty rights, 1580; arbitration between Corporation and the Channel Islands about petty customs, 1574; receipts of petty customs, 1461-1547

1493 to 1756 Southampton Archives navy
SC2/1/5

Third Remembrance Book.  See T.B. James (ed.), The Third Book of Remembrance of Southampton 1514-1602, Southampton Record Series, vol.IV, 1979.

1514 to 1602 Southampton Archives None
SC2/1/9

Journal, 1679-1734, including note on Admiralty rights, 13 February 1702

1679 to 1734 Southampton Archives diary navy