Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

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Reference Detail Dates Archive Keywords
D/LRM:T19

notes referring to four Lyme Regis sailors held for ransom by Algiers pirates, 1677-9

1677 to 1679 Dorset History Centre piracy kidnap
Photocopy 189/1-2 (Original DC/LR:A 4/3)

certificates concerning men taken on a voyage from Lyme Regis to Virginia, 1678 and enslaved in Algiers, 1681-2

1678 to 1682 Dorset History Centre America Africa pirates piracy slavery
Cox's Index, Appendix B

Acts of Parliament, Notices and Orders, and Plans and Books of Reference relating to Docks, Ferry, Harbours and Piers for coastal towns in Dorset, 1821-1973 (see attached list)

1821 to 1973 Dorset History Centre Laws
DC/BTB:N1-29c

records relating to harbour, 1280-1922, including G1, `Old Doom Book', c.1312-64 with memorandum on Bridport's maritime rights, grants of indulgences for repair of harbour, 1446, petitions to the Crown regarding repair money, 1619-20, harbour mast

1280 to 1922 Dorset History Centre ports maintenance
D480/1

Act of restoring and rebuilding the haven and piers..., 1714-21, printed 1722

1714 to 1722 Dorset History Centre ports harbours maintenance
D.I/JC 12 & 15

harbour Acts, 1722, 1823

1722 to 1823 Dorset History Centre Laws ports
D/COL:X14

engineers agreement to build harbour, 1740; accounts; Improvement Act, 1823; agreement on proposed canal, 1825

1825 to 1825 Dorset History Centre ports Laws development waterways
Photocopy 481

table of imports and exports, 1743-1808

1743 to 1808 Dorset History Centre trade commerce cargo
SR file

photographs and information about shipping, particularly Bridport

None to None Dorset History Centre illustrations trade commerce
DC/LR

Lyme Regis borough archive, including F, G & H, records relating to the Cobb, including the sea-walls, repairs, officials, Customs House, shipping and financial accounts, 1547-1949; PE/LR:CW 12/2, 12/5, PCC 3/2,SP, correspondence and plans rel

1547 to 1982 Dorset History Centre environment maintenance buildings trade commerce coastal
DC/LR:additional

includes Cobb Committee Minutes, 1898-1954; Sea Defence Committee, 1947; Reports of Inspector under pleasure boat bye-laws, 1899-1904; legal papers relating to sea-bathing, 1856 & Cobb duties, 1869; Cobb papers including plan, n.d., extention

1856 to 1954 Dorset History Centre leisure tourism
D.1/2480

pleas concerning anchorage and docking of vessels (1336), copy made, 1792

1792 to 1792 Dorset History Centre ships ports harbours
D.1/2482

copy of inquisition concerning customs (1341) made in 1792

1341 to 1792 Dorset History Centre trade ports harbours
DI.LV3 & 4

customs and excise accounts 1559-60, 1562-3

1559 to 1563 Dorset History Centre finances
D.1/8291-2

draft warrant for grant of embanked lands in harbour, summary of statements concerning 'drowned lands', c.1638

1638 to 1638 Dorset History Centre environment ports coastal
D.1/2487

grant to reclaim lands in harbour, 1665

1665 to 1665 Dorset History Centre environment ownership coastal
D.FIL:9344

warrant authorising searches of ships etc. by Commissioners of Customs, 1721

1721 to 1721 Dorset History Centre trade commerce
D.FIL:9334a & b

draft letters concerning dues, c.1776

1776 to 1776 Dorset History Centre correspondence customs payments
DI/9409-10

letters of attorney to sign petition for private Act to inclose and divide mudlands in manor of Canford and town of Poole, 1784

1784 to 1784 Dorset History Centre Laws environment
DI/9414

letter concerning proposal to construct bank for protection of harbour, 1785

1785 to 1785 Dorset History Centre correspondence environment defence coastal