| Name: | Royal Institution of Cornwall, Courtenay Library |
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| Notes: | None |
| Postal address: | Royal Cornwall Musuem River Street None Truro Cornwall TR1 2SJ |
| Telephone: | 01872 242786 |
| Web address: | http://www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk/courtney-library/ |
Documents: 41
| HA/8/1-36 | paper relating to St Michael's Mount and Penwith, 1396-1663, including relating to pilchard and herring fisheries, fish tithes, quays |
1396 -1663 | fishing |
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| HA/16/68 | account regarding smith work at St Michael's Mount quay, 1792-4 |
1792 -1794 | blacksmith |
| HA/16/70 | legal papers relating to fish tithes in Mount's Bay, 1771 |
1771 -1771 | fishing |
| HB/60-80 | papers of the Basset family relating to wrecks, 1683-1867 |
1683 -1867 | wrecking |
| HD/13/28-35 | papers relating to tithes of Crantock, 1686-1744 |
1686 -1744 | tithes |
| HE/4/10 | legal papers regarding transport of goods through Padstow, 1841 |
1841 -1841 | trade law |
| HF/16/35 & 37-9 | legal papers regarding Helford river fishing, c.1659 |
1659 -1659 | law |
| HG/7/12 | Admiralty commission to Francis Basset and others for inspecting goods and merchandise from pirate ship at St Ives, 1623 |
1623 -1623 | law piracy |
| HL/9/1-71 | misc. papers relating to creation of Wadebridge railway and dock, 1830-65 |
1830 -1865 | transport |
| HU/13/8 | manor court book of Predannack Wartha, parish of Mullion, 1715-63, with reference to items washed ashore, 1739 |
1739 -1739 | wreck admiralty |
| NAN/32 | letter of Arthur Harris to John Nance regarding threat of Spanish to coast, c.1590 |
1590 -1590 | coastall defence |
| NAN/35 | letter to John Nance regarding coastal defence, 1597 |
1597 -1597 | None |
| MEN/121 | deposition regarding brandy found in river Gannel, 1749 |
1749 -1749 | customs |
| BIR/28 | lease regarding tithe fish of Lelant, St Ives and Towednack, 1770 |
1770 -1770 | fishing |
| NL(c)/10/1-3 | three journals relating to fish catches in the St Ives area, 1822-74, with some notes of wreck and with letters regarding Italian market, 1850-1, 1852, 1884 |
1822 -1884 | Fishing Trade |
| PPC/2/1 | papers relating to the Helford Independent Seine, 1837-56, including cash account, minutes of shareholders' meetings, shareholders' accounts, rules |
1837 -1856 | Fishing accounts |
| MEN/15 | Admiralty boat licence for Fowey pleasure boat of Revd Robert Walker, 1793 |
1793 -1793 | leisure |
| Acc.1958(Victoria Wills bequest), | logbook of the Mystery, lugger, from Newlyn to Melbourne, 1854-5 |
1854 -1855 | trade |
| Misc. 10 | journal of A.F.G. of his voyage from England to Sydney possibly on the Parramatta, 1876-7, and return |
1876 -1877 | travel |
| Acc. 1943 | logbook of the Hopewell of St Ives, brig, 1810-14, including of voyage from Falmouth to France, [printed Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, ns 1, pt 2 (1952), 122-9] |
1810 -1814 | trade |
| (z)z/13/42 | letters of administration on estate of James McGuinis, Penryn seaman, 1819 |
1819 -1819 | mariner |
| A/1988/1 | `Experiences and reminiscences of over forty years at sea' by William Harris, with photographs, nineteenth century , health & welfare |
1800 -1900 | mariner |
| GAT/E/16 | printed notice from Privy Council regarding quarantine restrictions at Falmouth, 28 July 1743 |
1743 -1743 | Health |
| HOBLYN/9-38 | naval service papers of Edward Lee Hoblyn, 1826-81, including certificates, commissions, letters, pension papers |
1826 -1881 | navy seaman |
| HEND/KEND/26 | memorandum of agreement regarding harbour at Par, 10 March 1830 |
1830 -1830 | port |
| B/1/23 | release and assignment of St Ives pier, 1777 |
1777 -1777 | port |
| MEN/82/A-O | letters of Francis Basset concerning Portreath quay and shipping, 1765-7 (also see 99-101) |
1765 -1777 | dock port |
| B/1/29 | assignment of a moiety of three deeds poll on St Ives pier, 1804 |
1804 -1804 | port harbour |
| NL(C)/15/4-5 | letters from Sir Christopher Hawkins to G. Roberts, St Ives, regarding erection of new quay at St Ives, 1825 |
1825 -1825 | port |
| NL(C)/18/1 | letter from D. Bamfield, St Ives, to N.R. Pearce regarding help given to distressed vessel, c.1790 |
1790 -1790 | rescue |
| A/1988/4 | coastguard certificates of service of Edward Avery of Mousehole, 1842-58 |
1842 -1858 | coastguard |
| NAN/27 | letter of Lord Paulet to John Nance requesting him to watch for wrecks in manors, 1589 |
1589 -1589 | wrecks |
| Hooper/1-20 | papers relating to Banfield & Hooper, and other nineteenth-century shipping agents in Scilly and misc. papers, including photographs, relating to Scilly, notably 1-2, letter books, 1825-36, 1879-99; 2a, pilotage rates in Scilly district, |
1825 -1911 | ships shipping |
| MPP/1-3 | papers relating to the Snowdrop, Fowey schooner, comprising account book, 1842-52; inward and outward shipping certificates for port of Liverpool, 1843; naval certificate of half-yearly return of documents, 1852, certificate of sale, 1842 | 1842 -1852 | ships shipping accounts |
| RSVR/4 | journal of Thomas Pope Rosevear, Boscastle merchant and shipowner, 1825-46, including note on shipbuilding, 1826 |
1825 -1846 | shipping |
| Phil/A | papers of Miss M.E. Philbrick, mainly files of ms notes and photocopies relating to the Post Office packet service & postal history, including lists of sailings, mostly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, notably 1-20 |
1700 -1899 | ships |
| EN/145-7 | papers relating to coinage of tin, 1568-1753, notably 145g, merchants' petition to the King, seventeenth century, regarding trade; 146a, export accounts of Penzance and Truro, 1660-1 |
1568 -1661 | trade |
| Phil/1-20 | letters of the Enys family, Falmouth merchants, 1667-97 |
1667 -1697 | trade commerce |
| MEN/119 | account of John Pendarves Basset regarding export of slates from Hayle, 1736 |
1736 -1736 | commerce |
| NL(C)/16/1-5 | letters of Sir Christopher Hawkins relating to the Thomas and Mary, the Mary, fishing, St Ives and Pier Bill, 1820-5 |
1820 -1825 | fishing |
| NL(C)/17/7 | bill of Samuel Tresidder, jun. to Revd Edward Walmsey regarding work on the Black Rock, Falmouth, 1794 |
1794 -1794 | port |