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Sometime in the beginning of the last Month the Owner of an Armed Sloop laid a State of a Case before me for my opinion, and as the duty of my profession, and the Solemn Oaths I have taken in Conformity to the Acts of this Island, oblige me to give my Clients my Opinion according to the best of my knowledge and learning in the Laws of Great Britain, and the Laws of this Island, I therefore...
Date: 7 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Sir, On the 8th Instant I was favoured with your first Letter of that date, and on the 9th with your Second Letter of the same date, and in the first of those Letters you are pleased to acquaint me, that an Armed Sloop had taken two Vessels on the high Seas, and brought them into the Port of St John in Antigua, and give me leave, Sir, to inform you that the Owners of that Armed Sloop (which is...
Date: 11 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
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Saint Vincent
Before the Honorable Thos
Hackshaw Esquire one of
His Majestys Council for
Said Island —
Personally appeared Thomas Warner of the Said Island Esquire who being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that on the 15th and 16th or 17th of June last past He this Deponent was shewn in the public Prison at St Pierre at Martinico, a great Number of...
Date: 19 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
On the 31st of August last I was favored with your Letter of the 5th of July by his Majesty's Ship the Badger, wherein you mention, that it is the pleasure of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that I should defend Admiral Young against the Action brought by the Owners of the Private Armed Sloop called the Hammond against the Admiral, for seizing and detaining that Sloop for having been...
Date: 17 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9