Affidavit as to papers, by Charles Brett, Portsmouth

Affidavit as to papers, by Charles Brett, Portsmouth

Déclaration sous serment concernant les papiers saisis sur le navire Le Dauphin

Brett, Charles

Carette, Camille (transcription)

CNRS IKER (UMR 5478)

23/04/1757

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2 fichiers (fac-similé 1.5 Mo, transcription 512 Ko) ; le texte contient environ 315 mots.

papier

anglais

Documents reconstitués à partir de photographies au format 'jpeg' prises dans le fonds HCA.

guerre de sept ans

prise de guerre

dossier judiciaire

vente par adjudication

Cette déclaration sous serment contient des informations capitales, le capitaine de la prise, et combien de documents et de lettres étaient à bord du navire Le Dauphin.

Charles Brett, résidant à Portsmouth, atteste sous serment avoir reçu et transmis à la commission d'examen tous les documents saisis à bord du navire français Le Dauphin, capturé par les navires de guerre de Sa Majesté Britannique. Ce commissaire indique que le navire français est arrivé à Portsmouth le 14 avril 1757. A bord, Francis Geary, Esquire Commander, du vaisseau de guerre anglais HMS Somerset a trouvé 227 papiers et écrits. Il les a numéroté de 1 à 227, afin de pouvoir être cités comme preuves lors du jugement. Ces documents furent remis au commissaire John Greenway.

Portsmouth

18e siècle

Domaine public

Nous tenons à exprimer notre sincère gratitude aux Archives nationales du Royaume-Uni, Kew à Londres (TNA) pour l'utilisation des copies numériques du fonds Prize Papers.

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Documentation conservée à Archives de la High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts (Londres)

Talec Jean-Philippe et Videgain Charles (eds.), Mémoires, lettres et papiers du Dauphin : Bayonne, Louisbourg, Londres – 1757, La Crèche, La Geste éditions (coll. « Presses universitaires de Nouvelle-Aquitaine »), 2024, 608 p.

TNA, HCA 32/180/7 CP 8

On the Taking the French Merchant Ship with a Commission of War called Le Dauphin by His Britannic Majesty's Ships of War the Somerset Devonshire and Rochester
Charles Brett of Portsmouth in the County of Southampton Esquire maketh Oath That on or about the fourteenth day of april instant the Master's Mate of His Majesty's Ship Somerset who commanded the said French Prize after she was taken brought (accompanied with a Letter from Captain Geary Commander of the said ship Somerset addressed to this Deponent) the several Papers and Writings by him this Deponent exhibited to Mr John Greenway the Commissioner acting in the preparatory Examinations on this Capture respectively marked from no.(1) to no.(227) inclusive relating to the said French Prize Ship which Papers and Writings are left by this Deponent with the said Commissioner in order to be transmitted to the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty of England And this Deponent saith That the said exhibited Papers and Writings are all the Sea Briefs Charterparties Bills of Lading Documents and other Writings relating to the said French Prize Ship which he this Deponent (to the best of his Knowledge and Belief) hath ever received from any Person or Persons whomsoever And were so exhibited by him this Deponent in the same Plight and Condition as when by him received without any Fraud Subduction Addition or Imbezlement whatsoever.
[Signé] Charles Brett
Sworn at Portsmouth aforesaid the Twenty third day of April 1757 before me John Greenway
In presence of George Augustus Prosser, Notary Public