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A Statement Of The Laws At Large, Respecting Negroes In The West India Islands. Arranged Under Different Titles

Report Of The Lords of the Committee of Council appointed for the Consideration of all Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations; Submitting To His Majesty's Consideration The Evidence and ...

3 May - Slave Trade, twenty five accounts of voyages on 1792 (numbered, 1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 39, 45, 41, 46, 47).

12 May: Petitions of Debtors confined in Lincoln, Lancaster, Kilmainham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Ilchester, Dorchester and Appleby, praying relief (Lords Journal xlv, p619);
12 May: Petitions against...

10 March - Sir George Shuckburgh to take name of Evelyn Bill. Annexed: Petition for Bill of Sir George Shuckburgh.
10 March - Martin and Swinton v Martin et al, Petition and Appeal (in Large Parch...

May 24 - Lord Nelson's answer to thanks of the House.
May 24 - Slave Trade. Correspondence with West India Governors etc relative to,viz list and twenty-one papers.
May 24 - Earl Fauconberg's esta...

June 17 - Sheriffs' Indemnity Bill.
June 19 - Vessels that arrived in West India Islands in 1793 etc. List of.
June 19 - Log Books etc of Slave Ships (1791-1797).
June 19 - Agents for petitioners ...

Printed copies of Accounts, Extracts and other papers touching the Slave Trade. Ordered to be printed 1 May 1789 to 20 April 1792 and delivered at conference 3 May 1792 consisting of: 1. Twenty a...

15 April - Leeds and Liverpool Canal Bill, Petition against, of Earl of Balcarres (in Parchment Main Papers).
17 April - Bamford et al Bill, Report of Judges. Annexed:
1) Petition for Bill of Wil...

Petition against Commons resolutions, of Samuel Estwick, agent for the Council of Barbados.

Resolutions of the Commons Communicated at a conference (two copies).

Account of vessels arrived from Africa in the West India Islands and of slaves imported and re-exported.

HL/PO/JO/10/5/1-143 contain Parchment Books, 1640-1894;
HL/PO/JO/10/5/144-191, 273 contain additional previously unlisted Books;
HL/PO/JO/10/5/192-200 contain Parchment Parcels and
HL/PO/JO/10/5/...

Papers laid on the table of the House between 1750 and 1799.

An Act to regulate and extend the Jurisdiction of Her Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar in regard to vessels captured on suspicion of being engaged in the Slave Trade, and for other purposes relating th...

An Act for regulating and extending the Jurisdiction in matters connected with the Slave Trade of the Vice-Admiralty Court at Aden, and of Her Majesty's Consuls under Treaties with the Sovereigns o...

An Act to carry into effect an additional Article to the Treaty of the Seventh Day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, between Her Majesty and the United States of America, for the S...

An Act to amend the Slave Trade (East African Courts) Act, 1873.

An Act for more effectually punishing Offences against the Laws relating to the Slave Trade.

An Act for consolidating with Amendments the Acts for carrying into effect Treaties for the more effectual Suppression of the Slave Trade, and for other purposes connected with the Slave Trade.

Exhibition materials for the Anniversary of WB Gurney and Sons 1735 - 1985. Records include:
two booklets entitled "The Anniversary of WB Gurney and Sons 1735 - 1985: Shorthand Writers to both Hou...

An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves, and for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to the Services of such ...

Journal of a voyage of the ship the 'London Patrick', out of London, giving an account of the number of slaves and a list of mortality for its journey from the coast of Africa to St Vincent, from 6...

An account of the number of slaves on board the ship the 'Express', out of London, on its voyage from the coast of Africa to St Vincent, between 23 February and 4 October 1793

The file comprises a transcript of evidence on the Slave Trade given at the Bar of the House of Lords in 1793. On one of the pages the Duke of Clarence asks a witness 'Did you ever know an instanc...

An account of the number of slaves on board the ship the 'Express', together with a journal of a voyage of the ship the 'London Patrick'

An Act to make further Provision for facilitating and completing the Distribution and Payment of Compensation for Slaves upon the Abolition of Slavery.

An Act for regulating and extending the Jurisdiction in matters connected with the Slave Trade of the Vice-Admiralty Court at Aden, and of Her Majesty's Consuls under Treaties with the Sovereigns o...

An Act to regulate and extend the Jurisdiction of Her Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar in regard to vessels captured on suspicion of being engaged in the Slave Trade, and for other purposes relating th...

An Act for more effectually punishing Offences against the Laws relating to the Slave Trade.

An Act to amend the Slave Trade (East African Courts) Act, 1873.

An Act for consolidating with Amendments the Acts for carrying into effect Treaties for the more effectual Suppression of the Slave Trade, and for other purposes connected with the Slave Trade.