Note note 1 — PREFACE

[1] Records of the Admiralty Court, Boston, "vol. V". From 1628 to 1708 appeals in prize cases from the sentences of vice-admiralty courts in the colonies had been heard in England by the High Court of Admiralty; since that date, they had, in accordance with 6 Anne ch. 37, sect. 8, been addressed to a body of persons specially commissioned for the purpose, called the Lords Commissioners of Appeal in Prize Causes. See the memorandum of Strahan and Strange (1735) in F.T. Pratt, Law of Contraband of War, p. 295. A commission (1728) for the trial of such appeals is printed in Marsden, Law and Custom of the Sea, II. 267-270.