NOTES

1. Hofmeyer, 'English Admiralty Law and Jurisdiction Prior to 1890', Acta Juridica (Cape Town: Juta, 1982), p.30. 2 11.7id., p.33 3 G.M. Theal, Records of The Cape Colony (London: William Clowes and Sons, 1905), vol. 2, p.34.

2. Ibid p.33

3. GM Theal, Records of the Cape Colony (London, William Clowes & Sons, 1905) vol 2 p.34

4. SD MacKinnon, 'Some Judicial Insignia', Law Quarterly Review (London: Stevens and Sons, 1943), vol. 59, p.30.

5. GB Hughes, 'Silver oar of the Admiralty', Country Life, 10 April 1958.

6. Correspondence with the Navy Museum, Washington; G.W. Paulsen, 'The Silver oar of the Vice-Admiralty Court of the Province of New York', Sea Heritage News, no. 6, p.4. (South African Cultural History Museum file D4/2212.)

7. Christie's Catalogue, Lot no. 279, 24 May 1989.

8. Diemont, 'South African Prize Courts', The South African Law Journal (Cape Town: Juta, 1941), vol. 48, p.l22.

9. The Concise Oxford Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976).

10. 'Maritime Law' is discussed in The Encyclopedia Americana (Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier Incorporated, 1987), vol. 18, p.327.

11. Hughes, 'Silver Oar of the Admiralty', Country Life, 10 April 1958.

12. Banister, 'The right to bear a silver oar', Country Life, 16 June 1966, p.l602.

13. Christie's Catalogue, 24 May 1989, p.l22.

14. Paulsen, Sea Heritage News, no. 6, p.4.

15. Christie's Catalogue, 24 May 1989, p.l22.

16. Theal, Records of the Cape Colony, vol. 1, p.395.

17. Cape Archives, VAC 1/46, p.iii.

18. H F. Fine, The History of the Cape Supreme Court and its Role in the Development of Judicial Precedent for the Period 1821-1910 (Unpublished M.A. thesis, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, 1986), p.358.

19. Bird, The State of the Cape in 1822 (Cape Town: Struik, 1966), p.l6.

20. Cape Archives, VAC 1/46, p.iv.

21. Theal, Records of the Cape Colony, vol. 2, p.32.

22. Bird, The State of the Cape in 1822, p.l6.

23. Edwards, 'A Conflict of Jurisdiction', Codicillus, vol. B, no. 1, May 1972, p.43.

24. Theal, Records of the Cape Colony, vol. 6, p.330.

25. Edwards, Codicillus, vol. B, no. 1, May 1972, p.43.

26. Cape Archives, BO 36, 26 June 1798.

27. Cape Archives, BO 37, 19 March 1801.

28. Cape Archives, BO 36, 27 Sept. 1800.

29. Fine, The History of the Cape Supreme Court p.48.

30. Ibid., p.33.

31. Theal, Records of the Cape Colony, vol. 32, p.252.

32. Cape Archives, CO 337, no. 76, 21 July 1828.

33. Cape Archives, BO 36, no. 95, 26 June-5 July 1798.

34. Johnson, A Place in History (London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1974), p.150

35. Lord Simons, 'British Prize Courts' Halsbury's Laws of England (London: Butterworths, 1959), vol. 3Q p.657-675.

36. Cape Archives, VAC vol. 1, 19 Dec. 1799.

37. Cape Archives, BO 35, 7 Feb. 1799.

38. Ibid.

39. Cape Archives, CO 144, 21 Sept. 1819.

40. Theal, Records of the Cape Colony, vol. 13, p.421, 425.

41. Cape Archives, CO 148, 7 March 1821.

42. Cape Archives, VAC vol. 1, no. 185.

43. Knox-Johnson, The Cape of Good Hope: A Maritime History (London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1989), p.l79.

44. Kennedy, Shipwrecks on and off the Coast of Southern Africa; Catalogue and Index (Johannesburg Public Library, 1955), p.45.

45. Turner, Shipwrecks and Salvage in South Africa 1505 to Present (Cape Town: Struik, 1988), p.l49.

46. Ibid., p.39.

47. Knox-Johnson, The Cape of Good Hope: A Maritirme History, p.l43.

48. Burman, The Bay of Storms: Table Bay 1503-1860 (Cape Town: Human and Rousseau, 1976), p.61.

49. Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa (SESA) (Cape Town: Nasionale Opvoedkundige Uitgewery, 1970), vol. 1, p.286.

50. Bradlow and F. Bradlow: Here Comes the Alabama (Cape Town: Balkema, 1958), p.70.

51. Diemont, The South African Law Journal, vol. 48, p.l23.

52. Fine, The History of the Cape Supreme Court p.366.

53. (SESA), vol. 3, p.l81..