Eight Weeks Duresse — Nevis

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Overview

The enforcement order stays on Navigation Act — Boreas Enforcement. This note covers the eight-week restraint and the £40,000 figure only. The later Register Act stays on Register Act — Boreas Memorial. The four seizures stay on Island Colours — Four Americans Nevis.1

The Restraint

Southey says the American captains laid their damages at the enormous amount of £40,000. Eight weeks he remained under this state of duresse.2

The spoken “Pity” line stays off this page. The trial verdict and the crown defence stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

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Footnotes

  1. Enforcement order only: Navigation Act — Boreas Enforcement.

  2. “They laid their damages at the enormous amount of £40,000.” “Eight weeks he remained under this state of duresse.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, pp. 64–65 (1813). Do not add the spoken Pity line or the Register Act on this page.