Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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(where Dr. Walter Walker was an advocate) from
“…L&M note that Doctors’ Commons (near St. Paul’s) housed the society of lawyers practising civil (Roman) law in the court of Admiralty…… and in the ecclesiastical courts
this day [aug 23rd]..”
“…[SP] to give him[Dr. W.W.] my Lord’s papers to view over concerning his being empowered to be Vice-Admiral under the Duke of York…”
Walker and naval law:”….Dr. Walter Walker, the state’s advocate at civil law, asserted the Admiral’s droit of deodand against a Dutch ship in 1658. The St. Jacob, he alleged, had been found by a jury to have run over a small boat in the Thames, drowning one of its passengers, and the ship, said Walker, for having caused a death, was by right forfeit to the Admiral…”.29
“…The Admiralty Court was responsible for enforcing rules designed to en-courage prudent navigation …”
found under II.Rules, Pleas, and Ambiguity
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/21.1/steckley.html