Letter 317 Richard Gamon, London to the Court of Directors to send to India the value of £5500 in Coral Beads and to send to China the value of £2500 in Coral Beads and £500 in Amber for the purchase of Diamonds
Letters 126-127 The Rt Hon. Welbore Ellis, Secretary at War to John Dorrien, Chairman recommending Captain Robert Fletcher for his distinguished behaviour at Manilha
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Committee Correspondence to examine and report. Enclosed with the letter is an account of Captain Robert Fletcher's distinguished behaviour at Manilha (ff 269-272).
Letter 148 William Bullingbrooke [Bollenbrooke], King Street, London to the Court regarding his licence to go to India as a Free Merchant
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Secretary's Note: Was recommended by Mr Dorrien (Chairman) and permitted to proceed as a Free Merchant to the East Indies 13 October 1762. Not read in Court.
Letter 263 William Russell, Secretary to the Levant Company to Robert James desiring payment of 12,830 dollars disbursed in the East Indies Company Account at Constantinople
Letters 283-285 Sarah Mapletoft, Southampton Row, London to Robert James that the Pension allowed her in Bengal may be continued to her in England, and further correspondence on the matter
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Committee of Correspondence to examine and report.
Letter 241 John Forbes, Lieutenant in the 79th Regiment (Colonel Drapers) to the Court of Directors to have an allowance for his passage from Madras not withstanding they could say nothing to his former memorial
Letters 303-305 Right Honourable Mr Secretary at War to the Court of Directors enclosing extract of a letter from Sir John Forbes requesting an allowance for the expense of his passage from Manilha to raise recruits for the 79th Regiment
Letter 141 Daniel Webb, Leicester Fields, London to Robert James recommending James Leighton, who proposed raising a Company for the East India Company's service, with enclosures
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Enclosures: ff 300-301: Howe at Whitehall to Laurence Sulivan recommending Mr Leighton, and the Company he could raise to the East India Company's service, 29 May 1763; ff 302-303: Certificate testifying to the character of Mr Leighton, by John Stanwix, Prevost, 21 May 1763; ff 303-304: Lette...