Memorial from Captain Nicholas Weller to Clive and others.
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Weller was forced to retire on half pay after being wounded. He requested either reappointment as Major or permission to return to India with Colonel Forde in order to settle his private affairs there.
Copy of a petition made by Ralph Harding to Thomas Rous and the Directors of the East India Company.
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Requesting employment as an officer in the Company's army, having previously been an officer in the Cleveland and Bulmar regiment of Militia in Yorkshire. Includes testimonials upon him on the verso.
Duplicate Letter to Clive and the Select Committee at Fort William from George Pigot, John Smith, c Bourchier, John Pybus, Richard Fairfield and Samuel Ardley.
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Dated at Fort St George, concerning the success at Masulipatam and the prisoners seized at its capture. Two duplicates and a copy. Henry Vansittart has signed only one of the duplicates. The copy also contains extracts a letter dated 10 May from and to the same parties.
Copy of a letter to Colonel Forde initialled RC, CM and WS, probably Clive, Manningham and another.
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Dated at Calcutta, appointing a civil commander to work with him, notifying him of the despatch of money and making arrangements for his return to Bengal at short notice should this be required. The letter was written in cypher but a translation in the same hand has been written in the margin.