Delineation of the terms of the Act of Parliament for the better management of the affairs of the East India Company.
Scope & Content:
Two copies. Both have been annotated, the first (ff.1-12) more extensively than the second (ff.13-24). The first copy's annotations are certainly in Clive's hand, the other is possibly a different hand.
Observations made by an army officer sent to Sir Robert Fletcher's forces during the officers' mutiny.
Scope & Content:
The observations are unsigned. They form a detailed description of the writer's attempts to persuade the mutineers to abandon the mutiny and wait until they could present their demands to Clive in person, including an outline of the arguments he used. It is possible that the writer may have been ...
Copies of General Monckton's recommendation of Lieutenant Robert Williams and a memorial from Williams to the Company requesting a company in the Company's army.
Scope & Content:
Williams' previous service had been in the King's army; he includes a brief list of the engagements in which he had been involved.
The document comprises Dunning's opinions on eight questions, including whether the Company's servants were guilt of disobedience, the profits of trade and the salt trade. A copy.
Copy of a deposition made by Borysull Dessundy concerning Rangil Dass.
Scope & Content:
Dass was imprisoned and accused of possessing goods belonging to Mir Kasim. Dessudy stood surety to him and became liable for a payment of 6000 rupees when he defaulted.