Copy of the Charter granted to the Company by George II in 1753 with specimen forms of various legal documents for the use of the Mayor's Court of Calcutta.
Scope & Content:
The Specimen documents include: writ of summons, warrant, Bail Piece, subpoena for a witness, witness oath, commission to examine witnesses, warrant of sequestration and others.
Memorandum designed to "furnish the Public with a regular, as well as clear Justification of Lord Clive's Conduct during his late Government of Bengal".
List of publications upon East India affairs between 1761 and 1772.
Scope & Content:
These include publication of Company charters, treaties, the Peace Articles made between Britain and France, a defence of Henry Vansittart's conduct and Dow's History. In addition to the title of the work, the list also gives the size and date of the publication.
"Case respecting the Certificates stating the difference between Certificates and Bills of Exchange".
Scope & Content:
The case specifically relates to money belonging to Clive remitted home by Certificates and the question of whether the Company should pay interest on the money for the time it was in their hands.
Letters, copies of letters and drafts comprising Clive's outgoing correspondence in 1765.
Scope & Content:
The majority of the letters have been endorsed in a different hand 'Entd IIII Duplicate'. It is known that Clive maintained a series of letterbooks containing copies of his outgoing correspondence and it seems likely that this endorsement refers to that process.