Petition of William Key requesting that the Company remunerate him on account of his having seized certain goods on their behalf in February 1744 from the ship Nottingham at Gravesend, read in Court 31 Oct 1745
Petition of John Donaldson, formerly a sailor on the Winchelsea claiming the right to 112 mohurs of gold obtained by him in the service of the Ostenders in Bengal but which had subsequently been handed over to Captain Christopher Baron and paid by him into the Company's Treasury, read in Court 5 ...
Letter from Nicholas Morse, late Governor of Madras, and William Monson, John Stratton and John Savage, Members of Council, dated Pondicherry 18 Jan 1747, regarding a bond for 30,000 pagodas given by the Council to Morse in September 1746, read in Court 21 Oct 1747
Letter from Nicholas Morse, late Governor of Madras, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, dated Pondicherry, 18 Jan 1747. He states that a secret agreement was entered into by himself and William Monson to pay the French captors a sum extra to that stipulated by the articles of surr...
Letter from Nicholas Morse, late Governor of Madras, dated Fort St David, 9 Feb 1748, in which he gives an account of the present political situation in the Deccan. He also advocates the establishment of a naval station at Negrais or Pegu in Burma, and emphasizes the necessity of destroying the F...
Letter from Nicholas Morse, dated Fort St David, 18 Aug 1747. He remarks on the weakness of the Fort St David defences. An appeal for help has been made to Nasir Jang, son of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Most of the Company's servants that were formerly at Fort St George have now left Fort St David, r...
Letter from Nicholas Morse, dated Tranquebar, 16 Mar 1747, regarding the fall of Fort St George to the French and the subsequent fate of the English inhabitants. He also makes some observations on the balance of power between the British and French forces in the East Indies, read in Court 26 Nov ...
Letter from Nicholas Morse, dated Pondicherry, 15 Jan 1747, addressed to Christopher Mole, Company's Secretary, regarding the surrender of Fort St George to the French, read in Court 7 Oct 1747
Letter from Nicholas Morse, ex-Governor of Fort St George, and John Stratton, John Savage and William Monson, Members of Council, dated Pondicherry, 13 Jan 1747, notifying the Company of their surrender of Fort St George to the French the previous September, and of subsequent developments, read i...
Letter from Edward Fowke, former Member of Council at Fort St George, dated Pulicat 25 Dec 1746, regarding the surrender of Fort St George to the French and his own conduct on that occasion. He compares the relative strengths of the British and French forces in the East Indies and emphasizes the ...