Statement and interrogation of Dudley concerning a letter agreed in the Secret Committee prior to Clive's arrival in India.
Scope & Content:
The document is highly abbreviated. The letter apparently was in the Company cypher and there are references to sending it to "Mr W" [Watts?]. It seems probable that it related to the inland trade.
Text of Clive's answer to a minute made by John Johnstone.
Scope & Content:
The cover is marked "Duplicate" in the same hand that has ascribed the date, however the text has been considerably amended in the same had as the original writer. While leaving some parts of Johnstone's minutes to be discussed in Committee, Clive answers the parts which refer to the powers of th...