Letters 116-119 William Kinloch, Consul at Aleppo to the Court of Directors regarding packages to and from the Company being sent via Aleppo and Constantinople and Ali Pacha's complaint against Mr Shaw
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Received in London 9 June 1764. ff 217-218 Letter 116 Consul Kinloch's letter of 14 March 1764 to the Court of Directors;ff 219-220 Letter 117 Extract of Consul Kinloch's letter of 12 March 1764 to Dymoke Lyster, or the Company's agent in charge of affairs at Bassora;ff 221-222 Letter 118 duplic...
Letters 304-305 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James regarding bills passed on the Company's account
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f. 622, letter 305, copy of the bill drawn on the Company by Frederick Vincent 19 March 1764, with note of acceptance by Robert James dated 27 October 1764 instructing it to be paid by George Clifford & Sons.
Letters 415-419 Letters from Mr William Shaw at Aleppo regarding his affairs at Bussorah [Basra], received from Mr Sulivan through the hands of Mr Boulton 28 February 1765
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Committee of Correspondence to examine and report Enclosures: ff 843-846, letters 415-416, translations from the Turkish of a letter from the Bashaw of Bagdat & of another from his Prime Minister both addressed to Mr Shaw and enclosed in his letter to the Secretary dated at Aleppo 29 Dec 17...
Letter 134 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James enclosing the prices Dutch East India Company goods sold for at the Delf and Rotterdam chambers
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Folios 282-285: particulars, in Dutch, of sale prices at the Delf and Rotterdam chambers.
Letter 65 John Fremantle at the Customs House to Robert James that the Commissioners for Customs had investigated the allegations made by Captain John Griffin regarding Turbans taken from Lascars going ashore and had concluded that only such items as were being deliberately concealed and illegally brought ashore had been confiscated.
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The letter states that the items seized had been deliberately concealed, and that this did include some individuals Turbans where the length of material was far in excess of the usual five or six yards required for one. The goods seized included: 2 pieces of entire muslim, yard wide about 20 yar...
Account of the sufferings by fire of the inhabitants at Bridge-Town, Barbados and details of the relief fund opened by subscription for them
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This letter has not been given a letter number in the volume, it sits between Letters 91 and 92. It is also not listed in the index at the back of the volume.
Letters 246-247 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James that it would take three months to produce 125 tons of flower and that the best method of transport would be to send a vessel to the Texel
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Enclosures: Proforma invoice of 125 tons of wheat flower bought at Amsterdam with all charges until on board of a ship at the Texel Notice in Dutch of the prices goods sold for at the Delft Chamber 11 November 1766
Letter 27 John Harkness at East India House to the Court requesting that his son can carry out £250 worth of foreign silver with him to Fort St George.