Letter 102 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James enclosing particulars of the cargoes of five Dutch East India Company Ships
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Folios 209-211, particulars in Dutch and French of the cargoes of the Dutch East India Ships De Eendragt, De Vrouwe Cornelia Hillegonda and the Straten.
Letter 62 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James acknowledging the Company's instructions to pay a bill drawn on the Company by Captain John Griffin and enclosing details of the prices the spices sold for at the various Dutch Chambers
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f. 154 handwritten list of prices of goods at the respective chambers of the Dutch East India Company including Pepper, Cinnamon Red letter, and Cinnamon Black letter.
Letter 91 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James inclosing the particulars of the Cargoes of two ships arrived at Copenhagen from China and reporting that 14 English ships, 5 Dutch, 4 French, 3 Swedish and 2 Danish ships would sail from there to Europe that season
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ff. 214-215, particulars in German of the cargoes of the Die Koniginnen Sophia Magdalena and the Juliana Maria.
Letters 109-110 John Collogan & Sons, Thenerife to Robert James enclosing the invoice for 100 pipes of wine shipped to India on the Pigot and regarding Captain Richardson clandestinely receiving goods aboard his ship at Santa Cruz
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ff 257-258, 2 copies of the invoice for 100 pipes of wine shipped aboard the Pigot
Letter 60 Charles Thomas Coggan on behalf of the Committee of Shipping to Robert James giving the names of new ships' mates to be sworn in
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Edne Witts Smith, Chief Mate, Earl of Ashburnham; Benjamin Jones, Second Mate, Clive; Richard Thoresby, Second Mate, Prince of Wales; Henry Hinde Pelly, Fourth Mate, Prince of Wales; Roger Palmer, Third Mate, Hardwicke; William Hall, Third Mate, Houghton; Offley Smith, Fourth Mate, Winchelsea.
Letters 112-113 Petition of John Clark, late Captain of the Company's Forces on the island of St Helena and also one of the Company's Council for the said Island to be allowed a pension
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Enclosed with the letter is a plan of Captain Clark's House at St Helena with the certificates of John Bland, Master Mason, and John Robinson, Carpenter. Committee of Correspondence to examine and report.