"Propositions of the Court of Directors, offered to the Consideration of the General Court, as the Basis of an Agreement between the Public and the East India Company".
Draft of a letter from Clive to the Select Committee.
Scope & Content:
The letter relates to various aspects of the Committee's work. A note on the cover states that it was 'corrected from the Letter delivered in to the Board'.
Letters from Weston Bayley, executor to the Will of the late Mr Felton to Mr Probert and Lord Clive, with an account statement and receipt.
Scope & Content:
Mr Felton had been Clive's solicitor. The letters relate to a debt of £154 owed to Mr Felton, being a year and a half's salary and some expenses incurred as part of his work.
Further evidence from Clive and evidence from Mr Sykes.
Scope & Content:
The evidence concerns the grant of Clive's jagir and the fate of the jewels deposited with the Company by Mir Jafar as security for the payment of the sums promised by him under the treaty. The Committee also ordered the production of the proceedings of the Board at Calcutta, an account of the bi...
Copy of Mr Vansittart's minute in Committee of May 1769 concerning military matters.
Scope & Content:
The handwriting of the copy initially bears a strong resemblance to Clive's. This changes at the end of the 6th folio and becomes more typical of a professional copyist. In places the text has been marked in pencil.