A report of the argument used by the Recorder in his judgement in the case of Oakes v. Hughes, with a letter to Mr Grant from Walter Grant, his informant.
Scope & Content:
There is no indication of the cause of the trial; the bill was dismissed and both parties ordered to pay their own costs.
Letter from Watts, Roger Drake, Richard Becher and J.Z. Holwell, writing on behalf of the Committee of Fort William to Clive.
Scope & Content:
The authors object to unspecified actions taken by the Committee of Fort St George. They also object to the powers granted to Clive and request that he should follow their plans and that copies of the administrative records for his army should be forwarded to them.
Extract from the Company's General Letter to Bengal dated 8 March 1758.
Scope & Content:
The letter congratulates Clive on his successes, announces his appointment as Governor of Fort William and announces the terms and impact of the Mir Jafar's grant to the Company.
Facts relating to the loss and recapture of Calcutta containing affirmations that the sums of money received by Clive and Admiral Watson from Mir Jafar were honourably and deservedly attained.
Scope & Content:
These include affirmations that the sums of money received by Clive and Admiral Watson from Mir Jafar were honourably and deservedly attained and that therefore they should be exempt from the resolution that all such acquisitions belong to the State.