Duplicate copy of the Book of Consultations, Secret Department.
Scope & Content:
Minutes of four meetings of the Secret Department, Members: John Spencer, Charles Stafford Playdell, John Johnstone, Ralph Leycester, John Burdett and George Gray. The consultations relate to the consequences of the death of the Nawab of Bengal.
Duplicate of the Select Committee Proceedings of 7 September 1765.
Scope & Content:
The deliberations concern relations with Shuja ud-Daula and includes copies of the treaty between Shuja ud-Daula and the Company and the grant of the diwani of Bengal, Bahar and Orissa and related firmaunds.