Extracts from the Minutes of meetings of the General Court between 21 December 1757 and 17 December 1760
Scope & Content:
The minutes detail votes of thanks to Clive and others, news of further uprisings in Bengal and investigations into money granted by Mir Jafar to the Company and its servants.
Copy of a minute made in conference on 24 June 1765 by W. Sumner, H. Verelst and F. Sykes concerning references to their appointment and actions as part of the Select Committee.
Copy of a minute made in Committee by W.B. Sumner on 20 December 1765.
Scope & Content:
Sumner was replying to Clive's observations about the charges in the collection of the revenues of the Calcutta lands. Includes a statement of the charges between 1762 and 1764.
Annotated extract from the minutes of a consultation held at Fort William on 3 July 1766.
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Evidence was given by Mr Thomas Goddard, formerly Captain in the 1st Brigade, alleging that Sir Robert Fletcher had encouraged the mutiny over officers' batta. The annotations seem to be in Clive's hand, although in one place they refer to Clive in the third person. The copy has been attested as ...
Extract from the Minutes of a consultation held on 14 July 1766.
Scope & Content:
A resolution was agreed that the warrant for Sir Robert Fletcher's court martial should issue from the Board not from Clive, lest Clive should be accused of prejudice against Fletcher.
Minute, probably in Edward Clive's handwriting, made upon taking possession of the government of Madras.
Scope & Content:
The author outlines the current problems facing the government, including the potential of war with Tipu Sultan. The text contains a few amendments in the same hand as the original text.
Official records and copies thereof, including extracts from consultations, legal opinions, evidence statements and military intelligence. Other documents include a defence of Clive and records of investments in diamonds.