Letter 151 Sir Alexander Grant to the Court of Directors desiring the court to reconsider his letter of 6th December, and permit the three young men (Robert Innes, John Burnett & Ludowick Grant at Bencoolen) to be free merchants as they cannot afford the passage home previously permitted to them.
Scope & Content:
Committee of Correspondence to examine and report.
Letter 85 Philip Stephens at the Admiralty Office to Robert James requesting the Courts instructions regarding the five deserters from the Company's marine
Scope & Content:
The deserters are named as James Smith, Roger Egan, James Griggs, William Brockson and Peter Collins. Secretary to answer.
Letter 90 The Commissioners for Victualling his Majesty's Ships to the Court of Directors relating to stores supplied the Company's ships
Scope & Content:
Folio 173, An Account of provisions etc. supplied to the East India Company's ships undermentioned by Mr Charles Cooper, Purser of His Majesty's ship the Portland.
Letter 148 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James inclosing particulars of the cargo the Dutch East India ship West-Vriesland arrived from Batavia
Scope & Content:
Enclosures: ff. 338-340, particulars in French and Dutch, of the cargo of the Dutch East India Company ship West-Vriesland arrived from Batavia.