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Letters 92-93 George L Scott, Examiners Office to Robert James that Mr Hyde recommends Ensign Murdoch Mackenzie and Mr Boullon recommends Lieutenant Alexander Black
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Lieutenant Black is appointed a Lieutenant of Artillery within the Company. A note on the letter itself records that Murdoch Mackenzie's application is withdrawn as he is 'a seafaring man'.
Letters 122-123 Enclosures from the Earl of Halifax's letter of 30 April 1764 relating to Bassora, Aleppo and Constantinople
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Enclosures: ff 228-229, Letter 122 Translated from a letter of G Rigo (an Italian) to Mr Kinloch (Consul at Aleppo), dated Bagdad 20 February; and received at Aleppo 27 March 1760 regarding Mr Shaw's affairs at Bassora and the expected arrival of a Danish ship in the Persian Gulf; ff 230-231, Le...
Letter 167 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James enclosing particulars of the Cargo of the Dutch East India Company ship Baarsand arrived from Batavia
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Enclosures: ff 313-314 printed cargo lists in Dutch for the Baarsand.
Letters 222-227 William Russell, Secretary to the Levant Company to Robert James as to the payment of the money lately disbursed at Constantinople on the Company's account and enclosing letter with enclosures from Honble Henry Grenville dated 2 May 1764, regarding company affairs
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Enclosures: ff 437-442, Letters 222-223: Translations in Italian and English of a Letter from the Prime Vizir to the Basha of Babylon regarding Dimoke Lester, Company's representative in Bassorah [Basra] being harassed by individuals in that city and issuing an Imperial Order as reminder of the ...
Letter 231 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James enclosing particulars of the Cargoes of two Danish East India ships which arrived at Copenhagen 17 June 1764
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f 456 particulars in German of the Danish East India Company Ships Die Koniginn Juliana Maria and Princessin Lowise.
Letter 254 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James regarding the cargoes of Dutch and Swedish East India Company Ships
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Folios 514-516: particulars, in French and Dutch, of the cargo of the Dutch East India Ships De Drie Papergaijen, Vryvurg and Vlissinge Folio 517: particulars, in Dutch, of Swedish East India Ships
Letter 282 Richard Law, Factor at St Helena to the Court of Directors vindicating his behaviour & praying to the Court's favourable consideration of a charge laid against him in the General Letter of 23 August 1764
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Committee of Correspondence to consider thereof. Correspondent reported as deceased before the Court had responded.
Letter 292 Thomas Hitchcock, Upper Thames Street, London to the Court of Directors offering to make a discovery of illicit trade to and from India which will effectually prevent the same provided he is rewarded with £10,000