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Letter 401 William Ellis, Secretary at War to Robert James advising several officers who have His Majesty's permission to enter into the Company's service
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Officers permitted to enter the Company's service: Lieutenant Craddock, 11th DragoonsLieutenant Guinett, 17th Regiment of FootLieutenant Padman, 84th Regiment of FootLieutenant Godfrey, 90th Regiment of FootEnsign Powel, 54th Regiment of FootEnsign Stubbs, 59th Regiment of FootEnsign Winter, 76t...
Letter 414 Colonel George Monson, New Street, Spring Garden, London to Thomas Rous returning thanks for the favour shewn him by the Company's servants in India
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Colonel Monson's trade etc. to be declared duty free.
Letters 110-112 Petition of John Clerk to be a writer in the Company's Service, with enclosed testimony
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Committee of Correspondence to examine and report. Enclosures: testimony from Mansfield, Hunter & Co of his having been apprenticed to them; testimony from Doctor Robert Hamilton of John Clerk having been born in 1741.
Letter 87 Consul William Kinloch, at Constantinople, to Robert James regarding the dispatch of the packet for Mr Wrench at Bussora [Basra] and the arrival of a packet for the Court from Aleppo
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Includes duplicate copy of Consul Kinloch's letter of 1 July 1766. Letter No.17 received overland 18 August 1766.
Letter 135 Consul William Kinloch at Constantinople to Robert James enclosing duplicate of his previous letter and a packet for the Company from Aleppo
Letters 216-217 Letter in French, with English translation from the Baron de la Perrier to Lord Shelburne to procure the Company's permission for the Bishop of Assur to go and reside at Bombay as a missionary and apostolick vicar
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Received from Mr Seaton, Secretary to Lord Shelburne 7 November 1766.
Letters 225-226 Elizabeth Milner, widow of the late Reverend Edward Milner, London to the Court of Directors requesting some relief as her children were ill with smallpox.
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Enclosure: Extracts relating to Rev. Mr Milner from the Bombay Consultations including his date of appointment as Chaplain at Surat, 22 January 1760, and the date he died at Surat, 1 June 1762.