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Letter 75 Hayward, Rider and Company at Madeira to the Court forwarding two invoices, two bills of lading and one bill of exchange for wine provided to Fort St George.
Letter 83 Petition of Noquedah Poah at Fort Marlborough to the Court requesting some assistance after two of his prows were captured by the Dutch and their crews murdered whilst employed by the Company in July 1748.
Scope & Content:
Includes an impression in red ink of the petitioner's personal seal with two Chinese Characters.
Letter 160 Consul Alexander Drummond in Bylan to Robert James providing an update on the affair where the Company's packets were tampered with by the Dutch Consul and a Venetiain.
Letters 82-83 from Le Chevalier de Gadeville, a French Prisoner from Pondicherry on board the London Snow at Portsmouth, to Robert James requesting that the packet of papers Captain Baker had taken from him be returned and that Mr Huish be permitted to advance him some money
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Original letter in French with English translation.
Letter 78 Charles Jenkinson at St James's to Laurence Sulivan that the States General had agreed to send Commissaries to adjust amicably the disputes between the English and Dutch companies in India and desiring the company would consider of the same and transmit their sentiments to Lord Bute
Scope & Content:
Committee of Correspondence to examine and respond.
Letter 80 Memorial of Major John Fraser to have a certificate of his behaviour and military capacity during the time he was employed in the Company's service in India
Scope & Content:
Committee of Correspondence to examine and respond.
Letters 236-237 William Barwell in Chertsey to Robert James enclosing his petition for his son William to be a writer at Fort St George
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The petition is no longer enclosed, included with the letter instead is a note written by a Company clerk recording that William Barwell Jr had gone to Bengal in 1762 as a free merchant and that William Barwell Sr's eldest son Edward had been killed in action against Shah Zada at Patna in Februa...
Letters 245-246 Christian Disnoyer, a French Prisoner at Dover to the Court desiring that part of the passage money paid for a Coffree may be paid him, and for the delivery of some papers relating to Mr Esnell, deceased
Scope & Content:
Letter 245 is the English translation of Letter 246
Letters 249-251 Petition of George Burghall to be employed as an Engineer or in the Company's Artillery in the East Indies
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Enclosed: Certificate of the abilities of George Burghall, issued by John Muller of the Royal Academy at Woolwich Certificate of George Burghall having been granted leave to resign his commission as Lieutenant Fireworker by Matthew Kindersley, Lieutenant and Adjutant Royal Regiment, Artillery Co...