Letter 73 Charles Thomas Coggan on behalf of the Committee of Shipping to Robert James giving the names of new ships' mates to be sworn in
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Edward Back, Second Mate, Earl of Ashburnham; Patrick Inglis, Second Mate, Drake; George Samways, Second Mate, Hector; William Elphinstone, Third Mate, Hector; Archibald Fraser, Second Mate, Albion; James Angus, Fourt Mate, Albion; Thomas Holloway, Fourth Mate, Houghton; John White, Fourt Mate, ...
Letters 160-163 Earl of Halifax, St James's to the Chairman of the East India Company relating to the two bills of exchange drawn by the Archbishop of Manilha on the Court of Madrid in favour of the Company
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Committee of Correspondence to take necessary measures. Enclosures: ff 299-300 extract of a letter from the Earl of Rochford, Madrid to the Earl of Halifax, 20 March 1764 regarding correspondence with Monsieur de Grimaldi; ff 301-302 The Marquis of Grimaldi, Porto to the Earl of Rochford, 15 Ma...
Letter 22 William Shaw, late the Company's agent at Bussorah [Basra] to the Court of Directors offering to lay before the Court when ordered a vindication of his character
Letter 78 Mann Horner, London to the Court of Directors desiring to have a copy of his letter to Mr Robert John Harrison relative to some affairs transacted in the Council of Canton
Letters 36-37 John Savage at the Customs House in London to Thomas Woolley concerning prohibited goods imported from the South Seas consigned to Fargus Farrell. Related papers attached.
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Dated 31 Jan 1718/19. Enclosure: List of prohibited goods .
Letters 309-310 Captain Henry Gough to the Court reporting on the examination of Captain Abraham Dawes, commander of the Duke of York to India in relation to the disaffection of his officers during the voyage. Related papers attached.
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Enclosed: ff. 517-518, Minutes of what passed at a meeting of the Owners of the Duke of York in relation to Captain [Abraham] Dawes.
Letters 158-159 William Bogdani at the Office of Ordnance to Robert James requesting payment for iron shot supplied to William Jennings, Commissary, for use by Colonel Clive, and enclosing the receipt of sale
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A note by Robert James records that a warrant for payment was issued to the Ordnance Office on 23 December 1761.
Letter 105 Messrs George Clifford and Sons in Amsterdam to Robert James enclosing particulars the cargoes of Dutch East India Company ships recently arrived from Batavia
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Enclosed are cargo lists in French (ff 223-224) and Dutch (ff 225-226) for the Dutch East India Company Ship Immagonda arrived from Batavia at the Texel 19 April 1763.