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Letters 287-288 George Clifford and Sons in Amsterdam to Robert James enclosing particulars on the China Tea to be sold at the Amsterdam chambers with their opinions based on samples they had obtained
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Folios 567-568 are particulars of the Tea from China to be sold in the Amsterdam chambers, with Messrs George Clifford and Sons opinions on them.
Letter 310 George Clifford and Sons in Amsterdam to Robert James enclosing sales lists for sundry goods sold at the Amsterdam Chambers and cargo lists for the Schoonzigt from Batavia
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Enclosures: Cargo lists for the Schoonzigt in French and Dutch (ff 611-614); Printed and handwritten Sales lists for the Amsterdam Chamber in Dutch and English (ff 615-617).
Letters 29-30 Petition of Edward Vaughan, for his son Thomas Leonard Vaughan to be appointed as a Lieutenant of Artillery in Bengal, with accompanying testimony from James Mathias
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A cover note by the Committee of Correspondence dated 17 February 1763 states that as Mr Vaughan was only 20 years old he could not be a Lieutenant, but could be apppointed a Cadet in their service.
Letter 38 Messrs Hope and Company at Amsterdam enclosing the Dutch East India Company's declaration of spice sales to commence 11 April 1763
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Enclosed with the letter are the declarations in Dutch for the spice sales at Amsterdam, Zeeland, Delft, Rotterdam, Hoorn, and Enkhuysen (ff 83-84); along with delcarations of the spices to be sold and the quantities available (ff 85A-86).
Letter 60 Philip Stephens at the Amiralty Office to Robert James offering 34 marine deserters, in confinement at Chatham, for the Company's service
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The clerk in the secretary's office has mistakenly, on the reverse of the letter, labelled it as being from John Clevland of the Admiralty Office. Court Minutes of 14 September 1763 record that the company declined the Admiralty Office's offer owing to the 'impropriety of entertaining foreigner...
Letters 172-173 Messrs Smitner in Vienna to Robert James that they had dispatched the packet of letters and its duplicates to Consul Kintoch at Aleppo, and had now received 7 packets for the Court from Messrs Fitzhugh and Palmentier at Constantinople
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Original letter in French, with translation in English.
Letter 174 George Clifford and Sons, in Amsterdam to Robert James enclosing the particulars of the cargoes of two Dutch East India Company Ships from Bengal
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Enclosure: Cargo list in Dutch for the ships Scholtenburg and Visvliet.
Letter 199 George Clifford & Sons in Amsterdam to Robert James enclosing the particulars of the cargo of a Dutch East India ship from Batavia and of the prices of tea recently sold at the Amsterdam chambers
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Enclosures: List in Dutch of merchandise sold at the Amsterdam Chambers 5 September 1763 (folio 415); Cargo list in Dutch of the ship Zeeland from Batavia (folio 416); Cargo list in Dutch of the ship Printz Friderick (folio 417); List in Dutch of merchandise from the ships A-Schat and Vrouw Petr...
Letter 316 William Robinson, London to the Court of Directors requesting permission to return to India the two black men who came with the elephant lately presented to His Majesty
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Granted. The company to pay the expense of their passage.