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Letter 181 James Fremeaux & Son, London to the Court of Directors to send to India the value of £1,000 in Pearls and Emeralds for the purchase of diamonds
Letter 48 Sir George Pocock at Bennett Street, St James's to the Court asking to be informed why the exchange rate is so high in India and what rate the Company could have supplied money for the Governments service while he commanded His Majesty's squadron there
Scope & Content:
Referred to the Committee of Correspondence for consideration and to report.
Letter 235 William Webber to the Court to be paid for the passage of Messrs Court and Norton from Bombay to Mocha and back to Bombay on the ship Harcourt
Scope & Content:
Committee of Correspondence to examine and respond.
Letter 271 Secretary Josiah Burchett at the Admiralty Office to Thomas Woolley relating to a copy of Captain Riddel's account of his arrival at Spithead with the East India ships.
Scope & Content:
See IOR E/1/3 ff. 451-452v Letter 266 in this volume for the copy.
Letter 271 Messrs Hope and Company at Amsterdam to Robert James enclosing declarations of the Dutch Company's sales of the cargo and a reserve for the Cargo of the BoschenHoven to be sold at the Enkhuysen Chamber
Scope & Content:
Enclosures: Cargo list for the ship Bosh-en-Hoven from Batavia; Sales lists of prices at the recent sales at Amsterdam, Zeeland, Delft, Rotterdam, Hoorn, and Enkhuysen.
Letter 275 George Clifford and Sons in Amsterdam to Robert James enclosing particulars of the cargo of the Bosch en Hoven to be put up for sale the 8 November
Scope & Content:
Enclosed are copies of the sales lists for the Bosch en Hoven in Dutch and French.
Letters 35-36 Copy translation from Spanish of a First Bill of Exchange on the Royal Treasury of Madrid for 2 Millions of Dollars by the Archibishop of Manilla to Vice-Admiral Cornish, with enclosed translation of letter from the Archibishop of Manilla advising of the draught
Scope & Content:
The copies of the letter and bill were talken from the copy of a translation received from the Bank 30 September 1763 and returned to the bank the next day. Referred 12 October 1763 to the Committtee of Correspondence to examine and report.