"Account of the Contents of Ten Bundles sent by Captain Griffin… the letters LC upon each bundle".
Scope & Content:
The goods were received in 1766. In addition to listing the contents of the numbered boxes, the second folio contains a notification of a small painted box directed to Lady Clive at Berkeley Square.
Petition brought by William Dobbins to the President (Robert Clive) and Council of Fort William.
Scope & Content:
Requesting payment of a debt of 71,588 sicca rupees owed him for his services to the Nawab of Bengal and promised both by Mir Jafar and Henry Vansittart.
"List of Sundry Things belonging to the Rt Honourable Lord Clive in the India Warehouse". The list is subdivided in to 'prohibited' and 'non-prohibited' items and gives details of their sale.
Scope & Content:
A receipt for payments to Mr Watts and Captain Gardiner by Clive, Edmund Maskelyne and Henry Strachey is attached to the document.
Petition brought by Mahomet Nehall to the President (Robert Clive) and Council of Fort William.
Scope & Content:
A request for assistance against the threats and disruption caused by gomestahs which have caused his labourers to run away and thus left him unable to pay his rents to the Nawab. Signed by the petitioner in Persian.
Petition brought by the inhabitants of Sootalootey Market, Calcutta to the President (William B. Sumner) and Council of Fort William, Calcutta.
Scope & Content:
Protesting against the Company's intention of commandeering their lands for a Gunge [warehouse] and offering to show the company a better place for it closer to the river. Also includes the same text in Bengali.
Copy of a petition made by Ralph Harding to Thomas Rous and the Directors of the East India Company.
Scope & Content:
Requesting employment as an officer in the Company's army, having previously been an officer in the Cleveland and Bulmar regiment of Militia in Yorkshire. Includes testimonials upon him on the verso.